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ESRM 427 Forest Landscapes |
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Class Schedule |
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Week 1 Introduction/Landowner roles/Changing tenets of faith in forestry
Tuesday, April 3: Introduction/overview (Johnson/Franklin)
Classification of different land ownerships across the spectrum of economic and ecological values. Recognition of roles for different landowners. Example: coastal Oregon.
The changing tenets of faith in forestry
Reading: Duerr paper on the culture of forestry
Thursday, April 5: Franklin in Corvallis. Discussion on the changing tenets of faith
Starker Lecture 4:00 PM. Jerry Franklin speaker
Week 2 Coping with change and uncertainty (Part I)
Tuesday, April 10: Discussion of Starker lecture (Franklin)
Thursday, April 12: Recognizing likely changes and uncertainties; the burden of proof and the precautionary principle; differentiating between short-term and long-term risk; relative risk assessment; forest management as a puzzle and a mystery.
Week 3 Coping with change and uncertainty (Part II)
Tuesday, April 17: Strategies for coping with change and uncertainty: Developing detailed strategies in the context of a long-term vision. Adaptive management as an approach to accelerate learning in the face of uncertainty (theory/mechanics).
Thursday, April 19: Adaptive management (the politics of learning and change)
Week 4 Creating wealth (and income) through forest management (Johnson)
Tuesday, April 24: Wealth management: the fundamentals of wealth analysis including the ABCs of discounting; how the desire to create wealth influences forest management decisions. (Johnson)
Readings: Chapter from our book
Thursday, April 26: Discuss solutions to a few simple wealth management problems. Examine how different owners approach wealth management.
Franklin gone both lectures
Week 5 Conservation of biodiversity in large, forested landscapes (Franklin)
Tuesday, May 1/Thursday May 3: Maintaining both ecosystem structures and processes across the landscape, protecting biodiversity hot-spots and stream systems, maintaining heterogeneity at all spatial scales, maintaining both ecosystem and species diversity, using history to help define sustainable forests.
Reading: Outline for chapter from book
Johnson gone both lectures
FIELD TRIP Saturday May 6-Sunday May 7. Visit to a variety of ownerships in the Wind River area.
Week 6 Sustainability for the 21st century
Tuesday, May 8: Sustainability as more than sustained yield of timber products; differing responsibilities for sustainability; sustainability within ownerships and across ownerships in a landscape; influence of change and uncertainty on approach to, and assessment of, sustainability. Reading: chapter from our book.
Thursday, May 10: Examples of approaches to sustainability---past, present, future. 1960 Douglas-fir supply study, National Forest Management Act, Northwest Forest Plan, Klamath Reservation Plan, Coastal Oregon
Week 7 Integrating ecological, economic, and social goals into a plan of action (Johnson/Franklin)
Tuesday, May 15/Thursday May 17: Deciding what actions to take and when and where to undertake them. Frame of reference and decision rules. Forest management planning as a social and analytical process.
Reading: chapters from our book
Franklin gone: Tuesday lectures both weeks
Week 8-9 Case studies in assessment and management of large forested landscapes
Tuesday, May 22/ Thursday, May 24/Tuesday, May 29/Thursday May 31
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