What Different Types Of Forestry Degrees Are Offered?

Video Transcript

Host Question:
What are the different types of environmental management degrees that are available and what makes them all different from each other?

Guest Answer:
You can get a degree in environmental, health and safety where you learn the safety aspects of positions, which I think safety is very important no matter where you go into a field that’s going to get you landed. You can get a degree in just general environmental science, which is kind of broad. It doesn’t really tell an employer what you’re doing capable of because your coursework in that kind of matters more. You know, degree mine is Earth science and sustainability. So I originally had the intent to become a geologist didn’t happen. But I also have a little bit more specific. Every college has their own little niche degree title. I wouldn’t tell a young person to get focused on the title. So much, although titles are important. Look at the coursework and what does that training you to do? What is that giving you toward for the future for that entry level job or really your angle?

Guest Answer:
This is more common in like rural areas or just larger universities in general. So you can get a forestry degree. You can also just get a generic biology degree and focus or concentrate on the natural resources. You can also get a degree in environmental studies, which a lot of people I’ve known that done that ended up working for the city. They do like rainwater and smog and air pollution tests. So that is pretty common. You can get a degree in environmental law and policy at some other university, so then you would end up probably doing more of that law and policymaking. Wildlife management is also obviously pretty popular. A lot of people want to do that because they want to be a park Ranger or a game warden. And then you have degrees in range management, which aren’t as common. But a lot of times that’s more working areas that aren’t super forested. But like we have a lot of rangeland that is grazed upon by cattle and they have leasing permits from the government. So a lot of times people who get those degrees will end up working for the government, but basically liaison with how they work with landowners and other people who want to use the land in order to maximize the benefit and for everyone involved. There’s so many also ways you can go within each of those. Like I ended up where I am not even getting a forestry degree. But I think if you pick something like environmental law, you know what you want to do.

Guest Answer:
Forestry is the degree for your bachelor’s of science. A lot of institutions do it differently, but you usually have the concentration. So that might be forestry. That might be fire management, forest management, forest wildlife management, human dimension in natural resources, urban forestry. Those are all the same sector. Obviously, they’re all fall under forestry, but they all have a different purpose. So whether you want to be more involved in the natural forest or if you want to work in fire management with the fire department, whatever kind of sparks your interest as far as that is concerned? The next is your master’s and you don’t have to have your forestry degree, but obviously it’s going to only help you. But you can have a masters of Forestry or a master’s of Forestry resource communication or the PhD would be your next one. And that’s just the PhD of Forestry.

Guest Answer:
Horse psychology, biology, psychology, forest law. You could go into the law field and kind of work focus on the environment, human behavior and the environment focused on parts of the forest. There’s a lot of different areas could go into easily.