SMSC Fall 2026 Adventures

Tag: biodiversity

  • Determining Habitat Suitability

    This week of class was shorter than most. Typically we have Mondays dedicated to our practicums and Tuesdays through Fridays used as class time. However, Monday this week was the national holiday traditionally called Columbus Day (now widely alternatively recognized as Indigenous Peoples’ Day), and so Tuesday was our practicum day instead. This left us…

  • Conservation Land Management

    A major focus of the lectures this week has been the role of land management in conservation. We talked about modifications are made to the landscape by conservation workers to promote biodiversity, such as the targeted removal of invasive species and planting of native species. We also spent a lot of time discussing how different…