Environmental Sciences
ES: Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Major
Location
Vermilion
Credential
Diploma
Program Length
2 years
Face-to-face deliveryLeave four-walled classrooms behind and go into the wild. Your focus is the creatures that live in our forests, lakes, prairies, rivers and wetlands.
You’ll learn to identify -- by sight, sound or sign -- the smallest creatures in a pond to the largest animals on land. That means you’ll learn how to:
- use spotting scopes and trail cameras
- identify songbirds to owls, and frogs to toads by their calls
- identify wildlife by tracks, scat, burrows, nests, calls and chews
Beyond the classroom, you’ll practice applied skills such as electrofishing, GPS operation and live trapping.
You’ll earn outdoor certificates including wilderness first aid, bear awareness and watercraft operation.
In class, you’ll learn about:
- animal and plant biology and ecology
- conserving species-at-risk
- protected areas, and conserving and enhancing habitat
- game and harvest management
- wildlife diseases
As a graduate you’re prepared to be an accredited wildlife and fisheries technician.
