Forestry: Forest Recreation, 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, 57-58 credits

Forestry and Natural Resources

Required

Field Techniques in Natural Resources, 7-8 credits

Take all of the following:

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 324 - Fire Management and Ecology 2 cr.
FOR 331 - Landscape Maintenance/Arboriculture 3 cr. or
FOR 444 - Urban and Community Forestry 3 cr.
FOR 334 - Forest Recreation and Tourism 3 cr.
FOR 335 - Recreational Use of Forests and Parks 3 cr.
FOR 385 - Applied Landscape Architecture 3 cr.
FOR 394 - Forest Recreation Seminar 1 cr.
FOR 426 - Forest Entomology 3 cr.
FOR 480 - Forest Recreation Management 3 cr.
FOR 485 - Forest Recreation Planning and Site Design 3 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 368 - Oral Interpretation Methods 3 cr.

Take 3-4 credits from

Career Pathway Courses, 3 credits

Choose from:

FOR 336 - Pesticides in Natural Resource Management 1 cr.
FOR 339 - Survey of Forest Certification Systems 1 cr.
FOR 342 - Urban Trees and Shrubs 2 cr.
FOR 381 - Internship in Forestry 1-12 cr. (1-3 cr)
FOR 424 - Forest Pathology 3 cr.
FOR 430 - Landscape Construction 3 cr.
FOR 431 - Functional Tree Biology 3 cr.
FOR 433 - Regional Silviculture 2 cr.
FOR 444 - Urban and Community Forestry 3 cr.
GEOG 341 - Geographic Information Systems I 3 cr.
GEOG 377 - Remote Sensing I 3 cr. or
NRES 377 - Remote Sensing I 3 cr.
GEOG 230 - Introduction to Regional Planning and Geodesign 3 cr. or
NRES 388 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning 3 cr.
GEOG 330 - Urban and Regional Planning Analysis 3 cr. or
NRES 389 - Methods in Social Science 3 cr.
NRES 335 - Turf Management 2 cr.
NRES 392 - Conservation Law Enforcement Theory and Principles 4 cr.
NRES 393 - Conservation Law Enforcement 1-15 cr.
NRES 473 - Resource Policy and Law 3 cr.
NRES 474 - Integrated Resource Management 3 cr.
or any 300-400 level wildlife course beyond 320, excluding WLDL 340 .