During the early term of this course, you will learn the general theory of ecology on taxonomy of mammals and birds, biogeography, and resource using pattern of wildlife. In the middle term of the course, you will learn population ecology from which you can learn the social structure and behavioral characteristics of each population. To apply these ecological theories for better understanding and protection of biodiversity, biology course such as genetics and evolution will be taught. In the late term, you will have the chance to experience field research such as mammal trapping and bird census after learning the method of experimental setting in wild and skin making.

This class will help students to understand what forest ecosystems consist of, how trees interact with other plants and with surrounding environments, and how trees respond and adopt to changing environments. This knowledge will give students some answers how to manage forest resources to maintain sustainability.

Conservation biology has emerged during the last ten years as a major new discipline addressing the alarming loss of biological diversity throughout the world This course is designed for learning conservation biology through understanding of many diverse fields, such as the general biology, ecology, genetics, wildlife biology, ethics, and environmental policy courses. This course is also intended to be a concise guide for professionals who may need case studies and discussions that are available in some articles and books. we will discuss what we mean by “biodiversity”, and examine the various threats to biodiversity that motivate conservation biology as a science. Also, we will explore different scien- tific and social approaches to conserving earth’s biodiversity. As you will see throughout the quarter, conservation biology is an applied science that draws on many scientific concepts and tools that you may have already learned about in other biology classes, such as Population growth, Genetic drift & effective pop size, Age-structured matrix models, Island biogeography, Harvest, Metapopulation, Source-Sink dynamics, Recovery, Ecological management, Disturbance, Habitat management Discussion sections are intended to provide you with an opportunity to discuss some of the issues raised in lectures with a smaller group of your classmates using execises and practice using several computer programs, such as RAMAS, EXCEL, or POPULUS Weekly meetings will include time to review lecture material as well as more focused discussions of other specialized topics.

This course studies the concept and application of inventory surveys appropriate to each scale of forest management, which are classified into individual trees, forest stands, and forests. To achieve this, students will learn the theoretical background of basic forest statistical analysis techniques and measurement techniques, and develop practical skills through hands-on training. In addition, they will study the concept of forest evaluation for SFM implementation, as well as new ICT-based measurement techniques and utilization systems for evaluating resources that are currently in demand, such as carbon sequestration in forests.

This course provides students with opportunities to participate in field practicum in management of natural environment such as forests, wetlands, and ranges in foreign countries. One form of the field study is the field practicum of forest resources management offered by Hokkaido University, Japan. The other form is a field trip to tropical forests organized in collaboration with educational and research institutions in foreign countries such as Indonesia. The students are expected to learn the current issues in natural environment management at an international level.

The course aims to provide a basic knowledge of forest soil. The course examines the physical, chemical and bio- logical Properties of forest soil, the relationship between forest soil and vegetation, and forest soil productivity, and introduces the basic principles of forest site classification. Forest practices (harvesting, site preparation, stand tending) are examined to provide an understanding of their effects on soil properties. The forest soil management in terms of sustainable forest management is reviewed, along with methods to restore damaged forest soils. Field trips and laboratory exercises provide experience in techniques for assessing forest soil properties and classifying forest soil. The course emphasizes development of students’ ability to interpret soil characteristics related to ecosystem function.

This course deals with the basic background of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its applications to the forest-sector. This course will utilize lectures, practices, class discussion and team project to accomplish the course objectives. The objectives of this course are 1) to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of GIS such as spatial data structures, map projections, and coordinate systems, 2) to teach students how to utilize GIS software to import spatial data, create custom maps, query spatial database, and perform basic spatial analysis, and 3) to demonstrate how GIS can be used to manage the forest resources including themountain disaster prevention and mitigation planning, forest road design, and forest watershed management.

A interdisciplinary approach is applied to the sustainable natural resources management while the principles of ecosystem health are introduced in the first place. The biophysical, philosophical, and economic theories are reviewed and applied to real issues in sustainable forest management Some real cases are presented to show the analytical tools for assessing the biophysical, socioeconomic impacts of forest resource management and valuing ecosystems while the ecological economic implications of economic use of ecological resources are discussed.

Ecotourism is a useful concept for alternative development and management of ecologically sensitive area. Ecotourism helps the ideal of “Sustainable Tourism” being realized through following; 1. Protecting valuable natural resources and local culture, 2. fulfilling visitor’s needs of recreation, 3. developing economy of local communities. Students will learn definition of ecotourism, connection of benefit and conservation through ecotourism, index and criteria, marketing, and several issues of ecotourism. Students will conduct on-site case studies on ecotourism development and management.

