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From page 23... ... 24 James S Bethel established at Yale University, and during the first ten years of the 20th century sixteen additional forestry schools came into being. Read the entire page →
From page 24... ... TR EN DS I N R E N EWAB L E NATU RAL R ESO U R CES C U R R I CU LA 25 leges assume that entering students have been exposed to modem high school physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics. Where this is not so, deficiencies are commonly made up in remedial courses. Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... 26 James S Bethel oriented student to achieve a considerable competence in the basic disciplines as a necessary prerequisite to sound professional prepara tion. Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... TRENDS I N R EN EWAB LE NATU R A L R ESO U R CES CU R R I CU LA 27 other parts of the campus are getting interested in the study of natural resources as one of the liberal arts, a demand being met through a growing list of courses for nonmajors. It is important that this trend be continued and that universities increasingly recognize that re sources faculties gain strength from the university environment of which they are a part and, at the same time, feed back into that en vironment their own special interests and competencies. Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... 28 John F H osner trained resource manager becomes relegated to the technician role. Read the entire page →
From page 28... ... T R E N DS I N R EN EWAB LE NATU RAL R ESO U R CES C U R R I CU LA 29 counter reactions from employers, what they say, depending on the agency they represent and to some extent on the position they oc cupy. For example, if one were to generalize about forestry, it would be safe to say that the top administrator feels emphasis should be shifted to fundamental concepts, while the area forester is more inter ested in hiring a graduate proficient with field instruments and tech niques-the latter sees little need for calculus, political science, and similar courses. Read the entire page →
From page 29... ... 30 DeWitt Nelson I DeWITT N E LSON If one is to give direction to the future, one must frrst examine the present. Population, resource demands and environmental problems, present and future, are inseparable. Read the entire page →
From page 30... ... T R E N DS I N R EN EWAB LE NAT U RA L R ESO U R CES C U R R I C U LA 3 1 lion on earth now will increase to 6 billion by the year 2000. A child is born about every 9 seconds here in the United States ; every morning there are more than 9,500 new mouths to feed. Read the entire page →
From page 31... ... 32 DeWitt Nelson garbage and pollutants on the land and into the air and water with little concern for the ultimate threat to his welfare or survival. He continues to build water impoundments without frrst controlling the erosion on the upper watersheds. Read the entire page →
From page 32... ... TRENDS I N R E N EWAB LE NATU R A L R ESO U R C ES CU R R I CU LA 33 solutions. We must marshall the strength of people in our pluralistic form of government behind programs to support environmental pr� tection and control. Read the entire page →
From page 33... ... 34 DeWitt N elson Recently a student came to my office with a real concern about the lack of understanding and appreciation of environmental problems by students-in engineering, economics and industrial administration with whom he associated. From his comments I could arrive at only one conclusion-that in their course work the students were receiving no exposure to the biological sciences, to the facts of the world about them and to their dependence upon it . Read the entire page →
From page 34... ... TR ENDS I N R EN EWAB LE NATU R A L R ESO U R CES CU R R I CU LA 35 discipline. But in each we also need broad-gaged generalists who can effectively communicate and coordinate the interlocking relation ships. Read the entire page →
From page 36... ... TRENDS IN R EN EWAB L E NATU RAL R ESO U R CES C U R R I C U LA 37 is 43 hours of forestry and another 53 hours of humanities and pure science. Thus some students elect additional studies in forest manage ment, forest recreation management, or forest game management. Read the entire page →
From page 38... ... TR EN DS I N R EN EWAB L E NATU RAL R ESO U R CES C U R R I C U LA 39 To the reminiscing foresters, just a word : course titles may not change, but material covered does. Hence, radioisotopes are tools in soils and silvics, data processing centers are labs for mensuration, policy enters the curriculum at the freshman introduction course, and economic geography replaces a lot of tedious memorizing of vegetative cover types in regional silviculture. Read the entire page →
From page 40... ... TREN DS I N R EN EWAB L E N ATU RAL R ESO U R CES C U R R I C U LA 4 1 the rest of us, must use the goods that begin as raw materials-espe cially careful management decisions must be made. The professional rene\vable resource manager will develop ecosystem capabilities and prescribe the tolerance levels of change for the components of the environment. Read the entire page →
From page 41... ... 3 Trends in Biology Curricula JO H N D LATT I N On October 1 4, 1 965 , three French scientists, Fran�is Jacob, Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod, received the Nobel prize in medicine for their work on gene regulation carried out at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Read the entire page →

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... 24 James S Bethel established at Yale University, and during the first ten years of the 20th century sixteen additional forestry schools came into being.