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January 19  9:00-5:00 Everglades Roadside Clean-up: East Everglades(Chekika)

In-service component: all day Everglades Roadside Cleanup

January 26: Birding at Taylor Slough (Dry Season) and the beginning
                      of ENP

Reading:The Swamp pp.170-171, 204-210, & 239-303

   10:00 - 12:00 Anhinga Trail (Dry Season)

   1:00 - 3:00 Gumbo Limbo Trail and Old Ingraham Highway

   Cathy Torres (Women's Studies): The importance of society women of the early 20th    century in the creation of the Everglades National Park

Feb.2 SRAI Proposal Due- must be submitted online to srai@fiu.edu

Feb.2 (NO CLASS) journal entry #1 due

February 9: The Hole in the Donut Restoration Project: Brazilian Pepper Removal

Reading: The Swamp pp.304-370

    10:00 - 12:00 Coe Visitor Center

    1:00 - 3:30 Daniel Beard Rearch Center (west of Anhinga Trail Area)

Feb.16: (NO CLASS) journal entry #2 due

February 24 (Sat.) EXTRA CREDIT: FCHC Educational Tour to Everglades

Leave from FIU at 2:30 p.m.

Return at 7 - 8 p.m. Transportation will be provided

March 2  10:00 - 3:00 Shark Valley Bike Trip; meet at Shark Visitor Center

Reading: Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

Mar.9: (NO CLASS) optional journal entry #3 due

March 29 & 30: Poster Preview

On campus: D.M. 498B 10a.m.-3p.m.
(Sign-up sheet for an individual 30 min. session with professors, who will make last-minute poster improvement suggestions

April 4: SRAI: FIU University Park Campus 9:00a.m.-5p.m.

   Poster set-up: 7:00-8:45a.m. GC Ballrooms

   Poster Session: 10:30-11:30a.m.

April 6: Poster Session at Coe (Main) Visitor Center (10:00a.m.-1p.m.)

Set-up: 9:30-10:00a.m. Posters will remain in Visitor Center for 2 weeks
General Discussion with park rangers after poster evaluations

Required Books:

Hiaasen, Carl . 2004. Skinny Dip. New York: Warner Books. ISBN: 0-446-69556-4  

Grunwald, Michael . 2006. The Swamp. The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise..
New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5105-9

Sibley, David Allen. 2003. The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.   ISBN 067945120X

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Alden, Peter et al. 1998. Or latest edition. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida.  New York:  Knopf/Chanticleer Press.  ISBN 0-679-44677-X