SUSTAINABLE WOODLAND MANAGEMENT
This course will lead to accreditation at Level 3 with the Open College Network
COURSE OUTLINE
Learn how to process timber, including calculating timber sizes and volumes as well as using appropriate extraction, stacking, bundling, seasoning, cutting, splitting and conversion methods.
Financial aspects examined include assessing the value of woodlands and adding to this through woodland crafts and products. Specifically, we look at cleaving, weaving and turning, as well as charcoal, woodfuel and timber production.
The course also provides an overview of legal issues involved in woodland management, including woodland and wildlife protection laws, insurance, felling licences and management contracts.
Finally, we look at the value of local community support and the importance of community access and involvement in woodlands, focusing on woodland activities, links with local culture and methods of raising awareness and involvement. The health and safety implications of this are also covered, including guidelines on undertaking risk assessments.
COURSE TIMINGS
The course begins with supper at 6pm. Please try to arrive from 4pm onwards and ask in the restaurant or in reception for directions to your room. Following supper on the first night, there will be a short introduction to the course, the Centre and each other. On each subsequent day, teaching begins at 0930. The course finishes after lunch at 1400.
Breakfast is served at 0830; lunch at 1300; and supper at 1800 - all in CAT's wholefood vegetarian restaurant. Tea and coffee breaks are also provided.
COURSE TUTORS
Bob Shaw and Richard Thomason
FOOD AND ACCOMMODATION
The course fee covers full board accommodation at CAT, tuition and course materials.
