Program Highlights

In the educational program, students receive classroom, field-based, and distance learning experiences to prepare them for their professional careers. Academic courses provide learning opportunities which encourage and inspire students to approach forest resource, social, and environmental issues in a critical yet creative manner, to identify and analyze key elements, and to articulate ethical solutions.

The College has a strong commitment to a research program which encourages basic and applied studies in natural resource management, environmental topics, and social values. Although research projects are centered predominantly in east Texas, the issues addressed and results obtained often have national and international implications.

To complete the College mission, a service program provides professional expertise, information, and training. Practicing professionals, industrial landowners, non-industrial landowners, public agencies and society in general are beneficiaries of these services.

The Arthur Temple College of Forestry, established in 1946, is one of the largest and most respected colleges of forestry in the country. Students receive classroom, laboratory, and field instruction to prepare them for professional careers.

Facility Highlights

The forestry complex contains classrooms, greenhouses, state-of-the-art laboratories, a student computer room, a Multimedia Communications Center, and a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory. To learn more about the GIS and remote sensing facilities, contact Dr. I-Kuai Hung or Dr. Dan Unger.