May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works.  (Psalm 104:31)

 

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Romans 8:20-22)

 

BIO330 Stewardship Ecology

Summer Session I 2006

Click here for alternate course page featuring photos of alpine and high plains wildflowers.

Click on underlined locations below for more info.

Course description:  This course examines the application of the scientific principles of conservation and restoration ecology through the lens of a Biblically informed view of our role as stewards of God’s Creation.  This course includes field research projects, travel to power plants, water treatment plants, national parks and grasslands, and other conservation areas, and an in-depth study of our call to stewardship.  Ultimately, this course utilizes a three-part framework (awarenessàappreciationàstewardship; DeWitt 1994) for development of a worldview that incorporates a personal responsibility of Christian environmental stewardship.  (Prerequisite: BIO101 Environmental Science or BIO116 General Biology II)

 

South Dakota

 

Badlands National Park

Big Badlands Overlook:

     

Cedar Pass area & Yellow Mounds Overlook:

  

Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Home of the giant prairie dog!

       

 

Wyoming

Kennecott Energy's Cordero Rojo Coal Mine

 

Bighorn Mountains        

View toward valley from switchbacks:

 

  Alpine meadow:

  

 

 

Yellowstone National Park

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (Yellowstone River and Lower Falls):

   

Yellowstone Lake and nearby burn area:

       

Other areas burned in 1988:

    

Bison pics:

 

 

 

 

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton and Jenny Lake area:

    

Menor's Ferry homestead area (near Moose Junction):

    

 

Idaho

Palisades Dam & Reservoir (along Snake River)

 

Utah

Flaming Gorge Dam and National Recreation Area

  

 

SF Simplot Phosphate strip mine near Vernal, Utah

 Storm clouds over Uintah Mountains near Vernal, Utah:

 

 

Colorado

Rawhide Power Plant & Hamilton Reservoir

  

 

Pawnee National Grassland

Pawnee Buttes:

           

       

Other scenes on the Pawnee:

    

 

Rocky Mountain National Park

Trail to Alberta Falls and Mills, Jewel, & Black Lake:

        

           

Bierstadt Lake trail (area burned in 1900):

      

 

YMCA of the Rockies

 

 

Barr Lake State Park

 

CSU's Agriculture Research Development & Education Center (ARDEC)

 

 

 

No photos for the following:

 

- Ponnequin Wind Farm

 

- National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (formerly National Seed-Storage Laboratory)

 

- Colorado National Heritage Program

 

- Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge

 

- Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

 

- National Center for Atmospheric Research