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This 90-page guide explains community-based education and ecosystem management as organizing frameworks around natural resource-based studies. The manuals purpose is to generate ideas, provide support, and highlight an organizational template for educators that will allow that process of a...

This 61-page course guide provides an overview of the Environmental Ethics course. This course "examines human and human/non-human relationships from an extra-cultural perspective." Topics include definitions of environmental ethics, sustainability, "centrisms," "Green Politics," "Deep Ecology," "...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

Program Description: Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses environmental topics. Each is a 4-credit course that includes a lab and lecture. The courses are targeted towards students in natural resource areas (e.g. Forestry, Fish and...

This module helps students practice and gain skills in "evaluating claims made in written accounts of environmental issues." Students evaluate an article on a current environmental topic using the following questions: "What do we accept as evidence? What is the source of the evidence? What is the...

Forest Regeneration is a field-based laboratory "that evaluates tree seedling growth and mortality and stand development as part of a reforestation project. This long-term project requires students to apply skills that are commonly used in forest management. The activity also incorporates an...

Module Description: This module is intended to help students understand human impacts on the environment. The module includes four components: One Planet Many People - Atlas of Our Changing Environment, Ecological Footprint Analysis, A description of other sources of remote sensing imagery and...

Principles of Wildlife Conservation is an introductory course that introduces students to "the history of wildlife conservation, basic ecological concepts, human impacts on wildlife and habitat, social and economic issues relating to wildlife management, and management objectives and strategies for...

This 56-page manual provides an overview for the introductory Forest Surveying course. In this course "students are introduced to basic forest surveying techniques including the fundamentals of horizontal and vertical measurements. This course also introduces students to planimetric and topographic...