Extension Programs
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As a land grant institution receiving public funding, NC State seeks to educate the people of North Carolina by sponsoring a number of natural resource management extension programs and working with various statewide agencies to offer related outreach services.
Our natural resource management extension and outreach efforts can cover anything from new discoveries in basic sciences to hands-on courses in the latest natural resource management techniques. For more information on some of our major program, please visit FER's Extension area or click on a link below:
NC State Wildlife Extension provides citizens with information on wildlife identification, enhancement and damage control plus fisheries and aquatics advice. It also sponsors a variety of environmental education and wildlife protection programs and offers both general information and certification classes in many areas.
Extension Forestry provides technical assistance, offers educational programs for adults and children, collates and desimminates research results and offers many other useful resources to all North Carolina citizens involved in forestry, including programs centered around wildlife management. Services are provide through N.C.’s 100 County Extension Centers as well as the Cherokee Indian Reservation Center.
FER’s Forestry & Environmental Outreach Program offers courses, workshops, conferences and seminars involving management issues for forestry and natural resource professionals on both a non-credit and continuing education credit basis. It also educates the general public, professionals, landowners, public and private land managers.
Project Learning Tree Project (PLT) is an award-winning environmental education program designed for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. It offers workshops and in-service programs for teachers, environmental educators and youth leaders.
International Forestry and Conservation promotes international faculty exchanges, student participation in global research projects and courses in relevant topics. It offers research grants to students, and works with a wide variety of worldwide organizations in pursuing such international research topics as tropical forest conservation and economic development and sustainability for developing countries.
The Southern Center for Sustainable Forests, a cooperative organization comprised of FER faculty and staff, Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources. The Southern Center provides leadership for research, education and extension that promotes economically and ecologically sustainable management of forests in the South.
