Natural Resource Recreation Natural Resource Recreation blends natural sciences, resource management, and social sciences disciplines and topics. Graduates provide high quality recreation experiences to ever increasing numbers of recreationists while protecting the natural environment on which these experiences depend. The program emphasizes the human dimensions of natural resource management. In this program, students gain a unique combination of business skills and scientific expertise in forest products. Students take courses in forest products and forestry as well as essential courses in management and marketing.
Graduates choose from jobs in private companies, federal and state agencies, and trade associations.
Typically in this program, more jobs are available than graduates to fill them. The Wood Products program offers education in conversion of raw forest materials into finished consumer products. Emphasis is placed on conservation through waste-free utilization and environmentally benign processing technologies for wood. This option requires a computer for analysis and solution of problems. This option involves knowledge of technologies including processing and computer applications.