EASC 418: Terrain Stability - Assessment and Mitigation
| Credits: | 1 |
Pre-requisites: | EASC 313, 411 & 413 |
Lecture (hrs/week): | 2 |
| Terms: | Spring |
Co-requisites: | None |
Lab (hrs/week): | n/a |
| Instructors: | Stead, Ward | ||||
| Course Notes: | |||||
Description:
This is a field-based course dealing with site specific assessment of the areas to be logged or impacted by road construction.
Practical experience in the development of prescriptions for the mitigation of environmental impacts will be an integral part of
the course. Examples of terrain stability assessment will be demonstrated from both a geoscience and geotechnical perspective.
The course will consist of two components:
a. Lectures and invited seminars will be given by Forestry Geoscience professionals;
b. Six days of field work covering varied aspects of Terrain Stability Assessment in Forested Terrain. (Be prepared for inclement weather!)
Students should budget for $150 field costs (food and lodging).
- Terrain stability assessment field procedures
- Environmental impact and mitigation in forested terrains
- Forestry-related landslides
- Forest road construction and deactivation
- Rock slope stability assessment.
Readings will be selected from the following texts held on reserve:
- Mapping and Assessing Terrain Stability Guidebook. 1999. Forest Practices Code of British Columbia. Second Edition .
- Forest Road Engineering Guidebook, 1995. Forest Practices Code of British Columbia. Second Edition . (Under revision)
- Forest Road Drainage Installation Practices. 2000.
- Forest Road Deactivation Practices. 2000.