Natural Resources and the Environment

Natural Resources and the Environment
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Explore the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment 

The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment integrates the applied social sciences and natural resources sciences, enabling a more holistic, integrated approach to education, research and outreach about use and conservation of resources.  

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  • UNH forest major Nicholas Forestell poses in a plaid shirt front of a tree
    Nicholas Forestell '27
    Working in lab with faculty and grad students yields rewards
    Nicolas Forestell is a double major in forestry and French who is working in Professor Heidi Asbjornsen's Ecohydology Lab.
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  • UNH wildlife and conservation biology major Mikael Skelley in a field
    Mikaela Skelley '26
    An experience helping local wildlife populations
    Mikaela Skelley is a wildlife and conservation biology major from Andover, Massachusetts.
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  • UNH student Eleora McCay in the woods
    Eleora McCay '26
    Monitoring Furbearing Species in New Hampshire
    Eleora McCay is a wildlife and conservation biology major from Bedford, New Hampshire.
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  • UNH student Emily Kiss
    Emily Kiss '24
    A perfect opportunity turns into perfect fit
    Emily Kiss ’25 is a wildlife and conservation biology major from Madison, Conn. who spent her summer interning at the South Florida Wildlife Center thanks in part to a stipend she received from COLSA’s SOAR fund.
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  • UNH student Emily Chesterton '25
    Emily Chesterton '25
    A summer spent rehabilitating wildlife
    Wildlife and conservation biology major Emily Chesterton ’25 talks about her rewarding internship at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
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