Focuses on the identification and inventory of forest natural resources including water, timber, flora, fauna and soils. Also includes study on how the interrelationships of these resources play in landscape ecosystems.
Course Learning Outcomes
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Operate tools and equipment commonly used in the natural resources field work.
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking -
Select and apply appropriate field techniques to sample, measure, and monitor timber, fish, and wildlife species and their habitat(s).
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking
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Objectively predict, assess, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate perspectives of diverse stakeholders regarding natural resource problems and issues.
Problem SolvingCritical ThinkingQuantitative Reasoning -
Recognize the role of cultural diversity in resource management and describe the impact of the global distribution of people and wealth on resource use and valuation.
InquiryResearch
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Describe biotic and abiotic processes, including human impacts that influence ecosystems and contribute to ecological change.
Problem SolvingQualitative ReasoningCommunicationWritten Expression -
Utilize maps, aerial photographs, and land survey abilities in the management of natural resources, including geographic information systems.
Problem SolvingQuantitative ReasoningQualitative Reasoning
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Objectively predict, assess, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate perspectives of diverse stakeholders regarding natural resource problems and issues.
Problem SolvingCritical ThinkingQuantitative Reasoning -
Operate tools and equipment commonly used in the natural resources field work.
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking
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Operate tools and equipment commonly used in the natural resources field work.
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking -
Select and apply appropriate field techniques to sample, measure, and monitor timber, fish, and wildlife species and their habitat(s).
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking
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Select and apply appropriate field techniques to sample, measure, and monitor timber, fish, and wildlife species and their habitat(s).
Problem SolvingCritical Thinking -
Describe biotic and abiotic processes, including human impacts that influence ecosystems and contribute to ecological change.
Problem SolvingQualitative ReasoningCommunicationWritten Expression
Core Topics
- Identifying and knowing primary Northwest forest resources.
- Introduction to ecosystem health and the causes of the current health status, i.e, insects, carrying capacity, past management actions, and present actions.
- Introduction to carrying capacity of the land resource relative to the actions occurring upon that resource.
- Identifying and knowing primary Northwest habitat types.
- Introduction to using land/resource survey methods, statistical sampling, tools, and proper protocol for the determination of current forest resource status level.
- Determining natural and man-made actions that impact forest resources.
- Knowing the reasoning, importance, and data collection process within forest resource management.
- Introduction to forest restoration prescriptions to maintain and improve upon current forest health.
- Introduction to landscape resiliency management.
- Introduction and identification of reasons for forest resource decline.
- Introduction and identification of social-economic constraints that play an important part in natural resource management.