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Module 3.3

Forest Cover Manipulation Strategies

Participants will be shown how to analyze and apply a range of forest cover manipulation strategies that effective achieve a given set of objectives while minimizing negative impacts on other values. The course consists of online lectures, group forums, quizzes and a culminating assignment for the Module (DC). The participant must pass the quizzes for all lecture material before doing the culminating assignment The culminating assignment will be submitted to the course instructors for assessment. Once the participant has successfully passed the online forums, quizzes and culminating assignment, the DC will be awarded.

Module Objectives

  • Describe a forest cover manipulation strategy that emphasizes commercial extractions as the management objective.
  • Describe a forest cover manipulation strategy that emphasizes management objectives that are non-extractive.

Module Schedule

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over a 3-week period.

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Course Content

Getting Started

  • Getting Started

    Welcome to Module 3.3

Introduction

  • Introduction

    Forest Cover Manipulation Strategies

Outline

  • Outline

Lesson 1: Cover Manipulation at the Stand Level

  • Lecture: Cover Manipulation at the Stand Level

    Silviculture definitions, Even-aged silviculture methods, Uneven-aged silviculture methods, Silvicutlure for timber and non-timber values, Resources

  • Readings

  • Week 1 Quiz

Lesson 2: Cover Manipulation at the Forest Level Models in Forest Planning

  • Lecture: Cover Manipulation at the Forest Level Models in forest planning

    Timber regulation definitions, Area vs. volume control, Regulating deficit and surplus forests, Strategies to increase timber yield, Landscape planning for caribou habitat, Forest management for climate change mitigation

  • Readings

  • Week 2 Quiz

Lesson 3: Wildlife Habitat Planning

  • Lecture: Wildlife Habitat Planning

    Why we plan for wildlife habitat as a forest value, How to represent habitat, Defining habitat needs, Focal species, Developing habitat targets, Habitat planning for Ontario: Past Approach, Habitat planning at the landscape scale, Simulating natural ecosystem

  • Week 3 Quiz

Culminating Assignment

  • Culminating Assignment

    Watch the Loch Lomond Introduction Video. Now that you have been introduced to the Loch Lomond Forest Co-op and the decision model created, you will now have the opportunity to interact and select your harvest management strategies, run scenarios and assess results.

  • Culminating Assignment Submission

    Please submit the culminating assignment