PNW=Filed Guide to the Pacific Northwest

MM=Malheur Manual on Flash

NG=Nationals Geographic Guide to Birds of N.A.

Tentative Outline 2020

Date

Topics

Assigned Readings from Texts

Due Dates

Week 1

Introduction & Orientation

 

 

1/14

Introduction

PWN 10-15

1/16

Topography

MM 60

Week 2

Principles of Geology

 

 

1/21

Geology-General

PWN 16-27

Table/Figure

1/23

Geology-Oregon

Week 3

Geology of Oregon

 

 

1/28

Geology

PNW 414-415,420, 422-23, 425

Geology 1

1/30

Rock Lab

Week 4

Elements of ecology I

 

 

2/4

Ecosystems

PWN  28-39, 44-45, 76-77

Geology 2

2/6

Communities

MM 9-27

Week 5

Elements of ecology II

 

 

2/11

Populations

PNW  46-51, 54-61

Ecology 1&2

2/13

Exam 1

 

 

Week 6

Vegetation

 

 

2/18

Plants

PNW Mushrooms (p. 78-79),                    algae (p. 83), lichens (p. 85-86)

2/20

Plants

spore plants (p.88, 91),                                            wild flowers (p. 130-131)

Plant Lab

shrubs and trees (p. 94-95, 102-103, 107, 111),

MM 32,34,40,41,43,44,45,

Week 7

Animal adaptations

 

 

2/25

Animals

PNW Invertebrates (166, 187, 189, 192-193, 198, 201, 203, 205,

PNG assignment

2/27

Animals

207-208), vertebrates (220), amphibians (243, 245-246),

reptiles (248-250, 252), mammals (330-331, 340, 352, 358-359)


 

Week 8

Essentials of ornithology

 

 

3/3

Birds

PNW Birds 255-257

Bird Topography

3/5

Birds

NG 6-19

Week 9

History - human settlement

 

 

3/10

BIRD Walk-with Journal Entry

NG assignment

3/12

History

 

Week 10

 

 

 

3/17

History

3/19

Exam 2

 

 History

 

 

Week 11

Spring Break

 

 

3/24

Spring Break

3/26

Spring Break

Week 12

Population sampling

 

 

3/31

Qudrat/Point Quarter

MM 46-49,53-56

4/2

Lab Activity

Week 13

Population sampling

 

 

4/7

Circle Plot/Line Intercept

50-52,57-59

Sample Data

4/9

Final trip information

Week 14

Field Trip to Malheur Field Station

 

4/13-17

Exam 3 (4/17)

 

 

Week 15

Post Field Trip

 

 

4/21

Data from all groups due-Begin Calculations

Data Sets

4/23

Plant identification

Week 16

Environmental stewardship

 

 

4/28

Plant ID

FJ/plant collection

4/30

Closing Lecture

Finals Week

Final Assignments Due

 

 

5/5

Plant Reports Due on Tuesday at the Final Time

Ecology Plant Reports