UWHS ESRM 101 (Autumn 2015)

SYLLABUS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

ESRM 101 Forests and Society

Course Calendar
(This is an estimate of the course pace, be aware there may be changes)
Date

Week
1

[mo/
day]

Da
y

8/ 26

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates

Brief: Class requirements

Introduction Nature, Human Values
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ORION July_Aug
ProblemsEnvirEducNatur
e

8/27

Th

8/ 28

Finish Introduction Nature, Human

Values

REVERENCE:
History of reverence & supernatural
symbolism of trees/forests by global
societies
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions1

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p2-4
2. TreesHumankind:Cultur
alPsychBindings
Week
2

8/ 31

9/1

M REVERENCE:
Finish History of reverence &
symbolism

Review Session Top Hat (class code:

144175)
REVERENCE RESULT:
Long human history of forest

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Homework week 1 due

in google classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions2
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conservation & protection

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1.
2.
9/2
9/ 4

ForSoc p14-18
ForSoc p28-29

W
F

Finish Reverence Result

FEAR and RESULT:
History of fear of forests and societal
collapse from forest exploitation
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions3

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p4-10
2. WSJ
Don't_EasterIsCollapse

Week
3

9/7
9/ 8

M
T

Video: Americas Forests: A History of

Resilience and Recovery
No School
Video: Americas Forests: A History of
Resilience and Recovery
Review Session Top Hat Monocle

9/ 9
9/ 11

QUIZ 1
UTILITARIAN:
History of European over-exploitation
of someone elses forests
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions4
Homework 2-3 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

W
F

Questions5

REQUIRED READINGS:
1.
2.

ForSoc p10-14
SustUnpack p36-

3.

NYT

38

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BritishExpansion500yrs

Week
4

9/ 14

9/15

Finish Utilitarian:
History

UTILITARIAN RESULT:
Western world democratization of
forest uses in their own backyard
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Homework 4-5 due in

google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions6

REQUIRED READINGS:
1.

ForSoc p70-76

NYT4_18_10 CivitCoffeeIndonesia
9/ 16

Finish Utilitarian result

Video Questions7

9/18

Video: The Lorax

F
CASE STUDY:
Clayoquot Sound
Lecture
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. Saving Clayoquot Sound
2. Clayoquot Sound-Resource
Management

Date
[mo/
day]

Week

9/21

Da
y
M

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials
Characteristics of forests and human
survival challenges

L.Martin Revised 8/27/15

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates
Homework week 6-7
due in
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Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p30-36
2. WSJ
WinterWithoutWalruses
9/22
9/23

T
W

google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions8

Finish: Characteristics of forests

Review Session Top Hat Monocle
Questions9

9/25

Video: Land of the Flooded

Forest
F
Soils or the unseen earth that nurtures
societies
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions10

REQUIRED READINGS:
1.
Week
6

9/28

9/29

9/30

Geophagy

desertification
VIDEO: TED talk

Start Forests & Human Development

Index
T
Forests and Human Development
Index
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. SustUnpack p17-19,
2. SustUnpack p223-230
W Ecological constraints on society a
Tropical Forest perspective
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Homework 8-10 due in

google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions11

Questions12

REQUIRED READINGS:

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1.

Week
7

10/2

10/ 5

10/ 6
10/7

T
W

ForSoc p82-93

Finish: Ecological Constraints

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

QUIZ 2
Food and medicines found in forests
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Homework 11-12 due

in google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions13

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. Tropical Forest
Products
2. RealStoryGlobalizat
ion

Week
8

10/9

Finish Food & Medicine

10/1
2
10/1
3
10/
14

No School
Conference Week
today

Class does not meet

Case studies: History of forest uses by

forest dependent people
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p44-59
NYT
GrowForZapotecWorking

10/1
5
10/1
6

Th
F

Conference Week
today

Homework 13 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit
Questions14

Class does not meet

Interconnectivity of forest ecosystems

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions15

REQUIRED READINGS:
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1. SciNews 9_2_12
Lemmings
2. NYT ArtificialLeaf
2014
http://focusforwardfilms.c
om/contest/100/theartificial-leaf-jared-p-scottkelly-nyks
Link:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows
/The+Nature+of+Things/Darwin's+Br
ave+New+World/ID/1296281941/

Date
[mo/
day]

Wee
k9

Da
y

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials

10/
19

10/2
0
10/
21

Video: Man Vs Wild: Ecuador

Sustainability Indigenous Communities

& Forests
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
Small mammals and their relationship
to PNW forests
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

10/2
3

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates
Homework 14-15 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit
Questions16
Questions17

Questions18

REQUIRED READINGS:
ForSoc p131-135
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10/
26

10/2
7

Finish: small mammals

Homework 16-18 due in

google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

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10/
28
10/
30

W
F

SYLLABUS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

QUIZ 3

Puerto Rico & Hawaii forests: Coqui

conservation and eradication
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions19

REQUIRED READINGS:
1.
2.

