Wildlife Resources

What training and skills will I need?    Up

Although wildlife professionals work with both game and non-game animals, they also spend a lot of time working with people and with the habitats in which we find animals and people. To understand how all these things interact in the outdoors, you need a firm foundation in the basic biological and social sciences, in mathematics and statistics, and in basic ecology.
     Then you move on to the more applied courses such as wildlife ecology and management, population dynamics and conservation biology. In those and other courses you will learn how to identify the animals as well as the plant species in their environment, and you will study population dynamics, applied game management principles and the legal basis for wildlife management.

Why the University of Idaho?   Up

The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho is one of the leading schools in wildlife resources in the nation. Class sizes in professional courses are typically moderate to small, and we pride ourselves on personalized advising and knowing our students. Our students are among the most successful anywhere at finding jobs in their chosen profession.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho is one of the leading schools in wildlife resources in the nation.

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"Personable teachers, friendly staff, and spirited students make this university a fun and challenging place to be." 

Jeremy Scheffel, Wildlife Resources, from Stockton, California