ES Land Stewardship and Conservation Major

This program was formerly called Conservation and Restoration Ecology (CARE).

Learn how to create healthy ecosystems through Lakeland’s land stewardship and conservation major.

As a graduate, you’ll make a different for plants, soils, water and wildlife for future generations. You’ll know how to renew, restore and conserve everything from grasslands to forests. and from butterflies to bison.

You’ll learn how through science and practical field skills.

You’ll start learning field skills from your first day. In first year, you’ll be introduced to the many facets of environmental science.

In second year you’ll focus on:

• best management practices
• stewardship techniques

Your outdoor classrooms, field labs, are where you’ll practice applied skills and gather data. You’ll use that data in classrooms and labs. Some examples include how to:

• identify critical habitat requirements for plants and animals
• use environmental standards to classify wetland, water bodies, forest and grassland
• assess, inventory and map disturbed and undisturbed ecosystems
• apply restoration techniques to real rural and urban landscapes
• collect field data and report per industry standards