Winter 2013 | Celebrating Natural Resources

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18 FEATUREExperiential Education Evolution

The McCall Field Campus builds on success to lead STEM education

2014 is the 125th anniversary of the University

of Idaho. CNR is a pillar in the legacy of UI and

a beacon in the future of our flagship, land-

grant university. Join with us as we build on

our past to create a vibrant future.

14 COVER STORYStudent Services

Students serve at Risk Teens, as ambassadors and as

liasons to veterans

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Volume 30 | Number 1NaturalCELEBRATING

12 FEATURENursery Building Growing

New PossibilitiesNew construction at Pitkin

Nursery allows for more graduate students

RESOURCES


FEATURE 24Wild About Learning Our Semester in the wild students shine at Taylor wilderness Research Station

FEATURE 38Making the Grade CNR continues to produce leaders in the industry

ALSo IN ThIS ISSuE

5 Thriving Programs

8 Force Breaks Barrier First female Gifford Pinchot Medal winner

10 Forestry Roots Grow Industry Leaders Relive our forestry history through photographs

16 Students Shine on Shores of Success

26 Programming for the Future

28 our Legacy is Learning from the Land

on the cover: Hui Li makes adjustments to

the large pyrolosis machine used for turning

bio waste such as wood chips and bark,

into bio fuel. This is part of the Renewable

Materials program. See story on page 26.

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Magazine StaffThe College of Natural Resources magazine is published annually for alumni of CNR. Subscription is free. The magazine also is available online in its entirety on the college’s website, www.uidaho.edu/cnr.

Kurt Pregitzer, deanJodi Walker, editor/writerSteven Hacker, director of developmentKevin Boling, Advisory Board chair

CNR Alumni NewsUniversity of Idaho875 Perimeter Drive MS 1142Moscow, ID 83844-1142E-mail: [email protected]

Design - Beth Case, UI Creative Services

Photography - UI Photo Services

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programsDear CNR Colleagues and Friends:

Our College of Natural Resources continues to be a beacon for what is right in natural resource education. As the University of Idaho celebrates its 125th anniversary, our historical programs are thriving, and our faculty and students are validated with many awards. You can learn about all of this as you read this issue of Celebrating Natural Resources.

Research continues to grow, as it has over the past four years – a true testament to the quality of our faculty. New booked awards have increased nearly 50 percent and CNR is second among the colleges in total dollars awarded to research in 2013. Many of our undergraduates are directly involved in research which gives them real-world skills to take into the workplace. Our students continue to find meaningful employment and our reputation for training outstanding graduates at all levels helps us successfully recruit the best natural resource students whose passion for nature pushes us to be even better.

Acquiring the deed to the land in McCall, home for 70 years to our summer camp, has been a highlight of the year. The property has historically been leased from the Idaho Department of Lands. Having full ownership is a major accomplishment that took several years of my time and lots of institutional support. This accomplishment is a milestone in the history of the college as we now have a certain future on the shores of Payette Lake. Owning the land enables us to plan for capital improvements and a new field campus. You will read more about this exciting development in this issue.

Another fantastic accomplishment this year is the deepened partnership created with Tom Alberg and Judi beck. Their $3.3 million investment in the College of Natural Resources has established the first endowed chair at the university right here in CNR. It also has allowed for construction of a new building at the nursery that features Idaho forest products, a dream of mine for some time. Finally, it funds two graduate fellowships.

Our students continue to excel. CNR is proud to have the only Fulbright Scholar at UI. Her work on conservation in human-dominated tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica has furthered our partnerships in that country and our prominence in leading natural resource education.

Our new Advisory board, comprised of natural resource leaders, is active and ready to help us provide employers with the best graduates in the coming years. Their ideas and enthusiasm are greatly appreciated.

Our overwhelming success in providing quality experiential learning through growing programs like Semester in the wild, combined with our legacy of traditional and impactful natural resource education allows us to continue as the best natural resource college in the west.

best wishes,

DEAN’S LETTER |

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Twelve alumni, friends and supporters of the College of Natural Resources are the first members of the newly created CNR Advisory board. we represent a wide variety of Natural Resource industries and agencies but we share a com-

mon goal of promoting the UI College of Natural Resources.

we met for the first time in November, at the invitation of Dean Kurt Pregitzer.

Dean Pregitzer described for the board its role and the three achievements he hopes to see.

1) Advocacy for the college, both internal and external to the University;

2) Communication and feedback to the college on program prioritization and assessment;

3) Fundraising — not just giving, but building relationships with our supporters.

As department chairs gave reports about the status of the programs and what they would like to see in the future, the passion each has for the different departments was evident. The board was truly impressed by the genuine enthusiasm for their discipline and life’s work, but most importantly for their students.

Many board members share the experience and lifelong friendships gained through participation in the McCall Summer Camp. The experience was unique to our CNR education and quite different from other UI colleges.

while current students don’t have that experience, they do have amazing opportuni-ties to grow and bond. CNR’s Student Services Center recruits incoming freshman with the help of Student Ambassadors. Students have the opportunity to live in a campus living-learning community designed specifically for CNR students. CNR club participation is encouraged for every CNR student as a framework for student success. All these efforts meet, and may exceed, the eight week summer camp experience of years past.

The board’s goal is to help CNR continue on the road as the best Natural Resources school in the west. we will seek funding through the Governor’s budget for the FUR Program, meet as soon as possible with the new president of the University and pursue funding for programs and facilities at the McCall Field Campus and Taylor Ranch, among other goals.

we look forward to our partnership and collaboration with the CNR administration, faculty, staff and students.

best regards,

Kevin boling Chair, CNR Advisory board

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Kevin Boling, chair


Photos by Holli Sampson

For more information on inspiring students through capital projects, contact:

Steven hackerCNR Director of Development

(208) [email protected]

www.uidaho.edu/inspire

Providing the framework in which our students can

succeed is the crux of many strong partnerships in

the College of Natural Resources. Nowhere is that

more true than with the Franklin H. Pitkin Forest

Nursery. Partnerships with Tom and Tetia Reveley to

do preliminary planning and with Tom Alberg and Judi

Beck to fund construction of a new classroom allow our

students to have a place to learn and do research.

