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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 ºÃÉ«TV 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.