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Tony Cheng	Rocky Coleman	David Cooper	Yvette Dickinson
Associate Professor/Director, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute Professional Interests: Forest governance, policy, and administration; forest landscape restoration; participatory, collaborative strategies.	Instructor Professional Interests: Geographic information systems, global positioning systems, forest ecogeography and dendrology.	Associate Professor/Senior Research Scientist Professional Interests: Ecosystems characterized by a perennial, seasonal or periodic abundance of water, including peatlands, streams/rivers and their floodplains, marshes, springs, wet meadows, and salt flats.	Temporary Assistant Professor Professional Interests: Influence of silviculture on forest structure and carbon storage.

Maria Fernandez-Gimenez	Chad Hoffman	Kurt Mackes	Paul Meiman
Associate Professor Professional Interests: Ecological and social dimensions of wildland ecosystems, focusing primarily on rangelands and including community-based and collaborative natural resource management; traditional and local ecological knowledge; pastoralism and pastoral development; participatory research.	Assistant Professor Professional Interests: Wildland fire sciences, the application of physics based wildland fire modeling to current issues in fire and land management, validation of fire behavior models, fuels inventory and management, disturbance ecology and interactions.	Assistant Professor Professional Interests: Forestry operations, wood utilization and marketing, and bioenergy derived from woody biomass.	Assistant Professor Professional Interests: Ecology and management of rangelands, invasive plant ecology and management.

Mark Paschke	Robin Reich	Robin Reid	Doug Rideout
Associate Professor/Dean of Research Professional Interests: Restoration and ecology of disturbed ecosystems, soil and rhizosphere biology, ecology of invasive plant species, nitrogen biogeochemistry, biology of Frankia and actinorhizal plants, ecology of plant-microbe interactions.	Professor Professional Interests: Forest biometrics and spatial statistics.	Associate Professor/Director, Center for Collaborative Conservation Professional Interests: Linked social-ecological systems, collaborative research methods, education and engagement in the drylands of East Africa and Mongolia. Linking and fostering learning about the collaborative conservation initiatives in the American West.	Professor Professional Interests: Economics of initial wildfire attack, economics of prescribed burning and fuels management, interagency strategic planning and fire policy. Timber sale contracting, forest investment analysis, timber supply and demand. Analysis of the timber industry in public forestry.

Courtney Schultz	Frederick 'Skip' Smith	John Stednick	Yu Wei
Assistant Professor Professional Interests: Natural resource policy, planning, and governance, in particular strategies and policies related to monitoring, adaptive management, and dealing with scientific uncertainty.	Professor/Department Head Professional Interests: Ecology of forest productivity and silviculture of forest stands for multiple outputs.	Professor Professional Interests: Water quantity and quality changes from land use activities and natural disturbances. Evaluation of Best Management Practices for implementation and effectiveness to reduce nonpoint source pollution.	Associate Professor Professional Interests: Developing and implementing operations research models to integrate economic, ecology and social concerns in forest ecosystem management and planning.

Staff

Jamie Dahl	Erin Heim	Sonya Le Febre	Josie Self
Experiential Learning Coordinator	Undergraduate Program Coordinator	Graduate Program Coordinator & Fire & Emergency Services Administration BS Key Advisor	Administrative Assistant


	Matt Brincka	Emilie Gooch
	Academic Support Coordinator	Administrative Assistant

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