CNR News

Rangeland Students Bring Home Victories from Society for Range Management Meeting
Posted: Tuesday, February 7
Congratulations are in order for the University of Idaho Range Club for their successes in Spokane at the Society for Range Management Annual Meeting Feb. 3-6. Students placed first in the Rangeland Cup competition, second in the Student Chapter Display Contest, and fourth high team in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam coached by graduate student Ben Wissinger. Julia Workman placed third ind...
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Natural Resources | Faculty and Staff Announcement
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McCall Field Campus Open for Winter Lodging, Recreation
Posted: Thursday, February 2
MCCALL, Idaho – The University of Idaho's McCall Field Campus is open for the winter season, offering affordable accommodations to the public in a rustic and scenic location on Payette Lake in McCall. The campus’ location in Ponderosa State Park makes it an ideal place for exploring the 1,000-acre peninsula and its miles of Nordic and snowshoe trails. Nearby Brundage Mountain, located ...
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Natural Resources | News Release

McCall Field Campus Open for Winter Recreation Accommodations
Posted: Monday, January 30
The University of Idaho's McCall Field Campus is open for the winter season, offering affordable accommodations to the public in a rustic and scenic location on Payette Lake in McCall. The campus’ location in Ponderosa State Park makes it an ideal place for exploring the 1,000-acre peninsula and its miles of Nordic and snowshoe trails. Nearby Brundage Mountain, located high in the mountains of cen...
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Natural Resources | Faculty and Staff Announcement
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University of Idaho Professor to Co-Lead National Science Group
Posted: Thursday, January 12
Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently appointed University of Idaho College of Natural Resources Professor of Conservation and Science Advisor to the Director of the National Park Service Gary Machlis as co-leader of the Department of the Interior’s Strategic Sciences Group. The specialized scientific group will develop future scenarios and provide rapid, in...
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Natural Resources | News Release

Fire Professor Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted: Tuesday, December 20 2011
MOSCOW, Idaho – Stephen Bunting, professor of fire and rangeland ecology and management at the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources, received the Association of Fire Ecology’s Harold Biswell Award Nov. 16 at the Great Basin Fire Ecology Conference in Snowbird, Utah. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to fire ecology and management in the ...
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Natural Resources | Rangeland Ecology and Management | News Release | Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences

Dean of Students to Graduates: Travel Light, But Commit Self Heavily
Posted: Saturday, December 10 2011
MOSCOW, Idaho – Fair skies and crisp temperatures were outside the University of Idaho’s iconic ASUI-Kibbie Activity Center today. Inside, winter graduates from the university looked to a bright future. “You have gained skills and knowledge to take into the market place,” said commencement speaker Bruce Pitman, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of students. “You’ve also learne...
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Natural Resources | News Release | Office of the President | Duane Nellis | Dean of Students

McCall Outdoor Science School Serves Over 500 Idaho Youth This Fall
Posted: Thursday, December 8 2011
The McCall Outdoor Science School recently completed its 11th fall season of residential programming. Seventeen CNR graduate students mentored by MOSS faculty and staff Steve Hollenhorst, Karla Bradley Eitel, Gary Thompson, Jenny Schon and Jan Eitel taught hands-on science inquiry field studies to 562 Idaho fifth and sixth graders between September and November. Schools came from as far east as Po...
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Natural Resources Scientists Pilot Data Management Approaches for U.S. Department of Interior
Posted: Thursday, December 8 2011
Professor Steven Daley-Laursen and Greg Gollberg, program manager of the Fire Research and Management Exchange System, received a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Geological Survey to implement a pilot data management and cyber-infrastructure framework for the U.S. Department of Interior’s national networks of eight Regional Climate Science Centers and 23 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. As Univer...
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Natural Resources | Acknowledgements | Register Features
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Natural Resources Faculty, Alumni Co-author Article on Water Resource Management
Posted: Thursday, December 8 2011
Patrick Wilson, associate professor of natural resource policy and Kofi Akamani, (’11 Nat. Res.) co-authored, “Toward the Adaptive Governance of Transboundary Water Resources” an article recently published in Conservation Letters. The article addresses ways for local communities to participate in the management of shared international waters.
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Natural Resources | Acknowledgements | Register Features
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Wilderness Advocate Receives University of Idaho Honorary Doctorate
Posted: Tuesday, December 6 2011
CLARKSTON, Wash. – In recognition of her public service and contributions to natural resource management and engineering in Idaho and beyond, the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources will honor Janet DeVlieg Pope with a degree of Doctor of Natural Resources on Saturday, Dec. 10 during commencement ceremonies on the Moscow campus. “Janet is a true advocate for the College of Natural R...
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Natural Resources | Engineering | News Release | Idaho at Glance | Register Features | Taylor Wilderness Research Station | engineering