- Forest Management and Policy
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Regional resilience and development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
Colorado State University
2017-2023
Pacific Northwest Research Station
2021-2022
US Forest Service
2018-2021
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2018-2021
Intermountain Healthcare
2018
Rocky Mountain Research (United States)
2018
Schultz, C. A., T. J. Timberlake, Z. Wurtzebach, K. B. McIntyre, Moseley, and H. R. Huber-Stearns. 2019. Policy tools to address scale mismatches: insights from U.S. forest governance. Ecology Society 24(1):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10703-240121
Forest managers need access to targeted scientific information about the impacts of climate change in order adapt change. Vulnerability assessments address this and are common across a range disciplines geographies; however, practice vulnerability assessment has revealed challenges that warrant further examination specific context. The U.S. Service, national forest-management agency charge 78 million hectares, developed collection support adaptation by forest managers. We conducted...
How do managers reconcile new priorities for responding to ecological change with traditional decision-making processes? We address this question a focus on the US Forest Service, which is transitioning managing resilience, while operating under mix of both and decades-old policies. conducted qualitative case study research Kaibab National in Arizona, USA, via interviews document analysis. In context, resilience translated into ensuring that forests experienced frequent, low-severity fires....
Social-ecological resilience has been embraced by the United States Forest Service (USFS) as an organizing principle for forest planning and management; however, extent depth of its operationalization remain unclear. We conducted a quantitative content analysis environmental impact statements, evaluating presence or absence various elements that indicate “resilience thinking” speaking” analyzing associations between them. found occurrence most indicators thinking did not have significant...