Prerequisites: BIOS 220 or GEOG 201 or GEOL 215 or PBIO 209
Taught Winter Quarter

Instructor: Jared L. DeForest
Lecture: MW 9 to 10 Porter 417
Laboratory: T  1 to 3 Porter 304
Phone: 593-0742

Laboratory involves two mandatory weekend field trips on January 19 and 26, 2008. 

Course Objectives:
The goals of this course are to acquaint students with the fundamentals of restoration ecology with the intent of applied land management.  Students will learn (1) the philosophy & challenges restoration ecologists face such as time & monetary restrictions; (2) the principles of restoration at several scales-from reintroducing an endangered species to communities; (3) the basic principles of biodiversity & biogeochemistry to restore ecosystem function.  An integral portion of the course will be used to develop a working restoration plan to restore/reclaim an actual parcel of land.  Course will discuss several scales of restoration (organism to landscape), but emphasis will be placed on a holistic approach to terrestrial ecosystem restoration in context of a changing climate.