The Reveley Classroom is constructed entirely with

Idaho Forest Products donated by our industry leaders

and partners.

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Few earn the Gifford Pinchot Medal, given bi-annually by the Society of American Foresters. In fact, just 30 have been awarded since the honor was first bestowed

in 1950. All the men made outstanding contributions in the administration, practice, and professional development of North American Forestry.

but it is the 2013 recipient that turns over a new leaf bringing the first woman to the list, and national recognition to the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources.

Jo Ellen Force earned the Gifford Pinchot Medal for her long-time commitment to the society and to forest policy educa-tion. Few have walked the halls of CNR without stopping off in a class taught by Force, who has been a UI professor for more than 30 years, serving as department head for more than 15.

The Gifford Pinchot Medal recognizes those who demon-strate exemplary actions that further the field of forestry in North America. Not only has Force influenced thousands of students, she has also been a leader for women in forestry. She was one of the first women elected as an SAF Fellow, of which there are fewer than 700 total members of the Society of American Foresters who are Fellows. She has served on

several national SAF committees throughout her career. She started her career at UI as one of three women working in the forest resources department and has continued to rep-resent and mentor women throughout her career, working for 14 years with the peer-reviewed journal women in Natural Resources.

Her research focuses on relationships between people and our natural resources, particularly on public involvement, resource-dependent communities, sense of place, and the human ecosystem model. She has participated in interdisci-plinary natural resource teaching and research throughout her career.

For 13 years, she was the lead instructor for a six-week intensive workshop on land use planning for students from more than 30 developing countries. She also conducted workshops in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and is a co-principle investigator in Idaho’s National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) grant with students located both at the University of Idaho and in Costa Rica. The grant started in 2001 and will have produced about 40 doctoral students by the end of the project in a couple of years.

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Society of American Foresters Awards

Force Breaks BarrierFirst Female Gifford Pinchot Medal Winner


RESEARCH

is just the beginning of good science. Documenting, sharing results and providing resources for others makes the most of information gained from research.

Longtime Pitkin Nursery researcher Kasten Dumroese earned the Technology Transfer Award at the 2013 Society of American Foresters Conference. He has worked on a variety of publications, including serving as lead editor of the Tribal Nursery Manual, the National Nursery Proceedings and the Forest Nursery Notes newsletter.

Dumroese worked 18 years at the UI nursery before moving to the Forest Service. His office is adjacent to the UI campus, where he has remained involved. He has worked for the Southern Research Station in Pineville, La., and the National Agroforestry Center in Lincoln, Neb., all from his office in Moscow. He currently works for the Rocky Mountain Research Station, assigned to the Grassland, Shrubland, and Desert Ecosystem Program.

He has won a variety of regional, national and international awards for his work with reforestation species and native plants that are important to forest restoration.

Sharing is Knowledge

Society of American Foresters Awards

Kas Dumroese and Kurt Pregitzer

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| FEATURE | FORESTRY LEGACY

Forestry Roots Grow Industry Leaders

Our roots are deep and our history strong, but our commitment to the future is truly the proof of what makes us the Best in the West. Our Experimental Forest tests our

students’ curiosity and ingenuity. Pitkin Nursery is bustling with excitement of expansion. Our students are on the ground, preparing to become leaders in a new era of natural resource management.

Our history is integral to the university’s 125th Anniversary. We are a pillar in the legacy that is the University of Idaho.

COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES | 11 COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES | 11Sage grouSe photoS by tatiana gettelman

Forestry Roots Grow Industry Leaders

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| FEATURE | PITKIN NURSERY LEGACY

Nursery Building Growi ng New Possibilities

Planting native trees to beautify the steep hillside on the south side of campus seemed an easy task when Charles H. Shattuck presented the idea in 1909. what he found was young trees were grown on the east coast, making them expen-

sive and hard to get. The next year he sowed the seeds that started a legacy.

This year we are sowing different seeds. what is growing is a place where future generations of young foresters, restoration ecologists, nursery managers and natural resource leaders learn contemporary nursery practices. The Reveley Classroom building will be dedicated this spring.

A LegacySeventy-five years ago a young, ambitious man was hired to grow seedlings and employ students at 25 cents an hour to pull weeds at a fledgling nursery on Sweet Avenue.

Fifty years later the state’s leading nursery for native tree seed-lings, and one of just a handful of production research nurser-ies, was dedicated to that man, Franklin H. Pitkin, who grew through the ranks to become a valued professor in the college. The thriving nursery, now located on 16 acres at the east edge of town was fast becoming an industry leader in Idaho.

It was thrust into the regional spotlight when David wenny, professor of forestry, took over from Pitkin and implemented modern irrigation and fertilization systems, moving past the era of bareroot crops into a thriving container production sys-tem and leader in research, technology transfer and education.

while technology transfer and research grew, the support facilities did not. The old, worn-down trailer on the site served as an office while classes had only the greenhouses to protect them from Mother Nature. Graduate students had nowhere to work and the nursery was not used to its full potential.

Building for the FutureEnter Tom Alberg and Judi beck, a western washington couple who are passionate about native plant regeneration. The mis-sion of their Oxbow Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment, an organic farm and education center, paral-lels that of the College of Natural Resources nursery and its director, Anthony S. Davis. Their gift of $3.3 million is, in part, paying for the construction of a new building for teaching, research and outreach at the Pitkin Nursery.

“Tom and I have a shared idea that a healthy ecosystem, particularly in a relatively densely populated area, requires an understanding of how our native systems - plants, forests, and rivers - relate to our use of commodities. we’ve overex-tended many of these systems, which requires restoration to be able to support our communities long term,” said Davis. “Coming together to create a community where students can learn about native systems and their restoration seemed a natural pairing.”


The College of Natural Resources is again breaking ground as the first college with a fully endowed chair.

Anthony S. Davis, head of the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, as well as the director of the Center for Forest Nursery and Seedling Research, is the recipient of the Tom Alberg and Judi beck Chair.An endowed chair is a faculty member whose salary, research support or other needs are paid through investments, made by the University of Idaho Foundation.

Alberg and beck donated $2 million to endow this chair, the first one at the University of Idaho, in perpetuity.

