ESRM 101
Forests and Society
Automatic with this Course -
NW/I&S
Class Website:
www.spartanscience.weebly.com
5 Credits
MTWF
7th period
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Instructors:
Lacey Martin
Room 230
UW Contributing Prof.
Kristiina Vogt
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Reading &
Lecture Materials:
 NO books to buy!!!
 Selected readings posted in the Schedule
section of class website!
We have the discretion to change a
reading before a lecture if we find a
better reading
Lectures:
We will attempt to post each
weeks class lectures the Friday
before the week of class
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Reading & Lecture Materials:
The River of Life: Sustainable
Practices of Native Americans
and Indigenous Peoples. (2013)
Publisher: Higher Education Press (HEP)
China
Won award in China = called "输
出版优秀图书奖" in Chinese or
the "Output Outstanding Book
Award for 2014."
Grading:
Required Assignments:
Homework (total #)
Top Hat Monocle (total #)
Quizzes + Final (total #)
Where your grade
will come from
30% (10)
20% (10)
50% (6)
No Final Exam!!!
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Percent scale = gpa
96.1-100 = 4.0
95-96 = 3.9
92.5-94.9 = 3.8
90-92.4 = 3.7
88.3-89.9 = 3.6
86.7-88.2 = 3.5
85-86.6 = 3.4
83.4-84.9 = 3.3
81.7-83.3 = 3.2
80-81.6 = 3.1
78.8-79.9 = 3.0
77.5-78.7 = 2.9
76.3-77.4 = 2.8
75.1-76.2 = 2.7
73.9-75 = 2.6
72.5-73.8 = 2.5
71.3-72.4 = 2.4
70.1-71.2 = 2.3
68.8-70 = 2.2
67.5-68.7 = 2.1
66.4-67.4 = 2.0
65.1-66.3 = 1.9
63.8-65 = 1.8
62.5-63.7 = 1.7
61.3-62.4 = 1.6
60.1-61.2 = 1.5
59.1-60 = 1.4
58.1-59 = 1.3
57.1-58 = 1.2
56.1-57 = 1.1
55.1-56 = 1.0
54.1-55 = 0.8
53.1-54 = 0.6
52.1-53 = 0.4
51.1-52 = 0.2
<51 = 0.0
Grading Scale:
This scale is posted on the class website
NOTE:
No curving of grades,
however system has a built-in
curve:
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Quizzes:
 There are 5 quizzes - every two weeks
 Quizzes during regularly scheduled class
(1:30-2:20)
 Quizzes will include:
 ~ 30 questions
 multiple-choice, and true/false
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Homework Assignments:
 WEEKLY homework = lecture/video questions
posted on class webpage in Schedule section
 Homework done in groups of 3-5 students
(permission to do homework individually)
 Answer 5 questions from the ~ 30 questions given to
you each week
 Homework answers: Short, concise, typed answers written as
complete sentences and posted in catalyst dropbox on class
website
NOTE: Homework questions + readings are used to
develop the quiz questions.
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Homework Assignments (cont’d):
 Due to Google Classroom
 Each homework worth 3.0% of your total grade X 10
homeworks = 30% of your total class grade
 Late submittals of homework - lose 10% per day
NOTE:
 Classroom.google records when homework submitted
 submittal per group - remember to include all of the
group’s names
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Top Hat Review Session
PLEASE Register Individually for Top Hat Monocle (Cost - $20):

Sign up Directly - Course Name: Forest & Society - Spring 2015

Direct URL: http://app.tophat.com/e/836500

6-digit course code:

