Michael Blazier

The college of forestry, agriculture and natural resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello is the only school of its kind in the state. The college includes the Arkansas Center for Forest Business and the Arkansas Forest Resources Center, part of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and a UA System Center of Excellence, as well as the system’s spatial analysis lab. The college will soon add the Arkansas Forest Health Research Center. Michael Blazier is the dean of the UAM forestry college and serves as director of the Arkansas Forest Resources Center on the Monticello campus. While much attention in recent years has been devoted to two-year workforce development programs that deliver higher-than-average starting salaries, Blazier oversees programs that are churning out foresters, conservationists, food scientists and others who make roughly twice the median household income in Arkansas.