Instructor: Dr. Matthew J. Gray (mgray11@utk.edu) and John Laux (Teaching Assistant, jlaux@utk.edu)
Phone: 974-2740 (office)
Office: 247 Ellington Plant Sciences Building
Meeting Time and Place: TR 5:05 − 7:45 p.m., 113 PBB (1 field trip required)
Course Goal: To develop an understanding of wetland delineation and classification, wetland communities and processes,
human impacts on wetlands, and the management and conservation of wetland communities.
Required Texts: Wetlands, 2000, 3rd edition, Wiley (www.wiley.com, ISBN 047129232X)
William J. Mitsch and James C. Gosselink
Rivers under Siege, UT Press (http://utpress.org/, ISBN 1572334908)
Jim W. Johnson
Course Credits: 3 credits
Academic Assessment:
Weights of Academic Assessments and Grading Scale:
● Exam 1 20% 18 September
● Exam 2 20% 25 October
● Wetland Mapping Assignment 30% 06 November (Data Sheets for Assignment)
● Rivers Under Siege & Field Trip Exam 10% 27 November
● Exam 3 20% 4 December
Course grade will be determined using the following scale:
|
Grade |
Final Weighted Percent |
|
Grade |
Final Weighted Percent |
|
A |
90–100% |
|
C |
70–76% |
|
B+ |
87–89% |
|
D |
60–69% |
|
B |
80–86% |
|
F |
<60% |
|
C+ |
77–79% |
|
|
|
Extra Percentage Points:
You can increase your final grade as much as 4.5% by making a plant collection. Your final grade will be increased by 0.15% for each correctly identified specimen up to 4.5% (or 30 specimens). All plants must be classified as facultative (FAC) or more wetland dependent. Due 15 November.
Teaching Resources:
Required
EXAM #1: After Here!
•What are Wetlands? Chap 2, Chap 6 (155–164, Hydric Soils), Chap 21 (754–758)
NRCS
Keys to Soil Taxonomy (Chaps 1 – 2)
•Wetland Regulations Chap 18
USACE Wetland Delineation Manual (1–34)
Regulatory Guidance Letter 90-7 (
SWANCC Decision (Geographically isolated wetlands)
Rapanos Decision (Non-navigable Tributaries, Guidance Memo)
Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (Bills H.R. 2421 and S. 1870)
•Wetland Classification Chap 21 (737–744)
USFWS (Cowardin)
Classification System (9–44)
USACE Hydrogeomorphic Classification (Brinson 1993, Chaps
1-3)
•Wetland Mapping National
Wetlands Inventory Strategic Plan
EXAM #2: After Here!
•Wetland Values Chap
16 (571–591), Handout
•Wetland Hydrology Chap
5
Snow Goose Herbivory (Example of Biotic Feedback)
•Nutrient Cycling Chap 6 (165–187)
•Shorebird Biology Shorebird Management Manual (Helmers 1992)
Required:
Chapters 1 and 2
Waterbird Management Objectives in MAV (Loesch et al. 2000)
U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan
(Parts 1 – 3)
•Moist-soil Management Chap
17 (625–638)
NWRC Waterfowl Habitat Management Handbook
13.4.6
NWRC Waterfowl Habitat Management Handbook
13.2.1
Manipulating
Wetlands in Autumn (Gray et al. 1999a)
Hemi-marsh
Concept on the Wintering Grounds (Smith et al. 2004)
Body Mass
and Agricultural Grains (Loesch and Kaminski
1989)
Waste Rice
for Waterfowl (Stafford et al. 2005)
EXAM #3: After Here!
•GTR Management Greentree Reservoir Handbook (Fredrickson and Batema 1992)
Required:
Chapters 1,2,5,6, and 8
GTR
Flooding and Seedling Survival (Gray and Kaminski 2005)
GTR Flooding
and Tree Composition (Young et al. 1993)
Acorn
Selection by Wood Ducks (Barras et al. 1996)
Bottomland Duck Microhabitats (Kaminski et al. 1993)
•Wood duck Biology Population Status (Davis 2005)
Wood Duck
Brood Ecology (Davis et al. 2002)
New Nest Boxes
(Stephens et al. 1998)
Wood
Duck River Habitat (Minser 1993, Schacher and Minser 1998 [abstracts
only])
Wood
Duck Night Surveys
(Minser 1991)
•Duck-use Days TME
for Acorns & Other Foods (Kaminski et al. 2003)
Predicting Seed Yield (Laubhan
1992)
Predicting Seed Yield (Gray et al.
