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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.

The Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation program at BYU is designed to help students become qualified for natural resource management jobs. Students are required to complete a core block of major courses that cover the basic principles of wildlife, plants, soils and ecology. They also choose at least fifteen credits of elective major courses to increase training in their specific areas of interest.

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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Bunches of Oats: BYU professors untangle oat's evolutionary history for Nature paper

June 13, 2022 06:00 AM
For the first time, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of a modern oat, the Swedish variety “Sang.” BYU plant and wildlife sciences professors Jeff Maughan and Rick Jellen played an important role in the international project, sequencing the genomes of two of oat’s ancient progenitors to elucidate its evolutionary history. The group’s findings were recently published as the cover article in top science journal Nature.
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BYU earns No. 1 Overall ‘Seed’ in Landscaping Championship; Brings title back to home turf

March 25, 2022 12:03 PM
This past week BYU took home its fourth-consecutive National Collegiate Landscape Title, a championship that means BYU is once again best in the land for taking care of land… and water and rocks and trees and shrubs.




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State-funded BYU study finds elk move when hunting season starts — and it's causing problems

February 16, 2022 06:00 AM
Research from BYU wildlife sciences professors finds that when hunting season starts, elk in Utah move off of public lands — where they can be hunted — and onto private lands — where they cannot be hunted. And then, when hunting season is over, they shift right back to public lands.



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