Esme Wissinger is receiving their B.S. in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with a concentration in Forest Management from the Warner College of Natural Resources. Esme worked at the Environmental Learning Center during their time at Colorado State University and found joy in communicating with people of all ages about natural resources.
Read a Q&A with Angelika Helmer, a student graduating from the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with B.S. degrees in forest management and natural resources management and a minor in ecological restoration. Angelika served the department as a peer advisor, offering support and guidance to other students.
Camille Stevens-Rumann is an assistant professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University and assistant director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Her research focuses on post-disturbance recovery and challenges facing disturbed lands, whether that is understanding species and ecosystem responses to disturbances or applications for improving future ecosystem management.
The University houses an extraordinary array of research, education, and engagement activities to tackle the climate crisis. CSU experts are working on the interrelated challenges of climate change mitigation, which requires reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and emissions, and adaptation, which involves adjusting infrastructure, policy, and social systems to new conditions.
The Warner College finalists are Camden Baker, Natural Resource Stewardship in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship; Jeremiah Gorske, Conservation Leadership in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources; and Anna Wright, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology through Forest and Rangeland Stewardship.
Established in 1977 by an executive order from President Jimmy Carter, the two-year fellowship program is designed to help graduate students jump-start their careers through unique leadership training. Each fellowship comes with a full salary and benefits at a select federal agency, which provides training, development and mentoring.
Chris Herron transferred to Colorado State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Rangeland Ecology, Rangeland and Forest Management, then a master’s in Rangeland Ecosystem Science, Restoration Ecology from CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources. Chris is now a principal investigator with CSU’s Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML).
In a full-circle move, Roper began teaching firefighters in the FESA online bachelor’s degree program at CSU in the spring semester of 2022.
The FESA curriculum allows career firefighters and first responders to develop their careers and prepare for promotion to an officer rank. Students from around the U.S. take courses like “Trends in Fire Science Technologies” and “Policy and Public Administration” from instructors with decades of experience in their respective fields.
Interim department head and associate professor Dr. Troy Ocheltree is a plant ecophysiologist in the Forest of Rangeland Stewardship department in the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Learn more about him and his leadership philosophy in the Q&A below.
Ten Colorado State University students joined around 500 other participants in the inaugural Women’s Forest Congress in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to address current pressing challenges for forests and women in forestry. Along with students, CSU faculty and staff from the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute attended the in-person Congress.