1999b)
New Method to
Predict Seed Yield
(Gray et al. 1999c)
Current
DUDs for LMAV (Reinecke and Kaminski 2005)
•Wetland Conservation
TWRA
Wetland Acquisition Scoring (developed by Joe Hopper)
Wetland Reserve Program WRP
Brochure
Tennessee Partners Program TPP
Brochure
•Estimating Waterfowl Populations & Setting
Regulations
Waterfowl Population Status 2007 (pp. 5-14, Figures 2-5, Appendix C)
Giant Canada Goose Restoration in Tennessee (Ed Warr)
•Wetland Loss & Impacts Chap 4 (71–89), Chap 13 (419–430), Chap 17 (611–625)
Global Warming and Prairie Wetlands (Johnson et al. 2005)
•Bottomland Sedimentation Hatchie River Shoals and Valley Plugs (Diehl 2000)
•Invasive Plant Control Alligatorweed Control (Allen et al. 2007)
Purple Loosestrife Control (Katovich
et al. 2003)
Hydrilla Control (Doyle
and Smart 2001)
•Bottomland Restoration Flood Tolerance of Oak Seedlings
(McCurry et al. 2006)
•
Supplemental Resources
USACE Wetland Delineation Form
USACE
ENG Form 4345 (Application
for Section 404 Permit)
USACE Notes
on EF-4345 Drawings (Necessary Maps for Application)
Nationwide
Permits (wildlife
management)
TDEC Aquatic Resource Alteration Permit (Application for State Section 401 Permit)
NRCS Field Indicators of Hydric Soils
USFWS National Hydrophyte List (1996)
USACE Wetland Delineation Tutorial (download at website)
USFWS Wetland Status and Trends (2000)
USFWS Wetland Status and Trends (2006)—New
Publication**
USFWS
Moist-soil Management Guidelines (Strader and Stinson 2005)—New Publication**
Bottomland Hardwood Guidebook: GTRs (King and Fredrickson 1998)
North American Waterfowl Management Plan (2004 Update)
Internet Resources:
Lectures:
EXAM
#1:
“What is a Jurisdictional Wetland?” (PDF)
Podcast1: “First day material and the start of Jurisdictional
Criteria for determination of a wetland”
Podcast2: “Finished Jurisdictional Criteria and discussed the
history of Wetland Regulations”
“Wetland Classification” (PDF)
Podcast1: “Wetland classification according to Cowardin et al. 1979: Systems and Subsystems”
Podcast2: “Wetland classification according to Cowardin et al. 1979: Classes, Subclass, and Modifiers”
“Wetland Mapping” (PDF)
Podcast1: “National Wetlands Inventory and Current Status of
Wetlands”
Podcast2: “Wetlands Mapper Exercise
and Discussions on Sampling Designs for Mapping Wetlands”
“HGM Classification” (PDF) (Guest Lecturer: Dr. Tom
Roberts, TTU)
Podcast1: “HGM Classification”—
“Biotic Assessment” (PDF) (Guest Lecturer: Dr. Tom
Roberts, TTU)
Podcast1: “HGM
Bioassessment”—Poor sound quality; spare microphone failed.
“Wetland Mapping Lab”
(no PDF—continued from above)
Podcast1: “Using ArcGIS 9.2 to Map
Wetlands”
EXAM
#2:
“Wetland Values” (PDF)—Not delivered in class; podcast only; given spring
2007 in WFS 340.
Podcast1: “Biological, environmental and social values of
wetlands”
Podcast2: “Biological, environmental and social values of
wetlands”
“Wetland Hydrology” (PDF)
Podcast: “Components of Wetland Hydrology”
“Chemical Transformations” (PDF)
Podcast: “Nutrient Cycling in Wetlands”
“North American Waterfowl ID” (PDF) “Anatinae Wing ID
” (PDF) Podcast: No podcast available—Technical glitch.
“Shorebird Management and ID” (PDF) (Guest
Lecturer: John Laux, UT-Knoxville)
Podcast: “Shorebird
Responses to TVA Reservoir Drawdown, Shorebird ID, and Management of
Shorebirds”
“Moist-soil and
Agriculture Management” (PDF)
Podcast1: “Annual
cycle of waterbirds and amphibians and managing water in moist-soil wetlands”
“Greentree Reservoir
Management” (PDF)
Podcast: “Management
of Hardwood Bottomlands for Waterfowl”
“Estimating
Duck-energy Days” (PDF)
Podcast2: “Estimating
the duck-energy days: practice problems”
“USDA Wetland
Restoration Programs” (PDF) (Guest Lecturer: Mike Zeman, NRCS)
Podcast: “USDA
conservation programs for wetlands”
“Waterfowl
Hunting Regulations” (PDF) (Guest Lecturer: Tim White, TWRA)
“Wetland Losses
& Human Impacts” (PDF)
“Invasive
Wetland Plants and Control” (PDF) (Guest Lecturer: Sonja Oswalt, USFS)
Podcast: “Common
invasive exotic wetland plants and methods for control”
Podcast: “Factors
impacting the development of
USFWS Hydrophyte List (hydrophyte
classification of plants)
NRCS National
Climate Center (growing season duration)
USACE
Regulations and Permitting (Nashville District)
Overturn of the
Tulloch Rule (incidental fallback)
USFWS National
Wetlands Inventory
USFWS and USGS
Wetlands Mapper (digital
wetlands data)
USDA Web Soil
Survey (digital
soils maps)
TDEC Division
of Water Pollution Control (state wetland permitting)
USGS Surface
and Groundwater Data (stream
gage data)
Louisiana
Coastal Wetland Loss
Hurricane
Katrina & Louisiana Wetlands
NWRC Waterfowl
Management Site
Center for
Aquatic and Invasive Plants
North American Waterfowl Management Plan
Shorebird and Waterfowl Monitoring in the Southeast
International Shorebird Survey
U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan
Division of
Migratory Bird Management
Websites (Wetland Conservation Programs)
Wetland Reserve
Program WRP Brochure Tennessee WRP Website
Tennessee
Partners Program TPP Brochure
Conservation
Reserve Program (Forested Riparian Buffer Practice) Iowa Brochure
Websites (Wetland Conservation &
Professionals)
Vascular Plant Identification and Taxonomy: http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/vascular.html
USDA Plant National Database: http://www.nwi.fws.gov/plants.htm