“Having an endowed chair helps us attract and retain the best of the best faculty as we continue to move our natural resource programs forward,” said Kurt Pregitzer, dean of the College of Natural Resources.

Nursery Building Growi ng New PossibilitiesThe couple chose to name the classroom for Tom (bS Forest Resources-Forest Management ’59) and Tetia Reveley, longtime supporters of the College of Natural Resources as well as many other programs around campus, including the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and scholarships for students with learning dis-abilities.

Alberg and beck are also funding two graduate students per year to be housed in the new building. Nearly $1 million will support the students as they spend one year at Oxbow and one year at UI.

“Their gift will allow for long-term stability and growth of our nursery program,” said Davis.

Keeping it LocalThe classroom is also a lesson in itself. The entire building is being constructed from Idaho forest products, with in-state industry donating hundreds of thousands of dollars of lumber, building supplies, transportation and more. The building will have a zero-carbon footprint.

“It is truly an Idaho resource,” said Kurt Pregitzer, dean of the College of Natural Resources. “It is designed by Idaho graduates and built by Idaho contractors, using Idaho forest products for University of Idaho students.”

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Advisory Board Takes Shape

to making the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho the best in the west is the impetus behind creating the CNR Advisory board.

This advisory board places the college on par with peer colleges on campus and more in line with national standards. by creating a diverse advisory board representing the broad interests of the col-lege, the board will better position the college in several key areas. The board is charged with supporting the college through advocacy, program input, student recruitment and development.

The board’s first meeting was in November, where the bylaws were adopted, the structure outlined and the board given an overview of all departments and programs.

Kevin boling (bS Forest Resource Management, ’74) was elected chair and Vincent Corrao vice chair. boling owns The boling Company, a forest land investment company based in Coeur d’Alene. Corrao is president of Northwest Management, Inc., a natural resource con-sulting firm based in Moscow.

The board will continue to grow in the coming months as additional industry leaders representing all of CNR’s interests are identified.

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Commitment


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Timing is everything. For post-doctoral fellows like

Alan Talhelm, being able to tap into dollars outside

of the federal and state grants supporting research

makes all the difference.

“The Dean’s Excellence Fund allows us to jump on

new opportunities and bolster other resources.”

The Dean’s Excellence Fund is just one of the ways

the College of Natural Resources is leading the way

in natural resources education. Talhelm’s research

in the effects of human impact on the atmosphere

effecting forests is part of a USDA research project

that places UI and the college into a national

discussion of science and policy.

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Students Shine on Shores of Success

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Ask our alum about their experiences at UI and nearly all will start the story with Summer Camp. On the shores of Payette

Lake, the immense forest of the Rocky Mountains has been the classroom for generations of College of Natural Resources students. Now it is home to even more students—the thousands of K-12 students our CNR graduate students mentor each year.



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Decades of alums share the memory of sum-mers on the shores of Payette Lake where thousands of graduates immersed them-selves in the towering pine trees and moun-tain ecosystem surrounding McCall. Summer Camp continues to hold its iconic status in

the collective minds of Natural Resources alumni.

Now thousands of younger students, mostly middle schoolers, fill the campus each year to get hands-on science experience that goes beyond textbooks.

“The McCall Field Campus is a special place for so many differ-ent audiences,” said Lee Vierling, executive director of the UI McCall Field Campus and professor in the Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences Department.

It holds a pivotal place in the future of CNR and experiential learning.

“Our goal is to allow more students at all levels, from elemen-tary through graduate, to experience the McCall Field Campus. we are also committed to the region and to offering outreach to the community,” Vierling said.

beginning in 1939 the College of Natural Resources housed Summer Camp at the McCall Field Campus. The Lodge was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps the same year Sum-mer Camp began. The land it sits on was owned by the State of Idaho, and leased to the UI. This relationship would remain for 74 years, even as the focus of the campus evolved and a thriv-ing K-12 science program, the McCall Outdoor Science School, developed.

As the 75th anniversary of the McCall Field Campus is celebrat-ed in 2014, the University of Idaho has gained full title to the property through a land swap with the state.

Now, with the deed to the land in hand, the college and the University of Idaho are fully engaged in building on a legacy and creating a field campus that serves students of all ages into the future.

“The McCall Field Campus is a vital part of the history of the College of Natural Resources and its future is fantastic,” said Kurt Pregitzer, dean of the College of Natural Resources.

The Early Days of ForestryThirty-two young men lived and learned at the McCall cam-pus that first year. A vision of D.S. Jeffers, then-dean of the School of Forestry, the 10-week program was designed “to provide students with concentrated experience in practical forestry,” according to an article of that day published in the Argonaut.

The goal throughout its history did not change, but the deliv-ery method did.

while forestry was the focus into the 1960s, the camp was underwritten by a promise to the Forest Service that the first priority could be fighting fires.

“we spent a day being drilled as a firefighting unit,” said bob Cochrane (b.S. Forest Management, ’62). The students in Mc-Call in the summer of 1960 soon learned the meaning of that agreement and training. They had finished the surveying unit. They had finished the forest measurements unit. Just a few days into the ecology unit taught by Fred Johnson the stu-dents were piled into the bed of a truck and taken into some of Idaho’s most rugged backcountry to fight fire.

The hands-on forestry basics continue to be recognized as a valuable part of the curriculum.

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“I thought it was great exposure to field work. when you hit the ground, and you’re not vice president, you need to know how to run a level,” said Tom Miller, (b.S. Forest Management, ’71, M.S. Silvicuture, ’76) who retired as vice president of a weyerhaeuser development subsidiary. “The professors, the skills, the whole experience is what gave me a competitive advantage.”

Students worked through the long, hot summer, measuring trees, surveying, learning from nature on the rugged slopes of the Payette National Forest. They all worked together, not knowing what the future held for any individual. From the ranks came Dale bosworth, (b.S. Forest Resources, Manage-ment, ’66) who climbed through the ranks to become the 15th chief of the U.S. Forest Service. From the dusty tent camp sprang Sen. James Risch, (b.S. Forest Resources, Man-agement , ‘65; Law, ‘68 ) who not only represents Idaho in Congress but also served as governor of Idaho, and has been in public service for 40 years.

A Legacy in TeachingMany of the faculty members were nearly as iconic as the site.

