Environmental Conservation and Reclamation Major

Learn:

Your goal is to reclaim disturbed lands through detailed site assessments on cultivated soils, native grasslands and forests using your background in oil and gas lease reclamation regulations, guidelines and techniques. Build your ecological science background in plant identification and vegetation inventory plus your knowledge of how to classify, manage, conserve and inventory soils.

Watch a brief video about the program

Live The Learning:

Do practical training using specialized field and lab equipment.
Take working field trips to oil and gas facilities, agricultural lands, grasslands and water bodies.
Perform Phase 1 and 2 site assessments using GIS and GPS technology. Site assessments includes detailed soil and site assessments, revegetation methods for industrial sites and drilling waste management.

The Lakeland Advantage:

Working field trips provide you with an opportunity to both try skills and see how you can make a difference in conservation and reclamation, particularly on lands affected by the oil and gas industry.
All environmental programs have a common first year giving you a solid background in theory and field skills before specializing in your specific environmental study stream.
Due to the strong demand for employees in this industry sector, Alberta Advanced Education recently approved an expansion in annual first year erolment for this program from 20 to 32 students.

Live Your Career As A

environmental consultant
reclamation field supervisor
environmental technician
drilling waste consultant
soil technician

Continue Your Learning With:

Direct entry into Lakeland College’s Bachelor of Applied Science: Environmental Management program
Transfer into land reclamation or conservation biology at the University of Alberta
Transfer into environmental science at the University of Lethbridge

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Campus Location
Vermilion Campus

Program Length
2 Years

Current Project

Featured WADE Canada project

Lakeland College's renewable energy applied research is currently a feature project of WADE Canada. WADE is the World Alliance for Dencentralized Energy. Our energy cabin demo site and the renewable energy conservation program are two of the main features of Lakeland's work to date. Plans are to do more. Lakeland is hoping to do a lot more through proposed NSERC College and Community Innovation Program funding.