This course introduces the principles of general and population genetics, the factors that cause genetic variations, the patterns of genetic changes and inheritance of both qualitative and quantitative traits of tree species. Students will also learn the principles and techniques of breeding methods and their application to tree species including selective breeding, hybridization breeding and introduction of exotics. Particularly, the methods of plus tree selection, provenance test, progeny test, seed orchard establishment and production of genetically improved seeds and seedlings will be taught in detail. Students also will learn the techniques of vegetative propagation of tree species including tissue and cell culturing and gene transformation.

This class teaches students what kinds of physiological principles are underlying in tree grwoth. Following topics are covered: a telationship between tree structure and function, morphological, cytological, and biological interpretation of photosynthesis, respiration, carbohydrate and protein metabolism, water relations, flowering, and stress physiology.

The main goals of this course are to provide the basic principles underlying conservation and management of wildlife; to introduce the social issues, legal institutions, and international conventions affecting wildlife; and to discuss options for conservation of endangered species and management of game animals. This course emphasizes that wildlife are most effectively managed when wildlife habitats, populations dyna- mics, and behavioral characteristics are considered simult- aneously. Additionally, knowledge gained by examination of past causes of population decline and extinction can be used to limit or prevent declines in current and future wildlife populations. Because habitat destruction is the main cause of wildlife declines in the modern world, students will analyze local, national, and international environmental issues surrounding land use; class discussion will focus on the challenges associated with preservation of critical habitat for migratory birds. Upon completion of this course, students will have the breadth of ecological and social knowledge to effectively conserve and manage wildlife and their habitats.

This course provides a broad scope of background for forest management including current situation of domestic and international forestry environment, old and new paradigms of forest management, basic concepts for implementing multiple-use forest management and sustainable forest management, financial analysis for project evaluation, the concept of landscape-level, forest-level and stand-level forest planning, and forest management science for decision-making.

This class teaches the maintenance techniques of urban forests and shade trees. Biological approaches to maintaining health of street trees, park trees, and other shade trees will include following topics, such as structure and growth of trees, selection of shade trees, pruning, crown adjustment, transplanting, soil management, physiological damage, disease and insect pest management, wound treatment, tree surgery, pesticide, equipment maintenance. After completion of this class, students will be prepared to apply for a qualification certificate for arboriculturist and possibly practice a tree clinic.

This course is designed for students to get practical knowledges and experiences in forest and forest environment management and forest researches at national forest management offices or national forest research institute or similar institutes in other countries. This course requires students to have at least 4 weeks of training or practice to get credit. Grade will be given based on the evaluation by the director of the institute and the report submitted by student.

This course is designed to help senior students to write a thesis required to obtain a B.S. degree. Students will be guided to select a research subject and their major advisor, and will learn principles of research methods, statistics and scientific writing. After selecting his/her thesis advisor, the advisor will guide the student to conduct research, analyse data and write thesis.

UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) target towards protecting 17% of Earth’s land is not only necessary to protect biodiversity and its ecosystem services, it is also within reach and sensible in both economic and social terms. Recent study indicates that the global benefits of protecting intact ecosystems with their multitude of ecosystem services far outweigh costs. This class will discuss about the importance of protected areas and the increased use of new social and financial mechanisms to compensate local and national governments for the costs they bear to provide benefits to broader society, such as payment for ecosystem service schemes (PES) and global markets for services, as crucial factors in achieving CBD goals on protected areas.

The aim of this subject is to understand and practice forest biotechnology based on the genetics, function and metabolite of woody plants. It is focused on the forest trees and plants, while general biotechnology targets and studies on animal, microorganism, crop and horticulture. Compared to agricultural crops, forest trees have huge body, long life-cycle, long chromosome. Also most of woody plants show allogamouse mating system (outcrossing). Therefore biotechnology techniques will be introduced and practiced for tree breeding and for mass propagation of genetically improved materials. Furthermore exploration and application of useful genes is taught to integrate into tree breeding program for increase of forest productivity.

Students will learn the various symptoms resulted by freezing temperature, non-freezing low temperature, and high temperature and also the types of damages resulted by drought, flooding, snow, wind, and salty wind and the mechanism of causing damages and tolerance and/or resistance to the damage causing factors and hot to protect trees from those damage causing factors in the nurseries, gardens and forest. Students will also learn about the types and cause of forest fires, the influence of forest fires on forest trees, soil and ecosystem and forest fire prevention and fire fighting methods and equipments. This course also teaches the types and symptoms of damages of forest and trees due to air pollution including acid rain and global warming and the tolerant and sensitive trees to the pollutants. This course also introduces the various treatment methods of damaged trees including surgery of root systems and main trunk.

