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Using your previously selected National Wildlife Refuge’s Comprehensive Conservation Plan, create a PowerPoint presentation (other formats by Instructor permission only) of approximately 25-35 slides with the primary goals of:
Describing the site using the grading criteria at the bottom of this page
Describing the CCP itself
Critiquing and analyzing the plan using information gathered from peer-reviewed primary scientific literature, government reports, and course materials.
The vast majority of your points on this project come from the critique and analysis. Critique and analysis means that you look at each type of management being done at your site and evaluated it in light of peer-reviewed primary scientific research and course materials. You will use your Assignments 1-3 to aid your creation of this part of the presentation.
You should have 5-10+ sources and you must also cite them on each slide (APA style) and on one of your final slides, which should be a References slide. Your references should include our textbook and your management plan as well as the 5 peer-reviewed primary scientific papers from Assignment 3, government and NGO reports, and other appropriately scholarly material. Don’t forget that you must cite the sources of your images as well as your data/information.
Important Submission Instructions: Title your file in this way: Smith_EVSP413FinalProject.pptx and attach the PowerPoint File here in this Assignment area (any other format should be submitted as .pdf).
Turnitin will run automatically. It will return to you (after time for processing) a percentage which tells you the similarity of your work to that of others (or your own previous work) regardless if cited properly. Greater than about 30% of properly cited similarity means that less than 3/4 of the work you are submitting is your own which isn’t enough for your Instructor to assess your understanding of the material. You may edit your presentation and resubmit as many times as you necessary to address any issues you find.
Final Project Grading Criteria
1) Introduction to the Refuge (10 points – see breakdown below)
1a: formation history such as when the site was established and under what conditions (5 points)
1b: location information, including a map (2.5 points)
1c: important land use and other historical or traditional use information (2.5 points)
2) Comprehensive Conservation Plan overview (20 points – see breakdown below)
2a: history of the plan including type, date accepted, date(s) revised, etc. (5 points)
2b: management philosophy (5 points)
2c: primary management issues/problems (5 points)
2d: products extracted/used (5 points)
3) A critical evaluation of management plan, incorporating course topics and scientific evidence (30 points)
4) Appropriate type and number of sources, properly cited within the writing and at the end of the essay (20 points)
6) Mechanics: organization, length, writing style, grammar, spelling, etc. (10 points)
7) Presentation style & effectiveness (10 points)
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