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College of Natural Resources
P.O. Box 441139
Moscow, ID 83844-1139
Phone: (208) 885-7911
Fax: (208) 885-6226
Email: css@uidaho.edu

Faculty and Staff

The Department of Conservation Social Sciences has eleven faculty members. Several have won college and university-wide teaching awards. Graduates of the program consistently praise the faculty for their knowledge, teaching excellence, accessibility, helpful advising, and overall concern for students.

Elk River FallsFaculty
Jim Fazio
Troy Hall
Sam Ham
Chuck Harris
Steve Hollenhorst
Ed Krumpe
Tammi Laninga
Bill McLaughlin
Sandra Pinel
Nick Sanyal
Patrick Wilson
Larry Young

Emeritus Faculty
John Hendee
John Hunt

Staff
Debi Zenner

  

 

Faculty Academic Interests
   
Jim Fazio
Professor
(208) 885-7209
jfazio@uidaho.edu
Resource communication; environmental interpretation; conservation history; urban and community forestry.
   
Troy Hall
Associate Professor of
Protected Area Visitor Studies
(208) 885-9455
troyh@uidaho.edu
Wilderness management and planning; communication and persuasion; research methods; public understanding of science.
   
Sam Ham
Professor of
Communication Psychology
(208) 885-7911
sham@uidaho.edu
Influence of communication on human behavior; qualities of effective communication; interpretive planning in parks and protected areas; marketing and environmental communication; guiding and interpretation; international applications of the above.
   
Chuck Harris
Professor of Environmental Management, Policy, and Planning
(208) 885-6314
charris@uidaho.edu
Resource management, policy and planning; community development and ecosystem management; organizational psychology of resource management agencies; natural resource tourism, impacts and market analysis; recreation and amenity values.
   
Steve Hollenhorst
Professor of Protected Area Policy
(208) 885-7911
stevenh@uidaho.edu
Environmental policy; wilderness and protected area management; land trusts and conservation easements.
   
Ed Krumpe
Professor of Wilderness Management;
and Principle Scientist,
UI Wilderness Research Center
(208) 885-7428
edkrumpe@uidaho.edu
Wilderness and dispersed recreation management; wild and scenic river management, recreation and tourism behavior and the decision process, interpretation and communication, administration, group facilitation for decision making, web-based surveys.
Home Page:  http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/wilderness/edkrumpe.htm
   
Tammi Laninga
Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Use Planning
(208)885-7117
laninga@uidaho.edu

Community-based collaborative planning related to federal land management agencies; recreation and travel management planning on public lands; small town land use planning; public participation; conflict resolution; and growth management.
Bill McLaughlin
Professor of Human Environmental Sciences and Conservation Planning
(208) 885-6442
billm@uidaho.edu
Regional planning including parks and protected areas; nature conservation; tourism; economic development; group facilitation for decision-making and conflict resolution; social science research methods and human dimensions of fish and wildlife management.
   
Sandra Lee Pinel
Assistant Professor of Sustainable Communities and Bioregional Planning
(208) 885-7792
spinel@uidaho.edu
Community, tribal and regional land use planning and development; multi-cultural and cross-jurisdictional planning and program design; conflict management; indigenous peoples and protected areas, decentralization. Geographic focus: Southwestern and western states, Philippines, Peru, and Minnesota
Nick Sanyal
Associate Professor of Heritage and Harvest Studies
(208) 885-7528
nsanyal@uidaho.edu
Directing scholarship on and learning about the wildlands, communities and institutions necessary for the recreational use, enjoyment, understanding and conservation of our natural resources.
   
Patrick Wilson
Associate Professor of Natural Resource Policy
(208) 885-7431
pwilson@uidaho.edu
Natural resource policy and politics and comparative public policy;  politics of species conservation, tribal government management of natural resources, and water policy and politics.
Larry Young
Department Head and Associate Professor of Conservation Social Sciences
(208) 885-7911
Advocacy, conservation sociology, collaborative planning
John Hendee
Professor Emeritus of Wilderness Management
hendeejo@uidaho.edu
Wilderness, recreation, wildlife, and forest policy and management; integration of natural resource uses with tourism and recreation development; human behavior aspects of tourism and recreation development.
   
John Hunt
Professor Emeritus of Sustainable Tourism
jhunt@tds.net
Tourism planning, development, marketing, and management; integration of natural resource uses with tourism and recreation development; human behavior aspects of tourism and recreation development.

Staff

Debi Zenner 
Administrative Assistant 2
(208) 885-5529
css@uidaho.edu


 

 
 
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