PUAD6600/7600-003 Seminar in Wildlife Management Law & Policy Syllabus Part II Summer 2011 Dr. Steven J. Bissell sbissell3@gmail.com 720 200 4515 Office Hours by appointment. Dates: June 10/11 Fri. 5-9pm Sat. 9am-5pm June 24/25 Fri. 5-9pm Sat. 9am-5pm July 22/23 Fri. 5-9pm Sat. 9am-5pm Date Topic and Readings 6/10/2011 Topic A: Introduction, Overview, Course Logistics. Topic B: Issues of the pre-colonial Era in the United States. Magna Carta, The Charter of the Forest, The Black Act. (discussion Reading: Readings 1. Bissell 1993 (Posted on the course Website 2. Reading: The Charter of the Forest (available on-line at http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/forests/carta.htm 3. Magna Carta ( Available on-line at http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/magna2.html 4. The Black Act http://www.thefreelibrary.com/whigs+and+hunters%3a+ The+Origins+of+the+Black+Act.-a014695210 Topic B: The Romantic Era in Science (lecture. 1
06/11/2011 A. Topic: Colonial Era to the Civil War. Morning Morning: 1. Introduction and Chapter 1 in Bean and Rowland ( Available on-line at http://books.google.com/books?id=e0pxslsdrrwc&p rintsec=frontcover&dq=the+evolution+of+north+am erican+wildlife+law&hl=en&ei=wufhtfgnjiwssapyo dhaca&sa=x&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4 &ved=0cdsq6aewaw#v=onepage&q&f=false Or any appropriate coverage of this period. For example: Saving America's Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850-1990 [Paperback] Thomas Dunlap. Princeton University Press February 1, 1991 has good coverage of this issue. Also see The Evolution of the Conservation Movement (Available on-line from the Library of Congress at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html B. Topic: The changes in Science in the 19th Century (lecture Afternoon. A. Topic: The Progressive Era. 1. The Gilded Age and The Progressive Era (multiple sources on-line http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm B. Topic: Aldo Leopold and the emergence of scientific wildlife management and policy. Reading: 1. Writings of Aldo Leopold http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/chrisj/leopoldquotes.html and The Aldo Leopold Foundation http://www.aldoleopold.org/ and Ecology Hall of Fame http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/aldoleopold/ C. Topic: The emergence of ecology (lecture 2
D. Topic: Wildlife Law and policy in the early 20th Century. 1. Federal Wildlife Law of the 20th Century. NOTE: This is a good resource for the entire course. http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arusfedwildhis tory.htm 06/25/2011 A. Topic: Property Rights and Wildlife Policy. 1. The PERC Web site is a good resource here ( http://www.perc.org/ also see http://www.law.georgetown.edu/gelpi/current_re search/documents/rt_pubs_short_proprightswil dprotect.pdf B. Topic: The Endangered Species Act. 1. The Endangered Species Act in brief (Available on-line at http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/esact.html and the complete ESA of 1973 Available at http://epw.senate.gov/esa73.pdf 06/26/2011 Morning A. Topic: The Tension in State and Federal Wildlife Law and Policy and Modern Issues. 1. Refer back to the History of Wildlife Law ( http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arusfedwildhis tory.htm and review Facts About Federal Wildlife Law http://library.fws.gov/pubs9/wildlife_laws.pdf. 3
2. Review issues of Federalism (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/federalism/ Afternoon B. Topic: Modern Issues, Wildlife Disease. 1. Chronic Wasting Disease http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=review+of+ Chronic+Wasting+Disease+Management+Policies +and+programs+in+colorado&hl=en&as_sdt=0& as_vis=1&oi=scholart 2. Whirling Disease http://whirlingdisease.montana.edu/ 3. Students should explore other issues of wildlife disease including Rabies, Hantavirus, etc. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/whea lth/ 4. Current Issues at the US Fish and Wildlife Service http://www.fws.gov/mountainprairie/current_issues.htm 5. Predator Management http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/predator.html and as an opposing view http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/lethal_wildl ife_management/facts/humane_predator_control. html. 6. Large Predators: Of Moose and Men (Available online at http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/products /Alces39_41.pdf C. Topic: Habitat Issues. 1. Some general definitions of habitat (Available online at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=webh p&defl=en&q=define:habitat&sa=x&ei=jwqctdlkou-sqp1kojsdq&sqi=2&ved=0cbkqkae and Biology OnLine http://www.biologyonline.org/dictionary/habitat 4
2. The issue of the Niche, ( http://www.answers.com/topic/ecological-niche. 07/22/2011 07/23/2011 Morning B. Hunting, Fishing, Wildlife Viewing. 1. The most recent analysis is: The Sportsman s Voice: Hunting and Fishing in America. 2010. Mark Damian Duda, Martin F. Jones, and Andrea Criscione. Venture Publishing, Inc. Students are not expected to buy this unless they have a special interest, the instructor will give a brief lecture on this. 2. However there is also the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/fishing.ht ml Afternoon B. Topic: Other Issues As Time Permits. 5