Course
Syllabus - Wildlife Food Plot Establishment
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COURSE
SYLLABUS
WILDLIFE FOOD PLOT ESTABLISHMENT
WILD 1100
Credit Hours:
2; 2 hr lecture
Prerequisites:
None
Corequisites:
None
Instructors:
Dr. Wes Wood
Dr. Steve Ditchkoff
255
Funchess Hall
2339 Forestry and Wildlife Building
844-3997
844-9240
wwood@acesag.auburn.edu
ditchss@auburn.edu
Course Objective: To provide students with knowledge
of: 1) fundamental concepts, issues, and concerns related to wildlife
food plots, and 2) practical procedures for establishment of wildlife
food plots.
Missed Lectures: It is the student’s responsibility
to obtain notes from other classmates when lectures are missed.
The instructors will not copy, or arrange to copy, notes for students
that have missed lectures.
Grading: Five examinations worth
1/5 of final grade each. Exam 5, which is not comprehensive, will
be given at the scheduled time for the final examination. Exams
will cover lecture notes and any assigned readings. Grading is
based on a 10-point scale.
Exam days:
Exam 1 Thursday, September 7
Exam 2 Thursday, September 28
Exam 3 Thursday, October 19
Exam 4 Thursday, November 9
Exam 5 (final) Friday, December 8
(5:00-7:30)
Missed Exams: Arrangement to make up missed
examinations due to properly authorized excused absences (as defined by
the Tiger Cub) shall be
initiated by the student within one week from the end of the period of
the excused absence. A make-up exam shall occur within two weeks from
the time that the student initiates arrangements for it. There will be
no make-ups for pop quizzes (if students have an excused absence for a
pop quiz, their average for the other pop quizzes will be substituted
for that quiz).
Honesty: Cheating will not be
tolerated. Breaches of academic honesty will be handled according to
rules in the Tiger Cub.
Violations will be reported to the Academic Honesty Committee.
Tentative Schedule
WEEK TITLE
1 Why
Establish Food Plots, Ditchkoff, 8/17 & 8/22
2
Benefits of Food Plots for Wildlife, Ditchkoff, 8/24 &
8/29
3 Wildlife
Species that Use Food Plots, Ditchkoff, 8/31 & 9/5, EXAM1
9/7
4 Food Plots
and Hunting, Ditchkoff, 9/12 & 14
5 Supplemental
Feeding, Ditchkoff, 9/19 & 9/21
6 Problems with
Food Plots, Ditchkoff, 9/26, EXAM2 9/28
7 Alternatives
to Food Plots, Ditchkoff, 10/3 & 10/5
8 Soil Sampling
and Testing, Wood, 10/10 & 10/12
9 Lime, Wood,
10/17, EXAM3 10/19
10 Nitrogen and Phosphorus,
Wood, 10/26 & 10/28
11 Potassium, Sulfur and Tillage,
Wood 10/31, Touchton 11/2
12 GIS and GPS, Shaw 11/7, EXAM4
11/9
13 Cool Season Grasses and
Legumes, Ball, 11/14 & 11/16
14 Warm Season Crops, Weaver,
11/28 & 11/30
15 Summary, Wood and Ditchkoff,
12/5, EXAM5 12/8