ENV 425 - Fire Ecology

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 2
Credit Hours: 4

Wildland fire is on critical issue across communities of the western U.S. right now. It is a complex issue that integrates a wide range of challenges from unwanted destruction of valuable natural resources to the critical positive ecological role of fire in forests, rangeland and other ecosystems and habitats. Manageming wildland fire has become even more complicated over the past several decades with expanding wildland-urban and rural interface and the use of prescribed fire as a management tool.

The primary goal of this course is to provide and practice fundamental knowledge, comprehension and understanding, practice and application of wildland fire principles,
concepts, and issues in ecological as well as sociopolitical contexts, as these are inextricably linked in our contemporary world! We will integrate this information into the context of natural resource management, protection, and stewardship.

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