Talks & Media

Talks & media

Conference presentations, invited talks to agencies, counties and collaboratives, and press coverage.

Presentations 15 talks

2025

A to Z Stewardship Contracting

Part of a panel on Current Adaptations and Initiatives to Advance Locally Driven, Cross-Boundary Action. Presented at the Montana Forest Collaboration Network Conference, Missoula, MT. November 6, 2025
2025

Unpacking the Public Lands Burden: Public lands, local governments and tax policy in the American West

Presented at the Western Public Administration Research Group meeting, Las Vegas, NV. February 22, 2025
2023

Does Collaboration Make a Difference? Pace, Scale and the Role of Forest Service Staff

Presented to the Human Dimensions Community of Practice, Washington Office, USDA Forest Service. August 16, 2023
2023

Inside the Black Box: Bureaucratic adaptations to New Public Governance

Presented at the 2023 American Society for Public Administration Conference. Virtual. March 2, 2023
2022

Collaborative Governance and Institutional Work: A qualitative study of policy implementation within the US Forest Service

Presented at the 2022 International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference. Virtual. June 2022
2021

The role of bureaucratic behavior in collaborative governance of public lands: An investigation into agency and institutional work within the US Forest Service

Presented as part of session organized by Katherine Wollstein and Chelsea Pennick entitled “Institutional Work in Federal Lands Governance: Local perspectives from the Western US.” 2021 International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference. Virtual. June 21, 2021
2021

A new approach to monitoring changes in federal timber consumption and utilization with implications for estimating employment and income

Presented as part of session organized by Mark D.O. Adams entitled “Advancing Methods for Social and Economic Monitoring of Community Resilience in the Context of Resource Management by US Federal Agencies.” Presented at the 2021 International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference. Virtual. June 24, 2021
2020

Collaboration in the Intermountain West: Impacts on pace, scale and agency decision-making

Presented to the Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership Meeting. Virtual. April 15, 2020
2020

Collaboration in the Intermountain West: A project to understand how collaboration is impacting the pace and scale of restoration on public lands

Presented to the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Working Group. Anaconda, MT. February 2020
2018

County Payments: Past, Present and Future

Presented to the Public Lands Committee of the Idaho Association of Counties. Boise, ID, September 25, 2018
2018

Collaboration in the Intermountain West: A project to understand how collaboration is impacting the pace and scale of restoration

Presented to the Ecosystem Management and Coordination Group, Washington Office, US Forest Service. Virtual, August 30, 2018
2018

Can Evidence of a Public Lands Burden Be Found?

Presented at the Western Forest Economists Annual Meeting. Olympia, WA, June 4, 2018
2018

Building Wealth in Rural Communities: county payments and beyond

Mineral County Resource Coalition, Superior, MT, May 8, 2018
2018

Understanding County Payments: A Case Study

Presented at the Montana Forest Counties Summit. Missoula, MT, May 1-2, 2018
2018

Building Wealth in Rural Communities

Panel on Honing Your Collaboration Skills. Presented at the Idaho/Montana Regional Forest Restoration Workshop. Coeur d’Alene, ID, March 20-21, 2018

In the media

2026

Forest Service develops “sustained yield” aimed at propping up Montana’s flagging timber industry

Montana Free Press, April 16, 2026. Cites PAG Policy Brief No. 1 on sustained yield units.
2021

Study: Western state budgets hit hard from wildfire costs

Interview with Rachel Cohen, Idaho State Public Radio, December 17, 2021.

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2021

How effective is the Forest Service’s public engagement process?

Interview with Carl Segerstrom, High Country News, March 24, 2021.
2017

The changing politics of woods work

Interview with Hal Herring, High Country News, published October 30, 2017.

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