FOR443: SILVICULTURE PRACTICES Lectures: 11:00-11:50 AM, MWF, 272 Peavy Labs: Tuesday 2:00-4:50 PM, 108 Peavy Spring 2007

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1 FOR443: SILVICULTURE PRACTICES Lectures: 11:00-11:50 AM, MWF, 272 Peavy Labs: Tuesday 2:00-4:50 PM, 108 Peavy Spring 2007 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. John D. Bailey PHONE: (W) and (H/C) through Blackboard OFFICE: 235 Peavy Hall OFFICE HOURS: 1:00 to 2:30 WF after classes, or anytime by appointment DESCRIPTION: COLLABORATORS: UNIT OBJECTIVES: Silviculture melds the biological and operational dimensions of forestry, and can be defined as: the art and science of manipulating growing space for trees and stands to meet an objective. We will first examine natural tree and stand development with some fundamentals of stand dynamics, site productivity, stand density, and tree growth/architecture. The main part of the course addresses basic tools and techniques used by silviculturists the silvicultural toolbox. We will, of course, integrate the fundamentals and tools by examining standard prescriptions that achieve various objectives throughout North America and the world. Dr. John Tappeiner, who has taught this course for many years and authored the textbook, will assist on several Tuesdays. Chris Dunn (MS student) will be the teaching assistant. This course is very purposefully integrated with your other spring term courses and those faculty/staff collaborate with this material. By the end of this unit, you should be able to: Understand the basic terminology and concepts of silviculture; Translate and use the forest vegetation formula to solve management problems: FV = f(cl/m, S, H, F, MM, SSW)*P*T; Numerically manipulate measures of stand density, growth, and productivity; Graphically interpret growing space, stand age, density, site index, and growth; Explain the natural development of stands under different conditions; Integrate the myriad of tools and techniques available to silviculturists, their relative strengths and weaknesses, and correct applications; Predict the effects of various silvicultural treatments on stand development; and Relate general silvicultural concepts to specific management objectives. UNIT STRUCTURE/APPROACH The silviculture unit consists of 28 lecture periods complemented by Tuesday allday labs that are integrated with your other courses. My lectures will attempt to structure the information for you, answer your questions, fill in gaps that I perceive in the readings, emphasize key concepts (on which you will be tested), and give lots of examples based on my experiences. I will often give you questions or problems to work on in or after class most every class meeting, some of which will be incorporated into your grade (e.g., the Week-In-Review Exercises).

2 Labs (indoor and outdoor) are designed to review lecture concepts, practice skills, and apply them to real forest/management situations. Parts of some labs may just be show-and-tell to provide you with visual/mental images that support lecture material (e.g., the harvesting lab we don t get to run the equipment sorry!). WARNING: I do not read the textbook and other material to you, so you will be required to do a modest amount of out-of-class reading and homework problems to prepare for class I expect students to be prepared to ask and answer questions each and every time we meet, and we will do in-class exercises to monitor this. TEXTBOOK AND REQUIRED MATERIALS: Textbook: Readings: Tappeiner, J.C., D.A. Maguire, and T.B. Harrington Silviculture and Ecology of Western U.S. Forests. A must-have new textbook! Blackboard (electronically) and/or the College s Self-Learning Center: We also will be using articles from the latest Journal of Forestry, to which you may be subscribed, and Western Journal of Applied Forestry. These journals, and many others that may help you with assignments, are now available electronically via Valley Library, EBSCO Host... welcome to the 21 st Century. OPTIONAL TEXTBOOK: Smith, D.M., B.C. Larson, M.J. Kelty, and P.M.S. Ashton The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, 9 th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY. 537pp. One copy is on reserve in the SLC. EVALUATION METHODS AND DEADLINES: Your grade will be based on performance in: 1) quizzes/exercises, take-home and inclass assignments attached to readings and lecture that make up weekly exercises (due Friday mornings); 2) four lab write-ups; and 3) three exams. GRADING SYSTEM: Week-In-Review Exercises (10@20 points each) 200 Lab write-ups (4@50 each) 200 Exams (3@100 each) 300 FOR406 Integrated Prescription 300 TOTAL POINTS FOR BASIC UNIT: 1000 UNIT POLICIES ATTENDANCE: UNIT OUTLINE (see policies Oregon State University on the web): Emergencies are inevitable for most of us. IF you notify me prior to the class when an assignment is due, then it can be turned in late without loss. Otherwise, assignments lose one point per day. For exams, I may reschedule you for an oral examination on the material, but again, ONLY IF you notify me before the class time. attached

