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 211-409 Industrial Forestry

Availability

Parkville campus.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Ian Wild

Prerequisites

211-321 Timber Management and Harvesting.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

24 hrs of lectures: 36 hrs practical work

Subject Description

On completion of the subject, students should have:

  • an understanding of the principles of commercial forestry;

  • and an ability to prepare budgets and undertake financial management; and understand and have skills in using forest planning techniques.

Content

The content includes:

  • commercial objectives;

  • advanced budgeting, financial management and valuation, advanced silviculture;

  • long and short term planning systems;

  • linear programming and simulation models for forest planning;

  • cost-competitiveness and technological improvement;

  • marketing;

  • and product mix.

Assessment

A three-hour examination (50%) and two practical reports of 3000 words (each 25%).

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