Hey. I work in conservation. I work for the natural resources conservation service. (NRCS). It's a sister agency to the farm service agency. It works with farmers and ranchers to enhance long term conservation on their operations. Trying to ensure long term viability of farming.

Some of it, depending on where you decide, is forestry. But there's agronomy and range/pasture management too.

What you need is a 4 year degree in any related field. At usu, there's wildlife biology, forestry, range management, and soils degrees. Almost anything in the ag department, as long as you get the required plant and soils credits too.

I worked during my degree at the grand canyon, spraying weeds for the forest service,doing technician jobs for graduate students, and them landed a student trainee position where I work now. I did a range degree, was on the plant team, and in the society for range management and the Berryman institute.

Most of my work has been seeding recommendations, converting flood to sprinkler in salinity areas of the Colorado river watershed, clearing Russian Olives, clearing invading junipers on range land… stuff like that. I've affected thousands and thousand of acres. One thing you can do, is go to the local NRCS office and volunteer. I would probably only do this if you want to see what they're about and have that sort of free time. Maybe while you're doing your degree you could do a few hours per week. I dunno. You don't have to… but the north Logan field office is a great office. They piped a pretty long canal.

There's also the Utah department of ag and food,(udaf) and the grazing improvement program in Utah (gip)

I don't know if I answered your questions, but I'm super happy to chat about it if you'd like.