Environmental Sciences Environmental Conservation and Reclamation

Be work-force ready with our environmental conservation and reclamation major.

Through our program you’ll gain skills and experience to ensure industry and the environment can coexist. This means either reclaiming disturbed lands or minimizing industry’s effects on natural habitats

You’ll learn how to

• classify, manage and conserve soils
• recognize and understand a variety of ecosystems
• do detailed site assessments
• apply reclamation regulations, guidelines and techniques to disturbed lands

You’ll visit and study forested, mined and cultivated lands as well as native and reclaimed areas.

On field trips , you’ll see current industry practices and technologies. In hands-on field labs you’ll develop and practice more than 20 applied skills industry wants.

When you graduate, you’re prepared to lead practical and specialized revegetation and reclamation projects on disturbed lands.