Fred Johnson (M.S. Forestry, ’52) taught at Forestry Camp for years. Few can talk about the camp during those years with-out mentioning Johnson.

“Teaching at McCall allowed us to engage the students in a way not possible in the classroom,” Johnson said. “The teamwork and camaraderie complemented the nuts and bolts learning out in the field.”

when Jim Kingery, emeritus professor in Rangeland Manage-ment, came to the UI in 1977 he taught at summer camp under Johnson’s direction.

“It was quite a privilege to be involved in it,” Kingery said.

by the late ‘70s the program had evolved into an interdisci-plinary experience with a few days of classroom instruction in each area followed by multi-day field trips.

“we had a lot of exposure and materials for the students while we were there,” Kingery said. “we could take them to the South Fork of the Salmon River and talk about the challenges with historical logging and its impact on fisheries by actually showing them the interaction. It was a rigorous program.”

During that era, all Natural Resources students spent time at McCall.

“Probably the most significant factors were being out in the field and that all the departments in the college required it. The students from range, forest, fish and wildlife worked to-gether, talked together, debated and lived together.”

It is also where Dean Pregitzer was first introduced to Idaho and all it has to offer, an experience that would draw him back as dean of the college 30 years later.

“Teaching at the field campus, in the middle of Idaho’s amaz-ing natural beauty, allowed me to realize the potential for experiential learning, for field-based study and the impact the McCall Field Campus can have on students of all ages,” Pregitzer said.

Looking Through a Different LensAs the 21st Century dawned, a new vision for the McCall Field Campus was building.

“Here we have this rustic facility in this beautiful place,” Greg Fizzell (M.S. Forest Resources, ‘99), program director for MOSS, said. “we wondered why we couldn’t have a science school.”

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For two weeks in the fall of 2001, the McCall Field Campus buzzed with the excitement of 78 students who were the first elementary students to get their hands dirty on the shores of Payette Lake.

“Early on we realized that we wanted to make students expe-rience the process of doing science, not just learning science facts,” said Karla Eitel, director of education at MOSS. “In ad-dition to an increasingly place-based focus, our signature has become the idea that science is something that is a part of our lives every day and that by looking at the world scientifi-cally we can all become scientists.”

In two short years the school grew to 10 weeks of learning, 426 students and the beginning of the two-year graduate program grounded in a school year residency teaching at MOSS.

It was also the first year Eric Hudelson attended.

A CNR alum (b.S. Resource Recreation and Tourism, ‘96), Hu-delson was a first-year teacher in the Moscow School District.

“The principal said she hired me specifically to take kids to MOSS,” Hudelson said.

As a new teacher, he gleaned many useful teaching tools from watching the graduate students engage the kids, he said. “Each grad student brings something different.”

He said each year at MOSS is different; each experience builds on the prior years and expands his teaching methods.

“It is awesome,” Hudelson said. “For some of those kids who perceive science as this disconnected subject, it drives home what being a scientist really means.”

MOSS now touches the lives of 2,500 students, 150 teachers and 45 schools each year.

“It is the highlight of sixth grade,” Hudelson said.

A New Lease on an Old Site“A lot has changed in the McCall area,” Kingery said. but as retired faculty, he is excited to think about the possibilities for the field campus. “It is a place that was ideally suited for natural resource students. Now I see its potential for similar experi-ences for elementary students but it also has great visibility for the university and CNR.”

A planning committee has been meeting for nearly a year and working with architects to create a site plan. That plan is near-ing completion and will help CNR and the university best utilize the McCall Field Campus not only for MOSS but for the return of more UI students.

“we have a unique opportunity and obligation on the shores of Payette Lake,” said Pregitzer. “we have a strong history and a thriving science school. we can fill a need, teaching students of all ages about the role of science in sustainable natural resource management.”

MOSS AwardsJ.A. & K. Albertson ID 21 Award: One of six awards (167 entries) for innovative learning opportunities.

W.K. Kellogg Award: West region winner for success in creating a learning environment that promotes engagement and discovery in the community.

People’s Choice Video Award: Magrath Award presentation video received the most votes (25 entries) by those attending the 14th Annual Conference for the Engagement Scholarship Consortium.

C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award finalist: Other finalists, Ohio State University, Penn State University and University of Texas El Paso.

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| FISH AND wILDLIFE SCHOLARSHIP

Longtime professor J. Michael Scott and his wife, Sharon, have endowed the J. Michael and Sharon L. Scott Graduate Student Scholarship to support graduate students in Fish and wildlife Sciences.

Mike Scott is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fish & wildlife Sci-ences in the College of Natural Resources. Sharon Scott worked at the Martin Institute on campus for 20 years, until her retirement. She served as advisor for the International Studies major, which was man-aged by the Martin Institute.

“we are honored that our retired faculty would choose to invest in our students and our programs so that we can continue to produce highly effective natural resource professionals,” said Kurt Pregitzer, dean of the College of Natural Resources.

From his experience as a professor and researcher, Scott has seen the need for funding graduate stu-dents.

J. Michael and Sharon L. Scott Graduate Student Scholarship

“I am passionate about research and know that pro-viding support for those doing research can enhance the work they do. I am pleased to be able to provide our outstanding graduate students with another resource.”

Scott came to UI in 1986 with a background teach-ing and researching around the west and Hawaii. It was his work in Hawaii that led to the creation of the GAP Analysis Program which studies gaps in the protection of endangered and threatened plants and animals. The concept came from mapping bird distri-bution on the island. He combined data on individual species to create an integrated bird population map. This was the first broad scale method of assessing the level of protection given to areas rich in biodiversity. The US Geological Survey GAP Analysis is now used worldwide as a conservation standard.

The Scott’s two children are UI alumni: Heather (b.S. Sociology, ’96) and Kevin (b.S. Computer Science, ‘99).

Scott remains involved nationally in issues related to endangered species.


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For Luke Smith the path to outdoor science education

came a circuitous route. As a journalism and strategic

communications graduate, he took a job at an outdoor

science school. Finding a true passion, earning a Master’s

degree in natural resources was the next step. Partnering

his love for science schools with the graduate program at

MOSS was an obvious fit.

