Bio:
My teaching and research focuses on the social and political aspects of conservation, with an emphasis on rural communities in the Northern Rockies. I serve as the Director of the Wilderness Institute and as a Research Assistant Professor. I teach courses in conservation social science and policy in the College of Forestry and Conservation and in the Wilderness and Civilization program. My curricular home is the Resource Conservation program.
My current work examines the following: 1) conflict and collaboration in rural communities over issues such as fire management and wilderness designation; 2) how private landowners cooperate across property boundaries on conservation issues such as weeds and wildlife, especially in the context of changing landownership; 3) how volunteer monitoring and citizen science programs change community involvement in public land management; and 4) how local community views and interests are integrated into protected area planning and management.
Education:
2003: Ph.D. Forestry, University of Montana
Dissertation: The Politics of Cross-Boundary Conservation: Meaning,
Livelihood, and Property on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana
1993: M.S. Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
1991: B.A. Psychology and Environmental Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests:
Conservation and Wilderness Politics and Policy
Communities and Protected Areas/Community Forestry
Cross-Boundary Conservation
Rural Change and Private Land Conservation
Wilderness Citizen Science
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