Development of a Natural Resource Management Practicum

该奖项为密苏里-哥伦比亚大学自然资源学院林业、渔业和野生动物学院高年级学生提供自然资源管理实习。为了方便实地数据收集，这笔款项将用于购置便携式电子实地数据记录仪。这些野外数据记录仪将由一组具有林业、渔业和野生动物背景的学生使用，在实际的土地上收集生物数据。然后，这些数据将被下载到现有的便携式计算机中，输入到生物模拟模型中，以分析和评价针对这片土地提出的不同自然资源管理制度。建议的实习将把年轻的专业人士聚集在户外环境中，他们将被期望在不同学科的资源限制和目标下制定多种自然资源管理的综合计划，并作为一个多学科团队一起工作。此外，这门课程将作为一个反馈机制，可以被学院用来评估自然资源项目的质量。受赠人将与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

This award provides funds to develop a natural resource management practicum for upper division students enrolled in the School of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In order to facilitate field data collection, this award will be used for the acquisition of portable electronic field data recorders. These field data recorders will be used by a team of students with backgrounds in forestry, fisheries and wildlife to gather biological data on a real tract of land. These data will then be downloaded to existing portable computers for input into biological simulation models to analyze and evaluate different proposed natural resource management regimes for the tract of land. The proposed practicum will bring together young professionals in an outdoor setting where they will be expected to develop an integrated plan for the management of multiple natural resources, under various disciplinary resource constraints and objectives, and work together as a multi- disciplinary team. Additionally, this course will serve as a feedback mechanism which can be used by the School to assess the quality of the natural resource program. The grantee is matching this award with funds from non-Federal sources.