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Undergraduate 2026-2027 Catalog (Draft Version)

BIOAS 3824 Forest Management

Four hours (Au Sable)
Introduction to site-level, landscape and multi-stakeholder approaches to forest management, including strategies of climate change adaptation and 23 mitigation. Theory, application, and techniques of forest management for specified values and objectives including instrumental (economic/utilitarian and life support such as wood production, habitat and watershed protection and climate moderation) and non-instrumental values (such as aesthetic, moral/spiritual values e.g. recreation). The course will address the evolution of forest management practice and some specific practices, methods and techniques of growing trees and the development and care of forests (silviculture) as applied to natural forests managed for various. Offered at Au Sable - Great Lakes during May Session. Corresponds to Au Sable Biol 371 course.

Prerequisites: BIO 1141  and BIO 1143 ; BIO 2181  and BIO 2183  
Offered Summer semester at the Au Sable Institute