“The mixture of attending graduate level courses,

conducting field research, and teaching residential

outdoor education programs ensures that I am always

learning something new,” said Smith.

The McCall Field Campus is an icon in the collective

memory of CNR alumni. From Summer Camp to MOSS,

the campus is prime for learning. Its future is exciting.

Bringing science to life for thousands of K-12 students is

not only a need but a privilege. These are our children, our

future leaders, our future Vandals.

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Flexibility. Adaptability. Teamwork. Empathy.

Wild About Learning

Any one of these words describes the core of the College of Natural Resource’s newest experien-tial learning program. Semester in the wild lived up to its name as the inaugural class of

11 students took to the Frank Church River of New Return wilderness this fall.

“This has been an amazing experience for everyone. I’ve taken many students into the wilderness but nothing has compared to watching this class grow, bond and create not only educational milestones but lifetime milestones,” said Gary Thompson, leadership coordinator at the McCall Out-door Science School and teacher for Semester in the wild.

Ownership of the remote and iconic Taylor wilderness Research Station allows the college to offer this unique

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semester-long experience. The site has long housed research-ers and nationally-lauded research projects, including impacts of wilderness visitors, hydrology and salmon studies, vegeta-tion observation, animal population studies and more. but never have large groups of students spent an entire semester at Taylor.

A New Kind of ClassroomOff the grid and accessible only by a 36-mile hike or by bush plane, this isn’t your typical classroom.

“we knew this was a perfect setting to teach things like river ecology and wilderness classes, but by pulling in classes like environmental writing and western literature, we are able to provide students a larger picture,” said Tom Gorman, profes-sor and associate dean of the College of Natural Resources.

The program is designed to be all-encompassing. Recruiting is done nationwide. Among the first 11 students, six universi-ties are represented. Students of any major are encouraged to attend and campus-wide presentations by the first class in December focused on just that.

“Many people will not have the opportunity to see a place like this, or live surrounded by wilderness for an extended period of time,” said will Davis, a senior Environmental Science major from the University of North Carolina at wilmington. “but allowing students to be here, to learn here, gives us the opportunity to share the value of wilderness when we return.”

Reflections Connect StudentsScott Slovic is an English professor who takes time from his campus teaching to help the SITw students collect their thoughts in his Environmental writing class. whether feeling the pull of big Creek while sitting next to it with their journals or basking in the warmth of the afternoon sun on the hilltops as they plan their next writing exercise, he said every student is engaged.

“I’ve found the students to be hungry for the opportunity to express their wilderness experiences. In a way, it seems to me that opportunity to reflect and write has been the glue that’s helped hold together the entire program for many of the students.”

Nature also requires the students to be flexible. After hiking halfway in to Taylor at the start of the semester, wildfires stopped them. They had to return to McCall and be flown in by bush plane.

“I have learned so much in the short amount of time that I’ve been here,” said Susie Everly, a junior Environmental Science major from UI. “I’ve learned patience and flexibility, for things don’t always go as planned. I’ve learned what a wonderful program this is. It has most definitely changed my life.”

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| PROGRAM INNOVATION

Programming for the Future

Renewable MaterialsHistorically known as Forest Products, the new Renewable Materials degree broadens the focus to include not just traditional building materials but also biomaterials and biofuels designed to best utilize our natural resources. Finding sus-tainable answers to resource, energy and waste material problems is a need in today’s job mar-ket and one our students are ready to tackle.

The program has five career tracks, customized to fit students’ goals.

• Constructionanddesign

• Businessmanagement

• Materialsacquisitionandsupply

• Bio-basedmaterials

• Bio-energy

Natural Resource ConservationUnderstanding the relationships between people and nature and the impact of one on the other is essential in natural resource manage-ment. Evolved from the Resource Recreation and Tourism degree, NRC is designed to create experts in social-ecological systems.

There are two program tracks.

• Conservationplanningandmanagement

• Conservationscience

Successful students enroll in programs with relevancy and placement in the job market. That has always been a benefit for CNR. Our graduates excel. Part of our success is in forward thinking and desire to be the best. Adjusting programming is one tool for producing the best graduates in the west.

“we are continually looking for ways to improve an already fantastic college,” said Kurt Pregitzer, dean of the College of Natural Resources.

Two program changes aim to do just that.


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“Will calls my name. He points out a bear to me. Amazed we

watch the natural, gentle creature until he shuffles off into the

woods. Wow. This is where I LIVE. This is my front yard. A smile

overwhelms my face. I love this place.”

Susie Everly, Semester in the Wild student.

Immersed in nature, 11 students, pioneers if you will, spent the fall

semester learning and living at Taylor Wilderness Research Station,

tucked deep in the vastness of the Frank Church River of No Return

Wilderness. The interdisciplinary coursework combined with the

amazing natural setting pushed these students beyond what they

thought possible.

This experience would not be possible without CNR ownership of

the incredible Taylor Wilderness Research Station. Off the grid and

perfectly situated in the heart of the Northwest’s wildest country,

for those with a passion for nature, no matter their major, Semester

in the Wild at Taylor offers it all.

Inspiring Leadership

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Living where you learn is not just a nice phrase, it is a reality for our CNR students. Rangeland stretches

for miles across Idaho’s landscape, and we are right there to learn and lead. Our dedication to Idaho’s land results in national recognition and successful students.


Our Legacy is Learning from the Land

| RANGELAND LEGACY


Our Legacy is Learning from the Land

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Range Proves Proficiency

Rangeland knowledge runs deep and our CNR rangeland students proved this at the annual International Meeting of the Society for Range Management in Oklahoma City.

A team of three students brought home the Rangeland Cup, a competition that positioned UI against 19 other universities in a poster contest. The students had to de-velop a poster discussing the merits of using native versus non-native plants in the restoration of disturbed sites. Julia workman (Rangeland Ecology & Management, ‘13), Chelsey Sanders (Rangeland Ecology & Management, ‘13) and Joe Hale took on the challenge and won the contest for the third year of the last four.

“Our rangeland students continue to shine at a national level,” said Karen Launchbaugh, professor of rangeland ecology. “Their understanding of management principles, application of those and impacts of policy allows them to enter the job market ready to address the needs of today’s range managers.”

