Natural Resource Programs

Study online with CSU, build advanced knowledge, and turn your passion into a career.

The Warner College of Natural Resources offers distance learning and online education programs to help advance your education and career, fulfilling your goals for making a positive impact in the world.

The grand environmental challenges of our time, including climate change and loss of species and wildlife habitat, must be met with a critical mass of dedicated, well-trained individuals who can work at all levels – from science and research to advocacy and policy. It is incumbent on our programs to bring the knowledge and interdisciplinary skills to address these problems, not only in Colorado and nationally, but also across the world. Our purpose is to reach as many people as possible, from any and every walk of life, to collectively tackle global challenges.

Gain a better understanding of how to manage and conserve our natural resources in new and exciting ways as you build skills to support a fulfilling career in high-demand fields, including: forestry, wildlife management, geosciences, ecosystem sustainability, ecological ranch management, and the globally significant ecotourism industry.

Our graduates are in high demand across public, private, and nongovernmental sectors and make impacts in numerous environmental science and policy fields.

CSU’s online programs are taught by world-renowned instructors, researchers, and managers, most of which also teach on campus in Fort Collins, Colorado. We are proud that our scientists are at the forefront of building knowledge about Earth systems and how humans interface with these systems in dynamic and significant ways. Their work is highly applied and aimed at identifying solutions to real-world challenges and leveraging human connections to the natural world in positive ways.

We invite you to explore our online programs as you continue your educational journey. Best wishes for success wherever your path leads you next.

Dr. A. Alonso Aguirre Dean, Warner College of Natural Resources

There has never been a better time to work in natural resources.

Why Study Online with CSU?

Flexible, Online Programs

Fit a quality education into your busy life. Online courses allow you to balance your studies and personal commitments.

Outstanding Career Outcomes

Obtain the knowledge and skills you need to advance in your current job or get started on an exciting new career path.

Reputable Institution

Earn your degree or certificate from a reputable, accredited public research university.

Reliable Academic Support

Our faculty, advisors, and staff are here to support you throughout your entire journey, start to finish.

Alumni Spotlight

The self-directed pacing of CSU’s program was extremely beneficial because I spend so much time in the field. It’s obvious that a lot of thought and planning went into the course content and online delivery. I was looking for a program that would instill a broad foundation from which I could specialize further, and that’s exactly what I found.

Kyle Flesness Master of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Graduate

Natural Resources Stewardship

Start building the knowledge to become an effective leader, using science to help solve real-world problems from a holistic viewpoint. Specialize in ecological restoration, forest sciences, or rangeland ecology and management.

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Master’s Degree Programs Graduate Certificates

Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Get the training you need to effectively guide studies, decisions, and policies related to wildlife management. Topics of study include fish and wildlife study design, applied sampling and analysis, and habitat management.

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Advanced Silviculture for the Practicing Forester

Build the skills to make more strategic, data-driven, and science-based decisions as a practicing forestry professional.

Carbon Management

Gain the specialized knowledge to effectively analyze carbon production and manage and/or offset emission levels for government entities and large corporations.

Communications for Conservation

Enhance your skills in developing effective conservation messages, media relations programs, strategic communication and social media plans, and engaging with influential leaders and decision-makers.

Wildlife Conservation Actions

Learn the tools, methods, theories, and action steps to identify conservation problems and the means to develop, implement, and evaluate proposed solutions.

Water Resources

Advance your career in water resources planning, management, and policy with this graduate certificate addressing an array of water issues in the western United States and around the world.

A Leader in Sustainability

Faculty Spotlights

I love teaching. I’m proud of the success of the students who come through my lab. I feel I have the biggest impact when I help them publish or present their work for the first time; there is nothing more rewarding than that.

Lise Aubry Associate Professor, Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

We strive to help our students become natural resource stewards who understand the science, seek out data-driven answers, and empower communities for sustainability.

Wilfred Previant Assistant Professor, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship

No. 1 Greenest College 2019

For more than a century, CSU’s Warner College has been at the forefront of research addressing sustainability and natural resources challenges at both regional and global scales. The College also continues to provide educational programs that train new generations of natural resource professionals while fostering a sense of community among its dedicated students, faculty, and staff.

Explore CSU’s online natural resource, forestry, wildlife, and sustainability programs. online.colostate.edu