Get real-world experience and earn course credit by participating in internships.
Apply your skills and knowledge from coursework and give back to the community.
Get personal mentoring from ANS graduates who know what it is like to be a Louisiana Tech student and can offer support and guidance as you prepare for life after graduation.
Students can work closely with faculty on a variety of research projects for experience and sometimes even course credit! This is a great way to have hands-on experience, develop relationships with faculty and peers, and build a professional network.
Louisiana Tech students majoring in Forestry are required to attend courses that make up the Forestry Summer Field Session, or also known as Summer Camp.
Typically taken between their sophomore and junior years, students with a Forest Management (FORM) concentration take nine semester hours during Summer Camp; students concentrating in Wildlife Habitat Management (WHMG) take eight. The objective of these courses is to give students more hands-on, in-the-field opportunities to learn Forestry skills that would otherwise be difficult to accomplish during the regular academic year.
Summer Camp gives students the opportunity to practice their communication skills with private land owners and the general public, learn how to estimate the amount of timber available in a forest, techniques to tend trees from planting to harvesting, and to collect their own spatial data using GPS technology. Many agency and company representatives share their expertise with the students during Summer Camp, including those from Resource Management Service LLC, Mudd & Holland Consulting Foresters, Roy O. Martin, the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Additionally, students attend two, one-week long field trips during Summer Camp, the first to the Buffalo National River in Newton County, Arkansas, and the second to the Louisiana Ecological Forestry Center in Sabine Parish.