Forestry

Program objectives:

• To prepare qualified forestry specialists of higher education capable of independent and efficient management of state and private forests, increasing their productivity, conserving biodiversity and nature values.
• To educate creatively thinking specialists able to communicate, to work in a team, to feel responsible for work results.

Acquired competencies

The graduates will be able to:

• organize forest seed breeding and production of seedlings for reforestation;
• tend stands of different species composition, structure and functional destination;
• apply forest protection measures against diseases, pests and fire;
• conserve and cherish biodiversity;
• carry out forest inventories and to evaluate mensuration indices of forest and its products;
• plan multiple sustainable forest use;
• select machinery for forestry operations;
• elaborate plan of activities of a certain forestry unit and to assess its efficiency;
• prepare and manage documentation related to financial-economic activities;
• analyse stand productivity increment problems;
• tackle problems of rational hunting management;
• apply modern logging technologies;
• estimate commercial value of roundwood and sawn wood.

Programme Branches:

• Forest growing (Multi-functional use of forest resources)
• Nature tourism
• Forest management
• Timber harvesting
• Timber processing
• Fundamentals of plantation forestry (short-rotation and other plantations)
• Private ownership forestry

Professional perspectives

The graduates can work in forest enterprises, forest districts, nurseries, research institutes, cooperatives serving to private forest owners, establish small or medium forestry-related business enterprises.