Learn how to reclaim disturbed lands and to minimize impact of industrial activities including oil and gas, mining and forestry. Our emphasis on the ecology of ecosystems and how to classify, manage, conserve and inventory soils will make you workforce ready. When you graduate, you’ll be able to do detailed site assessments on cultivated soils, native grasslands and forests applying reclamation regulations, guidelines and techniques.
You’ll spend considerable time in field labs doing hands-on activities that develop your reclamation skills.
Those employable skills include:
- how to identify common native and introduced plant species within local plant communities.
- how to classify, inventory, manage and conserve soils.
- how to use specialized reclamation field and lab equipment.
- how to conducting Phase 1 and 2 site assessments for upstream oil and gas, commercial and industrial settings.
- applying practical and specialized revegetation technologies
- using pre-disturbance planning to identify end land use goals
- using site assessment techniques
- Identification of environmental regulations pertinent to revegetation activities
- field methods related to wellsite reclamation, pipeline construction, mining and logging operations.
- how to manage drilling operations based on regulations and best practices
- See all the applied skills
Working field trips will take you to oil and gas facilities, pipelines, forested lands and mines to see current industry practices and technologies as well as to observe reclaimed wellsites, pipelines and other disturbed areas.
