MF Curriculum Courses

Program Courses

A. Basic Knowledge

1. Biological Sciences

Three courses from three different topic areas. Substitutions for individual courses are allowed, but must be approved.

a. Tree Physiology, Morphology, and Taxonomy

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 652 Wood: Structure and Function				Brodersen Tentative
ENV 671 Dendrology: Woody plant Taxonomy & Identification	Duguid W 1:00-5:00		Duguid
ENV 679 Plant Ecophysiology	Brodersen Tu 1:00-3:50		Brodersen
ENV 731 Tropical Field Botany				Michelangeli Tentative

b. Forest Ecology, Forest Dynamics

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 660 Forest Dynamics	Duguid Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Duguid

c. Ecosystem and Community Ecology

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 602 Ecosystems and Landscapes			Bradford
ENV 717 Tropical Field Ecology		Queenborough Tu,Th 9:00-10:20		Comita
ENV 723 Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management	Freidenburg Tu,Th 9:00-10:15		Freidenburg
ENV 752 Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Forests	Comita M,W 10:30-11:50		Comita

d. Forest Health/Restoration

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 650 Fire Ecology and Management of the US West				Ashton
ENV 674 Forest Ecosystem Health		Trotter III M,W 4:00-5:20
ENV 677 Ecological Restoration		Duguid Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Duguid Tentative
ENV 683 Seminar in Tropical Forest Restoration		Ashton M,W 1:00-2:20		Ashton Tentative
ENV 694 Invasive Species: Ecology, Policy, and Management				Duguid

2. Physical Sciences

Two courses from two different topic areas. Substitutions for individual courses are allowed, but must be approved.

a. Soils and Geology

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 709 Lectures, Discussions and Applications of Soil Science	Bradford W 9:00-11:50		Bradford Tentative

EPS 110 Dynamic Earth
EPS 342a An introduction to earth and environmental physics

b. Hydrology

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 712 Water Management		Anisfeld M,W 10:30-11:50		Anisfeld

c. Biometeorology and Climate

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 594 Global Carbon Cycle	Denning M,W 9:00-10:20		Denning Tentative
ENV 630 The Physical Science of Climate Change		Raymond Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Raymond

EPS 101 Climate Change

3. Social Sciences

Two courses, one from each topic area. Substitutions for individual courses are allowed, but must be approved.

a. Social and Political Ecology & Anthropology

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 685 Engaging Landholders and Communities in Conserving and Restoring Tropical Forest Landscapes		Garen M,W 10:30-11:50		Garen Tentative
ENV 742 Fundamentals of Working with People		DeCew Tu,Th 8:30-9:50		DeCew Tentative
ENV 759 Power, Knowledge, and the Environment: Social Science	Dove M 1:00-3:50		Dove
ENV 764 American Cosmologies	Farrell Th 9:00-11:50		Farrell Tentative

b. Policy Science and Law

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 642 Environmental Justice/Climate Justice
ENV 760 Conservation in Practice: An International Perspective		Vedder Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Vedder
ENV 775 Federal Indian Law		Faculty Tu,Th 2:10-3:35		Faculty Tentative
ENV 821 Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global	Sanford M,W 1:00-2:20		Sanford
ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy		Klee M,W 1:00-2:20		Klee

B. Frameworks and Skills

One course from each category

1. Economics

One course.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 684 Forest Finance				Spalding
ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models		Fenichel M,W 9:00-10:20		Fenichel

2. Silviculture

One course.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 659 The Practice of Silviculture: Principles in Applied Forest Ecology (Friday field trips)		Ashton M,W 8:30-10:20		Ashton

3. Measurement

One course.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 751 Sampling Methodology and Practice		Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 2:30-3:50		Reuning-Scherer Tentative
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences		Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 1:00-2:15		Reuning-Scherer

4. GIS

One course strongly recommended.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 726 Observing Earth from Space		Lee Tu,Th 9:00-10:20		Lee
ENV 755 Modeling Geographic Space		Kelly Th 1:00-3:50		Kelly Tentative
ENV 756 Modeling Geographic Objects	Kelly Th 1:00-3:50		Kelly Tentative

C. Synthesis and Analysis

One course from each category

1. Management of Forest Resources

One course.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 688 Forest Management and Operations		Orefice M,W 2:30-3:50		Orefice
ENV 954 Management Plans for Protected Areas (includes Friday and Saturday Field trips)	Ashton M,W 1:00-2:20		Ashton Tentative

2. Professional Skills - Concentration Area

Students can take three electives or more (if they can qualify out of bin requirements from prior coursework) — electives are up to the student but encouragement is given to focus on a concentration area of the students own design. The examples of courses given online are just that — they tend to be ones taken by students as electives.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 573 Urban Ecology for Local and Regional Decision Making	Grove W 1:00-3:50		Grove Tentative
ENV 697 Science for Policy and Practice: A Seminar				Bradford Tu 1:00-2:20
ENV 760 Conservation in Practice: An International Perspective		Vedder Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Vedder
ENV 767 Tools for Conservation Project Design & Management		Vedder M,W 2:30-3:50		Vedder
ENV 956 Strategies for Land Conservation		Gentry Tu 2:30-5:20		Holmes

3. Professional Ethics

Required.

ENV 009

Professional Ethics

4. Workshops and Skill Modules

PSC Short Course

D. MF Capstone

The MF capstone course is a requirement.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 626 Writing for Publication in the Natural Sciences		Queenborough Tu,Th 10:30-11:50		Queenborough
ENV 955 Seminar in Research Analysis, Writing and Communication in Forest Ecology	Ashton W 4:00-6:50	Ashton W 4:00-6:50	Ashton	Ashton

E. Field Trips

One week-long field trip.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 668 Field Trips in Forest Resource Management and Silviculture		Ashton		Ashton Tentative
ENV 670 Southern Forest and Forestry Field Trip		Orefice Tentative		Orefice Tentative

ENV 005 Forest Apprenticeship

Western Forests

Southern Forests