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 Department:    ENVC

 Course #:    202

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5.5

 CIP:    030101

 EPC:    165

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

Concepts in wildlife management and conservation biology. Understand and identify wildlife management perspectives and constraints in relation to different cultural and social values. Includes relationships between land use patterns and responses by wildlife populations, and wildlife management with climate change challenges. Lab included.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Reading in technical journals and report writing required.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 44

Lab: 22

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Natural Sciences, Required for ATA degree, Elective  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify characteristics of wildlife populations, their limiting factors, and habitat conditions.
2. Evaluate the effects of forest and range management on wildlife and the potential social conflicts associated with different management strategies.
3. Identify and understand wildlife management perspectives and constraints in relation to different cultural and social values.
4. Identify different stakeholders and their attitudes towards wildlife.
5. Characterize wildlife carrying capacity as well as social carrying capacity.
6. Incorporate how the history of wildlife management has shaped current policies.
7. Demonstrate natural regulations of populations and their associated food webs.
8. Demonstrate how socio-economic changes on a global scale influence wildlife poaching around the globe.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2018 and affects outlines for 2019 and later.

Engage

Definition: Interact with humans and the environment informed by an understanding of equity.

Course Contents

1. History of wildlife management. Ecosystems and natural communities.
2. Animal adaptations to environment. Characteristics of natural populations.
3. Predators and predation including how different social groups view predators.
4. Feeding types and plant-herbivore interactions. Movement and migration.
5. Natural regulations of populations. Analysis of wildlife populations.
6. Wildlife and interactions with landowners; public and private. Conflicts over land use constraints due to presence of endangered and threatened species.
7. Managing urban wildlife with multiple attitudes towards their presence.
8. Social attitudes and the science of hunting of wildlife.