• Interdisciplinary resource management and planning
• Human dimensions of water resources, restoration ecology, and ecosystem management
• Community development and resource management
• Social impact assessment
• Resource management, policy and planning
• Economics of water resources, recreation & amenity values
• regional economics of rural communities
• Organizational psychology of resource management agencies
• Resource conflict management and resolution

I have been a member of the faculty of the Department of Conservation Social Sciences in the College of Natural Resources since 1984, after earning an M.S. at Colorado State and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. In my work as Professor of Environmental Policy, Planning, and Management, I have applied social psychology, rural sociology, and economics to such areas as community-based impact assessment, ecological restoration, ecosystem management and water resources. Until recently, I served as the director for the college’s Master of Natural Resources Program, an interdisciplinary MPA-type program. I currently teach courses on the human dimensions of resource management and natural resources planning. I am married, and we have 3 grown kids – one living here in Moscow, one in Portland, and one in Oakland, CA — plus our two dogs (pound puppies that are Lab/Heinz-47 mixes). A recent eye-opening event in my life started when I was back east a year ago July & came down with a splitting headache, which turned out to be a brain abscess; two days after going into an Urgent Care office to have it checked out, I was on the operating table getting my head sawed open, my brain cleansed of the infection, and the pressure relieved. Only two days later, I was out of the hospital, but I stayed on bed-rest and antibiotics for a couple of months after returning to Idaho.