Module Identifier | RD29110 | ||
Module Title | WOODLAND MANAGEMENT | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Mrs Jill Bullen Hulse | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Pre-Requisite | RD17810 Forestry and Woodlands | ||
Assessment | Assignment | Outcomes Assessed: 1, 2. | 60% |
Exam | 1.5 Hours Outcomes Assessed: 2, 3. | 40% |
Prepare a detailed plan for a new woodland.
Performance criteria:
a. The area is surveyed in order to gain relevant information.
b. Reference material required to plan the woodland is gathered.
c. A species list for a given woodland objective is constructed and justified.
Ranges:
Survey (desk and field) : History, land use, treatment and past management, adjacent land areas, ecological survey, climate, geology, soils, access, constraints and opportunities.
Survey information, library research.
Species choice : Objectives - game, short rotation coppice, conservation, landscape, recreation, timber/wood products, habitat creation.
Outcome 2
Evaluate the management options for a new woodland.
Performance criteria:
a. Potential management options are identified and appraised.
b. The factors that contribute to the success in achieving the woodland objectives are assessed.
Ranges:
Natural regeneration, intervention in succession, planting, degree of management input
Management - intensive, commercial, limited intervention, non-intervention
Factors - ecological, financial, managerial, aesthetic
Outcome 3
Evaluate the impact of current woodland policies for a given woodland.
Performance criteria:
a. An understanding of the effect of woodland policy on the Silvicultural system is demonstrated.
b. An assessment is made of the opportunities and constraints.
c. The financial implications are assessed.
Ranges:
Rotation length, species choice, management prescription, additional facilities, financial benefits and costs, flexibility, strategy.