2000 (Fall) Syllabus: FOR 542
Watershed Management
Meeting Times MF 1:30 -- 3:00 PM, in 209 Marshall Hall.
Exception: note timing of three fieldtrips.
NOTE: this 2-credit hour course will meet twice a week
for 7 weeks to take advantage of good field conditions for field trips
Peter E. Black, Instructor
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Co- or Prerequisite: FOR 340 or equivalent
Month/Day Topic/Schedule (subject to change) Reading Assignment/Notes
9/1 Introduction: What is watershed management? Course organization.
9/8 Watershed Management: slides of research Discussion of hand out article(s)
9/11 Discussion of Brooks, et al Review Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
9/15 Watershed Management: slides of research Turn in paper proposals*
9/18 Virgil Creek Watershed Field Trip (P. L. 566) 1:00 - 5:00 PM (note start time!).
9/22 Discussion of Brooks, et al Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9
9/25 Skaneateles Lake Watershed Field Trip (municipal water supply) 1:00 -5:00 PM (note start time!)
9/29 Discussion of Brooks, et al

Chapters 11, 12, 13
10/2 Meadowbrook Creek Watershed Field Trip (Urban)

1:30 - 4-30 PM
10/6 Discussion of Brooks, et al
Watershed Management: slides of research

Chapters 10, 14, 16
10/9 Yom Kippur, no classes
10/13 Student presentations:
10/16 Student presentations:
10/20 Autumn Break, no classes:
10/23 Student presentations:
10/27 Student presentations:
10/30 NRCS and FSA guest speakers Paul Ray and Allien LaPierre
11/3 Student presentations:
Wind up discussion		 *Papers due by December 21st (grades won't be turned in until after 1/1/2001)
  1. Dr. Black's office is in Room 215 Marshall Hall; office hours will be posted.
  2. Field trip departure times will be firm, and attendence on field trips is required. I will firm up exact times later. An unexcused absence for one field trip precludes an A in the course; two are grounds for beheading. I will get the van and have it in one the Marshall parking lots at the appointed time..
  3. Grading will be on the basis of  participation in class discussion and student paper in place of a final exam.
  4. With discussion time available on bus to and from field trip sites, there will be lots of discussion time: thus, you will be expected to be on the transportation provided so as to benefit from the discussion.
  5. Read assignments (in Brooks, Ffolliott, Gregersen, and Thames' Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds (1991) University of Iowa Press, Ames, IA) in advance of class so that you can participate in the scheduled discussion.

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September 20, 2000