27 courses with the subject FORT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
| Lecture/Lab This course is an introduction to the ecological systems which influence lakes, streams, wetlands, and the riparian transition areas. This class will include both classroom and field lectures coupled with field exercises designed to investigate the elements and interactions of our aquatic and terrestrial resources.
| Lecture/Lab This course provides a basic working knowledge of forest soils which is critical to making informed management decisions. This class will include both classroom and field lectures to investigate soil physical and chemical properties and soil map unit interpretation. An introduction to soil forming factors and glacial history is also included in this course. MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG
| Lecture/Lab This course is designed as a self-assessment opportunity for individuals preparing to step into a leadership role. Topics include leadership values and principles, transition challenges for new leaders, situational leadership, team cohesion factors, ethical decision making, and after action review techniques. This course is a national Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) course L-280, Followership to Leadership. Students learn leadership and teamwork principles through challenging exercises. Prerequisities: FORT 1301
| Lecture/Lab This course is a general introduction to the natural resource field. It examines a variety of natural resources, the social implications of multiple use and environmental impacts associated with extractive, consumptive, and active uses of the land. The course emphasizes the intersection of the science associated with land managers' decisions, legal requirements of the field of natural resource management, and the public's demands for resources.
| Lecture This course will provide students with an understanding of applied trigonometry, algebra, and statistics. The course utilizes common natural resource examples to demonstrate trigonometry in surveying applications. The course also utilizes algebra to solve formulas in scaling and forest volume calculations. The course also utilizes cruising and inventory examples to provide a background in sampling and statistics.
| Lecture/Lab Causes, effects, prevention and suppression of forest fires. Includes fire weather, fire planning and controlled use of fire in the forest as well as principles of forest entomology and pathology. Also covers identification, life cycles, host damage, and control methods of important insect and disease groups.
| Lecture/Lab This course is designed to provide an understanding of forest vegetation, its volume, growth, quality, and site conditions. Proper use of instruments and P a g e | 70
| Lecture Students are introduced to career opportunities and the necessary procedures for obtaining employment in natural resources. Topics include the summer field experience, job applications, interviews, and specific employment opportunities. Job search techniques will emphasize web-based applications, announcements, and resumes. This course also examines the personal characteristics and work habits required for successful job performance. (Cross-listed course; students can enroll only in FORT 1214 or NRT 1214.) Prerequisities: BIOL 1131, FORT 1201, FORT 1205, FORT 1206, FORT 1212, FORT 1301, NRT 1211
| Lecture/Lab This course is made up of three National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) training courses, S 130 Firefighter Training, S 190 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior and L 180 - Human Factors on the Fireline, which are required of all personnel to be certified as firefighters. S 110 Wildland Fire Orientation is also covered in this course. Students are trained in basic firefighting skills, techniques an safety; management systems, fire behavior and physical training for firefighters. Also included as online homework will be Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ICS 100 Introduction to the Incident Command System and
| Lecture/Lab Wildlife Power Saws will provide students with a working knowledge and a demonstrable understanding of the use of forestry hand tools, including chainsaw use and equipment safety. Students will learn the fundamentals of working as a crew and directing the work of others to achieve MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG objectives for a saw team. Students will obtain certification of completion of the NWCG S-212 course materials.
211) 2 credits | Lecture/Lab This is National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (NWCG) course S211. The course gives students the knowledge and skills to design, setup, operate, troubleshoot and shut down portable water delivery systems.
| Lecture This course will give students a basic understanding of how fires start and behave and how they affect the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of the environment
| Lecture This course will provide students with a basic understanding of map interpretation and compass use. The course includes the rectangular land survey system. It also introduces GPS field use.
| Lecture This course covers interagency aviation firefighting operations, aircraft types and capabilities, aviation management and safety for flying in and working with firefighting aircraft, tactical and logistical uses of aircraft and basic aviation policy. The Interagency d Aviation Training (IAT) program is also introduced and explored. Field visits to the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center Aviation Desk, an Interagency Tankerbase, and a MN DNR Helibase will link the classroom learning with on-the-ground knowledge and familiarization. This course will provide all the training in the National Wildfire Coordination Group's S-270 (Basic Air Operations) and will increase the employability of students who complete the course. Prerequisities: FORT 1301
| Lecture/Lab This course provides students with an understanding of basic surveying methodology. The course includes a discussion and field proficiency on traverses, leveling, and line running with compasses and a variety of distance measure methods. The course P a g e | 71
| Lecture/Lab This course will provide students with an understanding of silvicultural principles as they apply to management of forests in North America. Students will be exposed to forest management practices including regeneration and stand establishment, intermediate treatments, and single-, double-, and multi-cohort management systems. The course utilizes labs to demonstrate basic principles in density, stocking, silvical characteristics of select species, hardwood management, stand examination, and nursery and greenhouse seedling production techniques. Extensive lab work and field assignments allow students the opportunity to gain observational experience and relate principles discussed in the lecture. Prerequisities: BIOL 1131, FORT 1212
| Lecture This is National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Course S-131. In this course students will learn to use fireline reference tools and materials to facilitate the communication and decision making process. Students will plan operational strategies and tactics, conduct operational briefings, and manage mock wildfires and all hazard incidents. Incorporating and maintaining open lines of communication with supervisors, as well as subordinates, is experienced in the tactical decision making exercises of this course. Prerequisities: FORT 1301, FORT 2203
| Lecture/Lab The course will help students to develop an understanding of major forest products. Students will be presented with an overview of the constituent elements of wood. Discussions will center around the impact of forest management practices on specific wood properties and how these properties ultimately affect the use of wood as a raw material. The use of woody materials for a variety of products, including a focus on pulp and paper, woody biomass, lumber and solid wood products, composite wood products, and extractives and new and emerging types of products are covered. An understanding of species MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG characteristics and raw material specifications will be developed.
| Forest Management and Planning will provide an overview of forest logging systems in Northern Minnesota. Through lab work, students will demonstrate a basic understanding of the use of forestry hand tools and equipment safety. This class will concentrate on harvesting methods, prescriptive harvest planning, timber sale set-up and design, forest certification, road construction, and considerations and application of Best Management Practices. An overview of timber sale contract development and administration will be presented. A final project will include development of a forest stand management plan and harvest contract. This class will serve as a capstone course, requiring students to incorporate principles learned in dendrology, ecology, forest inventory, wildlife management, forest protection, recreation, business and GIS into their management plan for forest stands. Prerequisities: FORT 1206, FORT 1212, FORT 2016, FORT 2112, GEOG 1204
| Lecture This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of present and anticipated outdoor needs of the recreating public. An examination of current recreational infrastructure and implications of the land management conflicts that arise from varied use will be a critical component. Prerequisities: BIOL 1131, FORT 1206
| Lecture This class integrates forest management,& biodiversity concepts at the stand and landscape levels. The importance of economic and social P a g e | 72
System (ICS-300) 1 credit | Lecture This is Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) course ICS-300. The Incident Command System course develops a standardized, on-scene, all- risk, incident management concept for incident management personnel. MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE | 2024-25 CURRICULUM CATALOG Course subjects include implementing ICS on Type 3 incidents (moderately complex), using ICS for routine events or moderately complex emergency incidents, defining techniques allowing personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into a common management structure, determining logistical and administrative support to ensure that operational staff can meet incident objectives, and methods to be cost effective by avoiding duplication of efforts.
Source: Minnesota North College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
