These courses build the knowledge and skills to effectively assess, restore, and manage streams, wetlands, and upland habitats. A highly developed series of courses in stream measurement and fluvial geomorphology build advanced skills for the most challenging restoration problems.
PFW Coordinators, Refuge Biologists and others who are involved in the assessment, restoration or management of wetlands.
Summary and Objectives:Participants will assess degraded wetlands for restoration potential, develop and...
Personnel involved in wetland issues. The course is taught by instructors from the FWS, Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Corps of Engineers.
Summary and Objectives:This interagency course is...
Personnel with minimal stream experience involved with habitat assessment projects.
Summary and Objectives:The purpose of this course is to provide the knowledge and skills required to participate in studies assessing physical habitat...
The course is designed for fish biologists who must manage or supervise the planning and execution of a fish sampling/control/eradication project using rotenone or antimycin.
Summary and Objectives:This four-and-one-half-day...
Field Staff involved in stream habitat assessment and restoration.
Summary and Objectives:This course is designed to train individuals in field data collection methods and analysis techniques for: 1) determining stream channel...
Field staff involved in stream habitat assessment and restoration. This course is a prerequisite to the CSP3410 River Assessment and Monitoring - Level III course.
Summary and...U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff, including endangered species biologists, refuge personnel, contaminant specialists, pesticide applicators, restoration biologists, and law enforcement officials, as well as other federal, state, and non-governmental organization personnel...
Field staff involved in the development and review of stream restoration designs using the natural channel design methodology.
Summary and Objectives:This course teaches participants how to effectively review stream restoration designs developed using the NCD...
Resource managers experienced with Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point planning that are interested in becoming certified HACCP instructors.
Summary and Objectives:This train-the-trainer course is designed to certify conservation planners to deliver the 2...
Anyone working in natural resource management.
Summary and Objectives:Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Planning to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species is a structured process that assesses a natural resource management activity, identifies possible...
Field staff involved in the development and review of stream assessment and restoration/mitigation projects.
Summary and Objectives:This course offers a framework for assessing stream functions to individuals involved in stream assessment and restoration/...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists and resource managers who are engaged with forest ecology, conservation, and management issues.
Summary and Objectives:This course will provide biologists and land managers with basic forest ecology and management...
Refuge managers, biologists, other refuge staff (especially refuge maintenance staff), and natural resource professionals who are interested in beginning or expanding an invasive plant management program.
Summary and Objectives:This course introduces...
Field staff involved in stream habitat assessment and restoration.
Summary and Objectives:This introductory course is designed to familiarize students with the fundamentals of river behavior and the general principles of fluvial geomorphology, sedimentation,...
Staff involved in wetland issues such as wetland identification and delineation, wetland restoration and enhancement, wetland mitigation, and wetland habitat management.
Summary and Objectives:This interagency course is designed to improve the ability of field...
