What is a Coop Unit?
There are currently 58 BRD Cooperative Research Units in 40 States. Each unit is a partnership among the BRD, the State fish and game agency, a host university, and the Wildlife Management Institute. Staffed with Federal personnel, the units conduct research on renewable natural resource questions; participate in the education of graduate students destined to become natural resource scientists; provide technical assistance and consultation to parties who have legitimate interests in natural resource issues; and provide various forms of continuing education for natural resource professionals. These units contain more than 160 Ph.D. scientists who oversee as many as 600 graduate students per year.
