Courses
Total unit load = 24 semester units (4 units of lower division Forestry, and 20 units of upper division Forestry)
FORESTRY 210: Forest Measurements (4 semester units) Class topics include: Surveying including angle and distance measurement, leveling and traverse. Public land survey. Topographic map reading and construction. Tree and forest measurements under field conditions. Math and excel refreshers will be included.
FORESTRY 307: California's Forests & Woodlands (3 semester units). Class topics include: Factors affecting distribution, perpetuation, and health of California's forests and woodlands. Field identification of northern California trees and shrubs. Class will meet on weekends.
FORESTRY 321: Fire Ecology (3 semester units). Fire as an ecosystem and physical process. Fire history, fire effects, fire regimes; interactions with abiotic and biotic ecosystem components; managing fire in California bioregions. Class will meet on weekends.
FORESTRY 422: Wildland Fire Use (3 semester units). Applying prescribed fire in land management. Fire effects, prescription burning objectives, benefits and costs, plans, prescriptions, firing patterns, burn monitoring and evaluation, and smoke management.
FORESTRY 423: Wildland Fuels Management (3 semester units). Managing wildland fuels in forests and rangelands. Advanced understanding of fuel dynamics, management strategies, and challenges facing fuels managers in fire-prone landscapes. Quantitative analysis of the effects of fuels treatments.
FORESTRY 479: Fire Capstone (4 semester units). A forestry-related project, produced either by a team or by an individual, culminating in a public presentation.
FORESTRY 480: Professional Writing for Natural Resources Sciences (4 semester units). Forestry 480 aims to help students with the thinking and writing processes associated with clearly communicating technical information of a scientific nature. This course will meet for three days at the beginning, followed by 10 weeks of interactive remote assignments, and three days at the end.