By Ronica Stromberg
Caden Simon learned something surprising as he began final steps to graduate from the School of Natural Resources in May. His academic advisor, Sara Winn, told him he was the only student graduating this semester with majors in both environmental science and regional and community forestry.
Knowing how closely related the two majors were, Simon wondered why more students didn't double major in them the way he did.
"There's a lot of classes that can overlap, and if anybody else was thinking about double majoring in these two fields, I'd say that I think you should do it," he said. "Even if you're not very interested in one topic, it does pertain to the other one and gives you a little bit of a different mindset about learning these different topics."
Simon had developed interest in both the environment and trees through childhood experiences in the Boy Scouts, family vacations to national parks and three years of work as a Treetop Village® attraction attendant at the Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City. He came to the university from Plattsmouth with a strong interest in countering environmental pollution, he said.
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