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| The UI Experimental Forest is an outdoor classroom and field laboratory
exemplifying the College of Natural Resources' tradition of
"hands-on" training. Up to 20 classes use the forest for lab trips and
outdoor classroom exercises. Each fall, students taking the Prescribed Burning
lab use prescribed fire to prepare harvest units for future planting or natural
regeneration. In the spring students plant seedlings grown in the UI Forest
Research Nursery on sites prepared the previous fall. During summer months
selected students can work on the student logging crew, helping to accomplish
the majority of the forest's timber harvest activities. |
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The Experimental Forest is managed on a sustained yield basis, where students
help plan the harvests, design the road systems, and write the silvicultural
prescriptions. A data base of resource information on the forest is maintained
and utilized by instructors in the classroom. The Experimental Forest is an
invaluable resource to students of the College of Natural Resources; it provides them with that most fundamental of all learning tools --
first hand experience. |
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