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I offer the graduate course called Modern Wildlife Resource Management through the Northern Virginia Graduate Center. Contact Dr. Trauger for details.
David L. Trauger, Ph.D.
Director of Natural Resources Programs
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Northern Virginia Center
7054 Haycock Road
Falls Church, Virginia 22043-2311
Phone: 703-538-8365
Email: dtrauger@vt.edu

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Modern Wildlife Resource Management

Virginia Tech's Northern Virginia Center is offering Modern Wildlife Resource Management, a graduate course available anytime, anywhere with Internet access. This course focuses on the major concepts of wildlife resource management with modern alternatives and options. With a forest wildlife emphasis to wildlife management fundamentals, the course topics include theory development, wildlife-related enterprises, computer map applications and modeling, strategic studies, a total system paradigm, vertebrate pest damage management, an ecotourism alternative, and a dynamic land-use planning system.

According to Dr. David L. Trauger, Director of Natural Resources Programs at the Northern Virginia Center, Modern Wildlife Resource Management, exclusively a distance-learning 3-credit course, will be taught by Dr. Robert H. Giles, Jr. Dr. Giles is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences and the College of Natural Resources at Virginia Tech. Dr. Giles will supply an extensive text and the course will feature email-managed assignments and exams.

Dr. Giles taught and conducted research at Virginia Tech for 30 years after spending 5 years teaching at the University of Idaho. He has been a smokechaser, wildlife biologist, chairman of a planning commission, consultant, and landowner. He edited the techniques manual of The Wildlife Society and authored over 200 other papers. Professionally, he has concentrated on decision-making, planning, wildlife information systems, geographic information systems, and impact analyses.

Modern Wildlife Resource Management is available to anyone who has had one or more wildlife courses in their undergraduate and graduate degrees or working professionals who have had extensive wildlife-related career experience. This distance-learning course attempts to address the special needs of people now employed within natural resources agencies.

Information on admission and course registration may be obtained at the Northern Virginia Center or via the Internet at http://www.nvc.vt.edu/ or by telephone 703-538-8324. For a course flyer or other information, please contact Dr. David L. Trauger, Director of Natural Resources Programs, Northern Virginia Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Falls Church, Virginia 22043-2311; telephone: 703-538-8365 or email: dtrauger@vt.edu.

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