What You Can Do

With an advanced degree, there are multiple options and career tracks open to you. Here are a few examples:

• A professor and researcher at a university
• Policy and program director for a conservation or wildlife management group
• Research lead or director with an environmental consulting firm
• Manager of sustainable development for an engineering group
• Lobbyist or advisor for government conservation agencies
• Environmental/ecological consultant
• Ecologist

Opportunities

Examples of employers are:

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Idaho Department of Fish and Game
• The Nature Conservancy
• U.S. Forest Service
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Bureau of Land Management
• Bureau of Reclamation
• Avista
• Bonneville Power Administration
• Colleges and various public and private universities
• State Departments of Fish and Game
• Engineering, consulting and project management firms