Monday: The compilation of design work that is due Monday morning at the beginning of Scheduled Final ExaminationPeriod is 8:30-10:20 AM may be turned in at Jim's office (390 Bloedel Hall) any time between 8:30 and 10:20 AM. Do take the time to make copies for everybody on the team. You have all done very nice work this quarter and owe it to yourselves to keep copies on file to consider use during future job interviews.

Note, the Thorton Creek Watershed slideshow (from the lab/studio session) might be useful to you while completing the Last Design Assignment. So here it is.

It is important that you remember to submit your team participant evaluations. These may be hand delivered to Jim's office between 8:30 and 10:20 AM on Monday June 4 OR delivered by email before NOON on Monday June 4 (you must use the requested email subject line though).

Saturday: Commencement Exercises

Do well on all of your final examinations and end-of-the-quarter projects. Enjoy and be successful at your summer activities.

Wednesday: The Penultimate Lecture Session -- Urban areas - Project Examples. Your reading report related to daylighting urban creeks is due at the beginning of class today.

Reading Assignments, etc.: There will be no more new reading assignments. If this creates any inconvenience please direct communications to Professor Kern Ewing, REEH Division Chair; University of Washington; Seattle WA 98195.

Studio/Lab: Restoration Design Project - Recreation Area. You might find having your laptop computer to be handy again this week (looking at the site, reviewing background information, recording your ideas, etc.). The assignment will be due at the lab/studio session next week.

Remember, the report for last week's studio/lab (Solid Waste Disposal Site) is due in class today. Remember, it should be a good "ready for review draft." Also, you should be making progress on your collection of studio assignments (final drafts of the work you have been completing with your current team) to turn in at the scheduled final examination period. You can turn in one of the designs, in final draft form, anytime between now and May 29 if you'd like a quick turnaround review to see if you are on the right track.

Friday: Some, like, really awesome Small Scale Restoration Projects, dude. (presentation by Rodney Pond)

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Please peruse the report Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams by Richard Pinkham through page 16 AND one of the case studies that follow (i.e. after page 17). Write a short reading report that cites information in the report (i.e., pp 1-16) to elucidate the common FRs and Cs in stream daylighting, and how they were addressed in the particular case study that you read. Due Wednesday May 30.

Monday: Project Management II and Marine Bed - Design. The reading report assigned last week is due today.

Wednesday: Brownfields - Project Examples.

Studio/Lab: Restoration Design Project - Solid Waste Disposal Site. You will want to read the 1987 Draft Management Plan for the Union Bay Research Natural Area by Eugene Hunn et al (AKA the Hunn Letter) and also the 1995 Management Plan for the Union Bay Shoreline and Natural Areas by Clem Hamilton et al (AKA the Pink Report). Your report will be due in one week.

Remember, the report for last week's studio/lab (Nisqually Gravel Pit Restoration) is due in class today. Remember, it should be a good "ready for review draft" (not necessarily a polished "final product" but not a collection of your "worksheets" either).

Friday: Salt marsh - Project Examples. You should read the paper (below) before today's class.

Reading Assignments, etc.: Read the 1986 paper Plant Growth and Productivity Along Complex Gradients in a Pacific Northwest Brackish Intertidal Marsh. Use the information provided in the paper to develop technical specifications (i.e., definitions) of a number of different "planting zones" that you could use in restoration design for a salt marsh system. Also provide "suggested planting specifications" (species list? more?) for each of the zones that you have defined. Remember to cite the paper appropriately (you must use the CBE style, you may find that the citation sequence system works best for this assignment). Due Monday 5/21.

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Please read the recent paper by Robert Orth et al, Seagrass recovery in the Delmarva Coastal Bays, USA

Reading Report Due Monday May 14. Use information that can found in the paper by Orth above, along with ideas garnered from the Friday lecture above to develop a task list for a moderately large Seagrass Restoration project (you will have to define "moderately large" from information in the paper). Also provide precedence information (what tasks must be completed before others can be (a) started or (b) completed for the tasks on your proposed project task list.

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Please read the four relatively short papers. It will be useful to look at them before Friday.