Fifteen Range Club students participated in events at the national conference. Hale placed third in the individual Under-graduate Public Speaking contest while workman placed fourth, out of 214 participants, in the Undergraduate Range Manage-ment Exam.

Students AJ Flint, Ashley Kiehl, Cinda Mattrocce (Rangeland Ecology & Management, ‘13) and Cindy Vaughan placed first in the University Chapter Display contest, for which they created a display around the conference theme: “Native Rangelands, Native America.” Two UI students, brianne Lind (Rangeland Ecology & Manage-ment ‘13) and workman, were among nine undergraduate students who presented technical papers. Four students also participated in the plant identification contest, during which they were asked to identify plants from a list of 200 important range plants.

Alumni Achievement Award Thor Hanson

Mid-Career Alumni Achievement Award Richard A. Fischer

Honor Associate Alumni Award Marla Schwartz

Honor Alumni Award Steven C. Amstrup

Celebrating Natural Resources Award M. Keith Owens

Honor Alumni Award Wally Butler

International Alumni Achievement Award Lisel Alamilla

2013 Alumni Awards


Welcome

Changes

Andrew KliskeyProfessor Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences.

Jodi WalkerMarketing & Communications Coordinator

Pete and Meg GagManagers, Taylor Ranch

TingTing ChenFiscal Technician

Cheryl Chambers, grants and compliance specialist, moved from a temporary position to permanent.

Anthony S. Davis is now the chair of the Depart-ment of Forest, Range-land and Fire Sciences. He has been with the depart-ment since 2007.

Troy Hall was named head of Conservation So-cial Science Department. She has been a professor in the department since 2000.

A move for Bruno Wilson from facilities to technical records specialist.

Linda Tedrow began working as a web de-veloper for the FRAMES project.

Lourana Swayne was hired early in 2013 as a grants and compliance specialist. Later in the year she was promoted to supervisor of grants and compliance.

Farewell

After 34 years as a faculty member Gary Machlis (left), professor of conservation, retired. Machlis has accepted a position as professor of conservation at Clemson University, a joint appointment between the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences and College of Education, Health, and Human Development.

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| AwARDS

SPECIAL COLLEGE AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Bridge Builder Award Paul McDaniel

STUDENT AWARDS

CNR outstanding Research Award Joshua McCormick

CNR outstanding Department SeniorsConservation Social Sciences Jaz Ammon

Ecology and Conservation biology Rebecca Johnson

Fishery Resources Andrew waldo

Forest Resources Christina Leid

Fire Ecology and Management Eric Molten

Rangeland Ecology and Management Julia workman

Renewable Materials william waterfield

wildlife Resources Amy Thorp

CNR outstanding Graduate StudentsConservation Social Sciences Jarod blades

Fishery Resources Josh McCormick

Forest Resources (M.S.) Elise Suronen

Forest Resources (Ph.D.) wade Tinkham

wildlife Resources Meghan Camp

outstanding Achievement AwardConservation Social Sciences Alexandria (Ali) Middleton

outstanding Leadership AwardConservation Social Sciences Kevin Klocke and Erick Ellison

2013 Awards


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Dr. Herald Heady recognized the value of

leadership in rangeland education. It was his

dream to fully endow a chair in Rangeland

Ecology and Management.

Our faculty members are the ones ranchers and

landowners turn to for answers. Providing our

faculty with a permanent monetary commitment

to excellence is what the Harold and Ruth Heady

Professorship — and soon the endowed chair —

inspires to do.

Inspiring Leadership

Dr. Herald Heady and Dr. Lee Vierling

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Russ Graham (M.S. Forest Resources, ’77; Ph.D. Forestry, wildlife and Range Science, ’81) was promoted to a Senior Scientist (ST) position with the U.S. Forest Service. This is the highest grade possible for a scientist in the U.S. government, equivalent to the chief of the forest service on the administra-tive side.

Steve Fitzgerald (b.S. Forest Resources, ’83) is now the Di-rector of College Forests as well as the extension silviculture specialist at Oregon State University.

Wally Butler (M.S. Range, ’85), a range and livestock special-ist with the Idaho Farm bureau Federation, will serve as the Society for Range Management president during 2013.

Tom Rogers (b.S. Fisheries Resources, ’75) was inducted into the Northwest Fish Culture Conference Hall of Fame for his lifelong commitment to the profession through his work with the Idaho Fish and Game.

Meribeth Lomkin (b.S. Range, ’98), a Senior Resource Specialist with the Idaho Department of Lands, was named Outstanding Young Professional by the Society for Range Management.

Brent Keith (b.S. Forest Resources, ’05) was hired as director of forest policy by the National Association of State Foresters. He had been policy director for the Council of western State Foresters for three years prior.

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CLASS NOTESP. Shaun O’Connor (b.S. Forest Resources, ’06) is now the Sale and Prep Forester on the Mt. baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in North bend, wash.

Christian Salas Eljatib, (M.A. Statistics, ’06 – advised by CNR’s Andrew Robinson) completed his Ph.D. at Yale and is now an associate professor of biometrics at the Universidad de La Frontera, in Temuco, Chile. He is directing research, teaching undergraduate classes and serving as the director of a Master’s program in natural resources management.

Dan Patten (b.S. wildlife Management, Range Resources, ’00, M.S. REM, ’09) received a Recognition of Service Award from the bureau of Land Management for 2012.

Patten, a rangeland management specialist for the Shoshone Field Office, Twin Falls District of the Idaho bLM, was recog-nized for providing crucial support in the evidentiary hearing over interim grazing measures requested by western water-sheds Project during the remedy phase of the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve Resource Manage-ment Plan litigation. He was also acknowledged for providing testimony at trial that was cited several times by the 9th District Court Judge in the Memorandum Decision and Order on the remedy phase of the case.

Please send your updates to Class Notes to [email protected].

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Merle W. Stratton (b.S. Forest Resources, ’50) passed away from cancer on Dec. 14, 2012, at his home in Chattaroy, wash. while attending UI he spent his summers at the smoke jump-ers base at Missoula, Mont. He worked for the washington Department of Natural Resources for 32 years and retired in 1982.

Dr. Robert (Bob) J. Robel died Jan. 16, 2013. bob worked with Paul Dalke studying migratory patterns of elk in the Selway.

