Program: Forest Operations

Academic Year: 08-09 Completed by: Kurt B. Havird Date: 11-6-08

*Mission:

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Intended Outcomes (Program Outcomes/Goals)	Student Learning Outcomes (Core Skills and Objectives)	Assessment Measures	Performance Criteria/Expected Results	Evaluation & Planned Actions	Use of Results (Close the Loop)
Prepare a timbered stand for harvest by marking harvest boundaries and harvest trees	Be able to correctly locate and mark boundaries for timber removals and correctly identify and mark trees to be removed for timber sales	Ground inspection	Student will correctly determine and mark trees to be removed for a timber sale and mark the associated timber sale boundary within +/- 10% of accuracy	TBA in 2009	TBA in 2009
Determine and correctly enter GPS data for acreage determination	Be able to properly collect and input field data into a GPS unit for acreage determination	Electronic acreage determination	Student will correctly navigate, and input GPS data into a collection device for a timbered stand to determine acreage estimation and be within +/- 5% of the actual acreage	TBA in 2009	TBA in 2009
Correctly determine and enter data for forest inventory volume and value determination	Be able to correctly determine in the field information to be entered into a hand-held data recorder to be used for volume and value determination	Electronic volume and value determination	Student will correctly enter field measurements into a hand-held data recorder to be used for volume and value determination and be within +/- 5% of the actual volume and value	TBA in 2009	TBA in 2009

*Terms for same concepts on Frameworks