{"id":2687,"date":"2015-01-07T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.sdps-bbs.com\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2015-11-13T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:15:57","slug":"what-its-like-being-a-wildlife-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/what-its-like-being-a-wildlife-student\/","title":{"rendered":"What It’s Like Being a Wildlife Student"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u200b\"WoodEver wondered why people go into wildlife? I mean, we\u2019re expected to have low salaries. Why are we spending so much money to get a degree where we\u2019ll go out to\u00a0observe animals for a living\u00a0or manage them? Can\u2019t we do that as an everyday person with pets?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t answer this question for everyone, but I\u2019ll give it a shot. We are fascinated by the world around us. We love it and want to understand it, along with our role in it. It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much to be learned as a student in wildlife, even though we\u2019ve been living alongside the concepts we\u2019re learning about all our lives. Every time I walk into my Introduction to Environmental Conservation class, I walk out and gain an entirely new viewpoint. Recycling has taken on a whole new meaning when put into the dimensions of its actual effects. All my bathroom products give me a deep sense of suspicion because there are simply so many different chemicals and plastics being used with them. I have developed a rational hatred for ginkgo trees while on Purdue\u2019s campus; not only do they stink, they\u2019re also not even native. I worry about the squirrel population because that many squirrels in 10 yards of grass cannot be healthy. I\u2019m all for wooden buildings, so long as it\u2019s sustainable, thanks to carbon sequestration. Did you know wood is made up of 50 percent carbon? So when it\u2019s built into buildings, it\u2019s not actually harming the environment because it\u2019s still holding in all that carbon dioxide that would have gone\u00a0into the atmosphere had the tree been burned or decomposed. All this to say, I just pay a lot more attention to the environment around me.<\/p>\n

Those are just some of the concepts we\u2019ve learned so far, and it\u2019s a blast. On top of this, I feel like we\u2019re actually doing something good for humanity. Not many people want to do the dirty work or have months of research credited with one line in a scientific paper. However, we get to better see how it\u2019s all interconnected. The world is more entwined than anyone knows. If everyone took just one day to be a wildlife student, it would be an incredible transformation in the world, even if each person only took one aspect away from the lesson learned.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/strong>
\nFNR Majors and Minors<\/a>, Purdue FNR
\nProspective Students<\/a>, Purdue FNR
\nWe Know Nature!<\/a>\u00a0FNR This is Your Class Project Video<\/p>\n

Morgan Sussman<\/a>, Freshman
\nDepartment of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200bEver wondered why people go into wildlife? I mean, we\u2019re expected to have low salaries. Why are we spending so much money to get a degree where we\u2019ll go out to\u00a0observe animals for a living\u00a0or manage them? Can\u2019t we do that as an everyday person with pets? I can\u2019t answer this question for everyone, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54],"tags":[62,72],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotnatureforkids","category-wildlife","tag-got-nature-for-kids","tag-wildlife","audience-for-enthusiasts","audience-for-homeowners","audience-for-landowners","audience-for-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 16:15:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}