RATIONALE STATEMENT

Land study simulations are good ways to experience and learn about the controlling political and natural charater of the landscape. In the Environmental Report Writing course, Geography 319, students take on projects collectively of either a real or fictious nature that require them to research, write about, explain, and understand the spatial issues at risk or at issue within the scope of the project. Generally these projects take the form of a fesibility study which would include a variety of factors in land management and communicating with land agencies. This quarter's work considered the establishment of a canal from the Columbia to the South Puget Sound port of Olympia. Below is an outline of some of the issues covered within the research gathering phase of this simulation. This quarter's work will be presented on 13 April 2007 and this website will be used to present the components of the work. Dr. M. Mustoe