Course material on GIS applications to soil management planning is in progress. During my faculty improvement leave in 1993, I revised the text and added new material. I began negotiations with several publishers, including Van Nostrand Reinhold and Oxford University Press. I am currently revising the illustrations and pursuing publication in the GIS series of Oxford University Press. Develop additional learning opportunities for undergraduate students and graduate students .
Undergraduate students enjoy challenges which expand their range of skills.
In the landscape planning courses I teach, the emphasis should broaden their knowledge of landscape design and site planning. This requires additional learning opportunities involving regional resource issues, rural study areas, and environmental determinism. Graduate students enjoy challenges which deepen their knowledge of landscape planning and resource management. This requires additional learning opportunities involving resource sustainability issues and their impacts on environmental quality. An example is the thesis research of Jeff Logsdon, which provided the basis for the recently completed Iowa Wetland and Riparian Area Conservation Plan for the US EPA and Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.