WBIO 450 - Wildlife Habitat Management

Credit(s): 3
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 2
When Offered: Spring

This course will provide students with an understanding of relationships between wildlife and forest, farmland and wetland habitats. Models and other methods used to quantify wildlife-habitat associations will be examined. Students will explore the concepts of habitat use, selection and preference; the importance of spatial scale; the significance of plant succession and the methods for manipulating habitats to increase, decrease and maintain wildlife populations. Planning, designing and budgeting wildlife management plans from a private and public land perspective are included. Includes field trips requiring walking through strenuous terrain.

Prerequisite(s): PLSC 341.