No special apparatus needed - use computer, cell phone or iPod
to access your account in the classroom [only 1 apparatus
allowed per person during session]
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Top Hat Monocle review session - 20% of
your total grade:
• Questions - True or False or Multiple Choice similar to
each quiz [total - ~10 questions]
• During the session, you won’t know which question will
be graded
GRADE SUMMARY:
• For each review session, 2.0% of your total class
grade from answering 2 questions correctly [each
worth 1.0%];
• NOTE: 1 of the 2 questions is a freebie for
class participation – 1.0%
o NOTE: 1 question/week review session will
show up unchanged on the quiz
Videos:
There will be a total of 4 videos shown in class on
some topic related to ‘Forests and Society’
You are responsible for video materials on quizzes
Week 9: NO regularly scheduled video but Individual
assignment. You search for videos, utube, articles on any
topic covered in class. You submit ½ page max write up
(include link), drop in classroom.google.com
NOTE: Since this part of the class requirement, if
you do not do the video assignment you will lose
1% from your total class grade.
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3 Extra Credit Options
Extra credit options –
% added to Final Grade:
Top Hat Monocle
Homework EC
Explore a Forest Near You
TOTAL 5.5%
Up to 3%
Up to 1.5%
1%
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Why do we need a whole
class on humans and
FORESTS??
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Some Global Forest Facts you need to know to
answer why a whole class on forests:
1) CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES
• Forests/trees, wildlife who live in forests have
spiritual values for almost every culture in this
world
(Trees part of folklore/mythology dating back
more than 4,000 years, Native/indigenous people
still practice nature-based culture)
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2) HUMANS/PLANTS/ANIMALS harvest & survive on FOOD,
WATER AND ENERGY from forests and their ecosystem
services
• Forests provide subsistence survival [for half of
the globe] & commercial products globally [energy,
food, building materials]
• Trees/timber equates to lots of MONEY
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Some Global Forest Facts you need to know to
answer why a whole class on forests:
2) HUMANS/PLANTS/ANIMALS con’t
• Plant/Animal biodiversity higher in forests because
of abundant survival resources & habitats
• Food Security is higher when forests grow adjacent
to agricultural fields, e.g., food production
yields/nutritional values higher, crop pollinators live
in forests, better soil health, more human essential
minerals in food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsP71ARE2mo&index=7
Showing only 4 minutes 30 seconds of video
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Fresh drinking WATER More than half (66%) of our
fresh water originates from
forest lands that capture it
from clouds/rain or ‘mine’
from ground water in the US
Also Food – bears, wolves,
insects, humans all eat
salmon who live in water
NOTE: Humans and Nature nexus plays out in
Forests
Fig. 4 Balance and flows of virtual water related to trade of agricultural and
industrial products during 1996–2005.Net exporters (sending systems) are in green,
and net importers (receiving systems) are in red.
SUSTAINABLE CHOICES
• Global connections – water is global traded
resource as part of agricultural crops but
water supplies originate from forests
• Resources (like forests) linked to societies
– can’t look only at society or just forests
Jianguo Liu et al. Science 2015;347:1258832
Some Global Forest Facts you need to know to
answer why a whole class on forests:
3) FORESTS MITIGATE ENVIRONMENTAL &
CLIMATE CHANGE impacts
• Forests sequester carbon & pollutants emitted by
human land-use activities or energy production
using fossil fuels
• Forests are renewable resources
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BUT we live in the ANTHROPOCENE world
= geologic epoch where human impacts are as important as
natural processes
Readings: The Anthropocene concept in ecology and conservation; Jianguo Liu et al.
Science 2015;347:1258832
http://climatechangefork.blog.brooklyn.edu/files/2015/02/Defaunation-Over-Time.jpg
https://cdn.urbantimes.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Screen-shot-2011-07-01-at-18.42.45.png
Amazon rainforest ability to soak up carbon dioxide is
falling by Eli Kintisch
Reading ScienceNews3_17_15 - AmazonRainforestAbilitySoakCarbonDioxideFalling
It is not as simple as avoiding being urinated on.
We will learn about this all quarter!
So now you can begin to answer:
What if we cut down all the forests
in the world?? Would it matter??
Kristiina COMMENT:
BUT we the people of the industrialized
world have a PROBLEM…
TODAY: Our reverence for forests is a highly controlled
experience that isolates us from the forest but provides
us a non-threatening scenic view or experience
i.e., no predator is waiting to make dinner out of you!!
(see Reading - Sobel’s article 9/25/13)
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See Reading
Repercussions of our Nature education:
The western world connection to nature …look but not
touch nature.
Sobel (2012) ..reasons why ..lost ..real connections to
nature:
• Much of environmental education today …museum
mentality
• nature …exhibit ..other side of the glass. Children can
look ..study it, but they can’t do anything with it.
• message ..Nature is fragile. Look, but don’t
touch.”
We worry about Nature Deficit
in our children!!
What is real Nature?? Man in tiger costume hunted
down in zoo safety drill, Chengdu Zoo, Sichuan Province, China
https://mutablematter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/michaelcclin_01.png?w=5
00&h=248
This is a look but don’t touch mentality that we
must avoid if we are going to have sustainable
systems in this world or it will bite us!!
PacmanFrogCatchTouch
ScreenBugs https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=LbNl3J8HXw4
This is our WILD Nature experience
Columbia
On Sunday, people can start taking
"a walk on the wild side"
as …Bellevue Botanical Garden.
By Keith Ervin, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018192698_garden12m.html
second-growth forest
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But there is hope for us:
Reverence for Forests is ALIVE
TODAY – not just the past
Participants astride a huge log slide
down a hill – festival taken place for
the past 1,200 years
Huge timbers used as sacred pillars
for the Suwa Grand Shrines of
Kamisha and Shimosha
Lumbers' journey down the
mountainside often results in injury
and fatalities as participants try to
ride the timbers as they slide down
the mountain.
Getty Images / Koichi Kamoshida
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2010/04/onbashirafestival.html#ixzz0kjA8dHL0
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Onbashira Festival, Japan –
Past + Present
Wood is Good For Your Body and Brain: Planet Ark Report
Date: 20-Mar-15; Country: Australia; Author: Chris Philpot; http://planetark.org/wen/72950
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“The report titled Wood - Housing, Health, Humanity
…growing body of research showing the range of health
and wellbeing benefits of living, working and learning in
environments rich in wooden furnishing and fixtures.
Some ..findings include:
• Residents in aged care facilities interact
more with each other when surrounded
by wood,
• Students in classrooms that
feature more wood have lower
heart rates and stress responses
than students in classrooms with
plastic and metal,
• Two out of three workers prefer offices
with wooden chairs, desks and blinds
over the same office with those items
made from plastic.”
Paradox of our nature experience today: You are
happier if you are near trees and not when sitting in
the classroom!!
If You Live Near A Park, You're More Likely To Be Happy
GREEN SPACE PUTS PEOPLE IN A BETTER MENTAL STATE, WITH
"SIGNIFICANT AND SIZABLE" EFFECTS. BETTER GET GARDENING.
HTTP://WWW.FASTCOEXIST.COM/3029115/IF-YOU-LIVE-NEAR-APARK-YOURE-MORE-LIKELY-TO-BE-HAPPY
After taking this class, I want
you to be more like this guy!!
Bike-powered treehouse elevator is the world’s
coolest way to climb a tree By Sarah Laskow
“Ethan Schlussler lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, which is about an hour’s
drive from the Canadian border and a five-hour drive from Seattle —
the sort of place where you end up with time to pursue whatever
awesome idea floats into your head. Accordingly, Schlussler was
building a treehouse. He got tired of climbing up and down the 28 feet
from his project to the ground.”
Utube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5FSWkjFPxs
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To start our Forest and Society story we need to travel back in
time and look at 3 dominant human attitudes towards forests
IN THE PAST: Attitudes towards Forests
explain our behavior and uses of forests
Reverence
Fear
Utilitarian
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