The LRES capstone course is for senior-level students.  This course provides disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and requires students to integrate and apply what they have learned throughout their years in the program to real-life natural resource management issues.  Students work independently and in groups to research and critique literature related to science application.  The class collaboratively prepares a final research paper.

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poster of the Spring 2026 Capstone paper that includes an image of the Hyalite Reservoir

Spring 2026

Recreation & Management in the Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area

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Gallery of 2026 Presentation
man standing in front of drop down screen reading from a paper as seated crowd looks onstudent discussing aspects of the 2026 Spring Capstone papercapstone students from LRES look into the audienceman standing in front of a projection screen speaking to a seated audiencefemale speaker standing in front of seated audiencefemale speaker speaking in front of a seated audienceSpring 2026 capstone students stand by a projection screen that details the importance of the HPBH WSAA group photo of the Spring 2026 Capstone Students

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Fall 2025 Paper

The Last Best Place: Problems and Solutions at the Wildland Urban Farmland Interface  

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Prior Papers

Available in the Folder LRES Archives