School of Natural Resources

The School of Natural Resources

From Earth to Sky and Everything in Between

The School of Natural Resources will be an international leader in natural resources education, research, and outreach. The School will also be the primary provider of natural resources information and service to the citizens and stakeholders of Nebraska.

Environmental Studies Major

This major uses the interdisciplinary approach needed to solve complex environmental problems by emphasizing the physical, biological and social sciences. It is for the student interested in a holistic view of the use, management and conservation of renewable natural resources. The curriculum is based on integrating ecological principles with the use and conservation of natural resources.

Researchers discover
unusual prairie chicken movement

While humans have long pondered why chickens cross the road, one prairie chicken has SNR researchers looking beyond the punch lines

'Coats for Clinton' provides aid to neighboring elementary school

In 2007, members of UNL's School of Natural Resources outreach committee set out on a mission to do some good -- especially around the holidays, when something in the air compels people to look inward so that they may give outward. Six years later, that mission is in full swing.