Resource Conservation

Laurie Yung, Associate Professor, Resource Conservation Program Director

The challenging and rapidly evolving field of environmental conservation requires broad training and the ability to integrate and communicate across disciplines. Resource Conservation is an interdepartmental undergraduate major that prepares students for the diverse opportunities that now exist in environmental conservation, natural resource management, and sustainable livelihoods and communities. Students can choose a more structured area of study in the natural sciences, such as ecology or hydrology, or emphasize emerging sub-disciplines such as wildland fire management, natural resource economics, or climate and environmental change. Students can also integrate across disciplines and focus on environmental policy and natural resources planning, wilderness studies, sustainable livelihoods and community conservation, or international conservation.  For more information on different curricular tracks within the Resource Conservation major, please see:  www.cfc.umt.edu/rc.  In addition to degree requirements listed below, students selecting the Bachelor of Science in Resource Conservation should contact their faculty advisor to approve their curriculum.  

Undergraduate Degrees Available

Subject Type Option Track
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Climate & Environmental Change
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Ecology of Terrestrial Ecosystems
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Environmental Policy & Resources Planning
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science International Conservation
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Natural Resource Economics
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Range Management & Grassland Ecology
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Sustainable Livelihoods & Community Conservation
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Watershed Hydrology
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Wilderness Studies
Resource Conservation Bachelor of Science Wildland Fire Management

Faculty

Professor

  • Jill M. Belsky, Professor of Rural & Environmental Sociology; Director, Bolle Center for People & Forests
  • Martin Nie, Professor, Natural Resource Policy; Director, Bolle Center for People & Forests
  • Stephen F. Siebert, Professor of Tropical Forest Conservation and Management
  • Ronald Wakimoto, Professor of Forest Fire Science

Associate Professor

  • Keith Bosak, Associate Professor of Nature Based Tourism and Recreation; Program Director, Parks, Tourism, & Recreation Management Major
  • Cory Cleveland, Associate Professor of Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
  • Dane Scott, Associate Professor of Ethics; Director of the Center for Ethics
  • Carl Seielstad, Associate Research Professor; Fire/Fuels Program Manager, National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis
  • Laurie Yung, Associate Professor of Natural Resource Social Science; Program Director, Resource Conservation Major

Assistant Professor

  • Brady Allred, Assistant Professor of Rangeland Ecology
  • Ashley Ballantyne, Assistant Professor of Bioclimatology
  • Andrew Larson, Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology

Adjunct

  • Nicky Phear, Climate Change Studies Instructor and Program Coordinator

Emeritus

  • Paul Alaback, Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology