该专业为学生提供了扎实的生态学理解，使学生为管理，开发经济，休闲和生态目的的林区做好准备。森林资源与保护专业的学生学习自然资源管理与分析，土壤与水科学，植物识别，法律与政策，火灾管理和自然资源经济学。获得美国林务员协会的认证，专注于休闲地作为自然资源的可持续管理，并了解与使用有关的人文因素。
Providing students with a solid understanding of ecology, this major prepares students to manage and develop forest areas for economic, recreational, and ecological purposes. Forest Resources and Conservation students study natural resource management and analysis, soil and water sciences, plant identification, law and policy, fire management, and natural resource economics. Accredited by the Society of American Foresters and focuses on the sustainable management of recreation lands as a natural resource and understanding human dimensions as related to their use.<br>The Forest Resources and Conservation major prepares students to sustainably manage forests to meet some combination of ecological, economic, and social/recreational objectives. Graduates are commonly employed in managing public or private land, in areas such as timber management, habitat restoration, outdoor recreation management, environmental law and policy, and similar.<br><br>Coursework is diverse, with an emphasis on field experiences which give students hands-on exposure to topics in ecology and biology, economics, administration and planning, and the use of various tools and techniques to manage forests to meet society's needs. Students have the option to complete a certificate in Fire Ecology and Management, Urban Forestry, Recreation Resource Management, or Environmental Policy, Law, and Regulation. This major is accredited by the Society of American Foresters.