Date

Subject

Reading

9/24

Introduction

9/26

What is restoration ecology (RE)?

SER 2004

9/29

Why? I - Ecosystem services

Lab assignment 1 due; Read Daily et al. 1997

10/1

Why? II - Motivations

Receive Leopold Reading Response 1 assignment; Read Jordan 2000 and Higgs 2005

10/3

Why? III - Regulations

OPTIONAL - Work Party sponsored by UW student guild of Society for Ecological Restoration.  Saturday, October 4, from 10 am to 2 pm near McCarty Hall.

USFWS 2008; USEPA 2008

10/6

Restoration ecology (RE): An overview

Lab assignment 2 due; Read Bradshaw 1987

10/8

How? An overview

Clewell et al. 2005

10/10

To what? An overview

Clewell & Aronson 2007

10/13

How? I – assessment

Lab assignment 3 due; Read D'Antonio & Meyerson 2002

10/15

How? II – restoration design (guest lecture by Dr. Jim Fridley)

Pastorok et al. 1997; Lawson 1997 (note: this is a large file; it is also available as parts I and II).

10/17

How? III – implementation

None!

10/20

How? IV – maintenance and monitoring

Grayson et al. 1999; Ruiz-Jaen & Aide 2005

10/22

Case study: Elwha dam removal and restoration (guest lecture by Dr. Jerry Freilich, Olympic National Park)

Leopold Assignment 1 due; Read Duda et al. 2008 and Winter & Crain 2008

10/24

To what? Goals / reference conditions / models

Egan & Howell 2001 (pages 1-15)

10/27

RE: biodiversity

Noss 1990

10/29

RE: ecosystem structure and function

OPTIONAL – Environmental Opportunities Fair, 10 am to 2 pm, Mary Gates Hall Commons.

Falk 2006

10/31

MID-TERM EXAM

11/3

RE: disturbance

White & Jentsch 2004

11/5

RE: ecosystem dynamics

Suding & Gross 2006

11/7

RE: assembly rules

Young et al. 2001

11/10

Why IV - Ethics

Leopold Assignment 2 due; Read 'The Land Ethic' from A Sand County Almanac

11/12

Case study: Puget Sound prairies (Guest lecture by Dr. Peter Dunwiddie, The Nature Conservancy)

Sinclair et al. 2006 (Note: this is a 14 MB file.  It can be accessed as a single file here or as parts I, II, and III.)

11/14

To what? An international perspective

Gann & Lamb 2006; Aronson et al. 2000

11/17

Interdisciplinary nature (IN): economics

Holl & Howarth 2000

11/19

IN: psychology

Schroeder 2000

11/21

IN: ethics/philosophy

Light 2002

11/24

IN: policy

11/26

IN: horticulture

11/28

No School – Thanksgiving Break

12/1

Case study: Restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine forests

Allen et al. 2002

12/3

To what? Restoration in a changing climate

SER position statement; Harris et al. 2006

12/5

Review

12/8

FINAL EXAM @ 8:30-10:20 am