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Rangeland Resources & Wildland Soils
The Wildland Soil Science option concentrates on the study of uncultivated forest and rangeland soils with their unique resource potentials, limitations and management requirements. The curriculum provides a strong foundation in biological and physical sciences, an introduction to forest, range and watershed management, and a full sequence of soil science courses. Management of soil values is an essential element associated with other resource management issues such as forest, range, and wildlife management programs. Soil scientists are core members of nearly every team of natural resource specialists who are examining environmental issues. |
Degree Options
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The
Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils (RRWS) Department is the only
undergraduate major of its kind offered in California. It provides the
student the unique opportunity to develop a basis for the management,
conservation, reclamation and wise use of rangeland ecosystems. The variety
of resource values of rangelands includes domestic and wild animal grazing,
watershed protection, crop production, and recreational values. There
are two areas of specialization in the major: Rangeland Resource Science,
and Wildland Soil Science. 
Rangeland Resource Science is the art and science of balancing the resource
values from rangelands in those combinations most desired by and suitable
for society over the long-term. The Rangeland Resource Science curriculum
is designed to give the student a sound basis for the management and
wise use of rangeland ecosystems. Range management is practiced on lands
that provide forage, timber, water, wildlife and recreation values. The
concepts of multiple- use management are an integral part of the education. 
The department features a range herbarium and plant and soil laboratories.
Private ranches and federal land near the Humboldt campus provide opportunities
for field studies in rangeland resource science and management. Graduates
of this option find employment in a surprisingly wide variety of positions.
Reports from our Career Development Center indicate that we cannot produce
graduates fast enough to fill all of the available positions.