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A World of Opportunities

If you want the opportunity to learn about and practice innovative approaches to dealing with environment and natural resource issues, our program may be just right for you. If you want an opportunity to develop clean, efficient sources of energy, we can show you how.  If you want to help solve our pressing environment and natural resource problems and help reduce confrontations between, for example, environmentalists and resource developers, we're the right choice.

If you want to get on a fast track in the growing field of environment and natural resources--and graduate in four years--look no further than the UW School of Environment and Natural Resources.

At the University of Wyoming, we're committed to educating problem solvers who can make a difference right after graduation. How?

Most universities with environment or natural resource majors just offer survey programs that skim the surface of a wide variety of issues.  That may be interesting, but it isn't going to prove very valuable when you look for your first job following graduation.

We're different. We don't simply focus on the latest environmental or natural resource management issue. We'll give you a balanced education, where you'll examine society's often competing needs--protecting the natural environment while making sure our economy can grow and create jobs.

We'll also teach you how to solve problems the way it's done in the real world.  At UW, teams deal with a wide variety of decision processes covering both environment and natural resource issues.  That's the approach used by industry and government.  And that will make you even more competitive in the job market.

As a student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, you'll be enrolled in a traditional major offered by one of our six undergraduate colleges--agriculture, arts and sciences, business, education, engineering and health sciences.  That means you'll have the in-depth knowledge specialists need.  As a graduate, you'll understand the complexity of environment and natural resource problems.  And, you'll be ready for your opportunities.
 

Why Wyoming?

The Rocky Mountains are a dramatic contrast to Wyoming's high plains and vast open spaces.  We have cold-climate deserts, alpine and subalpine habitats, and great expanses of grasslands.  Clear streams and rivers sculpt our canyons and basins.  Wyoming boasts four national forests and two of the nation's most spectacular national parks -- Yellowstone and Grand Teton.  A love for this landscape is a common passion among many students and faculty.  In a state that is thinly populated and rich in natural beauty, recreational opportunities abound.  Just fifteen miles east of Laramie is Vedauwoo Recreational Area, a part of the Medicine Bow National Forest characterized by heaps of granite and exceptional rock climbing, mountain biking and hiking opportunities.  Uncrowded classic ski trails are just a short trip away as well.  Head west and you'll make a quick transition from sparse high plains to the forests of the Snowy Range where the fly fishing and hiking are outstanding.

For most Wyomingites, the environment is more than a place to live -- it's a way of life.  Vast deposits of coal, natural gas formations, oil fields, trona deposits and other mineral resources form the basis of the state's economy.  Rivers and lakes are the lifeblood of our agricultural industry.  Mountains, forests, parks, streams, and western culture sustain our internationally-renowned tourism.

University of Wyoming faculty and students are responding to the challenge of how to use our vast inventory of natural resources while preserving our environment for future generations.  But our research is not limited strictly to local or regional concerns.  We have developed enormous expertise and built state-of-the-art laboratories for the study of issues that affect people and countries worldwide -- air and water quality, and use and preservation of our lands, biological resources, energy, mineral, agricultural and human resources.

The synergy of our environment and natural resources, human expertise, program development and research capabilities make the University of Wyoming an ideal location for understanding and developing the science, technology, and social structures necessary for resolving environmental and natural resources problems as well as for constructing balanced policy.