Joshi Natural Resource Social Science Lab

NREM 4043:Natural Resource Administration and Policy

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Natural resource policy and legislation; ethics relating to natural resources; natural resource organizations and how they function to include structure, supervision, and financing of federal, state, and private natural resource enterprises. 

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NREM 4234: Forest Management and Economics

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Regulation of forest growing stock to meet financial and biological management objectives; stand level optimization; linear programming principles in harvest scheduling; timberland taxation; timberland investment criteria; risk and uncertainty in timberland investment; economics of non-market goods.

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NREM 4333: Forest Resource Management: Planning and Decision-Making

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Integrated problem solving, to apply biological, quantitative, economic, political, and administrative principles in solving forest resource management problems​

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NREM 5030: Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

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Special problems in areas of natural resource ecology and management other than those covered in the student's thesis research.​