ForSoc p135-137
BelgiumBeerFullMo

on
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k 11

11/ 2

11/3

Finish: Puerto Rico

Microbes, salmon and forest

ecosystems
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Homework week 19 due

in google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Questions20

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p129-131
2. ForSoc p139-142
3. WSJ
BestAmericanTruffles
11/4

11/6

Case Study: The Elwa

War/conflicts and forest

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions21

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p165-175
2. CIFOR Blog
Vietnam war

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Date
[mo/
day]

Wee
k 12

11/9

11/1
0
11/1
1
11/13

Wee
k 13

11/1
6

Da
y
M

SYLLABUS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials
Finish: War/Conflicts and forests

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates
Homework 20-21 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

No School

F
M

Video: Hope in a changing climate

Human disturbances in forests and
human health
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions22
Homework 21-22 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. CIFOR 10_2014
10ThingsAboutBushmeat
11/1
7
11/1
8

Continue: Human distrubances.

W GOOD_BAD_UGLY_Disturbances
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions23

Questions24

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p100-105
2. NazcaCivilizSealed
OwnFate

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k 14

11/2
0

11/2
1

QUIZ 4

11/
22

Intro to Carbon Cycle

Lecture

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

L.Martin Revised 8/27/15

Homework 23-24 due in

google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

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Wee
k 15

11/3
0

SYLLABUS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Forest ecosystem carbon cycle: How

society manages carbon
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions25

REQUIRED READINGS:
1. ForSoc p223-227
ignore1st page
2. RomanHanDynGrG
asEmit

Date
[mo/
day]

Wee
k 15

Da
y

12/1

12/3

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials

Forests and fossil energy

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
Continue: Forests & Fossil Energy

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates
Questions26

Questions27

Start:
Transformed forest products industry:
Engineered product and lots of glue
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Wee
k 16

12/4

12/7

12/8

12/9

Continue: Transformed forest..

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

Homework 27 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit

VIDEO:

This is not an extra

credit assignment and
you lose 1% if do not
submit this assignment.

American Indian Tribes and todays

Questions28

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forests & wildlife

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Wee
k 17

12/1
1

EXTRA CREDIT Explore a Forest

Near You due in classroom.google.com
no later than 5:00 pm

12/
14

Brief Comparison: Western European

and Native American business models
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:

Homework 28 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit
Questions29

1. RiverLife2013
WestNative
2. AmBusinessModel
WSJLearningLoveVolat
Date
[mo/
day]

Wee
k 17

Da
y

12/
15

12/1
6

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates

Finish Brief Comparison

Review Session Top Hat Monocle

Questions 30

Start:
Brief final thoughts On NATURE values
and Forest Uses
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg
REQUIRED READINGS:
1. 2013YaleEnvPeople
Parks
2. WSJ
AmGoneWildPopsResurg
3. NYT
BabiesZoosEuthAnimals
4. Lake Sawyer
Lumber Co
5. SciNow
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OmnivAlaskaNative
6. ScienceWhenMice
Mislead
12/1
8
1/

Continue: Final thoughts...

Th

Links between Traditional Ecological

Knowledge & Justice
Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions

REQUIRED READINGS:
TEK
AlaskaAgencies BOEM
YaleConsumConun
EPAMiningBristolB
aySalmon
12/
11

So what did we learn this Semester?

Lecture 3SlidesPg
Lecture 2SlidesPg

Questions

NOTE: LECTURE TO BE POSTED

AFTER CLASS

12/
14

Test your memory of what was

covered this quarter. This material will
be on the last quiz
Review Session Top Hat Monocle

Homework week 16 due

in google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit
Extra Credit homework
is due no later than
1:31 pm in class drop
box

12/
15

T
QUIZ 5
Required Reading:
Garbology Intro

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VI. Garbology
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Date
[mo/day
]

Class Lecture Topics, Slides &

Reading Materials

Day

Questions and
Assignment
Due Dates

12/1
6

Questions

12/1
7

Th

Questions

12/1
8

12/2
1-25

GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 1

GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 2
F
GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 3

M-F Garbology Ch. 4-5

to be completed over the week

12/2
8-1/1

M-F Garbology ch. 6-8

to be completed over the week

1/4

1/5

1/6

1/7

1/8

Questions
Homework Garbology
Qs ch. 1-3 due in
google.classroom no
later than 11:59 pm for
full credit
Homework Garbology
Qs ch. 4-5 due in
google.classroom no
later than Friday 11:59
pm for full credit
Homework Garbology
Qs ch. 6-8 due in
google.classroom no
later than Friday 11:59
pm for full credit

Garbology Ch. 9

Hand out Garbology Final

T
GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 10
W GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 11
Th GARBOLOGY
Required Reading:
Ch. 12
F
GARBOLOGY:
Final work time or wrap up chapter
discussion questions

L.Martin Revised 8/27/15

Homework Garbology
Qs ch. 9-12 due in
google.classroom no
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1/12
1/13
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1/14
1/15

1/18
1/19
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k 22

1/20
1/21

1/22

SYLLABUS, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Th

GARBOLOGY:
Essay Tree map
GARBOLOGY:
Essay note cards
GARBOLOGY:
Essay note cards
GARBOLOGY:
Essay rough draft
Garbology rough draft

M
T

Th

No School-Holiday
GARBOLOGY:
Essay corrections
GARBOLOGY:
Essay Peer review & work on final draft
GARBOLOGY:
Final Draft

later than 11:59 pm for

full credit
Tree-map must be

Homework: Garbology
Essay rough draft due to
turnitin.com by 11:59
pm-no purple marks

Homework: Garbology
Essay Final Draft Due
by 3:00 pm

End of Semester

*Time permitting a unit on Urban Forestry may be added. An updated calendar will
be given out if needed.

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