Bio:
Dr. Brown is Dean and professor, College of Forestry and Conservation,
and Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment
Station, at the University of Montana-Missoula. He has considerable
expertise in natural resource social science, policy and planning,
in recreation behavior and planning, and in wilderness studies.
His Ph.D. is from Utah State University and emphasized outdoor
recreation and social psychology. A life-long westerner, he has
served on the faculties of Utah State University, Colorado State
University, and Oregon State University in addition to his current
assignment in Montana. He has served in formal advisory appointments
with both the USDA Forest Service and the USDI Bureau of Land
Management. He is a past president of the National Association
of University Forest Resources Programs (NAUFRP), and currently
serves as the CSREES Liaison for NAUFRP. He served as a member
of the National Research Council Committee on Forestry Research
Capacity and chair of the Pinchot Institute’s National Panel
on Wilderness Stewardship. He is a member of the executive/advisory
boards of NAUFRP, the International Union of Forest Research
Organizations, the Ecosystem
Management Research Institute (a private non-profit research institute),
the National Forest Foundation, the National Forest Service Historical Museum,
the Western Governors Healthy Forests Advisory Committee, and
he chairs the Executive Committee of the Rocky Mountains Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies Unit. He has published over 110 scientific papers,
books, and book chapters and mentored to graduation 49 masters and 11 Ph.D.
students.
Education:
Foothill College, Los Altos, CA General Studies 1962-1963
B.S. Utah State University, Logan, UT Forest Management 1963-1967
M.S. Utah State University, Logan, UT Outdoor Recreation 1967-1968
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Social Psychology 1968-1970
Ph.D. Utah State University, Logan, UT Outdoor Recreation and Social
Psychology 1968-1971
Research Interests:
Planning to meet people’s desires
Natural resource institutions
Planning and management for protected areas
Recreation behavior
Resource policy
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