Forest Products Industry Tour

Catalog description

FORT 175 is a 1-credit, field-based course in the Forest Technology curriculum. It provides students with the opportunity to visit and tour forest products industry facilities. Tours of sawmills, pulp and paper facilities, plywood factories, and other manufacturing industries are incorporated into a 3-to 4-day field trip in Pennsylvania. This course provides a basic understanding of forest products industries for FORT 250 (Forest Management Practices). The course objectives are for students to develop an understanding of general industrial and manufacturing sectors of forestry and to learn and apply basic concepts of business, economics, and management in relation to forest products. Course grades will be determined by the level of participation at each forest products industry visited and by the quality of trip reports.