What does a Wildlife Refuge Manager do and what type of degree's do you need to ahve this type of career?
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Basically a professional resource manager is a practitioner and deals with the application of knowledge. The main responsibility is the planning and direction of a managerial operation-a wildlife management area, a refuge or a park, for example. Education must be soundly based on theory, but also it must be practical in the sense that it gives intellectual and executive ability to put science to work in an economic and social world.
Wildlife management is a discipline in which the scientific specialist bears much responsibility for putting recommendations and "know-how" into language clearly comprehensible to normal people. Almost every conservation worker is expected to address service clubs, sportsmen's groups and other civic organizations so communication skills are most important. This means knowledge of literature and composition.
As a base for a major, you need three years of undergraduate education that should include the following courses: introductory courses in botany, zoology, geology, chemistry, physics, computer science, economics, statistical analysis, political science, psychology and foreign language as well as English composition and analytical geometry and calculus.
A degree can be a Masters Degree or a Bachelors Degree, and i'm pretty sure A Phd. Either of these will land you a job for a wildlife expert.
Hope that helps, and good luck.
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