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Course: Wildlife Fish and Wildlands Science and Management
Elk go to wildlife refuges to find food each fall. If a refuge gets overcrowded, disease can spread among them and plants may get damaged. Is the answer to bring in extra food for the elk? To lower their numbers by allowing hunting? To open a refuge in another location?
If you go into this field, you'll have to make decisions about how to best preserve natural areas and the animals and plants that live in them. This can be tough when the needs of two species conflict and when your choices can determine whether a species survives or dies out.
Students in this major learn to use the physical, life, and social sciences to manage animals, plants, and their habitats (the areas where they live) for recreation, business, and preservation.
Are You Ready To...?
- Get hands-on experience in an internship or a summer job
- Work with animals in their habitats
- Practice making difficult decisions
- Conduct research outdoors and in the lab
- Study the life of the water as well as the life of the land
It Helps To Be...
Passionate about the outdoors and comfortable handling animals. You should be interested in math, science, and computers. You should also enjoy working with people and be able to combine ideas from many fields.
College Checklist
- Does the program focus more on game management or conservation?
- Is the program a concentration within another major, such as forestry, or a major in its own right?
- Will your courses give you hands-on experience outdoors?
- Will you get a chance to work with faculty or graduate students on their research?
- Will the department help you find an internship or a summer job?
Did You Know?
Earning a master's degree will make it easier to find a job and help you advance in your career.
Course Spotlight
In this major, you'll learn the tools of the trade in a course on wildlife-management techniques. This class will take you outdoors to learn ways to gather information on animal populations and habitats. In the classroom and in labs, you might work in teams to solve problems using data from real wildlife-management cases. Besides reading from a textbook, writing short papers, and taking exams, you might have to come up with your own wildlife-management plan.