If you are a graduating senior, this schedule will be slightly modified to accommodate your graduation – I’ll e-mail you later in this regard.

Tentative Schedule:

Week 1 : Introduction to Plant Taxonomy;
Lecture: Forest Resources
Lab: Wood Anatomy & Wood Properties

SEE: HandoutNo.1.doc, SEC_GROWTH_LAB.doc, Wood Anatomy_1.doc, Wood Anatomy_2.doc, Wood Anatomy_3.doc

Week 2 : Gymnosperms (lecture & lab)

SEE:
HandoutNo. 2_Gymnos.doc, Miss_Conifer_Species.doc, DendroGymnosperms.ppt, WoodDensity Lab.doc, Plant Identification, use A Key to Common Trees.doc

Week 3 : Gymnosperms (lecture & lab)

SEE:
Miss_Conifer_Species.doc, DendroGymnosperms.ppt, DendroGymnoLab.doc, Plant Identification, dendrochronology.doc, use A Key to Common Trees.doc

Week 4 : Angiosperms

SEE:
dendro.mono.angiosper.ppt, dendro.angiosperms 2.ppt, dendro.angiosperms 3.ppt, Handout No.3.doc

First Lab Exam: use A Key to Common Trees.doc

Week 5 : Angiosperms (lecture & lab)

SEE:
Handout No.3.doc, Plant Identification, use A Key to Common Trees.doc

Week 6 : Plant Morphology I

Leaves & flowers: see
HandoutNo.3.doc
Lecture:
Second Lab Exam, Plant Identification

Week 7 : Plant Morphology II

Seeds, fruits: see
HandoutNo.3.doc
Lecture & lab: see
dendro_Fruit_lab.doc
Woody Families: Plant Identification

Week 8 : Third Lab Exam

Woody Families, Plant Identification

Week 9 : Lectures on Forest Ecology

Link to these sites:

Physiography of MS, Physiognomy of MS, Ecological Succession, Soils of MS

SEE:
dendro_distribution.ppt
READ:
Silvics/ecology.doc, Forest Regions of the USA.doc, DendroPhysiography.ppt, Dendro.Succession.ppt, forest distribution, deforestation, Woody Families, Forest Metrics, Plant Identification

Week 10 : Woody Families

Plant Identification

Week 11 : Woody Families

Plant Identification

Week 12 : Woody Families

Plant Identification, Herbarium practice

Link to this site:

DSU Herbarium

Week 13 : Woody Families

Plant Identification

Week 14 : Twig ID

Link to these sites

http://www.backyardnature.net/woodtwig.htm
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/twigkey/location.htm
http://www.bioquest.org/EStanley/twigkey.html

Woody Families, Plant Identification

SEE:
twig_id.doc, view dendro.winter botany.ppt

Fourth Lab Exam

Week 15 : Woody Families

Plant Identification

DURING FINALS WEEK

Final Exam