NRM Facilities

The Department of Natural Resource Management is under the administrative umbrella of the School of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and is located in the Turner Range Animal Science Center. The RAS Center is located one mile east of the main campus and easily accessible by foot (10 minutes) or bike (two minutes). The RAS Center recently underwent major renovation and construction to the tune of $5.75 million.

Within the RAS Center, the Natural Resource Management Wing contains two classrooms (25-35 seats), a 70-seat lecture hall outfitted with "smart classroom" technology for distance delivery, a 15-seat conference room, a computer lab with 17 work stations and a laboratory prep room with the herbarium.

NRM Spatial Technologies Lab

Nutrition/Soils Lab

The SRSU Nutrition/Soils Lab is located in the RAS Center and contains state-of-the-art technology to allow researchers to analyze samples (soils, seed, foods, animal tissues, etc.) for nutrient content.

Greenhouse

The SRSU Greenhouse which is located near the RAS Center provides our range program opportunities to propagate and grow a variety of native plants that are used for a variety of habitat restoration projects.

Graduate Assistant Offices

These offices currently provide space for graduate research assistants and research technicians in the department. The office contains office space for 10 researchers and has sox computer stations, an office phone, scanner and laser printer.

SRSU Teaching and Research Ranch

The 500-acre SRSU Teaching and Research Ranch is located across Highway 90 from the RAS Center, adjacent to the SRSU main campus. The ranch, which encompasses Hancock Mountain, contains a diversity of habitats and wildlife species.

The Department of Natural Resource Management actively manages the ranch for cattle and wildlife and for educational purposes. Recent projects that occurred on the SRSU Ranch include an urban mule deer project, a six-year scaled quail project and an urban fox project.

SRSU Faskin Ranch

SRSU also owns the 17,000-acre Faskin Ranch in Culberson County Texas. The Faskin Ranch is located 110 miles from Alpine and is an actively managed for cattle and wildlife. The ranch has a three-bedroom house, a barn, various water sources and a variety of equipment.

Public and Private Lands

In addition to the facilities at SRSU, students will benefit from the diversity of public and private lands available to SRSU researchers. Public lands that the Department of Natural Resource Management is actively cooperating with include:

• Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area
• Sierra Diablo Wildlife Management Area
• Black Gap Wildlife Management Area
• Davis Mountain State Park
• Chinati Mountain State Park
• Big Bend Ranch State Park
• Big Bend National Park
• Guadalupe Mountains National Park
• Fort Davis Historic Site

Additionally, SRSU researchers actively conduct research on a variety of private properties including the 30,000-acre Davis Mountain Preserve (owned by the Nature Conservancy) and more than 1 million acres of other privately-owned ranches.