Dr. George Belt, emeritus professor of Forest Resources, died Feb. 14, 2013 at his Moscow home. He was 75.

belt came to UI in 1965 where he taught classes in watershed management, land use planning, fire management and biome-teorology until his retirement in 1979. He served as chairman of UI faculty government and received a service citation for contributions to university governance.

He developed a cooperative watershed management research program with U.S. government agencies and private corpora-tions. He supervised research associates and technicians in more than 20 field research projects throughout the western U.S. He also received the College of Forestry, wildlife and Range Sciences Outstanding Research award for service as project manager of a joint research program among UI, USDA and industry.

From 1982 to 1986 he served as associate dean for research and director of the International Forestry program.

Dr. Curtis John “Curt” Berklund passed away peacefully in his Greenacres, wash. home on April 5, 2013, at the age of 83. Curt and his wife, Adele, played a large role in the lives of many CNR students. Exhibiting a commitment to higher education through research, the berklund Foundation provided undergraduate and graduate research scholarships annually.

Curt owned and operated sawmills in Cottonwood, Elk City and St. Maries, Idaho before becoming involved as a public servant. Curt was appointed to the Department of the Interior, where eventually he was named the National Director of the bureau of Land Management. He served under four U.S. Presidents before retiring. His retirement years were spent in Spokane, wash., where he served on the Spokane County Civil Service Commission and enjoyed time with his wife and large family. He is survived by his wife, six children, Marian Chambers (David), David berklund (Mary), Ruth Geer (wayne), Dianne wilson (Clyde), Jon berklund, and Rebecca baker (Eric), and 13 grandchildren.

Roque Nolan Nalley (M.S. Forest Resources, ’82) died May 13, 2013. He was a chief forester for the Colville Indian tribe and an environmental scientist for the washington State Department of Ecology.

August “Gus” Henry Vogeler III died July 24, 2013. He and his wife Elaine established, through the Safari Club Interna-tional Foundation, the SCIF Sables Elaine and Gus Vogeler Hunting Heritage Scholarship at UI. The scholarship is awarded to a wildlife Resources major, preferably a female, who is an active hunter. Gus was an avid hunter and fisherman who grew up in Jerome, Idaho. He was a longtime business owner in Elko, Nev.

Gerald Thomas (b.S. Range, ’41) died July 31, 2013 at the age of 95. He was the longtime president of New Mexico State University, and had a building named after him at the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

He was born on a ranch on Medicine Lodge Creek near Small, Idaho. He worked summers for the Forest Service while in ju-nior college. He joined the U.S. Navy during world war II and served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He survived a splashdown in the South China Sea and was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Air Medals and the Presiden-tial Unit Citation.

After the war, he worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service in Idaho until moving to Texas in 1950. He was named dean of the College of Agriculture Sciences at Texas Tech University in 1958. In 1970, he became president of New Mexico State University, serving 14 years, until his retirement.

Charles George Carll (M.S. wood Technology, ’79) died Aug. 17, 2013 at his home in Madison, wis. He retired from the For-est Products Laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service in 2011 after 31 years of service. As a research forest products technologist, he co-authored numerous published research papers on wood durability and protection. He also revised and maintained building standards for moisture control with the American Society for Testing and Materials.

Stanley B. Carpenter (b.S. Forest Management-Resources, ’59) died Aug. 20, 2013 at the age of 75. The longtime resident of baton Rouge, La., and native of Searcy, Ark., he proudly served in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant (USAR) Artillery Officer at Fort Hood, Texas. He earned his Master’s degree at the University of washington and a Ph.D. at Michigan State University. He retired as the director of Forestry, wildlife and Fisheries at Louisiana State University.

IN MEMORY

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Ken Cain

Lovina Roselle

Courtney Conway Dennis Scarnecchia Oz Garton

Anthony S. Davis

Kerry Reese

Armando McDonald Christine Moffitt

Troy Hall

Christopher Caudill

Lynaire Banks

Karen Launchbaugh

Nick Sanyal

Forest, Rangeland, and Fire SciencesAnthony S. Davis received a 2012 UI Disability Support Ser-vices Outstanding Faculty Award.

Armando McDonald was named a Fellow of the Internation-al Academy of wood Science for his longtime commitment to the organization.

Karen Launchbaugh was honored with the Outstanding Un-dergraduate Teaching Award by the Range Science Education Council and the Society for Range Management.

Fish and Wildlife SciencesChristine Moffitt was honored for an American Fisheries So-ciety Distinguished Service. She served as a keynote presenter at the annual conference.

Fishery Resources professor Ken Cain is a 2013 recipient of the President’s Mid-Career Faculty Award. Cain also present-ed his State board Of Education-funded research to legisla-tors in boise.

Christopher Caudill received honorable mention for the 2013 American Fisheries Society Fisheries Engineering Com-mittee Distinguished Project in Fisheries Engineering and Ecohydrology.

Courtney Conway is the primary investigator on a project for which the U.S. Department of Defense received the 2013 Presidential Migratory bird Stewardship Award.

Dennis Scarnecchia was awarded the Fisheries Management Sections Award for Excellence from the American Fisheries Society.

Kerry Reese was named a Fellow with The wildlife Society, a lifetime award for his dedication to the organization.

Oz Garton received The wildlife Society’s 2013 Monograph Award for a research project done in collaboration with UI alums. The research focus was on the impact of cougars and coyotes on mule deer decline.

Conservation Social SciencesNick Sanyal was named reviewer of the year by the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, and was also ap-pointed as an Associate Editor.

Troy Hall was the 2013 recipient of UI’s Donald Crawford Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award. The award honors gradu-ate faculty who excel as mentors.

StaffLynaire Banks was awarded the ASUI James A. barnes Award for Excellence in Advising.

Lovina Roselle (M.S. Range, ’07) was named wildest woman of the Range, which she described as an unofficial honor cel-ebrating women in a traditionally male-dominated field.

FACULTY AND STAFF HIGHLIGHTS

| HIGHLIGHTS


Clues to ConservationFulbright Scholar and doctoral student Kate Cleary is studying bats in Costa Rica in hopes of improving land-use policies By Amanda Cairo

Studying bats up close and personal near pineapple plantations is University of Idaho doctoral student Kate Cleary’s idea of a slice of paradise. The fact that she did it in the lush countryside of Costa Rica makes

that slice a whole pie.

