Schedule of Classes
Date
Topic
Reading
Jan 10
Introduction
Jan 17
Vegetation management
McPherson and DeStefano 2003 chapter 1
Jan 22
Field trip: Saguaro National Park
;
Writing assignment
NPS Organic Act
;
article from Tucson Weekly
Jan 24
Linking science, policy, and management
Jan 29
Four spikes
;
Writing assignment
KtN chapter 1
Jan 31
Greenhouse gases and global environmental change
Karl and Trenberth 2003
Feb 5
Exam 1
Feb 7
Global change: biological invasions
(Erika Geiger)
Pimentel et al. 2000
Feb 12
Consumption
;
Writing assignment
KtN chapters 3, 4
Feb 14
Silviculture
Barnett and Baker 1991
Feb 19
Solving the consumption problem
;
Writing assignment
KtN chapter 6
Feb 21
Human population growth
KtN chapters 2, 7
;
Hansen et al. 2005
Feb 26
Consequences of human population growth
;
Writing assignment
Feb 28
Biodiversity matters; Conservation biology as a discipline
KtN chapter 5
;
Noss 1999
Mar 5
Exam 2
Mar 7
Infectious disease
Epstein 1997
Mar 11-18
Spring Break
Mar 19
Major environmental legislation
(Chris McDonald);
Writing assignment
Endangered Species Act
Mar 21
Professional panel: mitigating the extinction crisis (four guests invited)
KtN chapter 8
Mar 26
Ecological footprint; Professional ethics in natural resource management
;
Writing assignment
Balmford et al. 2002
;
Wackernagel et al. 2002
Mar 28
Conservation planning
The Nature Conservancy 1997
Apr 2
Exam 3
Apr 4
Ecological drivers in southwestern ecosystems
McPherson and Weltzin 2000
Apr 9
Plant control; Fire
;
Writing assignment
McPherson DRAFT monograph
Apr 11
Fire ecology, fire management, fire policy
McPherson DRAFT monograph
Apr 16
Discussion: livestock grazing on western rangelands
;
Writing assignment
Freilich et al. 2003;
McPherson 2004
Apr 18
Professional panel: mitigating the extinction crisis (four guests invited)
KtN chapter 8 (again)
Apr 23
Exhibit
art and literature projects
Apr 25
Exam 4
Apr 30
Field trip
, Mt. Lemmon;
Writing assignment
Muldavin et al. 1996
May 2
Sustainability
; Course evaluations
KtN chapter 9
May 4
Exam 5
: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.