10001199Forest, Fisheries and Wildlife
Course Information
Description
Integrated introduction to principles and practices of fisheries, forestry and wildlife management, including production of goods and services while maintaining ecosystem integrity and functions; emphasis on contemporary issues.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
  1. Relate the processes of succession, soil development, erosion, transport and deposition to the development and maintenance of ecosystems.

  2. Relate the biogeochemical cycling process occurring in ecosystems to soil development, water chemistry, biomass production and ecosystem development and maintenance.

  3. Explain how urban systems differ from other ecosystems, relative to high energy inputs and degradation, high nutrient inputs and concentrated outputs, altered hydrological cycles, simplified food webs and low species diversity.

  4. Evaluate the roles of various inter- and intra-specific relationships in the development and maintenance of communities.

  5. Evaluate various natural resource management strategies.

  6. Use compass, pacing, map reading skills, tree measurement instruments and sampling techniques commonly used in the natural resources field.
    Criteria
    Use compass and pacing to traverse an area determining acreage
    Use tree measurement instruments to determine basal area, cords, and board feet of wood in a plantation
    Locate areas on a map given township and range, UTM, or other coordinates
    Determine slope and stream direction using a topographical map

  7. Explain management of game fish and wildlife species, commercial forests, endangered species and invasive exotic species.

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