Wildlife and Fisheries Biology and Management

Study in a place with world-class wildlife populations and a culture that venerates diverse habitats and open spaces.

Study with professors who study endangered bird species, document new challenges for polar bears, assess the effects of fish stocking and uncover the migration patterns of big game animals.

Acquire professional and field work skills and discover career paths through internships. The degree requirements include an internship with any of the federal and state agencies or private sector companies including of the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Previous students have spent summers tracking new-born deer fawns in Wyoming and Colorado, trapping spotted skunks and Wyoming toads in Wyoming, capturing Wyoming pocket gophers and monitoring nest predation of Sage Thrashers to name just a few of the opportunities available.

Acquire hands-on research and lab skills working in the Jenkins Microscopy Facility with its epi-fluorescence microscopes, laser scanning confocal microscopes and electron microscopes, the Red Buttes Environmental Laboratory, the University of Wyoming-National Park Service Research Station, which promotes research in the Yellowstone ecosystem, the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the UW Museum of Vertebrates.

Work with UW professors to study a multitude of species and conservation issues including chipmunks, native bees, moose, song birds, raccoons, toads, cutthroat trout, elephants, New Zealand mud snails, burbot and many more.

Get involved in the many career-relevant activities of the Wyoming Student Subunit of the American Fisheries Society, UW’s Environment and Natural Resources Club and the University of Wyoming Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society.