Courses
FOR 231. Forest Ecology (3). Ecological principles applied to forest management. Production ecology, biogeochemistry, disturbances, environmental factors, populations, community ecology, forest succession, and forest classification/description.
FOR 307. California Forests and Woodlands (3). Factors affecting distribution, perpetuation, and health of California’s forests and woodlands. Field identification of northern California trees and shrubs.
FOR 321. Fire Ecology (3). 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.
FOR 422. Wildland Fire Use (3). Applying prescribed fire in land management. Fire effects, prescription burning objective, benefits, plans, prescriptions, firing patterns, burn monitoring and evaluation, and smoke management.
FOR 423. Wildland Fuels Management (3). Application of silvicultural and engineering principles in the manipulation of Wildland fuels for fire hazard mitigation. Quantitative relation of forest stand structure to fire behavior. Comparison of stand treatment techniques.
FOR 424. Wildland Fire Seminar (1). Attendance at an approved fire conference. Abstracts are required of a minimum of 15 hours of presentations, either plenary or technical sessions.
FOR 424. Wildland Fire Seminar (3). Capstone activity for small teams of students. Analysis, synthesis, and oral and written presentation of case study.
FOR 479. Fire Capstone (4). A collaborative course with a final project that synthesizes information gained in all previous coursework. Student project topics vary, but are approved in collaboration with instructor and exhibit their abilities to analyze and synthesize topics related to wildland fire and fuels management and ecology.
FOR 480. Professional Writing for Natural Resources Sciences (4). Techniques to help students with the thinking and writing processes associated with clearly communicating technical information of a scientific nature.
MATH 280. Quantitative Tools for Natural Resource Sciences (2). Review of algebra skills. Prepares students with basic quantitative and analytical techniques that will be required in other courses.