“I feel privileged to have had this time to live, work, learn and play in Costa Rica alongside the diverse group of scientists at CATIE [Centro Agronómico Tropical de Enseñanza y Investig-ación], my fellow IGERT [Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship] students and, of course, all the Costa Rican collaborators without whom none of this would be pos-sible,” Cleary wrote in an email.

The natural resources student was drawn to UI by the lure of working with her adviser, Lisette waits, and the National Sci-ence Foundation’s IGERT program, which focuses on interdis-ciplinary training for scientists pursuing Ph.D.s. Cleary received the only Fulbright Scholarship at UI in 2013 for the completion of her dissertation research on conservation in human-domi-nated tropical ecosystems in Costa Rica.

Cleary’s work focuses on the bats that play an important role in tropical ecosystems as the primary pollinators and seed dispersers of hundreds of native plants.

while in Costa Rica, Cleary and her field assistant spent most evenings placing 10 40-by-8-foot mist nets along animal trails or riverbeds. Every 30 minutes, for four hours, they checked the nets. when they snared a bat, they gently placed it in a cloth bag and took it to base camp to be identified.

If the bat was one of Cleary’s focal species, a small biopsy was taken from its tail membrane. Cleary brought the samples back to the UI lab to determine how much the bats in each patch are related to each other. The more related the bats are, the more connectivity there must be between the patches.

“If we can protect connectivity between fragmented forest patches for these bat species, we will also protect connectivity

for their mutualistic plants, and thereby improve the health of both animal and plant communities in these fragmented forest patches,” Cleary said. “bats are amazing!”

Cleary’s dissertation focuses on how rapidly expanding pineapple plantations are affecting bat species and the bats’ ability to move among remnant habitat patches in an agro-ecological landscape.

The goal? Cleary hopes local communities and land manag-ers will better understand the consequences of plantation expansion and land-use changes on native flora and fauna and essential ecosystem services, like the ones that bats provide.

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| STUDENT AwARDS

Making the GradeFisheries Student Represents UI in DCAs he prepared to board a plane for washington D.C., Zachary L. Penney traded his jeans for a suit and tie.

“I am certainly not who I was four years ago,” he said.

A look further back shows a bigger picture of the growth of one of the College of Natural Resource’s top doctoral candi-dates and recipient of the 2014 Sea Grant Knauss Legislative Fellowship, one of 10 in the nation.

“I was a terrible high school student,” he said, finishing near the bottom of his class at wallace High School. Sports and other activities consumed his attention, leaving school work and the subsequent grades behind.

while most of his classmates were preparing to attend the University of Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribal member’s associa-tion with UI would have to wait. He saw potential in Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, which had sent him a letter enticing the young man interested in fisheries to come to their school surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

Starting New in AlaskaUpon arrival, the avid fisherman knew he had made a good choice.

“when I arrived, the whole place smelled like dead salmon. I thought to myself ‘this is my sort of place.’”

His passion for fish and fisheries study soon had this sopho-more doing research for the Sitka Tribe on sockeye salmon escapement systems.

“The thing that struck me was how pristine the river systems were there,” he said. Many of them were untouched. They were so remote, he was often the only person on the banks for weeks at a time. “Then there were the bears. You got used to working with brown bears around you all the time.”

The small Alaska college was also where he met his wife, Shanna Knight, (Law, ’13).

In a move that surprised himself, Penney enrolled in grad school at the University of Victoria’s Earth and Ocean Sci-ences program. while the school and classes were as different from Sitka as possible (big city, large university), he was able to balance it by continuing his research in Sitka as his gradu-ate project. For two summers he returned to the sockeye salmon of Alaska.

Back to His Rootswith his Master’s degree in hand, Penney returned to his roots in Idaho, going to work for the Nez Perce Tribe on a special project restoring coho salmon to streams in Idaho where they had been eliminated.

“I thought I would be feeding the fish or something easy like that,” Penney said. “but I actually ended up being a project manager. That is where I learned all the things I didn’t learn in school. when it is real life and people depend on you, you learn pretty quick.”

Getting his doctoral degree never crossed his mind. Or at least it hadn’t until he received an email from Christine Mof-fitt, fisheries professor and assistant leader of the USGS Co-operative Research Unit in the College of Natural Resources. She was looking for a Ph.D. student to work on a steelhead project. In January 2009, Penney found himself on the UI campus.

Studying SteelheadUnlike all its salmon cousins, steelhead do not inherently die after spawning. They are iteroparous, meaning they can spawn more than once. The question is why the steelhead of the Clearwater and Snake rivers typically don’t.

what Penney and the team found is that during their spawn-ing migrations, steelhead live off their own body, using lipid and protein reserves, to sustain themselves. Some will not eat for 6 to 10 months. After spawning, Clearwater and Snake River steelhead attempt to return back to the ocean. They know that the best nutrients are in the ocean and simply try to get there.

It was presumed that most steelhead starve to death before completing their long (sometimes more than 1,500 km) swim back to the ocean. Penney and Moffitt’s research provides empirical evidence that many of Idaho’s steelhead do likely run out of gas on their way back to the ocean.

Penney studied why steelhead and salmon fast during spawn-ing migrations and the long-term effects of starvation on steelhead and their ability, or lack thereof, to spawn more than once.

He defended his thesis in December and officially became a UI alum 13 years after he started a perilous journey.


The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship is designed to give students interested in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources the unique opportunity to be involved in national policy decisions.

Fifty students from across the country are nominated by Sea Grant universities (33 programs are located in coastal school and on the Great Lakes) to serve in leadership capacity. Forty of those students are placed into executive roles, working with federal agencies. Ten are posted in legislative areas, working as research specialists for federal legislators or on legislative committees.

UI student Zachary Penney, who was sponsored by Oregon State University, was named one of the 10 legislative Knauss Fellows.

The students spent a week in November interviewing for positions in washington D.C. Placement is accomplished by both the agency/legislator and the student ranking their top picks. Penney will serve with Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif), a Northern California coast representative.

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