Ocelot management and conservation along transportation corridors in Southern Texas

Synthesis of noise effects on wildlife populations

Landscape ecology in transportation planning

Good and bad places for roads: effects of varying road and natural pattern on habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Assignment

This week's reading report is due Monday April 30 at the beginning of the class period. The format is a little different though. Citing from the reading that is linked below:

1. Briefly provide some reasons that a land owner or land manager might elect to restore some or all of their forestland to Longleaf Pine.
2. Suggest two or three functional requirements that would seem to be consistent with some or all of those reasons.
3. Mine the papers to discover (and list) constraints. You can give stakeholder constraints or biophysical constraints or both. Stakeholder constraints come from stakeholders, biophysical constraints are things like "species X is very shade intolerant."
4. Mine the papers to infer (and list) design parameters that are suggested for accomplishing success in meeting functional requirements like the ones you suggested and/or for working within the constraints that you listed.

We are looking for LISTS not a carefully developed essay with skillfully written paragraphs but please explain/justify the items in your lists unless you think they are "like totally" clear. When listing design parameters suggest which specific FRs and Cs would lead to their specification (i.e., what FRs and Cs would cause the restoration designer to "call out" that particular DP).

Reading

Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Fact Sheet (website at the US Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Restoration of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems (technical report from the US Forest Service)

Longleaf Pine Restoration (website at the Longleaf Alliance which is at Auburn University)

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Reading Report #3 due Wednesday 4/18 at the beginning of class. : Read Chapter 11, Bioremediation: restoration of contaminated soils. From Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jorgensen. 2004. Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. (Note: you might need to use the "View-->RotateView" button on your acrobat reader program or, alternatively, set your computer monitor on its side). Write a reading report paper that could serve as an overview/summary for a nonthechnical reader who needs to understand what bioremediation is and situations in which it would be potentially valuable in ecological restoration projects. Important: Don't let the math and chemistry cause you angst. The chapter is an excellent discussion in which the math and chemistry can be "read over" by readers who don't care to "read" it. The math and chemistry do allow for a more thorough understanding of, for example, how it works and how fast it works (but only if if you are interested). Beware, the next "reading assignment" will be the "take home midterm examination" below.

*** The Take-home midterm examination will be due Monday April 23 at 10:30 AM (the beginning of the class hour). Download it here. ***

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Reading Report #3 due Wednesday 4/18 at the beginning of class. : Read Chapter 11, Bioremediation: restoration of contaminated soils. From Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jorgensen. 2004. Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey. (Note: you might need to use the "View-->RotateView" button on your acrobat reader program or, alternatively, set your computer monitor on its side). Write a reading report paper that could serve as an overview/summary for a nonthechnical reader who needs to understand what bioremediation is and situations in which it would be potentially valuable in ecological restoration projects. Important: Don't let the math and chemistry cause you angst. The chapter is an excellent discussion in which the math and chemistry can be "read over" by readers who don't care to "read" it. The math and chemistry do allow for a more thorough understanding of, for example, how it works and how fast it works (but only if if you are interested). Beware next week the "reading assignment" will actually be a "take home midterm examination" that will be distributed sooner in the week than was this assignment and will be due on Monday 4/23.

Reading report #2: Read the article about site assessment, and the articles about mounding, using chip mulch and live stakes as tools for site modification and site conditioning. Write a reading report paper that discusses the assigned reading and suggests three additional examples of non-biological, biological, and living organisms as tools for site modification/amendment. Be sure to cite all of the readings (cite the print version even though we are making these available to you via the course website) using the CBE style guide. This will be due Wednesday 4/11/07 at the beginning of class.

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Reading report #2: Read the article about site assessment, and the articles about mounding, using chip mulch and live stakes as tools for site modification and site conditioning. Write a reading report paper that discusses the assigned reading and suggests three additional examples of non-biological, biological, and living organisms as tools for site modification/amendment. Be sure to cite all of the readings (cite the print version even though we are making these available to you via the course website) using the CBE style guide. This will be due Wednesday 4/11/07 at the beginning of class.

Reading Assignments, etc.:

Reading Report #1: Read the documents below and write a short (400 word mazimum) reading report that suggests a restoration project goal, identifies a likely project owner and other stakeholders, and states possible (and meaningful) Functional Requirements and Constraints for the restoration design. This will be due Friday April 6 at the beginning of the class period.

See the "reading reports" link on the left hand margin of this page for instructions for preparing your reading report but note that this is a shorter than usual reading report and that, contrary to the norm, is due on Friday not Monday!

1. USGS website on Soda Butte Creek

2. Yellowstone Net Newspaper article on the proposed Cooke City New World Mine

3. Cooke City, Montana's website article on the New World Mining District

4. USGS website on the Daisy Creek study area