Postgraduate Forestry 2017-2018

· This five day residential field course is held during the Easter vacation and follows one of two alternating programmes of visits: one in northern Scotland and the other in the Borders (S Scotland) and the Lake District (NW England)). 

· Students visit various multi-functional forests (at least one with a conservation designation) and learn about balancing different management objectives including timber production, environmental services and amenity – with visits hosted by the local forest managers.

· This residential field course is based in Freiburg in SW Germany.  6/7 days are spent visiting different forests and meeting German forestry professionals.

· This is a joint course with Freiburg University and University College Dublin which allows you to share ideas with students who have studied in different institutions.

· Visiting forests overseas challenges many assumptions of how forests should be managed and allows you to reflect on how culture and policy as well as forest type affect forest management.