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	Restoration Ecology (Biol 482)</h1>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Great Lakes Campus - Summer Session II</em></span></h4>
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	Course Description</h2>
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	Ecological and theoretical foundations for ecosystem, community, and species level restoration. This course develops ecological principles for restoration and connects them to our faith-based emphasis on being redeemers of creation (II Cor 5). Field studies include analysis of restoration and rehabilitation work with the Kirtland Warbler, local rivers, coastal dunes, kettle-hole bogs, deforested lands, abandoned oil wells, as well as a full day field trip to engage urban restoration in practice. Practical field skills are emphasized through a class project during which a degraded area around Au Sable is made available for the students to develop and implement their own restoration plan. Prerequisite: one year of biology and one course in ecology or field biology, or permission of professor.&nbsp;<em>Field, Applied.</em></p>
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	<strong>Professor:</strong>&nbsp;Dr. Rick Hammer<br />
	<strong>Meets:</strong>&nbsp;Wednesday &amp; Friday</p>
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	Knowledge Gained</h2>
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		How creation care, and in particular restoration ecology can be a physical, tangible expression of our faith commitment.</li>
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		How to recognize and assess degraded ecosystems and how to understand the disturbance(s) that contributed to its degradation.</li>
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		How to develop and implement plans to restore degraded ecosystems.</li>
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	Skills Developed</h2>
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		Reading a landscape for its natural quality and/or level of degradation.</li>
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		How to recognize native and invasive species and important information the presence or absence of species can contribute to an understanding of the history of a particular site.</li>
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		Practical methods that will help to heal a degraded ecosystem and bring back some of its former functionality and beauty</li>
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		Hands-on experience in restoration ecology through an applied restoration project throughout the duration of the course</li>
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	Field Experiences</h2>
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		Field Measurements of Discharge</li>
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		Hartwick Pines State Park</li>
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		Oil well sites in the vicinity of Au Sable Institute</li>
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		Kirtland&rsquo;s Warbler habitat - endangered species restoration</li>
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		Grayling and Au Sable River restoration work</li>
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		Grand Rapids and Plaster Creek Stewards restoration work</li>
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		On-campus field restoration project site</li>
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