Your Woods Journal will include informal reflections recounting walks in the campus woods. I recommend exploring as many parts of the woods as possible, including various features such as the prairie, cemetery, bird blind, and Burly. Your journal entries should document sections of the woods visited and observations of wildlife. You might include personal reactions, thoughts, or questions that came up for you during or after your walk, as well as any insights in connection to class readings and discussions.
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For this assignment, you will research about 2-3 nonhuman species within the Campus Woods to write a narrative that explores relations between these species through ecological concepts of entanglement, biodiversity, and mutualism. The species can be any combination of lifeforms that inhabit the woods, including different plants, trees, birds, mammals, insects. This is where your Woods Journal might come in handy as a reference for possible nonhuman subjects.
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