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Natural Resource Management: Techniques, Technology and Values

  • Balancing human activities and intrinsic behavior of the natural environment.
  • Extraction, utilization, conservation, restoration
  • maintaining the natural dynamics of energy flow and nutrient cycles
  • Effects of mining, grading, cultivation and grazing.
  • Wildfires, destructive and regenerative
  • Watershed management and protection including rehabilitation, erosion, sedimentation, cumulative watershed effects, stream habitat
  • Fluvial processes, sediment transport and channel restoration techniques.
  • Cal Poly Sports Complex design issues
  • Environmental engineering: waste disposal and recycling systems
  • Outdoor/wilderness recreation programs
Upper Chorro and Dairy Creek
  • Traversing two watersheds separating Cal Poly Lands
  • Contrasting effects of management practises--Chorro vs. Stenner, and Dairy Creek.
  • Dramatically degraded landscapes resultant from Chromium mining, quarrying, recreational and instructional bulldozing, military exercises.
  • Highway 41 fire damage and regeneration
  • Dams and waste disposal sites
  • Restoration plans and efforts --Morro Bay Watershed and Estuary program
  • Chorro Park and Dairy Creek Golf Course
Natural Resource Management
  • Natural Resource Management Technologies
  • mining, quarrying and grading technologies: short vs. long term costs
  • military technology and landscape ecology
  • traditional vs. innovative technologies of solid waste and waste water management
  • open space real estate appraisal calculus
  • Fighting fire vs. controlled burning
  • Park and botanical garden design: continuum from urban landscaping to wilderness
  • New Golf course technology and habitat creation--Dairy Creek as Audubon society model
Course

EO1,2 , C1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-11

 

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