Overview
Program Coordinator: Bert O’Neal – robertooneal@cltcc.edu
Program Description
The Forest Technology program prepares students to produce, protect, and manage timber; maintain and operate related equipment; and select, grade, harvest, and market forest raw materials for converting into a variety of consumer goods.
Graduates who earn credentials in this program work in the outdoors conducting forest inventory, forest health surveys, timber sale administration, reforestation, wildlife surveys, map and compass navigation, and forest fire fighting.
Diploma
TD – Forest Technology
Exit Points
CTS – Forest Harvesting & Planting Assistant
CTS – Forest Technician Site Assistant
Program Curriculum
Curriculum
|
Course No.
|
Course Title
|
Lecture
|
Lab
|
Total Credit Hrs.
|
Total Clock Hrs.
|
|
ORNT 1000
|
Freshman Seminar
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
15
|
|
FRTY 1111
|
Introduction to Forest Technology
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
45
|
|
CPTR 1000
|
Introduction to Computers
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
45
|
|
FRTY 2720
|
Wildlife Habitat Ecology & Game Management
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
45
|
|
FRTY 2410
|
Forestry Products
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
45
|
|
FRTY 2420
|
Introduction to Global Information System & Global Positioning Systems
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
60
|
|
FRTY 1330
|
Timber Harvesting
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
90
|
|
FRTY 2520
|
Forest Mensuration I
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
60
|
|
|
CTS – FOREST HARVESTING & PLANTING ASSISTANT
|
|
|
20
|
405
|
|
FRTY 1310
|
Silviculture
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
135
|
|
FRTY 2510
|
Forest Insects and Diseases
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
60
|
|
FRTY 2620
|
Reforestation
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
90
|
|
FRTY 1120
|
Dendrology
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
135
|
|
|
CTS – FOREST TECHNICIAN SITE ASSISTANT
|
|
|
39
|
825
|
|
FRTY 1000
|
Forest and Construction Equipment Lab
|
0
|
3
|
3
|
135
|
|
FRTY 2710
|
Prescribed Burning & Wildfire Control
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
135
|
|
FRTY 1210
|
Forest Surveying
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
120
|
|
FRTY 2610
|
Forest Mensuration II
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
135
|
|
JOBS 2450
|
Job Seeking Skills
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
30
|
|
|
TD – FOREST TECHNOLOGY
|
|
|
61
|
1380
|