Catalog Course Description

This course challenges students to think about how individual and American consumer decisions affect forest ecosystems around the world. A survey course that highlights the consequences of different ways of thinking about the forest as a global ecosystem and as a source of goods like trees, water, wildlife, food, jobs, and services. The scientific tools and concepts that have guided management of the forest for the last 100 years, and the laws, rules, and informal institutions that have shaped use of the forests, are analyzed.

Fall Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.

Spring Term

1 hours of The exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week and 8 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week.