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