Course Description
Throughout the world public support for the preservation and conservation of our natural environment and, in particular, wilderness, wildlands, and protected natural resource areas remains very strong. This course will address stewardship and management issues facing protected natural resources areas in North America and in other parts of the world.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
a) One graduate student group 1-hour (Powerpoint) presentation and 5-page report paper (with attached appendices) covering a critique of “technological tools in wilderness recreation.”
b) The quality of the presentations, written exam material, and project assignments will be of a higher quality than at the undergraduate level. Accordingly, written material and project assignments will receive more rigorous grading than at the undergraduate level.
Athena Title
Steward and Protect of Nat Res
Prerequisite
FANR 3400-3400D or PRTM 3310 or FANR 4202/6202-4202D/6202D
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Understand the origins, concepts and scope of wilderness, wildlands, and protected natural resource areas 2. Become familiar with the various agencies responsible for the stewardship and management of wilderness, wildlands, and protected natural resource areas 3. Be able to understand and utilize particular human dimensions and social science theories and tools related to the stewardship and management of wilderness, wildlands and protected natural resource areas 4. Be able to understand and utilize particular human dimensions and social science theories and tools related to understanding how the public view our wilderness, wildlands and protected natural resource areas 5. Understand leave-no-trace ethics and related skills 6. Be aware of the various issues (e.g., social, biological, political, etc.) affecting the stewardship and management of wilderness, wildands, and protected natural resource areas and any possible solutions to these issues
Topical Outline
Origins and development of the NWPS Wilderness Act Ecological impacts Wilderness planning: LAC Measurements and monitoring Wilderness education and minimum impact skills Federal and non-federal agency stewardship Wilderness user characteristics Field measurements and trip to RCWA Wilderness recreation management International concepts Wilderness ethics Project report and presentation