Natural Resource Recreation Major

 

Meeting the varied demand for nature-based recreation while still protecting recreation lands requires highly skilled managers, planners, and educators. Natural Resource Recreation (NRR) professionals are equipped with the skills to manage and protect the land, water, wildlife, forests, and other natural systems as well as the recreation experience of solitude, freedom, companionship, and excitement these settings generate. Courses in the curriculum emphasize ecological and natural sciences as well as planning, tourism, business, psychology, and social sciences. The program is accredited by the Society of American Foresters.

An intense field experience course takes students and faculty to visit working professionals at federal, state, local, nonprofit, and commercial sites. Trips are taken in the East to areas such as Cumberland Island National Seashore and the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. An extended field trip is taken in the West to areas such as the Grand Canyon and Mesa Verde National Parks.

Graduates are employed by public agencies with natural resource and recreation management responsibilities, and by commercial organizations that guide recreation adventures, manage environmental education camps, or provide private education opportunities.

 

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