FOR 110: Contemporary Issues in Forests and the Environment

Course Code: FOR 110

Course Description

Learn about the amazing ways that forests promote global environmental quality and human well-being. Topics include the role of forests in: mitigating climate change, creating rainfall, promoting human psychological health, and providing the materials for carbon-storing wooden skyscrapers. We also will introduce how humans interact with forests and how these ecosystems and their benefits are threatened by climate change, mega-wildfires, and invasive species.