Basic Forest Management Lab

Catalog description

Provides lab exercises in a forest setting experience using forest management field equipment discussed in FRP-101 . The Lab includes the use of diameter tape, loggers tape, compass, clinometer, increment borer and wedge prism to measure tree height, diameter, tree age, diameter increment and basal area. Through the use of fixed plot and variable plot forest sampling methods the students will gain the skills to gather data necessary to calculate stocking, volume and growth.