I have a BS in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University in 1989. I had three positions with the USFS and a year of volunteer work for the Cal. Dept of F & G.
The USFS jobs were in Sequoia NF, Mt. Hood NF and Tahoe NF. When the funding ends on a project it's time to move on to another. Chances are that it isn't gong to be at the same NF you are currently working. There were other job opportunities at the time in Florida, Texas and California, but there was a catch.
I married just before graduation and it wasn't fair to my wife to continually move from place to place for work. She had gone to college to be a teacher and being on the move just wasn't gong to work.
Now for the really frustrating part. While working for the USFS there were always permanent full time positions posted but I was not even allowed to apply for them. In order for a person to apply for those positions, they needed to already be a full time permanent employee. Requirements usually included a Masters or above and 5-10 years of experience :banghead:
With that said, and a complete turn around. The final blow came while working on the Tahoe NF. We shared an area of the SO with the fisheries group. They had three full time permanent employees, all with close to 20 years of experience. One individual retired and they hired a gal right out of college, with NO experience, to be the boss of the other two.
I applied for a position with Cal. Dept. of F & G the following year and following the testing etc I placed well but didn't get the position (they were hiring 1 person with roughly 1,200 applicants). Shortly after that I blew my shoulder out and LEO type positions were out of the question.
I ended up being a High School teacher for 6 years, retail management for 2 years, electrician for 11 years and currently work in the data/telecommunications field. That Wildlife Management degree really worked out well for me
If you are single and don't mind relocating for a number of years until you become established then I see it as a viable career choice. If you hope to work for the government, be prepared to do a lot of seasonal work and or filling of temporary jobs. The USFWS or BLM might be different but there were few to any jobs available at the time I was in the filed. Times may have changed.
As others have posted, there might be something in the private sector. I had an in with a private environmental group but turned it down. It had omething to do with suing everybody and every species in sacred. Guns are bad.
My roommate in college has done well with a Watershed management degree of some sort. He did a lot of moving around as well but last I herd, was settled down in the state of Washington. A lot of the environmental concerns today are around water quality. It might be worth a look.
A quick google search turned up this:
http://wfsc.tamu.edu/jobboard/