NR 550 - Introduction to Sustainable Military Lands Management

Prerequisite

Completed four-year undergraduate degree.

Description

This course provides an overview of military lands in the U.S. from within several different contexts – historical, geographical and environmental. It provides an overview of how military lands evolved as part of the federal land system to today’s current inventory and uses of these lands, to include the role of the military in the early National Parks system and the various federal legislative actions that codified these lands.

The course content will include discussions on the purpose and use of these lands as they relate to national defense requirements. It will also discuss the principles and implementation of environmental stewardship of the natural and cultural resources on these lands. Current day issues surrounding military lands, to include encroachment and multi-purpose uses, will be included. Case studies involving military installations in various regions of the U.S. will be included throughout the course.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Sustainable Military Lands Management Certificate

Textbooks and Materials

Textbooks and materials can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore unless otherwise indicated.

Required

• Military Geographies (2004)
  Woodward, Rachel
• The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy,National Security,and Organizational Change (2007)
  Durant, Robert F.
• The Modern Military and the Environment (2007)
  Wilcox, William A. Jr.

Instructors

Dr. William W. Doe
(970) 491-5082
William.Doe@colostate.edu

Dr. William (Bill) Doe has taught a broad range of courses in physical and cultural/regional geography, water resources, land use planning and environmental studies for the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY), Western Illinois University, and Penn State University. He is a military and environmental geographer with research and applied expertise in military lands management, watershed management and modeling, ecosystem characterization and sustainability practices for universities and federal installations.

He is currently the Associate Dean for Research in the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University (CSU), and previously was a senior research scientist/scholar with the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML) at CSU.