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.

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 2000 words (50% each).