UI Website Aims to Simplify Forestry Best Management Practices
Posted: Wednesday, May 1
MOSCOW, Idaho – A new website is taking root to help forest owners and others comply with Idaho forestry best management practices designed to protect water quality and the environment. University of Idaho Extension Forestry and the Idaho Department of Lands developed the website, www.idahoforestrybmps.org. It explains the importance of best management practices or BMPs toprotecting watersh...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Natural Resources | Extension | Forestry

MOSS Summer Science Programs for Middle - High Schoolers
Posted: Friday, April 19
McCall Outdoor Science School is hosting summer courses. Spend a week of exploring the rivers, lakes and mountains of the northern Rocky Mountains that surround McCall, Idaho. Residential and field science expeditions for middle and high school students as well as fun, adventure-filled day camps for younger students are available. For more information: www.uidaho.edu/cnr/moss/k-12program/summerpro...
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Natural Resources | Faculty and Staff Announcement

Filling a Void: U-Idaho Announces Renewable Materials Program
Posted: Thursday, March 7
MOSCOW, Idaho — With the market for green products on the rise, the need for employees with skills and experiences in developing and marketing green products is becoming critical. The University of Idaho’s recently renamed College of Natural Resources Renewable Materials program is uniquely suited to develop future professionals to meet this need. “This is an exciting, new oppo...
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Natural Resources | Forest Products | Renewable Materials | Forest Products | News Release | Forest Products | Renewable Materials | Forestry | environment | Tom Gorman | Renewable Materials | Renewable Materials | CNR

U-Idaho Range Faculty, Students and Alumni Shine at International Range Meeting
Posted: Wednesday, February 13
The University of Idaho Range students, faculty and alumni garnered numerous awards at the annual International Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City last week. Karen Launchbaugh, professor of rangeland ecology and management and director of the U-Idaho Rangeland Center, was honored with the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Range Science Education Council an...
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Natural Resources | Acknowledgements

Seattle Philanthropists Create Endowed Chair and More at U-Idaho
Posted: Friday, February 1
MOSCOW, Idaho – A Seattle couple has donated $3.3 million to the University of Idaho to benefit faculty, students and facilities. The gift, from husband and wife Tom Alberg and Judi Beck, will establish the university’s first fully funded endowed chair, a pair of graduate student fellowships, establish a separate faculty excellence fund and pay for costs associated with the constructio...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Natural Resources | Anthony S. Davis | Research | News Release | Donor | Funding | Fellowships | Duane Nellis | Kurt Pregitzer | Advancement | CNR

U-Idaho Ecologists Offer Plans on Preserving Nation’s Biodiversity
Posted: Wednesday, January 23
By Jill Maxwell The protected areas network within the continental United States is often viewed as one of the country’s best tools for securing vegetation communities and the species they support into the future. Yet, the current network of protected U.S. lands does not fully capture the entire range of the country’s vegetation communities or ecological systems. The failure to ade...
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Natural Resources | Research | News Release | Soil

Rangeland Livestock Symposium to Address Issues Facing Ranchers
Posted: Tuesday, December 11 2012
TWIN FALLS, Idaho – Rangeland and animal science extension faculty with the University of Idaho Rangeland Center will offer the 2013 Intermountain Rangeland Livestock Symposium and Technical Training Jan. 10-11 at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho. Collaborative sponsors include the Idaho Section of the Society for Range Management and the Idaho Rangeland Resource Commission...
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Natural Resources | Natural Resources, Ph.D. | News Release | Natural Resources, M.S. | Amanda Gearhart

U-Idaho Project to Monitor Wilderness Ecosystem as it ‘Breathes’
Posted: Monday, December 10 2012
By Jill Maxwell TAYLOR WILDERNESS RANCH RESEARCH STATION, Idaho – Trudging up a steep mountainside to dig holes in rocky soil doesn’t seem like professorial work. But for Katy Kavanagh and Tim Link – faculty members in the University of Idaho Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences Department – it was all in a recent weekend’s work. Mundane as the task may seem, the hol...
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Natural Resources | Katy Kavanagh | Natural Resources, Ph.D. | News Release | Natural Resources, M.S.

Candidate Open Forum, Department Head, Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
Posted: Tuesday, December 4 2012
You are invited to attend the following presentations by the candidates for the forest, rangeland, and fire sciences department head position. They will be discussing their management and leadership styles, followed by an open forum for questions and discussion. John Marshall Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. in CNR 200 Anthony Davis Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. in CNR 200
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Natural Resources | Faculty and Staff Announcement

Scientists argue river restoration projects must change focus
Posted: Monday, November 26 2012
A team of scientists, including U-Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife Professor Dennis Scarnecchia and retired U-Idaho Fisheries Resources Professor James Congleton, have concluded that a lack of attention paid to complex food web systems in our rivers may be to blame for the slow recovery of our fish stocks.
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Natural Resources | Dennis Scarnecchia | Fishery Resources