Presents management approaches to forest disturbances that include fire, drought, introduced species, insects and pathogen outbreaks, windstorms, and ice storms. This course will explore their interactions at the stand/population and landscape levels, including implications associated with climate change. Major components to be discussed are: monitoring and prediction of hazard and risk; damage prediction based on organism population dynamics; management strategies and tactics including acquisition and deployment of resources, control methods and cost benefit analyses. Taxonomy of major families of insects and diseases will be covered in laboratory sessions.