About Tony

As director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, I oversee programs and projects that develop, synthesize, and apply locally-relevant scientific information to assist land managers, communities, and policy-makers achieve forest restoration and wildfire hazard reduction goals.

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Interests

  • My interests are in forest governance, policy, and administration, specifically collaborative, participatory strategies that attempt to sustain both resilient forest ecosystems and the well-being of forest-reliant communities.

Education

PhD, Forestry - Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, 2000

MS, Forestry - University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN, 1993

BA, Political Science - Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA, 1990

Selected Articles

The evolving role of government in the adaptive governance of freshwater social-ecological systems in the western US

Environmental Science and Policy, 40-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.07.011, 2017

Huber-Stearns, Heidi R. and Antony S. Cheng

Is there a place for legislating place-based collaborative forestry proposals?: examining the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act Pilot Project

Journal of Forestry, 114(4):494-504 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/jof.15-074), 2016

Cheng, A.S., R.J. Gutierrez, S. Cashen, D.R. Becker, J. Gunn, A. Merrill, D. Ganz, M. Liquori, D.S. Saah, and W. Price

Examining adaptability of collaborative governance in public ecosystem management: insights from the Front Range Roundtable, Colorado, USA

Ecology and Society , 20(1): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07187-200135, 2015

Cheng, A.S., A.K. Gerlak, L. Dale, and K.M. Mattor

Collaborative restoration effects on forest structure in ponderosa pine-dominated forests of Colorado

Forest Ecology and Management , In press, 2018

Cannon, J.B., K.J. Barrett, G.H. Aplet, P.J. Fornwalt, P.M. Brown, R.N. Addington, J.S. Briggs, M.A. Battaglia, B.M. Gannon, J.L. Underhill, and A.S. Cheng

Principles and practices for the restoration of ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests of the Colorado Front Range

General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-373. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. , , 2018

Addington, R.N., G.H. Aplet, M.A. Battaglia, J.S. Briggs, P.M. Brown, A.S. Cheng, Y. Dickinson, J.A. Feinstein, K.A. Pelz, C.M. Regan, J. Thinnes, R. Truex, P.J. Fornwalt, B. Gannon, C.W. Julian, J.L. Underhill, and B. Wolk

Web Links

Colorado Forest Restoration Institute

Southern Rockies Fire Science Network