Environment

Bear and Cougar Safety Training
This course is intended to provide information to recreationalists or workers who spend considerable time in the outdoors. Bear and cougar safety training is a requirement of the Workers’ Compensation Board. You’ll learn steps to help prevent bear attacks and ways to
recognize bear behaviour. There are many myths pertaining to the general behaviour of bears and why they attack. By the end of the session you’ll have a better understanding of bears and cougars and will be able to use this experience and knowledge in the outdoors.

CHILLIWACK campus
(20023 ENV BS01 C5A) Doug Wilson, 1 session, Tue, 6:30–9:30 pm, $40. Starts Apr 6
(20024 ENV BS01 C5B) Doug Wilson, 1 session, Tue, 6:30–9:30 pm, $40. Starts Apr 13

Fossil Collecting for the Amateur Paleontologist Level II
Gain experience identifying Ice-Age pleistocene fossils from Alaska to Florida, preparing a Cretaceous (dinosaur age) mosasaur from Manitoba, and working with insects and spiders preserved in Oligocene (20 million years old) from the Dominican Republic. You’ll also prepare 0.5–2 million year old copal from Madagascar to discover and identify preserved insects and spiders. You get to keep your specimen! This course includes five evening sessions and one
full-day field trip to be decided in class, weather and holidays permitting. Bring a magnifying glass to class.

CHILLIWACK campus
(20244 ENV FOS02 C5A) Ken Pugh, 6 sessions, Tue , 7–9:30pm, $285. Starts Mar 23


Last Updated December 7, 2009