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PWS Students Restore Scorched Landscapes with Native, Fire-Resistant Plants

To combat worldwide wildfires, our researchers and student teams are fighting back with revolutionary seed coating technology.

Welcome to Wildlife & Wildlands Conservation

The Wildlife & Wildlands Conservation Program is one of the most exciting programs offered at Brigham Young University. Our program enables students to go forth and serve mankind by protecting one of our greatest assets-our planet!

Careers

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Our program is designed to help students become qualified for natural resource management jobs with federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private industry. Read Full Story

Research

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Not all learning takes place in the classroom! Our professors use cutting-edge technologies to tackle natural resource challenges. Reach out to the faculty and learn more about their research programs and mentored learning opportunities. Read Full Story

Curriculum

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Our curriculum focuses on students gaining a diverse skill set capable of addressing a wide range of wildlife and wildlands conservation issues. Students are required to complete major courses that cover principles of wildlife, plants, soils, and ecology.

A majority of the upper-division courses combine classroom lectures with hands-on field experiences where students learn theories and principles, and gain marketable skills. Read Full Story

In the News

KSL Outdoors captured PWS Professor Brock McMillan and his students researching the health of Utah's Mule Deer population.

The Health of Utah's Deer Herd in 2022

Plant & Wildlife Sciences News

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BYU scientists help sequence genome of quinoa, potential 'grain of the future'

February 07, 2017 10:00 PM
Researchers at BYU were major contributors to the first fully successful effort to sequence the genome of quinoa—a grain experts believe may hold the key to feeding the world’s growing population.

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This desert plant defies gravity by collecting water upside-down with tiny leaf hairs

June 05, 2016 10:00 PM
Syntrichia caninervis (aka seriously awesome desert moss) uses tiny hair-like structures on its leaves to absorb water from the atmosphere until droplets form and flow to the leaf. And sometimes it does it upside-down.

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