Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, a.k.a. Gorgan University is a university in Golestan Province of Iran. History GUASNR First founded in 1957 as the Junior College of Forestry and Range Management (مدرسه عالي منابع طبيعي گرگان), the university was among the first specialized agricultural universities of Iran. Through a course of continued development, the Junior College was promoted to the school of Natural Resources offering three major courses in Forestry, Range Management and Soil Conservation in 1975. After Islamic revolution, the School of Natural Resources was joined to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology in 1981 and became part of the Mazandaran University. In 1986, the school was united with Junior College of Agriculture in the town of Gonbad and obtained an approval from the Council of Academic Development of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, to upgrade to an independent institute called Gorgan University Complex of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. As a result of the hard work of the academic members and administrative staff, Council of Academic Development passed an approval based on which the complex was promoted to the Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (GUASNR) on June 25, 1992. Today the university has 9 Colleges (Faculties), training 2800 graduate and post-graduate students. The university has an exchange student program with Astrakhan State University in neighbouring Russia. The university is located in the historical city of Gorgan in the Golestan Province (formerly the eastern part of Mazandaran province). Amir Hossein Amirpour (Voice Actor of Angel Dust) born 2000, were student at this university as Furniture's Industrie's Engineering field. but he had to leave this university. Because he was needed to studying computer engineering field. Now he is student of Computer Engineering field at Gorgan Hakim Jurjani Non-Governmental University. Faculties Animal Science Agricultural Management Fisheries & Environmental Sciences Food Science & Technology Forest Science Plant Production Rangeland & Watershed Management Water & Soil Engineering Wood & Paper Engineering Journals Iranian journal of Aquatics Research International Journal of Lignocellulosic Products International Journal of Plant Production International Journal of Environmental Resources Research Poultry Science Journal Journal of Natural Resource Conservation (Persian) Electronic Journal of Crop Production (Persian) Journal of Ruminant Research (Persian) Journal of Range Land (Persian) Poultry Science Journal (Persian) Journal of Soil Management and Sustainable Production (Persian) Journal of Entrepreneurship & Agricultural Extension (Persian) Journal of Plant Production (Persian) Journal of