Coursework must include a minimum of 24 semester credit hours in at least three of the following areas: (1) natural resources management; e.g., natural or wild land resource conservation, natural area management or conservation, watershed management, wildlife management or conservation, forest management or conservation; (2) natural resources based outdoor recreation; e.g., principles of outdoor recreation, natural resource interpretation methods, outdoor recreation facilities management, wilderness management, parks administration, wild land fire management, and weed management; (3) natural resources planning; e.g., environmental/land use/resource/wild land planning, cartography, remote sensing, aerial photographic interpretation, forest land measurements, forest and wildlife resource inventories, watershed analysis and planning, ecosystem analysis; (4) related studies; e.g., forestry, wildlife biology, plant ecology, forest or wildlife ecology, plant evolution and taxonomy, botany, and zoology. Applicants must possess a bachelors degree or higher from an accredited four-year college or university which included a minimum of 24 semester credit hours in at least three (3) of the following areas: 1) natural resources management; 2) natural resources based outdoor recreation; 3) natural resources planning; 4) related studies (e.g., forestry, wildlife biology, plant ecology, forest or wildlife ecology, plant evolution and taxonomy, botany, and zoology).