The aim of this subject is to understand the effect of several insect pests on forest, garden, and street trees, and learn several contro

l methods for managing the population of forest insect pests. For this purpose, morphological and ecological characteristics of each developmental stage, overwintering stage, and damage habit of forest insect pests will be introduced with the basic knowledge of insect taxonomy, morphology, physiology and ecology. This course also introduces several kinds of control methods such as chemical, biological, physical and silvicultural control methods practically used in field.

The historical evolution of natural environmental policy is reviewed first, and the theories of policy processes, such as policy formulation, decision－making, implementation, and evaluation, in relation to natural resources and the environment are introduced. The roles of players participating in the policy process related to natural environment issues are considered and the laws and regulations related to natural environment are reviewed.

A knowledge of names of trees, their habitats, ecological characters (silvics) and principal botanical characteristics is basic for the management of forests and advanced studied in forestry. Ideas that begin in the classroom can be explored and enlarged through these outdoor learning adventures. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to identify gymonosperms and angiosperms, recall common, generic, species, and family names for each species, provide derivation of genus and species names for at least 300 angiosperms and gymnosperms. One Saturday (early October) to mountain (Taebak－san or Chiak－san) on Province Gangwon－do will be required. Attendance is mandatory and students will be graded on the quality of their participation and attentiveness during the trip.

Silviculture deals with the theory and practice for the establishment and management of forest resources. The major topics are 1) silviculture for timber production, 2) silviculture for wildlife habitat, 3) silviculture for recreation activities, and 4) silviculture for biodiversity and conservation of species. Silviculture for timber production includes the theory and practice for seed production, treatment and storage, seedling production, nursery management, planting method, and tending such as thinning and pruning, natural regeneration, silvicultural systems and forest dynamics caused by stand treatment. Lecture also includes forest ecosystem management for sustainable yields in relation to the examples of forest management for wildlife, recreation, and biodiversity. Charac- teristics of propagation and tending methods of Korean native trees are also discussed. Finally, tropical forestry and major topical tree species are introduced to the students.

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the basic statistics, sampling, experimental design, forest landscape planning and social statistics commonly employed to collect, process and utilize forest inventory, and ecological data. The primary emphasis of the course is on giving the student a reasonable and practical knowledge and understanding of how to apply statistical and mathematical procedures to solve forestry problems and to make appropriate decisions about conservation and planning needs. Problem solving methods are taught and applied to real forestry problems and data. The student will be required to use statistical analysis package (R package), spread sheet, other soft programs and database to complete problem assignments.

The objective of Forest Field Practice for junior students is to learn practical techniques for forest ecology & forest environment management. Students participate in intensive 10-day outdoor classes and training programs at Southern University Forest from mid to late August. A grade will be given to students based on their presentations, discussions, reports, and attendance records.

This course focuses on forest plants that are naturally growing in forests and cultivated at local forestry farms. The students will learn about the traditional knowledge and the genetical and physiological characteristics of valuable woody plants. Additionally, they are going to study on how to identify the edible and medicinal forest plants and how to extract and utilize the functional materials. This course is practically connected to dendrology, forest genetics, forest ecology, and forest protection. Through this course, the students will get a deeper understanding of forest edible and medicinal plants and inspiration for future potential utilization as valuable resources.

This course is intended to provide a broad understanding of soil and water conservation engineering, forest road design and construction, and harvest technology of timber. This course offers a series of lectures on forest hydrology, the design of erosion control dams and structures, the restoration and revegetation of denuded lands, the design and construction of forest roads, and technologies and methods which are necessary for logging, bucking, skidding and yarding, log transpor- tation. The students also study about the relationship between forest engineering works and forest environment, such as the functionality of erosion control works, environmental impact assessment tool and environmental impact reduction tool of logging operation and forest road construction.

Ecohydrology is an interdisciplinary area that focuses on the interactions between water and ecological systems. This course will introduce the quantitative description of hydrological processes and atmosphere-vegetation-soil relations occurring in ecosystems. Students will learn about the field measurements and analytical methods for ecohydrological system analysis, and the influences of disturbed-ecosystems on hydrological processes.

This course is designed for the scientific understanding and practical conservation of forest landscape. It understands theories and methods including landscape ecology, ecological network, habitat modeling, and gap analysis, and examines the applicability of these theories in Korea. This course aims to have a variety of perspectives for systematic conservation plans by studying quantitative evaluation methods and monitoring systems such as climate change vulnerability and ecosystem service assessments.

This course intends to understand the interplay between landscape patterns and processes, the characteristics of landscape spatial pattern, where it comes from, and how it changes over time based on the principles of landscape ecology and conservation biology for sustainable management of forest landscapes. The goals of this course are to quantitatively analyze and evaluate landscapes and to solve problems that can be encountered when managing landscapes. This course provides lab sessions on landscape definition, landscape quantification, spatial pattern analysis, landscape connectivity analysis, protected area selection, and meta-population models, etc.