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Wildlife and Fisheries Management Techniques. (Zoology 496/696) The course is taught as a compressed course over an 8 eight week period during the latter half of the spring semester. This allows for 6h laboratories that met once each week and 4h of weekly lecture. Students will learn traditional and state-of-the-art techniques used in the study and management of fish, wildlife, and other animal populations. Topics will include assessment of population characteristics, habitat, behavioral ecology and genetic structure. The laboratory portion of this course will focus on genetic and morphological techniques. The field portion of the course will focus on techniques for sampling behavior, populations and habitat. Further, students will be introduced to various regional research and management problems. During the 2001 field trip we visited Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a fish hatchery, a National Wildlife Refuge and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife GIS laboratory in Bismarck. During this field trip students learned how research is used to direct management decisions regarding our natural resources. |