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Moscow, ID 83844-1135

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Fall 2009 Course Offerings

We offer a variety of courses that help students understand how rangelands work and how to manage them.

Our goal is to offer effective and interactive courses that form an informational foundation for future rangeland managers, researchers, educators, and consultants.

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Undergraduate Courses
REM 221 Ecology, by Ronald Robberecht
 

Fundamental principles of ecology. Major topics covered include the physical environment, how organisms interact with each other and their environment, evolutionary processes, population dynamics, communities, ecosystems, human influences on ecosystems, and the integration and scaling of ecological processes through systems ecology.
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REM 244 Wildland Fire Management, by Chad Hoffman
 

Introduction to wildland fire management including fire behavior, fuels, fire prevention and suppression, fire policy and fire ecology.  Includes discussion of current fire management issues.
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REM 251 Rangeland Principles, by Jim Kingery
 

Development of range use and range resource management, rangeland vegetation types, current management issues, relationship of grazing use with other land uses and values.
      

REM 357 Habitat Assessment, by Beth Newingham
  Methods for inventory and monitoring of upland and riparian rangeland communities; basic sampling techniques used for measuring vegetation attributes and assessing production and utilization of vegetation for management purposes; evaluation of plant communities will be interpreted with respect to ecological health, watershed protection, and value as livestock and wildlife habitat.  
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REM 402  Applied Spatial Analysis in Natural Resources, by Eva Strand
  Course reviews basic GIS concepts emphasizing hands-on experience and independent problem solving. The overarching goal is to         guide students towards excellence in assessing and analyzing management issues in natural resources with GIS and other spatial analysis techniques.
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REM 459 Rangeland Ecology, by Steve Bunting
  Application of ecological principles in rangeland management; stressing response and behavior of range ecosystems to various kinds and intensities of disturbances and management practices. On-line class -- www.uidaho.edu/range459/
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REM 460 Rangeland Ecology Current Topics and Field Studies, by Steve Bunting
  Discussion of topics related to changing knowledge and technology relevant to ecology of grasslands, shrublands and woodlands. Consists of  five discussion classes and a five-day field trip.
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REM 472 Remote Sensing of the Environment, by Lee Vierling
  Current airborne and satellite systems, data acquisition on ground and from remote locations, instrumentation, imagery interpretation and digital analysis, applications for natural resource management. One additional two-hour lab per week for fourth credit.
    
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Graduate Courses[1]
REM 560  Plant Ecophysiology, by Ronald Robberecht
  Functional responses and adaptations of individual plant species to their environment, emphasizing morphological and physiological mechanisms that influence plant establishment, the physical environment, below- and above-ground productivity, and plant interactions such as competition, herbivory, and allelopathy.
    

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[1] Undergraduate students can take graduate courses if they are a senior with a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or greater.