Instructor: Dr. Paul Arp
Lab Instructor: Mark Castonguay
Teaching Assistant: Marie-France Jones, Shane Furze & Marie Laforet
Emphasizes the principles of management of watersheds and fire at the stand and landscape level. Influences of climate, topography/terrain, and stand and fuel types are covered. Concepts of watershed conservation are introduced as well as principles and models dealing with water retention and flow, and carbon and nutrient cycling in primary forest watersheds. Fire management concepts deal with the Fire Weather Index system, the Fire Behaviour Prediction system, fire ecology, and fire management strategies, tactics and operations.
Lab Session Report Outlines & In-Lab Handouts
Lab 1 – Soil Moisture Measurements
Lab 2 – Statistics
Lab 3 – STELLA Hydro Tube Modelling
Lab 4 – STELLA Watershed Modelling (continued…)
Lab 5 – GIS
Lab 6 – STELLA Biomass & Nutrient Cycling
* The Watershed Center teaches the Forest Watershed portion of the class, the Fire Management is taught by another individual.