The Certificate in Military Land Sustainability is offered through the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management (RWFM) in partnership with the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI). It is a flexible, primarily online graduate program that combines coursework and field experience to develop natural resource professionals knowledgeable in the concepts and practices that promote military land sustainability. The goal of this professional certificate is to equip students with knowledge and skills for managing relationships among ecology, economics, policy and culture, and how they influence natural resource conservation and management on military lands. Program coursework integrates three multidisciplinary thematic areas of emphasis—land management, policy analysis and development, and cultural competencies and conflict management—to achieve this goal.

This certificate is ideal for students interested in careers with the Department of Defense or other agencies that work closely with the U.S. military.

This program is also approved for delivery via asynchronous distance education technology.

Course List

Code	Title	Semester Credit Hours
Required Courses
WFSC 641	Sustainable Military Land Management	3
WFSC 642	Field Military Land Management 1	1
WFSC 644	Wildlife and Natural Resource Policy	3
Prescribed Elective Courses
Select two of the following:		6
ECCB 603	Ecological Modeling
ECCB 613	Dynamics of Populations
ECCB 635	Ecohydrology
ECCB 651	Geographic Information System for Resource Management
ECCB 652/BAEN 652	Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems
ECCB 660	Landscape Analysis and Modeling
ESSM 610	Rangeland Resource Management
ESSM 636	Wildland Watershed Management
WFSC 618	Wildlife Study Design and Analysis
WFSC 630	Ecology and Society
WFSC 636	Wildlife Habitat Management
WFSC 684	Professional Internship
Total Semester Credit Hours		13

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WFSC 642 may be substituted by WFSC 684 with the prior approval of Administrative Director of the program for the 1 credit hour required.