Identify, develop, and maintain environments for animals
Classify, manage, and use plants and trees in the timber and tree service industry
Operate and maintain heavy equipment for a wide range of construction and conservation projects
What can I do when I graduate?
- Arborculturalist
- Heavy equipment operator
- Aquaculturalist
- Park maintenance
- Logger
- Survey aide
What would I do in this class?
- Operate heavy equipment
- Manage wildlife and habitat
- Raise fish
- Climb for tree service
- Operate chainsaw and forestry equipment
- Learn construction surveying
- Build ponds
- Identify and learn life histories of wildlife, fish, and plants
What can I do with further training?
- Game warden
- Operating engineer (union operator)
- Certified arborist
- Wildlife biologist
- Civil engineer
- Forester
Natural Resource students must be able to
- Use math as a means of problem solving
- Withstand exposure to hot or cold temperatures for an extended period of time
- Have good hand/eye coordination and dexterity
- Handle getting dirty as part of the job
- Operate measuring devices to obtain necessary data
- Meet safety requirements to operate tools
- Exhibit professionalism and work place behavior
- Work independently and in teams
Uniform requirements
Steel-toed boots, outdoor gear