AGRI 632 - Managing for Ecosystem Sustainability

This course introduces to current and future managers the fundamentals of natural resource response that contribute to successful land management. How to read and understand the land is a key element in this course. Also included are the impacts of ecological process on operation products and the use of mechanism-based understanding to produce reliable management responses. Important elements of using biological tools, fire, mechanical intervention and chemicals to manage land are included.

This course can be applied towards:

• Agricultural Extension Education (M.Agr.)
• Integrated Resource Management (M.Agr.)
• Rangeland Ecosystem Science (M.S.)

Important Information

AGRI 632 has been selected for endorsement by Colorado State University's School for Global Environmental Sustainability Curriculum Committee.

Textbooks and Materials

Textbooks and materials can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore unless otherwise indicated.

Required

• Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (2006)
  Walker, Brian and Salt, David

Instructors

Robert Woodmansee
Robert.Woodmansee@colostate.edu

Dr. Bob Woodmansee is a professor of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University.