2023 - 2024 Catalog

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Includes S-130, S-190, and L-180 training. Provides entry level firefighter skills, including the primary factors affecting the start and spread of wildfires, and recognition of potentially hazardous situations. Meets the fire behavior training needs of a firefighter type 2 (FFT2) on an incident as outlined in the PMS 310-1.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Offers a self-assessment opportunity for individuals preparing to step into a leadership role. Combines one day of classroom instruction followed by a second day in the field, working through a series of problem solving events.Prerequisites: NATR 101

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces plant identification. Familiarizes students with basic field characteristics necessary for identifying forest and range plants. Includes terminology, morphology, nomenclature and classification with basic techniques for using plant keys. Introduces ecological concepts and plant relationships. Lab required.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Prepares the prospective supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations. Develops fire behavior prediction knowledge and skills. Discusses fire environment differences.Prerequisites: NATR 101.

Quarters Offered: Fall, Spring

This course serves as an introduction to field work in Natural Resources. Classes will be held largely outside using a variety of field measurement tools and methods used commonly by natural resource professionals in subdisciplines of water resources, wildlife, forestry, cartgraphy, range management, surveying, and other related fields. Lab required

Quarters Offered: Fall

Introduces the physical and biological effects of fire on ecosystems. Includes effects on individual plants and animals, range sites, timbered areas, air quality, watersheds, soil, and other related resources. Lab required.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Provides general training needs for all positions requiring an understanding of interagency incident business management.Prerequisites: NATR 101.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Discusses aircraft types and capabilities, aviation management and safety for flying and working with agency aircraft, tactical and logistical uses of aircraft, and requirements for helicopter take-off and landing areas.Prerequisites: NATR 101.

Quarters Offered: Spring

This course will provide the individual in charge of the initial attack of small non-complex fires, the training needed for size-up, deployment of forces, suppression, mopup, communications, and administrative duties.Prerequisites: NATR101, NATR 104.

Quarters Offered: Fall

The term "Natural Resources" covers a variety of topics and disciplines. This course serves as an introduction to the broad diverse field of natural resources. Each week students will research and study various disciplines within Natural Resources. Much time will be focused on current issues in various fields. Field labs to regional natural resource sites as well as guest lectures will be held weekly. Lab required

Quarters Offered: Spring

Acquaints the student with global positioning systems or GPS. Includes what GPS is, its uses, its short-comings, and field experience in the use of the equipment. Lab required. Some sections may have a no-cost text book option.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Produces student proficiency in the performance of duties associated with the single resource boss position from initial dispatch through demobilization to the home unit. Includes operational leadership, preparation and mobilization, assignment preparation, risk management, entrapment avoidance, safety and tactics, offline duties, demobilization, and post incident responsibilities.Prerequisites: NATR 101, NATR 102, NATR 104. Recommended prerequisite: NATR 121.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Assists structure and wildland firefighters in making tactical decisions when confronting wildland fire that threatens life, property, and improvements, in the wildland/urban interface. Includes size-up, initial strategy, structure triangle, tactics, action assessment, public relations, and followup and safety.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Produces student proficiency in the performance of the duties associated with engine boss, single resource, including engine and crew capabilities and limitations, information sources, fire size-up consideration, tactics, and wildland/urban interface.Prerequisites: NATR 101, NATR 104, NATR 115.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Meets the advanced training needs of the Firefighter Type I (FFT1) in an interactive format. Contains several tactical decision games designed to facilitate learning the objectives.Prerequisites: NATR 101 and one year experience in the field.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces fire behavior calculations by manual methods, using nomograms and the Fire Behavior Handbook Appendix B. Examines the determinants of fire behavior through studying inputs (weather, slope, fuels, and fuel moisture). Instructs how to interpret fire behavior outputs, documentation processes, and fire behavior briefing components.Prerequisites: NATR 101, NATR 104, NATR 115.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Provides training for the positions of Task Force Leader and Strike Team Leader specific to wildland fire suppression, as outlined in the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide and the Position Task Books.Prerequisites: NATR 101, NATR 104, NATR 122.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Provides training requirements for the Operations Section of the Incident Command System.Prerequisites: NATR 101, NATR 104, NATR 115.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces the development, understanding, and practical use of planimetric and topographic maps, along with aerial photographs. Includes map scale, finding distances, directions, and area on maps and photos, and identification of map and photos features. Also introduces application of GPS and GIS in Natural Resource Management. Lab required

Quarters Offered: Winter

Provides an overview of the complex political, social and economic issues met when managing Natural Resources of the Pacific Northwest. The course exposes students to local, regional and global environmental issues faced by a growing society. Topics will include climate change, habitat loss, sustainability, environmental justice, and global population growth. The course develops critical thinking skills useful in seeking out complex resource management solutions for a dynamic society.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces the function, maintenance and use of internal combustion engine powered chain saws, and their tactical wildland fire application. Provides entry level training for firefighters with little or no previous experience in operating a chain saw. Does not constitute certified faller designation.Prerequisites: Qualified FFT2, and current first aid/cpr certification.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Consists of three skill areas: supply, delivery and application of water. Requires set up, operation, and maintenance of pump equipment in a field exercise.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Surveys the theory, principles and practices involved before water is utilized for commercial production projects. Studies the microclimate, hydrology, and soil as influenced by the vegetation in relation to the regional variables of climate, geology, topography, and vegetation type and structure. Follows the water from the atmosphere, to the ground, and down the watershed to the area where it can be used for natural resources, industry, recreation, and domestic needs. Lab required.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces ecology, including evolution, adaptation, plant and animal distributions, terminology, ecological relationships and interactions individual ecosystems, and global ecological principles. Stresses the ecology of the northwest.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces the science of range management, including identification, physiology, and ecology of range plants; stocking rate considerations; grazing system selection; range improvement methods; range inventory methods and analysis; and nutrition. Emphasizes range management objectives to provide society with meat, water, wildlife, and recreational opportunities on a sustained basis from lands unsuited for permanent cultivation. Lab required.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Outdoor Recreation Management explores outdoor recreation as a vital aspect of natural resources and land management. Concepts discussed include multiple use management, recreational enterprises, state and federal outdoor recreation agencies, environmental education, and current topics in outdoor recreation. Lab required. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Introduces the principles of wildlife management and some of the practices and techniques used in controlling wild animal populations. Emphasizes the multiple use concept necessary for natural resource management.

Quarters Offered: Summer

Designed to give students an opportunity to acquire actual work experience in their chosen field. An on-site supervisor will supervise and evaluate the work experience student. Instructor approval of work setting and placement is required. For each credit earned, the student will need to document 36 hours at the work site.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Introduces students to field work within the Natural Resource discipline at a remote work site. Field Studies emphasizes critical thinking in the field, teamwork approaches to field work problem solving, using technolody in the field, and working in adverse weather conditions. This course may require multiple days in the field. Backcountry hiking and camping required.