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.

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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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Ed 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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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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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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