Natural Resources | Cultural Resources | Wildland Fire

CIRE offers expert task-based execution and research in natural resource management, wildland fire operations, and cultural resource management to our Federal, Tribal, State and private-sector partners via cooperative agreements, grants and partnering opportunities.

CIRE has the personnel, research laboratories, and field equipment to support project execution and task-based research in multiple areas such as:

• plant and wildlife physiology and management
• threatened and endangered species management
• forestry management
• ecological simulation modeling
• wildlife genetics and gene sequencing
• tribal consultation
• historic building surveys
• anthropological and archaeological field-processing and curation
• wildland fire operations, training, and planning
• associated state-of-the-art GIS capabilities and services

CIRE draws from a broad selection of full-time professional staff, University of Montana faculty and staff, and consulting and contracted partners to form an extensive network of colleagues and collaborators worldwide.