Forest Hydrology & Soils

Course Number: 
BASF 312
Course Credits: 
5.00
Course Description: 
This course introduces students to the basics of soils and hydrology and relationships between forest-soil-water, as well as the implications of forest operations in these elements. Students will learn how to use topographic and hydrologic analog and digital data and/or software to assess environmental conditions, and use those tools to help in the decision-making process. Field practices will be held to show in-situ conditions and how to identify soils and watershed elements in forests.
Course Prerequisites: 
Prerequisites: Admission to the BAS-FRM program or instructor permis sion.
Course Outcomes: 
  • Describe and interpret landscape and soil profile information in the field and from soil maps;
  • Read and interpret topographic and hydrologic information within a landscape and watershed framework;
  • Relate key soil properties to their management and productivity;
  • Produce a report on the edaphologic-hydrologic conditions of designated forest land.