ProgramCIP 03.0506

Forest Management/Forest Resources Management

A program that prepares individuals to apply principles of forestry and natural resources management to the administration of forest lands and related resources. Includes instruction in silviculture, forest mensuration, forest protection, inventorying, biometrics, geographic information systems, remote sensing, photogrammetry, forest policy and economics, forest land use planning, fire protection and management, and related administrative skills.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Silviculture, Sylviculture.