3 Week 1 2-Apr Monday Introduction, overview and expectations 1 3-Apr Tuesday Mitzi Point (a.m.); group project sites (p.m.) R#1 4-Apr Wednesday Silviculture systems;age structure options 2 5-Apr Thursday FOR406: Prescription projects start-up 6-Apr Friday Silviculture systems;regeneration methods 2 WIRE Week 2 9-Apr Monday Forest stands, structure and ecosystems 3 10-Apr Tuesday Project sites: options and considerations 11-Apr Wednesday Forest stands, structure and ecosystems 3 12-Apr Thursday FOR406: NEPA process 13-Apr Friday Stages in stand dynamics; disturbance 3 WIRE Week 3 16-Apr Monday Stand dynamics: tree responses to competition Riparian zones; 1:00 stand dynamics tour 3 R#2 17-Apr Tuesday 18-Apr Wednesday Shrub ecology, responses and early management 4 19-Apr Thursday FOR406: NEPA process 20-Apr Friday Stand and tree growth: height and productivity 5 WIRE Week 4 23-Apr Monday Stand and tree growth: diameter and volume 5 24-Apr Tuesday Starker Forests demo; then Mark Gourley tour 25-Apr Wednesday Stand and tree growth: MAI and early management 5 26-Apr Thursday FOR406: Silviculture Exam 27-Apr Friday Stand density: measures and patterns 6 WIRE Week 5 30-Apr Monday Density Management Diagrams 6 1-May Tuesday Green Peak density mgt; 1:00 oak restoration R#3 2-May Wednesday Thinning: tools and techniques 7 3-May Thursday FOR406: Modeling 4-May Friday Thinning: tools and techniques (guest lecture) 7 WIRE

4 Week 6 7-May Monday Density management: other stand responses 7 8-May Tuesday Thinning exercise (a.m.); Black Rock afternoon 9-May Wednesday Thinning and fertilization: basics 7 10-May Thursday FOR406: Modeling 11-May Friday Thinning and fertilization: tools and techniques 7 WIRE Week 7 14-May Monday Management in older stands - the 80-year barrier 7 15-May Tuesday Mary's Peak elevational transect 16-May Wednesday Multi-aged Management: options 7 17-May Thursday FOR406: Silviculture Exam 18-May Friday Multi-aged Management: tools and techniques 7 WIRE Week 8 21-May Monday Multi-aged Management: long-term patterns 7 22-May Tuesday Multi-aged calculations; project work 23-May Wednesday Prescribed fire and fuels management 8 24-May Thursday FOR406: compiling and presenting guidelines 25-May Friday Fire and fuels: tools and techniques 8 WIRE Week 9 28-May Monday MEMORIAL DAY 29-May Tuesday EASTSIDE FIELD TRIP EASTSIDE FIELD TRIP: over and Fitzgerald R#4 30-May Wednesday EASTSIDE FIELD TRIP EASTSIDE FIELD TRIP: Tollgate and Bend 31-May Thursday EASTSIDE FIELD TRIP: fuels and fire 1-Jun Friday Restoration Silviculture - pre-fire fuels treatments 8 WIRE Week 10 4-Jun Monday Restoration Silviculture - post-fire recovery 9 5-Jun Tuesday Project presentations FOR Jun Wednesday Restoration Silviculture - post-fire recovery 9 7-Jun Thursday FOR406: Course Evaluations 8-Jun Friday Vegetation Management 9 WIRE

5 Week Jun Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm FINAL EXAM