Careers in natural resources continue to show a bright future due to an expanding populations in the Pacific Northwest placing more emphasis on sustainable management of the resource base. Urban sprawl, water use, ecosystem restoration, wildfire, pollution, and the loss of biodiversity are a few of the issues that are increasing the complexity of how California's resources that can best be utilized while preserving them for future generations. There is a need for everyone to understand a balanced and multiple use role of our diminishing resources in a global economy.