Course Code: FRM 503
Course Title: Forest Management Techniques
Number of Units: 2 UNITS
Course Duration: 2 Hours per week
Course Coordinator: Dr. M.F. Adekunle B.For, MF, PhD
Email: adekunlefm@yahoo.com
Office Location: COLERM
Other Lecturers: Prof. S.A. Oluwalana
Course Synopsis
Introduction, definitions, management of forest resources, principles of forest management, scope, sustained yield, normal forest, attributes, instrument of forest management, working plan, management units, rotation, rotation for uniform and selection forests, factors to be considered in choice of rotation, categories or types of rotation, increment, categories or types of increment, records, types of records,
yield regulation, methods of yield regulation.