Ecosystems and biodiversity are at the heart of conservation and restoration ecology (CARE).

The acronym fits. As a CARE graduate you’ll be making a difference for plants, soils, water and wildlife. Not just for now, but for future generations.

How you’ll do it is by learning practical field skills. Enough skills you'll be able to work in the field between 1st and 2nd year.

In second year, you’ll focus on best management practices and stewardship techniques. You’ll learn how to renew, restore and or conserve anything from grasslands to forest.

Field labs, outdoor classrooms, if where you practice [applied skills]. Some examples include:
• identify critical habitat requirements for plants and animals
• use environmental standards to classify wetland, forest and grassland
• assess, inventory and map disturbed and undisturbed ecosystems
• apply restoration techniques to real rural and urban landscapes
• collect field data and report per industry standards

As a graduate you’re work-force ready. You also qualify for an Alberta Institute of Agrologists or the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists designations.

As a CARE graduate you'll find an expanding range of your possible careers.

Demands for accountability and global responsibility from the public and advocacy groups have triggered job growth in government, industries and regulatory bodies.

Opportunities include:
• enhancing and conserving habitat
• classifying and assessing wetlands and grasslands
• conducting species-at-risk recovery
• actively restoring disturbed landscapes
• surveying plants, animals and soils
• doing environmental site assessments
• managing invasive plants