Forestry: Forest Management, B.S.

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This major is administered by the Forestry Discipline.

Major study and approved Career Pathway Courses total 120-121 credits of which 104-106 are major and option specific requirements. The remaining 16 credits are general education courses not embedded within the major.

Forestry Core, 58-59 credits

Forestry and Natural Resources

Required

BIOL 130 - Introduction to Plant Biology 5 cr.
ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 cr.
GEOG 341 - Geographic Information Systems I 3 cr. or
WATR 391 - GIS Applications in Water Resources 3 cr.
PHIL 380 - Environmental Ethics 3 cr.

Field Techniques in Natural Resources, 7-8 credits

Take all of the following:

FOR 319 - Land Surveying 1 cr.
FOR 320 - Field Experience in Forest Measurement 1 cr.
NRES 405 - Selected Topics in Natural Resources 1-3 cr. (Take 1 credit)
SOIL 359 - Soil Conservation and Watershed Inventory Techniques 1 cr.
SOIL 360 - Field Experience in Soil Inventory Methods 1 cr.
WATR 380 - Field Experience in Aquatic Ecosystem Evaluation 1 cr.
WLDL 340 - Field Experience in Wildlife Management Techniques 1 cr.

Or 8 credits of

NRES 475 - International Field Experiences in Natural Resources Management 1-8 cr.

Forestry Internship or Employment

One summer of adviser-approved forestry internship or employment.

Forest Management, 46-47 credits

Natural Science

CHEM 101 - Basic Chemistry 5 cr. or
CHEM 105 - Fundamental Chemistry 5 cr.

Required

FOR 224 - Fire Operations 1 cr. or
FOR 326 - Wildfire Prevention and Management 1 cr.
FOR 329 - Harvesting Systems 2 cr.
FOR 370 - Forest Products I 2 cr.
FOR 431 - Functional Tree Biology 3 cr.
FOR 433 - Regional Silviculture 2 cr.
FOR 436 - Managing Non-industrial Private Forests 2 cr.
MATH 109 - Mathematics for the Social and Management Sciences 4 cr. or
MATH 111 - Applied Calculus 4 cr.
MATH 112 - Basic Trigonometry and Applications 2 cr.
NRES 320 - Natural Resources Communication and Public Relations 3 cr.
NRES 377 - Remote Sensing I 3 cr. or
GEOG 377 - Remote Sensing I 3 cr.

One course from

Take 5-6 credits from

FOR 324 - Fire Management and Ecology 2 cr.
FOR 424 - Forest Pathology 3 cr.
FOR 426 - Forest Entomology 3 cr.

Career Pathway Courses, 9 credits

Choose from:

Any 300 or higher level Forestry course* or any of the following courses*:

ACCT 210 - Introductory Financial Accounting 3 cr.
BUS 320 - Principles of Management 3 cr.
BUS 321 - Entrepreneurship 3 cr.
BUS 324 - Human Resource Management 3 cr.
BUS 329 - Project Management 3 cr.
BUS 330 - Principles of Marketing 3 cr.
BUS 331 - Marketing Research 3 cr.
BUS 340 - Business Law and Ethics 3 cr.
BUS 352 - Financial Management 3 cr.
BUS 355 - Real Estate Investments 3 cr.
BUS 375 - Advanced Spreadsheet Applications 3 cr.
GEOG 342 - GIS Database Design and Data Modeling 3 cr.
GEOG 343 - Geographic Information Systems II 3 cr.
GEOG 477 - Remote Sensing II 3 cr.
NRES 305 - Inclusive Practices for Outdoor Professionals 2 cr.
NRES 323 - International Resource Management 3 cr.
NRES 324 - Invasive and Exotic Species 3 cr. or
WATR 324 - Invasive and Exotic Species 3 cr.
NRES 341 - Introduction to Sustainable Energy Policy 3 cr.
NRES 365 - Environmental Policy 3 cr.
NRES 373 - Agronomy, Agriculture and Environment 4 cr.
NRES 383 - Organizational Leadership 3 cr. or
BUS 322 - Business Leadership for Managers 3 cr. or
BUS 325 - Organizational Behavior 3 cr.
NRES 389 - Methods in Social Science 3 cr. or
NRES 391 - Environmental Regulatory Processes 3 cr.
NRES 441 - Climate Change Implications, Policies, and Solutions 3 cr.
NRES 443 - Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems 3 cr.
NRES 454 - Fire Behavior and Fuels 3 cr.
NRES 455 - Advanced Fire Ecology 3 cr.
NRES 457 - Ecological Monitoring 3 cr.
NRES 458 - Biodiversity and Conservation Biology 3 cr.
NRES 473 - Resource Policy and Law 3 cr.
NRES 474 - Integrated Resource Management 3 cr.
SOIL 361 - Forest Soils 3 cr.
SOIL 362 - Soil Genesis, Morphology, and Classification 3 cr.
SOIL 363 - Soil Profile Description Writing 1 cr.
SOIL 364 - Soil and Plant Analysis 3 cr.
SOIL 365 - Soil Quality Assessment and Soil Survey Interpretation 3 cr.
SOIL 366 - Wetland Soils and Wetland Delineation 3 cr. or
WATR 366 - Wetland Soils and Wetland Delineation 3 cr.
SOIL 368 - Urban Soils 2 cr.
SOIL 461 - Soil Management for Resource Sustainability 3 cr.
WATR 360 - Wetlands Ecology and Management 3 cr. or
WLDL 360 - Wetlands Ecology and Management 3 cr.
WATR 388 - Aquatic Ecology 3 cr.
WATR 389 - Hydrology 3 cr.
WLDL 451 - Management of Wildlife Habitat 4 cr.
or an adviser approved course*

Note

(*If not already taken to satisfy a requirement above.)