It really comes down to what he wants to do. A BS is fine for a law enforcement position, but a MS would be better for a biologist or land manager. The program itself is more important though than the school. I would strongly recommend that he spend his elective hours on forestry, ag and soils (at least 12 hours so he can work for NRCS), or the other related natural resources, even to the point of a forestry/wildlife double major. He will be a better, more rounded recent grad, will have a better knowledge base to draw from, and more opportunities for grad school or entry level positions upon graduation.
Even within universities, all advanced degrees are not created equal. My MS project was on vegetation structure and food resources for wild turkeys in response to various thinning, burning, and herbicide treatments in the woods. I had another side project where we measured white oak acorn production from individual trees. Lots of tedious field work and even more tedious data entry, analysis, and manuscript writing.
However, I was part of the crew that burned when my research plots needed to be burned, as well as burning other properties. I cut danger trees along the firebreaks. I plowed, disked, planted, sprayed, and tested food plot mixes. I felled trees. I killed trees with herbicides. I planted trees. I calibrated ag sprayers and seed drills. When other professors in the department burned their own lands, they came to our lab to recruit help, largely because their own students had little to no experience. On one such burn, one of the professor's PhD students was frantically asking for directions on how to operate a fire rake, and we hadn't even laid down the first bit of fire.
I had read about most of these practices while working on my BS, but really didn't understand how they went on the ground and how the big picture. My professor had created a program to develop and train land managers, rather than a grant machine to generate research projects and $$$.
