{"id":18,"date":"2019-02-21T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/biology-msbiodiversity\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:52:01","slug":"stewardship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/stewardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 14pt\">Biodiversity Stewardship refers to the responsible protection of organisms and their ecological relationships.\u00a0 The MS program exposes students to the complex network of stakeholders and the issues\u00a0involved in sustainable stewardship practice.\u00a0 All students are required to develop and implement a stewardship plan based on their interests.\u00a0 The stewardship experience emphasizes how using scientific evidence can inform management practices and decision-making, and\u00a0stresses the importance of using\u00a0high quality data to maintain scientific credibility.\u00a0 Collaboration is an integral part of the stewardship experience.\u00a0 Examples of some of our collaborating\u00a0program partners can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/biology-msbiodiversity\/partnerships\/\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 14pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/02\/entomology_students-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/02\/entomology_students-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/02\/entomology_students-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/02\/entomology_students-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/02\/entomology_students.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiversity Stewardship refers to the responsible protection of organisms and their ecological relationships.\u00a0 The MS program exposes students to the complex network of stakeholders and the issues\u00a0involved in sustainable stewardship practice.\u00a0 All students are required to develop and implement a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/biology-msbiodiversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}