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FOR 468 Forest Management Planning

  • Semester: Spring of every year
  • Credits: Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2
  • Prerequisite: ((FOR 419 or concurrently) and FOR 420 and FOR 438) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
  • Restrictions: Not open to freshmen or sophomores.
  • Description: Management of forests for timber production in a multiple-use context. Analytical techniques, forecasting models, and financial analysis to support forest resource management decisions. 
  • Effective Dates: FALL 2021 - Open 

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FOR 438 Forest Resource Economics

  • Semester: Fall of every year
  • Credits: Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2
  • Prerequisite: ((EC 201) and completion of Tier I writing requirement) and (MTH 124 or MTH 132) and (STT 201 or STT 224 or STT 231 or STT 421)
  • Restrictions: Not open to freshmen or sophomores.
  • Description: Basic economic and social science principles and techniques that govern human consumption and production of forest resources, including investment and benefit-cost, and regional impact analysis, and social impact assessment. 
  • Effective Dates: FALL 2023 - Open 

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Past Courses

FOR 462 Forest Resource Economics and Management (Closed)

  • Credits: Total Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3   Lab Hours: 2
  • Description: Economic concepts, analytical techniques, computer simulation/forecasting models, and geographic information systems to assess economic and ecological impacts of resource management decisions at a range of spatial and temporal scales. Geospatial tools, multiple ownerships. Individual forest stands to complex multi-use landscape scales.
  • Effective Dates: SPRING 2020 -SPRING 2023

FOR 335 Business Innovation Toward a Sustainable Bioeconomy (Open and lectured by other faculties)

  • Semester: Fall of every year
  • Credits: Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
  • Recommended Background: FOR 212 
  • Restrictions: Not open to freshmen.
  • Description: Role of forest bioproducts in developing sustainable communities. Resource planning and availability for value added bioproducts.    Bioproducts supply-chains  analysis and principles of life cycle implementation. 
  • Effective Dates: FALL 2021 - Open 

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SOE 484 Forest Management and Planning (Lecturer) : Washington State University, Pullman, WA

NRS 383 Natural Resource Economics (2 weeks guest lectures): University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

FO 4113/6113 Forest Resource Economics (Teaching Assistant): Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MI

 

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