ESRM 304

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ESRM 304

• Environmental
• and
• Resource Assessment

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Forest Stewardship PlanGrading for Final Report

• Vegetation - 30
• Wildlife - 15
• Rest - 55

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Course Goals

• introduce the methods of how scientific
  investigation is done,
• how scientists from different disciplines use
  these methods in their specialty, and
• how these can be integrated in the context of a
  larger resource problem

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Field

• Concepts and Skills you will learn will be
  focused on an integrated case study of a forest
  land use situation
• Forest Stewardship Plan

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Topics Covered

• Module 1 Social Issues
• Module 2 Physical Environment (Soils
  Hydrology)
• Module 3 Aerial Photos Remote Sensing
• Module 4 Surveying Navigation
  Principles
• Module 5 Vegetation
• Module 6 Wildlife

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Lee Forest Stand Trails Map 1988
Environmental Resource Assessment

• Surveying

• Social!

• Aerial Photos Remote Sensing

• Vegetation

Disturbance Management

• Soils
• Hydrology

• Wildlife

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Core courses for Environmental Science and
Resource Management