Methodology

The purpose of this course is to learn how to write a Forest Management Project from scratch, extrapolating to any other territorial project in which as geographer/s can participate as part of multidisciplinary teams.

For the drafting of the POF, a wide range of tasks must be carried out throughout the drafting process, which will allow you to acquire the knowledge of searching for and processing information by different means.
The search for basic information will be firstly in the digital field (legal status and natural state of the forest), and also in written bibliography. GIS analysis will become an important part of the course and we will review practical and functional aspects to obtain results for the drafting of the POF. GIS tools will be used for the preparation of the field work prior to the forest inventory session, for the calculation of areas and analysis required in the final pdf document and for the graphic presentation of the FOP results.
The field work will allow you to learn about the technical tools of forest inventory, the extraction of coras for the calculation of the age of each tree and the assessment of possible actions (livestock, production, public use and biodiversity) in each area of the forest that you will know.
During the process, it will have to listen to the demands of the different agents involved in the use and management of the forest, such as rural agents, the technical staff of the Natural Park, livestock farmers, forest owners, and integrate them into the actions proposed by the technical team in the POF.
As a drafting team, they will have to make coherent and viable proposals for new actions and infrastructures according to the knowledge acquired and the capacity to discern and make judgments on the quantitative and qualitative information they have gathered.
The whole process of drafting the POF will be evaluated with deliveries throughout the course, as well as the delivery of specific tasks and the final oral presentation of the project with its own proposal for forest management for the next 10 and 20 years.

Teaching methodologies used in the degree course

• Lectures
• Classroom practices
• Discussions
• Oral presentation of papers
• Tutorials
• Field trips: Dasometry and practical measurements with forestry instruments.
• Elaboration of work
• Reading of articles
• Laboratory practices

Evaluation activities used in the degree program

• Classroom practices
• Field trip reports
• Submission of reports/assignments
• Attendance and active participation in class
• Oral presentation of work/s

The methodology of this subject is practical. The field techniques at the field trip and the laboratory techniques in the realization of the protocols will be explained.

At the beginning of the course, the teacher will explain the protocol of measures and good practices for field trips.

"15 minutes of a class will be set aside, within the schedule established by the center/degree, for students to fill in surveys to evaluate the performance of the teaching staff and to evaluate the subject"

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.