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BF 112: Reading the Land
General Course Resources
Instructor Contact
Webinar Schedule and Participant Guide
Navigating in Teachable; Getting a Course Completion Certificate; and More
Pre-Course Survey
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Week 1: Biological Monitoring Basics - What and Why
Week 1 Webinar Slides and Recording
FORUM: Introduce Yourself!
Optional: Readings on Soil Health
Optional: Readings on Ecosystem Processes - Strongly Encouraged!
FORUM: Growing Soil As Our Primary Crop article and reflection
Optional: Fancy a Short Quiz?
Exercise 1 - Ecosystem Health Analysis Worksheet
Week 2: Understanding Land Management Tools and Effects on Soil Health
Week 2 Webinar Slides and Recording (0:08)
Optional Reading: Brittleness: An Introduction
Optional: Week 2 Quiz
FORUM: What was one thing you learned from our 1st Webinar? Any "AH HA" moments you would like to share?
Exercise 2 - Tools & Ecosystem Processes Analysis
Additional Resource: Guest Speaker Sarah Williford on Ecosystem Processes
FORUM: What did you learn from Sarah?
Week 3: Comprehensive, Effective Biological Monitoring for Cropland, Pasture, and Range
Week 3 Webinar Slides and Recording
Optional: Week 3 Quiz
FORUM: What is one Tool you use consistently, how you use it, and how it impacts the land.
Exercise 3 & 4 - Cropland & Pasture / Range Land Monitoring Worksheets
Recommended Optional Exercise: Creating a Useful Future Landscape Vision Statement Worksheet
Helpful Tools to Improve Decision Making & Better Identify Solutions
Expand Your Knowledge of Soil Health in BF 110
Week 4: Summarizing and Interpreting Your Observations/Data - Now What?
Week 4 Webinar Slides and Recording
FORUM: What did you learn from Troy?
Videos: "Ecological Succession: Change is Good" and other videos
One last Quiz!
Article: Biological Monitoring Offers More Tools by Troy Bishopp
Troy Bishopp's Farm/Family (Holistic) Goal Statement
Exercise 5: Additional Land Health Data Collection Forms and Worksheet
Additional Resources (Optional): Improving Decision Making and Filtering Decisions
Example of Managing Holistically - Decision Making from Webinar 4
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