To complete the certificate program, students must take at least 15 credits and meet the credit requirements of each course group.

Fire Ecology Course Group (3 credits)
FOR 426 Fire Ecology and Management	3 cr.
FOR 526 Fire Ecology	3 cr.

Ecology Course Group (3 credits)
FOR 330 Forest Ecosystem Processes	3 cr.
FOR 429 Landscape Ecology	2 cr.
REM 440 Wildland Restoration Ecology (also offered online)	3 cr.
REM 459 Rangeland Ecology (online only)	2 cr.
REM 460 Rangeland Ecology: Current Topics and Field Studies	1 cr.
FOR 531 Invasion Biology	3 cr.
FOR/REM 527 Landscape Ecology of Forests and Rangelands	3 cr.

Fuels and Fuels Management Course Group (2 credits)
FOR 427 Prescribed Burning Laboratory	3 cr.
FOR 433 Science Based Fuels Management Planning  (online only)	2 cr.
FOR 451 Fuels Inventory and Mapping (also online)	3 cr.
FOR 452 Quantification of Wildland Fire Fuels and Fuels Analysis (workshop)	1 cr.
FOR 453 Fuels Analysis Techniques (workshop)	1 cr.

Applied Tools and Analysis Course Group (3 credits)
FOR 435/535 Remote Sensing of Active Fire and Post Fire Effects (online only)	3 cr.
FOR 472 Remote Sensing of the Environment	3 cr.
GEOG 301 Meteorology	3 cr.
GEOG 385 GIS Primer	3 cr.
GEOG 401 Climatology	3 cr.
GEOG 475 Geographic Information Systems	3 cr.
REM 402 GIS Applications in Natural Resources (online only)	1 cr.
REM 407 GIS Applications in Fire Ecology and Management (online only)	1 cr.
REM 402 Applied Spatial Analysis in Natural Resources (also online)	2 cr.
GEOG 475/575 Advanced GIS	3 cr.

Management, Planning and Policy (3 credits)
CSS 490 Wilderness Management	3 cr.
FOR 424 Forest Dynamics and Management	2 cr.
FOR 462 Watershed Science and management (also online)	3 cr.
FOR 484 Forest Policy and Administration	2 cr.
FORP 430 Forest Engineering and Harvesting	3 cr.
REM 354 Wildland Vegetation Management and Restoration	3 cr.
REM 456 Integrated Rangeland Management	3 cr.
WLF 492 Wildlife Management	3 cr.
FOR 585 Natural Resource Policy Analysis (course offered alternate years)	2 cr.
CSS 573 Planning and Decision Making for Watershed Management (online only)	3 cr.