NCSR: Special Topics II - Watersheds, Soils, and Ornithology

This 115-page guide provides a variety of laboratory, classroom, and field activities that can be used to introduce students to the concept of ecosystem-based natural resource management. The guide is divided into three, sections - Watershed Ecosystems, Soils and Ornithology. "The first section - Watershed Ecosystems - focuses on aquatic natural resources with an emphasis on salmon-bearing streams in the Pacific Northwest... The second section examines the importance of soils in natural resource management... The final section provides an example of how one group - the birds - can be evaluated in such a program."