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FW 553 - Adaptive Fish and Wildlife Management

  • 3 credits
This course teaches the structured decision making process. Students will learn to enable people representing diverse interests to come together to form a common understanding and to create scientifically rigorous, inclusive, defensible, and transparent fish, wildlife, and conservation management plans.

Prerequisite

FW 104 (Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (GT-SC2)) or FW 260 (Principles of Wildlife Management) or FW 555 (Conservation Biology) or LIFE 320 (Ecology) or NR 300 (Biological Diversity); STAT 301 (Introduction to Statistical Methods) or STAT 307 (Introduction to Biostatistics); Graduate standing.

Textbooks and Materials

Section 801

Required

  • Structured Decision Making: A Practical Guide to Environmental Management Choices (2012)
    Gregory, R., L. Failing, M. Harstone, G. Long, T. McDaniels, and D. Ohlson
    ISBN: 978-1-444-33341-1
  • Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet (2016)
    Groves, C and E. Game
    ISBN: 10: 1-936221-51-9
    Available on Amazon and the publisher's website.

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

Available as ebook for free through CSU's library. Print editions available on Amazon and the publisher's website.

Instructors

Heather B. Jackson
Heather B. Jackson

heather.jackson@colostate.edu

Heather Jackson is a conservation and landscape ecologist with a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University. She is interested in research that will help conservation organizations maximize biodiversity protection given limited funds. In addition, her research aims to help researchers and conservation planners to conduct their work at the spatial scales that are most relevant to the species with which they are concerned. Dr. Jackson administers the Conservation Actions with Lands, Animals, and People graduate certificate provided through the Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology department.