An Interdisciplinary Center of the College of Agricultural Sciences, Natural Resources and Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

Announcements

  • We just graduated our largest class: 23 students! Watch this space for some upcoming alumni profiles.
  • The WCIRM will award merit-based fellowships and scholarships to applicants for our campus-based program for the 2009-2010 academic year. For more information, click here.
  • The Ninth Annual Nick Petry Workshop was a great success. Audio files of the proceedings are now available. Click here to view photos of the event. Plans are underway for the tenth annual workshop.
  • We now have our classes online through Colorado State University's Continuing Education program.
  • USDA Challenge Grant reviewers may access information referenced in the grant by clicking here.

 

The Western Center for Integrated Resource Management(WCIRM)

affords its students a unique opportunity to gain a diverse agricultural education through classroom and hands-on sessions. View the WCIRM Education Programs video.

 

Our Mission

is to improve the sustainability and profitability of forage-based agriculture and natural resource systems through integrated and innovative multidisplinary research and education programs.

 

  • We offer a unique Master of Agricultural Sciences degree utilizing contributing faculty from the College of Agricultural Sciences, the Warner College of Natural Resources and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • Classes are offered as intense two week sessions thus allowing for flexibility.

  • Outreach programs including workshops and Redbook purchases managed by WCIRM.

  • The long term goal of the Western Center is to "improve the competitive position and sustainability of independent livestock producers and the economic and environmental health of rural communities".

 

What our students have said:

"Little did I know that the IRM program set me up perfectly for my current position. On a daily basis I have to integrate natural resource issues, policies, agriculture, wildlife, politics, cooperate with various agencies, and still be flexible enough to make decisions for multiple users. I know there is no way I would have been ready for this job, nor could I function in it properly, without the IRM program's foundation." - Lisa Reinhart, Class of 2005

 

"I feel that the quality education I received from both the faculty and my classmates has served me well in my career. Most of the courses, to say the least, were intense, yet very rewarding." - Jim Wasseen, Class of 2004

 

What the community has said:

“I’m a big proponent of the IRM masters program at Colorado State University..the time has come when we need to have some very good generalists and an advanced degree in an integrated setting could be very important in the training of generalists that make land managers, livestock managers, wildlife managers, etc. I just think its a great program and great step in that direction” - Burke Teichert, Deseret Land and Livestock

 

USDA Challenge Grant Reviewers click here

 

 

 

screenshot of recruiting video

WCIRM Educational Programs Video

WCIRM Wishes to Thank:

The D.R. and Virginia Pulliam Charitable Trust for their support

Student Resources

 

Classroom photo

Students at Blue Valley Ranch

 

 
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