Law and Policy
Public Lands and Wildlife Law
Faculty expertise: Temple Stoellinger
Real environment and natural resource challenges in the West require solutions that draw from many fields of expertise. Professor Stoellinger’s scholarship integrates thinking from the fields of law, energy, economics, policy, and more to explore relevant approaches for decision-making around land, wildlife, energy, and other valued natural resources.
Private Lands
Private Lands Stewardship
Faculty expertise: Drew Bennett
Landowners need tools, information, and resources to help keep agricultural operations viable, prepare for the future, and ensure private working lands remain intact for generations to come. Research in the Whitney MacMillan Program in Private Lands Stewardship creates and synthesizes new knowledge about tools for sustaining private working lands.
Climate Change, Land-Based Livelihoods, and Conservation
Faculty expertise: Corrie Knapp
Professor Knapp focuses on understanding how to best manage and conserve working landscapes in the context of climate change, how to assess and intervene in social-ecological systems, and how climate change will impact the quality and distribution of ecosystem services. She also explores how small-scale “experiments” can scale up and lead to larger-scale transformations.
Wildlife on Landscapes
Ungulate Nutritional Ecology
Faculty expertise: Kevin Monteith
Students and faculty in the Monteith Shop conduct research to support habitat-based, sustainable management of ungulate populations. Their work investigates questions around the effects of predation, habitat alteration, climate change, migration strategies, disease, growth, and novel disturbance through the lens of nutrition.
Carnivore and Habitat Ecology
Faculty expertise: Joe Holbrook
With a focus on mammalian carnivores, research by the Holbrook Team uses extensive data sets to study population and community ecology and improve understanding around why animals are where they are on landscapes, how environmental change influences them, and the roles they fill in broader ecological communities. Further, the interaction between humans and the environment, which has implications for policy, land management, and conservation solutions, informs this research.
Collaborative Solutions
Collaborative Process
Faculty expertise: Steve Smutko and Jessica Western
Theory around collaborative approaches to natural resource challenges is constantly evolving. Haub School research in this arena explores the discourse around collaborative process for federal land management agencies, private landowners, ranchers, industry, conservation organizations, recreation groups, and other parties to address environment and natural resource decision-making.
