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.
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.
As soils across the world become less fertile and more desert-like due to climate change, it’s getting harder for farmers, especially those in developing nations, to grow basic life-preserving crops such as corn, wheat and rice.
In burned watersheds where the wildfire had consumed stabilizing vegetation and leaf litter, the rain had caused massive erosion. There was a 2,000-fold increase in sediment flux compared to unburned areas, creating a plume of ash and soil moving into Utah Lake that was visible from space.