Forestry/Conservation Experts
David Affleck
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Environmental Statistics; Forest Inventory and Sampling Strategies for Environmental Resources; Individual Tree and Stand Growth Models; Statistical Modeling of Ecological Data
Brady Allred
College of Forestry and Conservation UM Forest Management
Area of Expertise:Ecosystem Change, Processes and Structure
Jill M. Belsky
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Natural Resource/Environmental Sociology; Rural/Development Studies; Social/Community Forestry; Sustainable Agriculture
Erik Berg
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Area of Expertise:Fire and Forest Science; Forest Management; Forest Products Industry
Bill Borrie
College of Forestry & Conservation
Area of Expertise:Outdoor Recreation; Wilderness; National Parks; Protected Area Management
Keith Bosak
W.A. Franke College of Foresty and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Community Development; Ecotourism; International Conservation and Development; Geographies of Tourism; GIS; Nature-Based Tourism
Jedediah Brodie
Division of Biological Sciences
Area of Expertise:Biodiversity Conservation; Climate Change; Landscape Connectivity; Mammals; Plant-animal Interactions; Tropical Ecology
Perry Brown
Provost's Office
Area of Expertise:Human Dimensions of Natural Resources; Natural Resource Planning and Policy; Recreation and Tourist Behavior; Wilderness Management
Edwin Burke
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Forest Products Technology; Growth-Quality Relationships of Wood; Tree Biology; Wood Science
Brian Chaffin
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Water Conservation; Water Policy Research and Management
Cory Cleveland
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Climate Change Science; Ecosystem Ecology; Soil Science; Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
Ben Colman
Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Science in the College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems; Biogeochemistry; Ecosystem Ecology; Microbial Ecology
Natalie Dawson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Biogeography; Conservation Genetics; Evolution; Public Lands; International Protected Area Management; Mammalogy
Solomon Dobrowski
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Assisted Migration Planning; Fire Regimes; Historical Datasets and Species Distribution Models; Terrain and Biota Response to Climate Change; Vegetation Across Environmental Gradients
Beth Dodson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Forest Road Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management; Harvest, Pre-processing and Transportation of Woody Biomass; Implementation of Forest Restoration Treatments; Operational Forest Planning
Victoria Dreitz
Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences
Area of Expertise:Conservation Biology; Population Dynamics; Demographic Modeling; Avian Ecology; Species Conservation; Private Lands; Prairie Ecosystems
Wayne Freimund
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Capacity Building for Protected Area Management; International and Domestic Protected Area Planning; International Conservation; Monitoring Visitor Use; Visitor Management Frameworks
John Goodburn
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Management Effects on Wildlife Habitat Structure; Modeling Forest Dynamics; Regeneration Ecology; Uneven-Aged Silviculture
Neva Hassanein
Environmental Studies Program
Area of Expertise:Agri-food Studies; Community and Land Use Planning; Environmental Studies; Rural and Agricultural Sociology
Steven Hayes
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Area of Expertise:Forest Products Industry and Manufacturing
Philip Higuera
Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences
Area of Expertise:Fire ecology; paleoecology; environmental change; climate-vegetation-fire Interactions; social-ecological resilience to wildfires
Charles Keegan
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Area of Expertise:New Forest Management Regimes Related to Ecosystem Restoration and Fire Hazard Reduction; Structure and Operations of the Forest Products Industry
Christopher Keyes
Department of Forest Management
Area of Expertise:Silviculture Tools and Techniques for Stewardship, Restoration and Renewal of Western Forests
Andrew Larson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Disturbances and Structural Development of Natural Forests; Ecological Forestry and Restoration Silviculture; Long-Term Change in Forest Ecosystems; Spatial Ecology and Methods of Spatial Pattern Detection and Analysis
Chelsea McIver
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Area of Expertise:Economic Benefits of Forestry Restoration
Alexander L. Metcalf
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Human Dimensions of Forest Restoration; Human Dimensions of Invasive Species; Human-Wildlfe Conflict and Issues; Private Lands Management and Conservation; Social-Psychology; Spatial Analysis
Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Human-Wildlife Conflict and Issues; Hunter Recruitment and Retention; River Recreation Management; Social Dimensions of River Retention; Underrepresented Groups in Outdoor Recreation
Todd Morgan
Bureau of Business & Economic Research
Area of Expertise:Forest Economics; Natural Resource Economics; Timber Harvesting, Logging Utilization and Primary Wood Manufacturing Products
Cara Nelson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Detecting Changes in Understory Plant Abundance; Ecological Restoration Treatments; Effects of Large-Scale Disturbances on Forests
Norma Nickerson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Impacts of Tourism on Environment; Tourism Industry and Natural Resources
Martin Nie
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Conservation Strategy; Environmental Conflict; Federal Public Land and Resources Policy; Property and Governance; Wildlife Policy
Charles Palmer
Integrated Physiology and Athletic Training (formerly HHP)
Area of Expertise:Human Performance; Attention Upon Psychological Factors that Contribute to Human Performance; Wildland Firefighting
Michael Patterson
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Social Science and Resource Management; Human Experience with Wildlife and Wetland Resources; Wildland Recreation
LLoyd Paul Queen
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Fire Management; GIS; Landscape Dynamics at Regional Scales; Remote Sensing
Steve Running
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Chapter Author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment; Chapter Lead Author for National Climate Assessment 2014; Forest Ecophysiology; Global Climate Change
Anna Sala
Division of Biological Sciences
Area of Expertise:Plant Biology; Plant Responses to the Environment with Emphasis on Trees; Tree Responses to Fire; Tree-Bark Beetle Interactions
Carl Seielstad
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Fire Monitoring; Fire Weather; Forest and Range Management in Wildlife and Prescribed Fire Settings; Innovative Fuels Inventory Methods; Remote Sensing and GIS;Technology Development and Transfer
Stephen F. Siebert
Forest Management
Area of Expertise:Tropical Forest Conservation and Management; Tropical Agriculture; Non-Timber Forest Products; Biodiversity Conservation; Protected Area Management
Eric Simmons
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Area of Expertise:Fire Suppression; Forest Inventory; Forest Products Industry; Fuels Management; Reforestation
Diana Six
Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Bark Beetle Ecology and Management in Relation to Forest Restoration and Climate Change; Ectosymbioses among Bark and Ambrosia Beetles and Fungi
Jennifer Thomsen
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Ecotourism and Sustainability; Interpretation and Education; Large Landscape Conservation; Linkage Between Health of Parks and People; Outdoor Recreation Benefits and Impacts; Sense of Place and Sustainable Behavior; Stakeholder Collaboration; Transboundary Wildlife Conflict and Management
Laurie Yung
College of Forestry and Conservation
Area of Expertise:Conservation Policy, Political Conflict and Scale; Drought Adaptation on Working Ranchlands; Food-Energy-Water Nexus; Landownership Change and Cross-Boundary Conservation; Rural; Communitites and Ecological Change; Social and Political Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation