NATR 242: Survey of Wildlife Populations

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Class Program

Natural Resources

Credits

Clinical Hours None

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

092854

Meets Degree Requirements For

Restricted Elective

Description

Identification of northwest wildlife and associated populations. Identification and habitat improvement through population surveys, forage/browse utilization, population dynamics and carrying capacities. Students will learn wildlife survey procedures and survey the associated conditions of required habitat for both large and small birds/mammals.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Identify and summarize current ecosystem health

Develop specific habitat treatments to improve wildlife habitat and populations

Understand the natural and man-made actions that affect long-term carrying capacities.

Identify current wildlife habitat health and develop a management prescription for the improvement of the current habitat health.

Understand and establish continuous habitat inventory plots for monitoring of habitat health, carrying capacity, and population dynamics.

Understand sustainable wildlife management through habitat improvement, habitat restoration, and the development of landscape resilient ecotones.

Core Topics

Knowing and understanding the art and science of wildlife management.
Determining ecosystem health and the causes of the current status of the habitat.
Determining wildlife carrying capacity through site surveys.
Knowing understanding population dynamics.
Knowing and using survey methods to determine wildlife carrying capacities.
Determining natural and man-made actions that impact habitats.
Knowing the reasoning, importance, and data collection process for establishing and inventorying continuous habitat improvement plots.
Determining and applying management prescriptions to maintain and improve upon current habitat health.
Determining reasons habitat health decline.
Understanding that social-economic constraints play an important part in natural resource and wildlife management.