ENR 4000 and 5000
Approaches to ENR Problem-Solving
Fall 2007
Announcements
Sept. 29 - Field trip to the Snowy Range/Sierra Madre
Oct 8 - 10 - Finding the Balance Conference -- Student Information
October 16 @ 6 p.m. -
Natural Resource Environmental Law Club
Panel forum on the Roadless Rule.
College of Law room 144.
October 18 - 24 - Midterm Oral Exams
Assignments
Individual Writing Assignment 1
Individual Writing Assignment 2
Medicine Bow Proposed Land & Resource Management Plan
Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4
Individual Writing Assignment 3
Request for Proposal - Wyoming, Panama
Readings
"Public Participation in Roadless Area Management"
"Wyoming Roadless Case Draws Attention" - August 31, 2007
California v. USDA and Wilderness Society v. USFS
Presentations
Dan Tinker -- Conceptual Models
Links of Interest
USDA Forest Service: Inventoried Roadless Areas, Wyoming
Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style of Documentation
Schedule
August 29
Introduction to each other and the course;
discussion of problem-based
learning; introduction and discussion about NEPA and Q & A about
writing assignment one
Sept. 5 NEPA Case Law, Mindy Benson - UW ENR
Read
National Environmental Policy Act,
Reclaiming NEPA's Potential
overview
and
executive summary,
Salzman and Barton Chapter 10: NEPA,
Conner v.
Burford,
Park
County v. USDA, and Pennaco Energy v. USDI
Sept. 12 Roadless Areas -- Don McLeod; Panama -- Fred Ogden
Read
"Public Participation in Roadless Area
Management",
"Wyoming Roadless Case Draws Attention"
- August 31, 2007,
National Forest Management Act,
"Changing course",
"Panama Canal Expansion Spurs Environmental Debate",AGU-Abstract
Think about the different resource areas and potential teams
applicable to both projects
Sept. 19 Overview of relevant laws, regulations, permitting and enforcement discussion of teams; Individual Writing Assignment 1 Due
Sept. 26 Roadless Area Rules
Read Memo; Issue speakers - Law School Cortney Kitchen and Temple Stevenson, discussion of Roadless Area Rules and State co-operating agency status in forest planning
Sept. 29 Field trip to Medicine Bow National Forest
Oct. 3 Guidelines on team writing assignment; Collaborative and adaptive
management of natural
resources
Read: Collaborative Approaches to Natural Resource Management (in particular, follow the links to winter use issues in the snowy range), Documents on Collaborative Approaches for Decision Making, Collaborative Decision Making
Oct. 10 Issue speakers Rik
Smith and Dan Tinker about Wyoming forest
ecology
Oct. 17 Individual Writing
Assignment 2 Due
Issue speakers Tom Thurow and Dennis Knight
Oct. 24 Issue speaker Dan
Tinker about Conceptual Models
Team written backgrounds due
Scenario teams presentations