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<br />Comac( willt unrlishabcd :!miTflal and plant communities <br />is anorncr fundamclual aspect of R1\-fBL'_~ t-haraxteT. Di. <br />verse habitats. and CH..aHtres are dose to laboratoTY and <br />rderence fadlides: i" tile Laboralory'.'i. town$:it~, Conse- <br />quently, rc:sc.u"(.-hcn can apply a variety of S-Ollhistkat<:d <br />analytical, experimental. ..ntI obSce1\'al~on:a} techniques <br />di.-cctly to wild populations. Sltldent8 c~n apply faU$ .and <br />concepts. from the dassroom tD th<; intact field environment, <br />[tnd ('an make that euvironment the focus of their leaJning. <br />AU -at RM8L experience both dl'C intellectual fOltmula.tiou <br />and ~he I:stlrctic values of wiM nature. 1'he~ complemc-nlary <br />eXlWrknci"1i arc ')'U:-CC5sary 10- 3 fun -(Ylmprehensiun of the <br />order and com plexi ly of natur<tl environments, <br />Thr Laboratory':,; a-r-t)vities. arc not only directed to the- <br />understanding -of Nature for its own sak", hut,aha toward <br />solving prl:'ssiug human problems of it uiologkaI muurc. <br />Studies- of the I'datiOll:s bct\\"ccn piant~ and the herbi~i")re5 <br />fcedi.ng on lhCHI aTe cruci!11 to dcvdopll'u:.'fit of e'cologi-cafly <br />sound a'Od dfc<.:ti\<'c pf..':5( control technology for agriculture, <br />In,'iiight into meCha"rllisms by '\vhir-h mxan~'l:ml adapt to' en. <br />\fh.onmcntal :'itrcss will be imp(}n~nt for the- prcl-'cntion, or <br />repair, of pollution damage h> natural sj':uc-nls upon wbi.ch <br />humanity depenus for watn. food. or con'StHlt::tion matcliats. <br />There is a c-ontinuous spectrmn from "bask" to ",applied." <br />work in: biology. not a divis-ion h-c-lw-een vle\'lpoints. th.at are <br />poles apart. Work oH: RMnL can be and's important co <br />m.my diffc-rent pOTtim~.s. of this spectrum. <br />RMnL, 3S- O\n itBlilUlion of national scope and dientdc. <br />mus.t also h(~ a hdpft.1 ndghhor to the state and local com- <br />lU1mitics arouud it. Laborator)' staff v-olunt.cct chdf' <br />'Scrvkes. c;;\eh summCj' tor an CWB}:rlg lecture series :in ~he <br />nearby LOWII of Crested RutH.... an{\ eonlmh with local ann <br />Federal wHdli(c .aud [:orest management officials on ('onser.. <br />val,on and yeS():lXfC~ m..-nag-eluent ptohle.mlii-. Tuh.lon fees fOT <br />cour.se work ~rc halved for Co~or-ad<< rcsi-t.knts, A series of <br />'Conf~.rence.s. 011 problems of Color-adQ biology and o( local <br />land use practices has begun:; the firs( was held at the I.abot~ <br />atory in August 1975. <br /> <br />Right: ,_. fttJtamisls at ......m'k ill au uplaml hoCro g~.3sshli\d <Js:v.xlaltOU in th(' <br />Q-yst..'lt Rtl,-"('r o:lr<'l'1ulge a f....w milt'$; fr-om RM81" <br /> <br />