Module Identifier | RD20120 | |||||||||||||||||
Module Title | FORESTRY AND WOODLAND MANAGEMENT | |||||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | |||||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Iwan G Owen | |||||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 38 Hours 19 x 2 hour lectures | ||||||||||||||||
Practical | 18 Hours 6 x 3 hour practicals | |||||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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Outcome 2
Evaluate the opportunities and constraints of a specified site for establishing a new woodland.
Performance criteria
a. The natural processes operating are assessed.
b. The site is surveyed to identify key elements and features.
Ranges
Natural processes - regeneration, potential wind throw risk, recycling, decomposition, hydrological regime. Key elements and
Features, geology, soil, topography, ground flora, identification of current management practices/land use, access, species
locally adapted to the site.
Outcome 3
Prepare and recommend a detailed species plan for a specified woodland location.
Performance criteria
a. The area is surveyed in order to gain relevant information.
b. Reference material required to plan the species prescription is gathered.
c. A species list for a given woodland objective is constructed and justified.
Ranges
Survey (desk and field): history, land use, tgreatment and past management, adjacent land areas, ecological survey, climate,
geology, soils, access, constraints and opportunities.
Survey information, library research.
Species choice: Ojectives - game, short rotation coppice, conservation, landscape, recreation, timber/wood products, habitat
creation. Relevance to site characteristics.
Outcome 4
Evaluate the main events in a woodland/forest rotation.
Performance criteria
a. The options for tree establishment are evaluated.
b. The proposals for management during the rotation period are assessed.
Ranges
Tree planting method, natural regeneration, direct sowing.
Management - beating up, tree protection, weed control, pruning, thinning, harvesting.
Outcome 5
Evaluate the practical management options for a given woodland.
Performance criteria
a. Potential management options are appraised.
b. The factors that contribute to the success in achieving the woodland objectives are assessed.
Ranges
Intervention in succession and planting, degree of management input.
Management - intensive, commercial, limited intervention, non-intervention.
Factors - ecological, financial, managerial, ?sthetic.
Outcome 6
Evaluate the economic costs of managing a woodland.
Performance criteria
a. An assessment is made of the costing of woodland establishment and protection
b. The financial implications of current grant aid incentives are assessed.
Ranges
Cost of planting stock, protection materials, labour, beat-up, applicable grant schemes, eg Woodland Grant Scheme,
Woodland Improvement Grant
.3 Use and analysis of numerical information
Information gathering for the costing of a woodland enterprise and the construction of a balance sheet for a woodland management plan.
.8 Group activity
Practical tree measurement techniques
Tree identification skills
This module is at CQFW Level 5