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Module 3.5

Forest management Concepts

Participants will be introduced to forest management concepts including the planning process and how we manage for sustainability of ecological, social and economic 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

  • Explain 5 management approaches, and situations where they might be used.
  • Describe risk and uncertainty in forest management options.
  • Describe the application, design, and function of adaptive management.
  • Discuss the cumulative impacts of forestry and other land use practices (e.g. oil and gas, urban development) on various
    forest resources.
  • Describe the role and application of monitoring in forestry with 2 specific examples from Ontario.

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 week period.

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Course Content

Getting Started

  • Getting Started

    Welcome to Module 3.4

Introduction

  • Introduction

    Legal and Policy Framework in Forest Management

Outline

  • Outline

Lesson 1: Forest Management Approaches

  • Lecture: Forest Management Approaches

    What is Forest Management, Forest Management Approaches, Strategies to achieve Human-Forest Ecosystems

  • Readings

Lesson 2: Role and Application of Monitoring

  • Lecture: Role and Application of Monitoring

    Forest operations inspections program / compliance monitoring (FOIP), Silviculture effectiveness monitoring (SEM), Independent forest audits(IFA), Forest resources inventories (FRI), Growth and yield programs (GYP), Guidelines effectiveness monitoring(GEMs), Forest health monitoring (FHM), Integrated forest monitoring(IFM).

  • Week 2 Quiz

Lesson 3: Emerging Forest Management Concepts

  • Lecture: Emerging Forest Management Concepts

    Recap of Ontario’s adaptive management framework from Week 1, Back-casting and forecasting, Spatial planning, Risk and uncertainty, Cumulative effects assessment, Active adaptive management, Zonation

  • Week 3 Quiz

Lesson 4: Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development on Forests

  • Lecture: Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development on Forests

    Inter-Sectoral Challenge, Cumulative Effects, Cross-sectorial Approach, Cumulative Assessment Guideline

  • Readings

    Regional Strategic Environmental Assessment in Canada, Forest Management: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values, Distribution of caribou and wolves in relation to linear corridors, and Cumulative Impacts of Natural Resource Development on Ecosystems and Wildlife: An Annotated Bibliography for British Columbia.

Culminating Assigment

  • Culminating Assignment

    Answer the following 3 discussion questions

  • Culminating Assignment Submission

    Please submit the culminating assignment