207-317 Native Forest Silviculture

202-201 Plant Function, 207-275 Forest Ecology (or equivalent).

On completion of this subject, students should:

• have an appreciation of a range of silvicultural techniques;

• understand the constraints placed on each by ecological and social factors; understand regeneration processes in Australian forests and woodlands;

• understand the significance of diseases in forestry, and strategies for their management; and

• be able to plan and supervise silvicultural operations involving regeneration and tending of a range of Australian forest types.

The course includes:

• the role of silviculture and its relationship to forest policy, internationally and within Australia;

• sources of regeneration, flowering and seed production, seedbed requirements, factors affecting seedling establishment and monitoring of seedling regeneration;

• the principal groups of pathogens, host-parasite relationships, epidemiology and control;

• regeneration biology of selected Australian forest types, and regeneration methods or silvicultural systems appropriate to them; and

• stand tending methods and their relevance to various Australian forest types.

One three-hour examination (50%); and assignments and reports on practical work (totalling 50%).