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These people plant, grow, maintain and remove trees. Additionally, they help to identify health of tree species and determine and prescribe needed care.
Humans use these in many ways. Careers in this pathway work to develop, maintain and manage these natural environments. Protecting wildlife, maintaining parks, consulting with research groups and keeping green areas are important needs everywhere.
What are Natural Resources?
Are you a natural leader? Do you enjoy coordinating people and activities to make sure things run smoothly? Careers in this pathway connect the business world with agriculture by determining how to effectively use resources for profit. This field encompasses activities that contribute to successful agriculture production. This can include crop production, farm equipment, seed supply, marketing, natural resources and animal services. People who work in this pathway typically enjoy working in teams and using high-tech tools to increase efficiency.
What is Agribusiness?
They focus on preventing wildfires in forests, parks and rural areas. They monitor land for fire risks, ensure safety standards are followed and carry out activities such as controlled burns and firebreak maintenance. In addition, they educate communities about fire safety and work to keep people and the environment prepared and informed.
What is a Forest Fire Inspector and Prevention Specialist?
Miss Serna is an alumni of this student run organization focused on leadership and agriculture. She is an American Degree recipient, never was an officer, but competed at Nationals for Nursery Landscape CDE.
What is FFA?
Professionals in charge of caring for, planting and managing trees or forests. They are involved in a range of activities including restoration, conservation, timber harvest and managing protected wooded areas.
What are Foresters?
A career in this system may be right for you. After all, educators help to provide the foundation for all of the careers on this site! These careers prepare students to be successful in their professions and offer a lifetime of informed choices in global agriculture, food, fiber and natural resources systems.
What is Agricultural Education?
Are you interested in helping to shape the future by making the environment better by improving industry practices? A career in this field may be right or you. If you are looking to improve the environmental impact from everyday practices, check out this. This area allows professionals to really dream big to think outside of the box to create a better future for everyone.
What is Sustainability?
These people oversee crews that maintain outdoor spaces, including parks, sports fields, farms and commercial landscapes. They plan and coordinate tasks such as planting, mowing, irrigation and pest control to keep the grounds healthy and visually appealing. They also ensure safety standards are met and projects are completed on time and within budget.
What is a Landscape/Lawn/Groundskeeping Supervisor?
This is one of Miss Serna's favorite musicians. She is a well known songwriter and recently ended her global 21 month long "Eras Tour." In 2023 she was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
Who is Taylor Swift?
They work in the wood/timber industry cutting down trees and processing them into logs. They use chain saws and other specialty equipment to remove excess limbs and branches and trim logs into specific lengths at the cutting site. They may be required to climb trees for inspection and trimming or to attach cable rigging for harvest.
What is a Logger?
If you enjoy working to make Earth a cleaner and healthier place, a career in this system may be ideal for you. Scientists, technicians and engineers in this pathway are focused on preventing the harmful effects of human activities. They may be involved with recycling, water and air pollution control, waste disposal and public health issues. They use knowledge of science and engineering to meet environmental regulations and develop new methods to prevent accidents or dangerous situations.
Professionals in this system help feed our growing population by monitoring the quality and safety of our food and helping consumers make sensible nutritional decisions. They also solve problems by developing crops that are resistant to insects and improve models to grow more food with less space. Others work to conserve our natural resources.
What is Plant?
These people design outdoor spaces that balance functionality, aesthetics and environmental health. They oversee the development of outdoor spaces, typically for gardens, parks, residential areas or commercial developments. They plan projects, create blueprints using computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) software and supervise the implementation of their designs.
What is a Landscape Architect?
Miss Serna's favorite professional football team. This team also had a quarterback who is known as the GOAT and Miss Serna named her dog after him.
Who are the Patriots?
They are responsible for daily production, quality control, safety and operation of a sawmill and its employees. They maintain the equipment necessary to produce lumber in a safe and efficient manner. They will operate saws, lathes, boilers and other machines of the trade .
What is a Sawmill Operator?
Professionals in these fields apply knowledge of engineering, hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, power, structures and controls to the field of agriculture. They also tackle exciting challenges such as how to conserve soil and water, how to create efficient production and how to conserve natural resources. Professionals in these fields apply math, technology and science as they innovate, design and build solutions that impact people around the globe.
What is Power, Structural and Technical?
Careers in this pathway study the physical, biological and chemical makeup of foods to improve food safety, create better processes, enhance the nutritional value and shelf-life of foods and even develop new flavors! Some careers in this field focus on diet, health and food safety by ensuring the quality of the foods we eat every day. Others work to develop new packaging, new products and new sales opportunities. If you have an appetite for making foods better and safer, this may be a pathway for you to consider.
What is Food Products and Processing?
These people combat and prevent forest or prairie fires. They reside in fire towers to observe a particular area for fires and then notify the proper authorities. This person's role is to monitor for signs of fires, dispatch and relay information to emergency personnel, and serve as a firefighter and/or engine operator during wildfire suppression.
What is a Wildland Firefighter/Fire Tower Watchman?
Miss Serna's home state is known as the Constitution State. It is known for its rich colonial history, iconic foods like New Haven-style pizza and warm buttered lobster rolls, and prestigious institutions like Yale University.
What is Connecticut?
They manage the health and quality of forests, parks, rangelands and other natural areas. They focus on protecting ecosystems, promoting sustainable land use and creating plans that balance human needs with environmental preservation. Their work typically includes field studies, analyzing data and working alongside governments, landowners and environmental groups.
What is a Conservation Scientist?
The use of this system enhances plants, animals and microorganisms. Professionals in this field often have a strong interest and background in how science can modify an organism’s genetic composition, also known as genetic engineering. Careers in this field help make plants more nutritious to eat and enable fish to grow twice as fast, and work to increase the world’s access to safe and affordable food and clean water. Scientists and engineers in this pathway often work together to investigate methods of creating fuel from agricultural byproducts and use a range of tools to better understand the basic biology of life.
What is Biotechnology?
Are you interested in working with technology such as programming, data analysis, and development? A career in this field may be right or you. With varying education requirements and the opportunity to work in many parts of the industry, this focus area allows for lots of specialization.
What is Agricultural Technology?
These people work at the state or federal level, enforcing laws related to hunting and fishing. They patrol an assigned region or area for violators of hunting and fishing laws. They may also be tasked with creating wildlife conservation programs and presentations for the public. Additionally, they will conduct investigations, interviews and interrogations on wildlife-related violations.
What is a Game Warden?
Miss Serna's undergraduate degree is from this university. It is a private institution in Hamden, CT, known for the men's ice hockey team who won the national championship in 2023 and Olympic Rugby player and social media star Ilona Maher.
What is Quinnipiac University?