
Agriculture and Natural Resources Department
Natural Resources
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- On-Campus Major
Agriculture and Natural Resources Department
Let the great outdoors become your classroom. A major built for hands-on opportunity and getting you career ready. Prescribed burning, duck banding, bird surveys, mammal trapping, plant and animal identification, radio-telemetry and GIS/GPS training to name a few of the many labs and opportunities you will have on our campus. UMN Crookston also has quick, convenient access to two National Wildlife Refuges and a 90-acre natural history area. To make your time here even more valuable, all students complete a federal wildland firefighter certification.
Natural Resources is a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree.
The Natural Resources major prepares students for a variety of career paths based on the emphasis they choose.
UMN Crookston Professor John Loegering Receives The Wildlife Society Fellows Award
John Loegering, professor of natural resources at the University of Minnesota Crookston, was recognized as a Fellow of The Wildlife Society Fellows Award (TWS). With the award, Loegering joins a prestigious and distinctive group of professionals with a legacy of service and a wealth of contributions to the wildlife ecology and management field. A certified wildlife biologist, Loegering serves as an advisor to the Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society, a group he helped organize when he arrived on the Crookston campus in 2000.