Forest Resource Management Option
This option emphasizes the biology and economics needed to make sound management decisions about renewable forest resources. Emphasis is placed on the regeneration, growth, protection, management, and sustainability of forest ecosystems.
Efficient management of forest resources is stressed throughout the curriculum. Students are well preprared for jobs in the forest industry, public agencies, tree care companies, and a wide range of other forestland-owning companies.
Industrial Forestry Operations Option
This option is designed to preprare undergraduate students for an active role in assuring that the sale, harvest, and conversion of standing timber to products is done in an efficient, economic, safe, and environmentally sound manner.
Students acquire a solid background in natural resource management integrated with business, engineering, and legal courses. They are well prepared for jobs in forest industry, national and state forest services, forestry consulting firms, and the equipment industry.
Environmental Resource Management Option
This option provides professionals with the skills to tackle a wide variety of environmental issues. In addition to a solid background in forest resource management, students acquire background in environmental law, policy and planning, environmental economic, and soils.
Graduates are qualified for employment with public agencies, private industry, and firms that are faced with forest-based environmental issues, which might include the protection of forested wetlands, endangered species, the forested urban-rural interface, and forest sustainability.
Urban Forestry Option
Students will acquire many of the traditional forestry skills, but will take specific additional courses that will address the many biological, social, economic, and political issues that are part of urban forest management. Additional courses are taken in horticulture, landscape architecture, entomology, pathology, and urban affairs and planning.
The urban forest provides environmental and economic benefits to almost every town and city in the United States. The Urban Forestry Option prepares students for a career in the care and management of these urban forests and landscapes. Graduates of this curriculum will be prepared to work for employers such as tree care companies and with state, county, and municipal governments.
Spring Camp
Forestry Spring Camp, taken in the junior year, is a major highlight of the curriculum. Students take a specific block of courses for 10 weeks on campus, followed by 4 weeks of intensive field work located off-campus.
Emphasis is on the development of practical skills and integration of classroom material learned up to this point.
