A5004650260- Forest Management and Policy
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Rural development and sustainability
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Regional resilience and development
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
The Nature Conservancy
2024
Cornell University
2021-2023
Atkins (United States)
2022
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2021-2022
Pacific Northwest Research Station
2021
US Forest Service
2021
Montana State University
2017-2021
Animal fear can be an important driver of ecological community structure: predators affect prey not only through predation, but also by inducing changes in behaviour and distribution—a phenomenon evocatively called the “ecology fear.” The return wolves to western United States is a notable instance such dynamics, yet plays out complex socioecological system where efforts mitigate impacts on livestock rely manipulating wolves' people. Examining Washington state's wolf reduce we argue that...
Abstract The expansion of grey wolves ( Canis lupus ) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques reducing wolf–livestock conflict supporting coexistence. We examined approaches forested managed by U.S. Forest Service, which we characterize as large, rugged remote (LRR) landscapes. Research spatial aspects where are deployed their effectiveness geographic settings is scant. selected six national forests...
Epstein, K., J. DiCarlo, R. Marsh, B. Adhikari, D. Paudel, I. Ray, and E. Måren. 2018. Recovery adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology Society 23(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129
Despite the increasing concentration of wealth among high net worth (HNW) individuals and their rising influence as proprietors natural resources worldwide, discipline geography has only recently begun to consider interactions between contemporary global super-rich systems environmental management. This article addresses a gap in literature related social ecological implications ranches owned by very wealthy. Drawing from life course perspective, we complicate static representations...
Epstein, K., D. J. A. Wood, K. Roemer, B. Currey, H. Duff, Gay, Goemann, S. Loewen, M. C. Milligan, F. Wendt, E. Jack Brookshire, Maxwell, L. McNew, McWethy, P. Stoy, and Haggerty. 2021. Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana. Ecology Society 26(1):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12141-260110
Where agricultural land use and biodiversity conservation values overlap, science has tended to focus on the challenges posed by ownership fragmentation. However, dynamics of concentration also affect rural landscapes economies upon which increasingly depends. In this study, we provide a methodological approach measuring using parcel-level data generate description private landownership trends at boundary Northern Rockies Great Plains, two ecoregions global significance. Across our 25m-acre...
Environmental disasters, such as hurricanes, landslides, and earthquakes, are pervasive disproportionately affect rural poor populations. The concept of resilience is typically used in disaster scenarios to describe how a community or person able “bounce back” from event. At the same time, theory also contends that environmental shocks, can produce initiate profound changes social ecological systems. This case uses post-disaster assessment examine series earthquakes hit central Nepal 2015...
In resource management, new terms are frequently introduced, reflecting ongoing evolution in the theory and practice of ecology governance. Yet understandings what concepts mean, for whom, they imply management on ground can vary widely. Coexistence—a prominent concept within literature practices around human-wildlife conflict predator management—is one such term: widely invoked yet poorly defined. While some coexistence is latest paradigm improving relations, remains debated indeed even...
In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), most established avenue for collaborative resource management is Coordinating Committee (GYCC), a coordinating body comprising local units of four federal land agencies in region. ecosystem-scale activities has been primary concern GYCC since its inception and source intense public scrutiny, especially following 1991 “Vision Exercise” which sought coordinated ecosystem plan As processes remain an important tenet modern management, we revisit...
The ongoing devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought new urgency to questions surrounding origins, management, and complex dynamics infectious diseases. In this mini review, we use growing international concern over potential emerging diseases as motivation for outlining a research approach study emotional dimensions animal disease management. We sketch out important analytical terrain by first locating opportunities literature on biosecurization nature intersect with field political...
The 2020 SRM Annual Meeting piloted “Campfire Conversation,” round-table discussions styled after the World Café approach. event attracted 280 attendees and enabled multidirectional knowledge exchange (i.e., “cuss discuss”), rather than one-way “chalk-and-talk.” Attendees participated in three 20-minute facilitated around topics they selected from a menu of 13 timely rangeland issues. Change was common theme for many Campfire Conversations, including social, climatic, ecological, management,...