General Overview

Agroforestry Management combined forestry and agricultural techniques to create a more integrated, diverse, productive and sustainable land-use system. An agroforester must understand not only the basic premises and methodologies of forest management, but those commonly applied in agriculture and range management as well. The resulting practices must be an intentional blending of trees with crops and/or livestock to develop the intensive management of the interactions of all biotic and abiotic components into an integrated management system.

The Agroforestry Management major in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry is designed to provide the student with a unique combination of skills for natural resource management. Taking advantage of the strong forestry tradition at SFA, this degree adds the important components of range management, wildlife management and agriculture.