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| ORM4009 | Basic Principles of Forest Management | 2+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Mehmet MISIR | | Co-Lecturer | PROF. DR. Mehmet MISIR, | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a theoretical management knowledge and practical hands-on experiences; to sharpen their skills and develop expertise for harmonizing basic knowledge of forest science into a coherent forest management framework, characterize (inventory) forest ecosystems, stratify the areas into social, economic and ecological values and map them, prepare a sustainable forest management plan, set up forest management strategies and choose the best among them with operations research techniques and prepare a term project in the form of a forest management plan for a sample forest area and present it in front of the class |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Recall basic principles of core courses, draw conceptual framework of forest management and relate national and international forest policies to forest management planning | 2,3,4 | | | LO - 2 : | Characterize forest resources in terms of stand types, amount of area, basal area, volume and increment per ha | 2,3,4 | | | LO - 3 : | Differentiate the planning principles of even-aged and uneven-aged forests | 2,3,4 | | | LO - 4 : | Determine and relate forest forms and forest values (functions) | 2,3,4 | | | LO - 5 : | Apply participatory planning approaches in forest management | 2,3,4 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| A.Forest management concept, its contents, relationships with other disciplines, historical developments, planning systems, approaches, techniques and processes at national and international scale
B. Sustainable forest management and green certification
C.Forest resource values, management objectives, conservation targets, forest forms and values, and planning approaches (classical planning, multiple use planning, ecosystem based planning and stand-based planning, management of even-aged and uneven-aged forests)
D.Forest values, decription, criteria and indicators as well as silvicultural interventions to be applied for each forest values/areas
E.Forest inventory and stratification (area inventory, volume and increment inventory, site classification, NWFP, health and capacity inventory) setting a plot, measuring trees for inventory, observing forest values, determining stand types and site index, management units, compartments and sub compartments, creating all relevant maps, use of empirical yield tables, growth and yield for wood production, water production, NWFP, protection of soil, carbon balance, O2 level, ecotourism value. (This topic will be shared with forest management course)
F.Use of decision making techniques (simulation and linear programming) in forest management planning
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to the course | | | Week 2 | A) Definition of forest management: conceptual framework, contents, history, the methods and the relationships with other fields | | | Week 3 | Planning concept, scale, coverage and the hierarchical planning process | | | Week 4 | Planning process and sustainable forest management principles | | | Week 5 | Forestry at international scale: international forestry conventions, national foresry programs, state development plans, strategies and implementation plans, forestry principles in the context of forest management | | | Week 6 | Green certification and criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management | | | Week 7 | National forestry principles: multiple use planning, biodiversity conservation and participatory planning
Assigment 1: Students will prepare and present a given topic in forest planning | | | Week 8 | Forest values, management objectives, conservation targets, forest forms and relations to forest values, management interventions | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Criteria and indicators of forest stratificaiton and silvicultural treatments: identificaiton of forest values | | | Week 11 | Criteria and indicators of forest stratificaiton and silvicultural treatments: identificaiton of forest values (continued). Drafting forest stratificaiton maps | | | Week 12 | Forest inventory -1: stand area, stand types, producition of stands maps with GIS, building database, understanding forest conver type maps, sampling methods | | | Week 13 | Forest inventory-2: inventory of growing stock and increment
Quiz (Midterm exam2)
Assignment 2: Calculation of growing stock and increment from sample plots | | | Week 14 | Forest inventory-3: classification of forest sites, determination of site index and reduction areas, maps of site class and age class distribution | | | Week 15 | Forest inventory-3: classification of forest values and services, inventory of bidiversity, NWFP, forest health and capacity | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Ünal ASAN, 2017, Orman Amenajmanı (Planlama Sistemleri) | | | |
| 1 | Fikret KAPUCU, 2004, Orman Amenajmanı | | | 2 | Ünal ASAN, Orman Amenajmanı Esasları (Temel Kavramlar, Amaçlar ve İlkeler) | | | 3 | Orman amenajman yönetmeliği,OGM Orman İdaresi ve Planlama Dairesi, Ankara (5 Şubat 2008) | | | 4 | Belirli planlama birimlerinin orman amenajman planları | | | 5 | Ekosistem Tabanlı Fonksiyonel Orman Amenajman Planlarının Düzenlenmesine Ait Usül ve Esaslar (Aralık 2017 tarih ve 299 Sayılı Tebliğ) | | | 6 | Diğer kaynaklar için bakınız: http://www.ktu.edu.tr/ormanamenajmani-Ders Notları | | | 7 | Eraslan İ, and Eler, Ü., 2003. Orman İşletmelerinin Planlanması ve Denetimi. SDÜ, Isparta | | | 8 | Lawrence S Davis, K. Norman Johnson, Peter S. Bettinger, Theodore E. Howard, 2001, Forest Management, 4th Edition: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values | | | 9 | William A. Leuschner. 1991, Introduction to Forest Resource Management. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 14/11/2019 | 1,5 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 02/01/2020 | 1,15 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 15 | 30 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 10 | 10 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 5 | 10 | 50 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 2 | 3 | 6 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 117 |
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