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| ORM2020 | Forest Protection | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Lab work | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul BİLGİLİ | | Co-Lecturer | PROF. DR. Ertuğrul BİLGİLİ, | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To teach prevention and control measures for forest protection against biotic and abiotic factors. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Explain the importance of forest protection. | 3,11 | | | LO - 2 : | Define the concept of fire ecology and explain its importance in understanding the functioning of fire dependent ecosystems. | 3,11 | | | LO - 3 : | Describe fuel types and associated fire types. | 3,11 | | | LO - 4 : | Define fire behavior and fire management. | 3,11 | | | LO - 5 : | Formulate simple prescriptions for fire control and fire use (prescribed burning) under a given set of weather, fuel and topographical conditions. | 3,11 | | | LO - 6 : | Discuss the grazing, land clearing and illegal cutting problems from technical, managerial, ecological and socio-economical point of view. | 3,11 | | | LO - 7 : | Relate abiotic factors to forest health, identify the damages incurrent by abiotic factors and propose precautionary measures against them. | 3,11 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| History of forest protection; factors affecting forests; forest fires; fire behavior; fire prevention and suppression; grazing; illegal cuts; damages caused by animals and plants; abiotic factors: acid rains, gases, sand dunes. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | History of forest protection, mission of forest protection, forest protection and other disciplines | | | Week 2 | Factors damaging forest resources, Fundamental forest protection concerns, introduction to forest fires, common terms | | | Week 3 |
Fire problem in Turkey and in the world, fire statistics, soci-cultural, economic and ecological backgrounds of fires | | | Week 4 |
Fire behavior, fuels, weather and topography | | | Week 5 |
Fire Danger Rating Systems (FDRS), components and implications (FWI and FBPS) | | | Week 6 |
Fire management (Prevention and pre-suppression activities) | | | Week 7 | Fire management (Fire suppression and the use of fire, prescribed burning) | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Grazing, land clearing and illegal cutting | | | Week 10 | Environmental pollution | | | Week 11 |
Biotic and Abiotic factors | | | Week 12 | Sand dunes | | | Week 13 | General overview and submission of homework assignments | | | Week 14 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Bilgili E. 2009. Orman Koruma Ders Notları, Trabzon. | | | |
| 1 | Çanakçıoğlu, H. 1993. Orman Koruma, İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları No. İstanbul. | | | 2 | Chandler, C. ; Cheney, P. ; Thomas, P. ; Trabaud, L. , 1991. Fire In Forestry, Volume II, Forest Fire Management and Organization. John Wiley and Sons. | | | 3 | Edward A. Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi, 2001. Forest fires : behavior and ecological effects, 594 p., San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, Inc. | | | 4 | Margaret Fuller, 1991. Forest Fires: An Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior, Management, Fire Fighting, and Prevention. Pages:238 Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. | | | 5 | Pyne, Stephen J., 2001. Fire : a brief history. 204 p. Seattle : University of Washington Press | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 04/04/2019 | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 12 | 11/05/2019 | 0,7 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 14 | 13/06/2019 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 4 | 16 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 2 | 16 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 92 |
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