220-155 Timber Resources

This course is designed to give students without a forestry production background an understanding of the wider global perspective of the forestry industry and a basic understanding of the native forest and plantation industries within Australia.

Generic Skills

• Build initiative through self-directed studies and tasks.

The subject covers the areas of:

• Factors that affect the supply and condition of wood;

• Global forest resources;

• Australian timber resources, distribution and ownership;

• The differences in production between hardwood and softwood species and their impact upon the national economy;

• An overview of best practice timber-harvesting methods that account for economics, environment and mechanisation;

• Life cycle assessment.

Two reports of up to 2,000 words (50% each).