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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) The Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences class enrollment has grown from one in 2005 to some 80 students today at Valley City State University. Many of those students are working for the North Dakota Game & Fish Department and other wildlife agencies in other states.

Michael McEnroe of the Wildlife Society, North Dakota Chapter presented checks totaling $3,000 dollars to VCSU Associate Professor Bob Anderson recently due to the success of the VCSU program. McEnroe says the money will be used to enhance more students to come to a premier program in the state.

Anderson attributes the classroom success to hands-on internship work at Game and Fish departments in the Dakotas and Minnesota or working at the Prairie Waters Education & Research Center in Kathryn.

VCSU Executive Director of University Advancement, Larry Robinson says the scholarship donations by the North Dakota Wildlife Society and Federation along with the Report All Poachers program is one example of the quality program the VCSU Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences class offers area students. Each entity donated $1,000 apiece.