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Forest Resources

Ethics for Registered Foresters

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The Ethics course is one hour of time spent online viewing a presentation and answering scenarios on what you have learned. Once you have registered for the course, you will receive access and instructions on how to view the materials online. You will only have access for 30 days.

Fee: $59.00 (must be received before access granted)

CFE credits - you will earn 1.0 Category I CFE for this course.

For more information contact:
Phone: Glenna Sullivan at 662.325.1558
Email: gsullivan@aoce.msstate.edu
Fax: 662-325-8666
Mail: P. O. Box 5247, Mississippi State, MS 39762

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Prescribed Burning Short Course

Date: October 21-23, 2008
Location: Hattiesburg, MS
CFE Credits: Category I, 23
Fee: $400 (MFC employees - $250)

Who Should Attend?
If you prescribe fire or apply fire, or plan to in the future, you will greatly benefit from this course. This course is designed for professional forest resource managers. Registered Foresters, landowners, or anyone interested in prescribed burning will also find this course to be an excellent value.

Prescribed Burning Prerequisite
If you are new to this course, you will need to take a prerequisite that is provided by Mississippi State University FREE upon your registration in the MSU Prescribed Burning Short Course. This self-paced correspondence course provides an understanding of several topics that are a must for prescribed burning certification. Upon satisfactory completion, you will be ready to take the Prescribed Burning Short
Course. You will also receive 10 Category 5 CFEs.

What you will learn — How you will benefit:

• State laws regarding your liability
• Ignition techniques
• Benefits, limitations, and risks
• How to managing smoke
• Forest fuels and fuel classifications
• How to plan and execute a prescribed burn
• Effects of weather and fuel moisture on fire behavior

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Prescribed Burning Refresher Course

Date: TBA
Location: Thompson Hall, Tully Auditorium,  MSU
Fee: TBA
CFE Credits: Category I, 7.5

Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in the use of prescribed burning for forest and wildlife habitat management in the south.  Already certified burn managers through the Mississippi Forestry Commission will also find this course to be an excellent refresher.

What You Will Learn - How You Will Benefit
This course will serve as a refresher and build upon the Prescribed Burning Short Course.  Topics covered include:

• Legal issues for prescribed burning in Mississippi and the region
• Fire fuels and fire weather
• Smoke management
• Firing techniques
• Prescribed burn plan preparation
• Burning for wildlife
• Fire ecology of southern forests

Instructor:   
Andrew J. Londo
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry, Mississippi  State University
Pine Silviculture

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Forest Resource Practices and Principles: Study Guide Lecture Series for the Mississippi BORF Exam.

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This study guide lecture series covers subjects that will be covered in the Mississippi BORF Exam. Once you have registered for the course, you will receive access and instructions on how to view the materials online. You will only have access for 30 days. Topics covered include:

• silviculture
• Management
• Measurements
• Economics
• Fire
• Insects
• Disease & Harvest

Fee: $150.00 (must be received before access granted)

For more information contact:
Phone: Glenna Sullivan at 662.325.1558
Email: gsullivan@aoce.msstate.edu
Fax: 662-325-8666
Mail: P. O. Box 5247, Mississippi State, MS 39762

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