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Executive Education Offers Two New Courses

The Nicholas School's Center for Environmental Education is offering two new executive education courses on Stream Corridor Restoration and on Brownfields, beginning this spring.

Stream Corridor Restoration will target land managers, land owners and practitioners who are interested in watershed and stream restoration activities, said Sara Ashenburg, director of executive education.

This hands-on course will focus on giving participants a basic understanding of scientific and socioeconomic principles and practical experience proven useful in watershed and stream corridor restoration.

The 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams in the United States support higher levels of species diversity and rates of biological productivity than most other landscape elements, said Ashenburg. Yet, only 2 percent are undisturbed by human manipulation.

"Our rivers and streams are both valuable and vulnerable. Restoring stream corridors represents a challenge for communities and land managers as well as landowners and practitioners," she said.

Details on the Brownfields course will be available on the center's Web site. Brownfields are industrial and commercial facilities that have been abandoned or under-used because expansion or redevelopment is complicated by environmental contamination.

For course dates and online registration, go to www.nicholas.duke.edu/del or call (919) 613-8082.

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