Melbourne School of Land and Environment Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science

Mark Brown

 
Position Programme Leader, Harvesting and Operations, CRC for Forestry
Address The University of Melbourne
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science
Water St, Creswick, Victoria, Australia, 3363
Email mwbrown@unimelb.edu.au
Phone +61 3 5321 4188 or 0488 123 115
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Master of Forest Ecosystem Science

220720 Forest Operations - Coordinators Professor Loren Kellogg and Mr Mark Brown

This subject provides an overview of forest & plantation harvesting operations including mechanized harvesting methods, cable yarding, transportation systems, forest road management, and harvest planning.  Harvesting and operations cost assessment techniques, and applications of planning software to help frame problems and provide information for contemporary forest & plantation management.  Students will apply the information learned in the course to develop a harvesting plan and present the plan.

This subject is a component of the Master of Forest Ecosystem Science. It may also be taken through the Community Access Program (CAP) as a single subject for professional development purposes. Further information about CAP is available at http://www.unimelb.edu.au/community/access/

For further information about Forest Operations see the subject flyer (pdf 166KB)

 

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