Working closely with faculty advisors, you formulate the course of study appropriate to the program and your professional goals. Teaching faculty offer a broad range of expertise, individual attention, and practical experience for students to draw upon for instruction and advice. The Land Rehabilitation curriculum provides advance training in site revegetation, soil remediation, riparian zone restoration, stream channel restoration, investigation of impacted geologic resources and remediation of sites contaminated by industrial activities.
Emphasis is placed on developing a broad understanding of hydrologic, soil and plant processes.
Coursework in the chemical, biological and environmental sciences provides a foundation of knowledge that enables land rehabilitation studies. During the junior and senior years, students select their coursework from several areas of emphasis within the Land Rehabilitation sciences, including plant and microbial biology, landscape analysis, range ecology and management, natural resource policy and planning and soil and water sciences. Landscape inventory skills are included, such as geographic information systems and computer-aided design. Land rehabilitation is critically important to Montana, the surrounding region, and the United States. Graduates posses a broad knowledge of land rehabilitation processes, are able to critically analyze and solve problems, and can work in teams to develop and implement effective land management strategies.