Students are expected to learn techniques for research in mammalogy including censusing, tracking, and museum specimen preparation. The course will also include a study of mammalian ecology, behavior, and evolution. A study of ecosystems, communities, and populations for advanced undergraduates, graduates, teachers, and others interested in their natural surroundings. Students are expected to become familiar with ecological sampling techniques. A summer field course for biology majors, teachers and naturalists.
Lectures emphasize the taxonomy and ecology of local plants.
Field trips are made daily to local biological communities to examine their ecology and identify common mosses, ferns, wildflowers and trees. One or more extended field trips are made to the coast or mountains to observe complementary biological communities.