• Community-based collaborative planning
• Federal land management planning
• Sustainable land use planning approaches

• Lowry, Michael B., Tamara J. Laninga, and Kevin Kingsbury.  [in press] Recreation River Management Using Traffic Simulation Software. Transportation Research Board.


• Austin, Gary, Tamara Laninga and Wendy McClure.  Reinvesting in Small Western Town Central Business Districts: Preserving Rural Character and Enhancing Sustainable Development through University-Community Partnerships (submitted to Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship Spring 2010).

Patterns of Institutional Relationships and Local Collective Action.

Priest River, ID

• The objective of this pilot project is to assess, over time, community organizations in pursuing collective goals in the Priest River, ID area.  By utilizing a pre/post survey method, this project will examine the extent to which the Learning and Practice Collaborative with Priest River affects community collective action.
• Co-investigators: Dr. Manoj Shresthra and Lisa Marshall (RA).
• Start Date:  Fall 2009

North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River Management Plan Project.

• Work with the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River Preservation Committee to prepare a comprehensive plan for future management direction on the North Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River. 
• Co-investigators: Dr. Steve Hollenhorst, Nick Brown (RA) and Kelly Purnell (RA)
• Start Date: Summer 2009

South Fork Graduate Intern.  Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Upper Snake Field Office. 

Idaho Falls, ID

• Manage research intern in completing a multi-stage public input project.  Input projects include 1) nine community assessment workshops (May 2008); 2) twenty visitor recreation meetings (October 2008); 3) development of website for public input on wild and scenic river designations in the field office (April/May 2009); 4) initiated visitor capacity study on the South Fork of the Snake River involving literature review, fous focus groups, six in-person outfitter interviews, online survey, and boater survey (Spring Fall 2009).
• Start Date:  Spring 2008

Clearwater River Basin, Idaho

• Work with a team of bioregional planning and community design graduate students to conduct primary (e.g., interviews) and secondary research in the Clearwater Basin, ID to develop a bioregional atlas examining the region’s cultural/social, biophysical, and economic characteristics. [link to atlas coming soon]
• Start Date:  Fall 2010

City of Priest River Learning & Practice Collaborative

Priest River, ID

• Worked with planning graduate students to produce the Priest River Bioregional Atlas.  Assisted, along with other faculty and students, community and elected officials in addressing planning and economic development issues in the town ranging from developing waterfront development options to revising the comprehensive plan.
• The atlas is available here:  http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/files/Atlases/PRAtlas.pdf
• Student projects from Priest River can be viewed here: http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/priestriver.aspx
• Start Date: Fall 2009

City of Cascade Learning & Practice Collaborative

Cascade, ID

• Worked with planning graduate students to develop the Long Valley Bioregional Atlas and worked with the city to revise comprehensive plan.
• http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/files/Atlases/LongValleyAtlas.pdf
• http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/files/classprojects/CascadeCompPlan2009.pdf
• Start Date: Fall 2008

City of Plummer & the Coeur d’Alene Tribe Learning & Practice Collaborative

Plummer, ID

• Developed the Coeur d’Alene Community Bioregional Atlas.  Worked with graduate planning students and the city of Plummer to update their land use ordinances and with students and Tribal Housing Authority staff to develop several housing site design options for new tribal housing.
• http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/files/Atlases/CDAAtlas.pdf
• http://www.bioregionalplanning.uidaho.edu/files/classprojects/SerentoHousing.pdf
• Start Date:  Fall 2007

Idaho State-wide Land Use Planning Analysis Steering Committee.

• Collaborative project examining comprehensive planning in the state of Idaho with Boise State University and Idaho Smart Growth.
• Co-investigators: Dr. Sandra Pinel and Jase Brooks (RA)
• Start Date: 2008

• Western Regional Outreach Scholarship Foundation Engagement Award.  Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.  Building Sustainable Communities Initiative and University of Idaho Extension Horizon Program.  $6000.