Career & Technical Education

Environmental conservation includes forestry and natural resources, operating/maintaining heavy equipment, and developing an understanding of environmental issues. Students use hands-on approaches to explore and understand the complexities of science and math in a real work experience.

This program is designed to emphasize forestry, wildlife, surveying, and soil conservation, along with heavy equipment operation and maintenance. Much time is spent outdoors and students must be willing to participate in all types of weather. Extensive "hands-on" practical laboratory and field exercises such as heavy equipment operation, forestry management, wood processing, and wildlife management are critical parts of the program. Students learn to operate backhoes, bulldozers, trucks, tractors, chainsaws, a bandsaw mill, and a wide variety of other equipment. Entry-level mechanical skills used in parks and recreation are introduced along with basic small gasoline engine repair and maintenance.

Job Opportunities

• Aquaculture technician

• Construction

• Surveying aide

• Small engine repair

• Landscaping/nursery

• Heavy-equipment maintenance

• Logger

• Park worker

• Heavy-equipment operator

• Forest products

Related Technical and College Studies

• Two-year technical degree study in forestry, surveying, soil/water management, agricultural engineering technology, and wildlife management

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