With an undergraduate enrollment of more than 200, NMSU ranks among the West s largest fishery and wildlife departments. Career opportunities include aquaculturist, park ranger, soil conservationist, game ranch manager, endangered species biologist and water quality biologist. Since 1989, NMSU has housed the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Federal scientists lodged with the Fishery and Wildlife Sciences department expand NMSU s research capabilities and offer their expertise in the classroom. Majors Fishery Science, Wildlife Science Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society Students who join the Wildlife Society gain valuable experience.
Members work at check stations during special hunts for pronghorn, deer, oryx and sandhill crane.
They help wildlife biologists collect measurements, samples and data for research. Besides gaining skills, students earn money for travel and projects. WLSC 432, environmental biology of fishes, and WLSC 434, aquatic contaminants and toxicology. The landscape ecologist will be required to develop a research program directed at understanding and managing natural systems for long-term sustainability, contribute to the department s effort to provide leadership in the effective management of arid lands and train students in managing lands, particularly in the Southwest and Mexico. New Face Donald Caccamise is the new head of Fishery and Wildlife Sciences.