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Learning Outcomes

• Learn species identification from live and preserved specimens.
• Learn field techniques in flagging, mapping, and establishing wetlands boundaries; survey techniques using a Trimble® differential GPS; and how to identify hydrology and hydric soil indicators.
• Learn standard site survey and habitat quality evaluations (elective option).
• Learn both long-term trap station and rapid assessment methods of monitoring amphibians; amphibian species identification from live and preserved specimens and from anuran vocalization; anuran species reproductive phenology assessment using a Kaleidoscope audiospectrogram program with digital sound files (elective option).
• Learn to field-identify invasive species and how to properly control and eradicate invasive species for habitat management (elective option).
• Learn mitigation planning and design, aquatic and wetlands permitting, and field techniques in habitat restoration (elective option).
  

Required Courses

• Wetland Plant Identification
• Wetland Delineation
• One elective

Offered in face-to-face format at the ÇÑ×ÓÉçÇø Research and Education Field Station (REFS). Visit the REFS website to learn more about the required courses and the instructors. Registration for these courses is through the REFS site.