This course explores the equipment, layout, and procedures employed in different harvesting systems. Students discuss guidelines for careful logging and compliance monitoring. The scheduling and costing of operations are practised. This course provides students with the basic skills required in establishing and operating a small business. Personnel management, business finance, contracting, and marketing are covered.
Students prepare a complete business plan and study other steps required to start a new business.
This level III course continues from Communication Skills I and II to help you achieve graduate level communication skills. Topics include using communication technology, graphics, written and oral technical reports, interpreting information, correspondence and teamwork skills required in a forestry-related workplace. This two-week period places the student in a work environment in a forestry or other natural resource organization. The purposes are to provide an exposure to the operation of such an organization and an opportunity for the student to develop a network with individuals employed in natural resources operations and management. This course concentrates on the management of natural resources on privately owned lands.