Meet the Department

Julie Haarr
Administrative Assistant II
Department of Conservation & Social Sciences
208.885.7911 | Office: CNR 19
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Edwin E. Krumpe
Professor; Department Head
Dr. Krumpe is a professor of resource recreation and tourism in the University of Idaho College of Conservation Social Sciences. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Professor Krumpe is the Principle Scientist of Wilderness Management of the University of Idaho Wilderness Research Center, for which he served as director for six years. He has over thirty one years experience in conducting research and teaching about recreation and tourism management, wilderness and wild and scenic river planning, natural resource communication, and public involvement and conflict resolution.
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Karla Eitel
Assistant Professor; Director of Education, McCall Outdoor Science School
Specialty Areas of Interest: Residential environmental education, preparing environmental educators in a residential setting, building scientific literacy in teachers and K12 students
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Troy Hall
Professor
Areas of interest: Recreation planning and management: Developing creative ways to bring stakeholders together to solve challenges created by increasing demand and sociocultural changes. In particular: (1) understanding the nature of wilderness experiences and helping managers devise acceptable management alternatives for high-use destinations; and (2) working with multiple stakeholders and land managers to understand trends and management alternatives for dispersed and developed recreation sites. Recent research includes
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Sam Ham
Professor; Director of Center for International Training and Outreach
Special areas of interest: Communication theory and human behavior in parks and tourism settings, Psychology of interpretation and tourism experience, Guiding and guide training, Interpretation training and interpretive planning, Natural resource communication, Nature-based tourism and eco-tourism, Parks and protected area management
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Chuck Harris
Professor
Dr. Charles C. Harris (Chuck) has been at the University of Idaho for over 20 years, where he has taught and conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including: the human dimensions of ecosystem management and restoration ecology; the impacts of resource management activities and policies on rural communities; social impact assessment and deliberative public input processes; resource management, policy, and planning; the organizational psychology of resource management; and natural resource tourism, impacts, and market analysis.
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Steven Hollenhorst
Professor, Department of Conservation Social Sciences; Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, College of Natural Resources; Director, McCall Outdoor Science School
Research Areas: Protected area policy and management; Land trusts and conservation easements; Conservation planning; Environmental education; Environmental leadership
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Tammi Laninga
Assistant Professor
Research and teaching interests: Community-based collaborative planning, Federal land management planning processes, Sustainable land use planning. Laninga has a joint appointment within CSS and the UI Bioregional Planning and Community Design program.
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Sandra Lee Pinel
Assistant Professor
Research and teaching interests: Local and regional land use planning, indigenous and community culture in planning theory and methods; cultural landscapes, multi-jurisdictional governance; limits to participatory and collaborative planning; conflict management; community economic development; epistemologies in planning cultural resource management; ethnographic research methods, social impact and contextualized case study research.
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Bill McLaughlin
Professor
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Jay O'Laughlin, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty Member
Director of Policy Analysis Group; Professor of Forest Resources
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Natural Resources Policy Analysis * Natural Resources Economics
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Nick Sanyal
Associate Professor
Areas of specialization: Directing scholarship on and learning about the wildlands, communities and institutions necessary for the use, enjoyment, understanding and conservation of our natural resources; The Academic Advising- Service Learning-Teaching interface; Conservation planning; human dimensions of fish and wildlife management.
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Kelly Wendland
Assistant Professor
Research Interests and Areas of Specialization: Natural resource and environmental economics, Economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation, Payments for ecosystem services, Land change science, International conservation
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Patrick Wilson
Associate Professor
Patrick Wilson's research interests include natural resource policy and politics, and comparative public policy; politics of species conservation, tribal government management of natural resources, and water policy and politics.
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