Forestry (MR)

Degree Requirements

Plan of Study Grid
First Year
Fall Semester		Hours
FOR 501	Dendrology ^*	4
FOR 474/574	Forest Measurement, Modeling, and Inventory	3
NR 560	Renewable Natural Resource Management and Policy	3
	Hours	10
Spring Semester
FOR 504 & FOR 506	The Practice of Silviculture and Silviculture Laboratory	4
	or
FOR 508	Hardwood Management: Natural Forest Silviculture
FOR 534	Forest Operations and Analysis ^*	3
FOR 519	Forest Economics	3
	Hours	10
Second Year
Fall Semester
FOR 505	Forest Management	4
FOR 531 or FOR 595	Wildland Fire Science or Special Topics	3
Topics for FOR 595 should be Forest Health and Practice or Fire Ecology
Elective Course		1
	Hours	8
Spring Semester
GIS 510	Fundamentals of Geospatial Information Science and Technology	3
FOR 572	Forest Soils	4
Elective Course		3
	Hours	10
	Total Hours	38

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
FOR 502	Forest Measurements	1
FOR 503	Silvics and Forest Tree Physiology	3
FOR 508	Hardwood Management: Natural Forest Silviculture	4
or
FOR 504 & FOR 506	The Practice of Silviculture and Silviculture Laboratory	4
FOR 520	Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology	4
FOR 522	Consulting Forestry	3
FOR 583	Tropical Forestry	3
FOR 630	Independent Study in Forestry ^**	1-3
FOR 801	Seminar	1
FW 595	Special Topics in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences (Wildlife Habitat Management)	3
NR 500	Natural Resource Management	4
NR 554	Introduction to Data Analysis in Natural Resources	3
NR 571	Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy	3
PA 511	Public Policy Analysis	3
PB 565	Plant Community Ecology	4
SSC 461	Soil Physical Properties and Plant Growth	3

University Catalog 2026-2027