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College of Agriculture
> Dept. of Animal & Range Sciences
Department of Animal and Range Sciences
Graduate Degrees
The Animal and Range Sciences Department offers a Master
of Science degree in "Animal & Range Sciences"
and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in "Animal &
Range Sciences". Both the MS and PhD degrees require
that the student choose either an Animal Science emphasis
or a Range Science emphasis.
 Animal
Science Emphasis
Graduate students in the Animal Science emphasis receive
broad based training resulting in experiences that qualify
them for many agricultural jobs. Areas of emphasis include
nutrition, breeding and genetics, physiology, production
systems, and meat science/muscle growth. Research problems
may involve beef cattle, sheep and biochemical or other
properties of agricultural products. Supporting course
work may be taken from Animal Science, Range Science,
Biology, Wildlife Management, Biochemistry, Statistics,
Plant Sciences, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences,
and Economics.
Research laboratories are available in the department
and specialized equipment is also available through
cooperation with other departments.
The department conducts cooperative research with the
U.S. Livestock and Range Research Station at Miles City,
Montana, and the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois,
Idaho. Facilities for the maintenance of beef cattle
and sheep are available at the Red Bluff Research Ranch,
30 miles west of Bozeman, the Fort Ellis Research Center,
near Bozeman, and the Northern Agricultural Research
Center at Havre. The main station has facilities for
sheep, horses and beef cattle (a cattle feedlot and
nutrition laboratory). A wool laboratory is located
on campus.
Please feel free to contact any advisors whose research
may interest you.
Animal Science Faculty
 Range
Science Emphasis
Research and training opportunities in the Range Science
programs are diverse, and students with a wide variety
of backgrounds, goals, and educational needs are accepted.
Major areas of study are range ecology, habitat management,
watershed management, grazing management, monitoring,
riparian ecosystems, measurements, and plant-animal
(livestock and wildlife) interactions. A graduate degree
in range science prepares for careers in rangeland management,
wildlife management, habitat management, natural resource
conservation and restoration, research, land-use planning,
and consultation. Research facilities include the Red
Bluff Research Ranch, several research centers of the
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, U.S. Livestock
and Range Research Station at Miles City, Montana, and
the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho.
Cooperative projects with ranchers and federal and state
agencies are also conducted. Supporting courses at the
graduate level include botany, wildlife biology and
management, soils, animal science, earth science, plant
science, statistics and biochemistry.
Please feel free to contact any advisors whose research
may interest you.
Range Science Faculty
Interdisciplinary M.S. Degree in Land Rehabilitation
Animal and Range Sciences participates with the interdisciplinary
M.S. Program in Land Rehabilitation. The program offers
advanced study in rehabilitation of disturbed lands.
Site revegetation, soil remediation, riparian zone restoration,
stream channel restoration, investigation of impacted
geologic resources and remediation of contaminated sites
are included in areas of study. Emphasis is placed on
developing a broad understanding of soil, plant, and
hydrologic processes. Students may focus in a subject
area of direct importance to land rehabilitation, such
as plant ecology, soil sciences, hydrology, geology,
geography, biology, or range science.
The M.S. degree in Land Rehabilitation is offered through
each of the following departments: Animal and Range
Sciences; Biology; Civil (Bio-resource) Engineering;
Earth Sciences, and Land Resources and Environmental
Sciences. Please refer to College
of Agriculture, where a more detailed program description
can be found.
Interested students should contact Graduate Programs
Secretary, Department of Land Resources and Environmental
Sciences, 334 Leon Johnson Hall, 994-7060, lresinfo@montana.edu.
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