Wildlife on Working Lands Program
A focus of the Clemson Boone and Crockett Program is to train the next generation of professionals that help private landowners solve modern problems facing sustainable agriculture and wildlife production.
A signature program at Clemson is our multi-disciplinary Montana Summer Program, which for the past 10 years has been producing students trained to address issues facing sustainable agricultural production and wildlife management at the private-public land interface in the American West.
This course taught by faculty across agricultural and natural resource disciplines, places students in the charged learning environment of central Montana where controversies such as shifting rural economies, changes to public grazing leases, wildfire management, and growing wildlife populations are not only discussed but experienced firsthand while students live and work on a working cattle ranch.
We are currently developing a similar program focused on private land management for wildlife in South Carolina. While there is little public land, large tracts of land for wildlife are held in private ownership and managed for both agricultural production and wildlife. We will be training students on the skills needed to manage and restore wildlife to these private lands.
