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NREM 3502 Wildlife Law Enforcement Prerequisites: Junior standing and consent of instructor.

NREM 4001 Issues In Global Change Prerequisites: (NREM 3012 and NREM 3013) or BIOL 3034. Description: Student led discussion to learn the causes and consequences of global change and practical implications for natural resource ecology and management. Credit hours: 1

Description: Survey of state and federal wildlife laws with emphasis on Oklahoma statutory and regulatory laws pertaining to wildlife. Lectures, guest lectures, videotapes and field exercises. Previously offered as COSC 3502 and ZOOL 3502. Credit hours: 2 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 3503 Principles of Wildlife Ecology and Management Prerequisites: NREM 3012 and NREM 3013, or BIOL 3034 or concurrent. Description: An introduction to the biological basis of the management of wildlife habitats and populations. Previously offered as NREM 4513, ZOOL 4513, WLDL 4513, and COSC 4513. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Discussion Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 4023 Restoration Ecology

Prerequisites: NREM 2013, or NREM 3012 and NREM 3013, or BIOL 3034. Description: Application of ecological theory to the practice of ecological restoration to improve populations, communities, and ecosystems degraded directly or indirectly by human activities. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 4033 Ecology Of Invasive Species

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 3523 Fish and Wildlife Population Biology Prerequisites: NREM 3012 and NREM 3013, or BIOL 3034 or concurrent enrollment. Description: Dynamics of fish and wildlife populations resulting from reproduction, competition, predation, movement, and exploitation. Effects of life history patterns on population growth and management strategies. Methods for measuring distribution, abundance, survival, and growth of fish and wildlife populations. Management strategies for fish and wildlife populations. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Prerequisites: BIOL 1114; and BOT 1404 and BIOL 1604 recommended. Description: Ecological principles and their application to invasive species. Population level characteristics; community and ecosystem level effects of a wide variety of taxa including microbial, fungal, plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate examples. Global consequences and governmental policies/programs designed to limit the spread of invasives. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 4043 Natural Resource Administration and Policy Prerequisites: Senior standing.

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 3613 Principles of Rangeland Management

Description: Natural resource policy and legislation; ethics relating to natural resources; natural resource organizations and how they function to include structure, supervision, and financing of federal, state, and private natural resource enterprises. Previously offered as NREM 4343

Description: Overview of the science of applying ecological principles to managing rangeland resources, including rangeland characteristics; goods and services provided by rangelands; primary threats to rangelands; North American rangeland resources; principles of grazing management and current topics in range management. Previously offered

and FOR 4443. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture

as RLEM 3913. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 3713 Wildland Fire Ecology and Management

Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt NREM 4053 Natural Resource Recreation

Description: Ecological, historical, social and policy basis for recreational use and management of natural resources, including an analysis of planning, management, and administrative frameworks for providing a diversity of recreational opportunities, benefits, and resource values. Previously offered as NREM 4353 and FOR 4553. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt

Prerequisites: NREM 2013 or any ecology course; and BIOL 1114. Description: Fundamentals of wildland fire including chemistry and physics of fire, fuel and weather influences on fire behavior, ecological effects of fire, interaction of fire and vegetation, history of humans and fire, fire management and suppression, and prescribed fire. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Natural Res Eco & Mgmt