Personal Summary

I am the Director of the Elouise Cobell Land and Culture Institute and an assistant professor in the departments of Native American Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. As a quantitative researcher with academic interests in both the STEM and the social sciences, my scientific approach is diverse but fundamentally founded on data science and geographical thinking, which I leverage to characterize environmental dynamics and their impacts on coupled human-nature systems, inform climate change adaptation, and communicate indigenous perspectives on conservation.

Courses Taught

NASX 303 (Ecological Perspectives in Native American Traditions). Every Fall and every other Spring.

ENSC 474 (Environmental Analytics). Every Fall.

Projects

• Centering Indigenous Epistemologies: Connecting generations and sustaining Indigenous scholarship (PI; 2023 - 2026; Mellon Foundation - Higher Learning)
• Precision Forestry and Rangeland Technologies (Senior Partner; 2023 - 2024; NSF - Regional Innovation Engines)
• Tribal Interests in Landscape Fire Planning (PI; 2023 - 2024; US Forest Service)

Selected Publications

Stumpff, L.M.; Sánchez-Trigueros, F.; Watson, A.; Mdodi, F.; Teasdale, A. (2020). Grassland, forest and riparian ecosystems on mixed-ownership federal lands adjacent to the Crow Reservation: developing a protective shield for sustainability of the environment and culture from impacts of climate-related disturbance. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-410. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 84 p. [URL]

Wynecoop, M.D.; Morgan, P.; Strand, E.; Sanchez-Trigueros, F. (2019) “Getting back to fire suméŝ: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments”. Fire Ecology, 15: 17. [DOI]

Baldauf-McBride., B.; Sanchez-Trigueros, F.; Carver, S.; Watson. A.; Stumpff, L.M.; Matt, R.; Borrie, W.T. (2017) “Participatory Geographic Information Systems as an organizational platform for the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge in contemporary fire and fuels management”. Journal of Forestry 115 (1): 43-50. [DOI]