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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…
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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…
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Learning About Protecting Wildlife in the US
The class material for this week focused on the history of environmental protection laws in the US, as well as what is happening with them in the present day. We learned about how the extinction of species such as the passenger pigeon, as well as disasters that resulted from mismanagement of the environment like the…
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