Wildlife Ecology and Management
EFB 390: Fall 2025
Course Materials
This page mainly contains lectures, sometimes assignments and other resources, and will expand as the semester progresses. Assignments, discussion boards and announcements are on the Blackboard site. Archived materials from 2024 are here
Instructor: Dr. Elie Gurarie, Illick 206
Office hours: Thursday 3:30-4:30 - Illick 206 - or by appointment,
Co-instructors:
- Rachelle Ketelhohn
- email: rketelhohn@esf.edu
- Office Hours: Thursdays 1-2 | Illick 305 or by appointment,
- Seanna Jobe
- email: sjobe@esf.edu
- Office Hours: Wednesday 2:30-3:30 | Illick 305 or by appointment,
Locations and Times:
- Lecture: Illick 5; Tue-Thu 2:00-3:20
- Recitation Sections:
- A: Tues, 3:30-4:25 - Baker 310
- B: Tues, 5:00-5:55 - Baker 314
- C: Wed, 3:45-4:40 - Baker 314
- D: Thurs, 8:00-8:55 - Baker 314
Syllabus: EFB390_Syllabus_2025.pdf
Overview
This is a broad, foundational course, the overarching goal is to make students familiar with fundamental topics in wildlife ecology and management.
Wildlife ecology is an extremely complex science, that explores themes like population dynamics, behaviors, space use, disease, habitat, trophic interactions, that is studied with a suite of rapidly evolving tools – field observations, advancing technology, statistics and modeling.
Wildlife management places all the complexity of wildlife ecology into a sloppy social, political, historical, ethical and legal realm. Most professional “wildlife” managers will openly admit that they spend much more time trying to manage people.
In this course, we will introduce methods, theories, concepts, and contemporary research topics in wildlife ecology, placing these into the very human inflected context of management.
We will hopefully also get you even more interested in wildlife ecology than you maybe already are! It is my opinion (and that of a great many of my colleagues) that there is no better or more interesting job than being a wildlife ecologist.