{"id":1289,"date":"2013-12-10T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~aleza\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:12:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:12:55","slug":"living-lab-silviculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Living Lab &#8211; Silviculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lost in the Fireweed\" src=\"http:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/wp-content\/images\/2013_Silv2.JPG\" alt=\"Day 1 - In the Fireweed of a young forest\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day 1 - In the Fireweed of a young forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I look back on my own university experience the days that I remembered most were the days that we got out of the classroom and actually got out to the forest.\u00a0 It was those times that we walked amongst the trees, \u00a0young or old, and discussed issues of forest ecology, applied management (i.e. silviculture) that were great times of influence.\u00a0 It was moving from the theory of the text books to the reality of woods!<\/p>\n<p>This last semester Mike Jull and I had the privilege of hosting UNBC\u2019s third year Silviculture class taught by <a title=\"Scott Green\" href=\"http:\/\/scottgreenunbcca.ipage.com\/\">Scott Green<\/a>.\u00a0 Four very full days with the students literally walking through the life cycle of forests as we challenged students to take the theory and explain it in reality a few core topics included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Site ecology identification and classification<\/li>\n<li>Site limiting factors<\/li>\n<li>Key stages of stand development<\/li>\n<li>Forest Condition and Health \u2013 current and future<\/li>\n<li>Site Index<\/li>\n<li>Professional Reliance<\/li>\n<li>Management Options<\/li>\n<li>Integrating multiple forest values<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is one of the things that makes the <a title=\"UNBC Forestry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unbc.ca\/forestry\">UNBC Natural Resources Management and Forestry Ecology<\/a> programs so good.\u00a0\u00a0 Lab time is rooted in reality &#8211; not locked in the lab; the application of theory can be discussed with faculty and professionals who are actively engaged in forest management.<\/p>\n<p>-Colin Chisholm RPF<br \/>\nAssistant Forest Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I look back on my own university experience the days that I remembered most were the days that we got out of the classroom and actually got out to the forest.\u00a0 It was those times that we walked amongst the trees, \u00a0young or old, and discussed issues of forest ecology, applied management (i.e. silviculture) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/?p=1289\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living Lab &#8211; Silviculture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrf.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}