Introduction

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There has been a drastic decline in black bear population found in eastern mountainous region of Tennessee. After numerous exhaustive and failed attempts to identify the cause the University of Tennessee has decided to discontinue the expenditure of the universities valuable resources so more effort can be given to find a cure for the virus that is killing their mascot Smokey negatively impacting the football team’s performance. The Timothy Tredwell Memorial Foundation in an effort to save this population of the Black Bear needs your team to procure all of the necessary resources to solve this puzzling problem.

Objective

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There are three people in your team that is responsible for their individual areas of specialty. The leader is responsible for acquiring 3 experts from another Southeastern Conference University. These experts must be professors of an SEC university and the leader must give a short explanation of their academic credentials as well as the rational used in picking each one. The scout will be responsible for purchasing all of the necessary equipment required for a two week field research/backpacking expedition into the Smokey Mountain National Park. This should detail the expense and justification of each item. Please include the living necessities and equipment for six people for the full two weeks. We will assume that each professor will bring the required technical equipment and instruments not found in sporting good stores. The logistics coordinator will be responsible for making travel arrangements for all six people. The report should include the airports, cost of ticket, the airline used, the expected flight itinerary and car rental agency as well as the cost for the two weeks. You must also have a daily schedule as well as maps of the expected journey. The logistics coordinator must also give details on how to acquire a permit to camp in the national forest.

Implementation

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Phase One

Divide the class in teams.

Define roles of the team members.

Team members should exchange appropriate contact information

Phase Two

Each team member should do individualized research on their area of responsibility

Each team should meet, discuss ideas and clarify selections of resources.

Phase Three

-All with the role of Leader in the class will meet to discuss the research and the diversity of the types of science fields studied at the college level.

-All scouts will meet and talk about necessities for a 2 week backpack through the Mountains and how present climate and conditions will dictate the necessities of life. Scouts will also need to talk about emergency equipment and types of technology (old vs. new) that is now found at many sporting goods stores.

-All logistics coordinators will talk about travel plans. The travel should consider the seasons and the “trail” through the Park.

Phase Three

Each team should compile a presentation that is 12 minutes long (4 minutes for each person). A final written report that details justification of all resources including people involved, the schedule plans, routes and the total cost.

Resources

Leader

Timothy Tredwell

Southeastern Conference

Scout

Logistics Coordinator

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Evaluation

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Each Person will be graded on individual performance along with group effort and group participation. Your grade will reflect your achievement of excellence in each given area.

Individual	0 to 5 points	6 to 7 points	8 to 9 points	10 points
Participation in Presentation	Spoke off topic, and used poor grammar was not clear in speaking	Spoke off topic, or used poor grammar was not clear in speaking	Stayed on topic speaking and clear and lost composure no more than once	Use good grammar when speaking was clear, concise and composed while staying on topic
Item List	No item list	Item list incomplete,	Item list appropriate	Item List complete and appropriate
Rational	No rational	reasoning not rational and not clear	incomplete reasoning not clear or not logical	well thought out reasoning
Team cooperation	Uncooperative	Rarely cooperative	Mostly cooperative	Very cooperative
Group Participation	Did not Participate	Minimal Participation or dominates conversion that is off topic	Participation which some times is not clear or off topic	Participation is helpful to the group allowing everyone opportunity to input and is always on topic

Group	0 to 5 points	6 to 7 points	8 to 9 points	10 points
Group Presentation Time	Less than 9 minutes or more that 15 minutes	9-10 minutes or 14 15 minutes	10-11 minutes or 13 14 minutes	11 – 13 minutes
Group Meetings	Off topic or lack of participation from most Members	Off topic some with participation from most Members	Appropriate discussion but dominated by 1 or 2 members	Appropriate discussion with input from all members
Cohesiveness of decisions	No group decisions and no group communication	Report and presentation reflects little group decision but reflects group communication	Report or presentation reflects clearly group decisions	Report and presentation reflects clearly group decisions
Final Written Report content.	Paper is incomplete	Report is complete in 2 of the 3 areas	Report is complete	Report is clear, concise and complete
Final Written Report grammer.	many grammatical errors	Paper covers material but has several grammatical errors	Paper is clear and concise but contains a few grammatical errors	Perfect grammar

Conclusion

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In this assignment you have found the dedication require to save a single population of a species. You have weighed the cost in time as well as money. In this assignment I want you to use all possible resources including other people, internet and the library books to determine the best possible solution to this problem. You have used a computer to create one final report that encompasses all the decisions and the justification of each decision.

Now weigh ecologically the cost of not attempting to save this one population or even the entire species.