Pacific Northwest Research Station

About Us

Research Overview

Team Members:

Ellen Donoghue, Research Social Scientist
Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory
620 SW Main St., Suite 400
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 808-2018

A. Paige Fischer, Post-doc Social Scientist
Corvallis Forestry Sciences Laboratory
3200 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331-4401
Phone: (541) 758-7793

Melissa Poe, STEP Social Scientist
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab
400 N. 34th Street, Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206) 732-7820

Our team focuses on four areas of inquiry relating to communities and forest management:

I. Understand forest-community connections and how social and ecological processes related to forests and their management are linked

II. Examine socioeconomic change in communities related to forest management, contribute to the development of related theory and concepts, and conduct socioeconomic monitoring of forest-community relations

III. Examine models of community-based forest management, their contributions to forest and community sustainability, and the role of institutions in collaborative resource management

IV. Investigate the use of traditional and local ecological knowledge in the management of public, private, and tribal forest lands

Current Research

• Understanding Agency and Community Dynamics in Restoring Fire-Adapted Ecosystems

• Managing for Wildland Fire and Invasive Species on Family Forest Lands in the Ponderosa Pine Ecosystem

2007 | 2006 | 2005

Donoghue, E.M. and V.S. Sturtevant, eds. In press. Forest Community Connections: Implications for Research, Management, and Governance. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.

McLain, R.J.; Donoghue, E. M.; Kusel, J.; Buttolph, L.; Charnley, S. 2008. “Multi-scale socioeconomic assessment across large ecosystems: Lessons from practice”. Society and Natural Resources.

Dillingham C, Poe M, Grinspoon E, et.al. In press. Northwest Forest Plan -The First Ten Years: Socioeconomic Monitoring of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest and Five Local Communities. Pacific Northwest Research Gen. Technical Report.

Fischer, A.P. and J.C. Bliss. In press. Framing conservation on private lands: Conserving oak in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Society and Natural Resources.

Fischer, A.P. and J.C. Bliss. 2008. Behavioral assumptions of conservation policy: Conserving oak habitat on family-forest land in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Conservation Biology 22(2): 275-283.

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This team's 2008 Science Accomplishments