Undergraduate Program Overview

The Forestry Program takes a personal interest in each student. Every course in the department is taught by a forestry professor and faculty advisors provide personal attention to each student's academic program and progress. Excellent advising allows each student the opportunity to develop special individualized interests, training and skills. This improves job opportunities and is key to career satisfaction.

The program offers a major leading to a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources degree. Four curricular options were created in 2003 to offer students a choice of Forestry and natural resources study that they can identify with at the start of their programs. The options allow students to pursue their interests in Forest Management, Natural Resources Conservation and Management, Forest Ecosystem Science, and Urban and Community Forestry. Requirements for a B. S. Degree (in all options) include successful completion of a 7 week summer field camp and a total of 130 semester hours of course work.

The Forestry Program maintains a field station in southeastern Oklahoma near Idabel, in the midst of the commercial forest region of the state. Oklahoma has an active and progressive forest industry that utilizes one of the most modern and highly mechanized timber harvesting systems in the world. One of the largest paper mills in the southern United States is located in southeastern Oklahoma. The Ouachita National Forest, Beavers Bend State Park and numerous lakes provide recreation and wildlife benefits. Field trips to southeastern Oklahoma are part of the instruction in many forestry courses.