The program is offered by . The program in natural resource sciences, and in environmental sciences and regional planning offer a joint Ph.D. degree. This degree provides an atmosphere of scholarship coupled with research opportunities that produces people capable of responding to the complicated issues of use, management, and protection of the environment and its natural resources.

The department has laboratory facilities and greenhouses on campus. Field facilities are located at the 12,000 acre Colockum Multiple-Use Research Unit located near Wenatchee, WA. The University of Idaho is eight miles from the Pullman campus and offers cross-listed courses in conjunction with WSU in natural resource management and sciences.