In honor of Women's History Month, celebrated annually in the month of March, we highlight four women in the Warner College of Natural Resources who are making change to create opportunity, invite and celebrate diversity and lend their voices to the natural resources fields.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Compact, an innovative and influential legal agreement among seven U.S. states that governs water rights to the Colorado River. In recognition of this anniversary, the Colorado State University Libraries will be spotlighting a series of stories in SOURCE about the ripple effects of this 100-year-old document on diverse people, disciplines and industries in 2022.
Coming to Colorado State University in 2018 for a master’s degree in Fluvial Geomorphology and currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program with the Department of Geosciences in the Warner College of Natural Resources, Iskin’s relationship with research and self-identity is stronger than ever.
In June of 2019, lightning ignited a wildfire on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, Alaska, threatening homes and infrastructure. The Swan Lake fire would go on to burn nearly 170,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness. When the initial call for support went out, a small group of wildland firefighters from Colorado State University’s Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands joined the response. Based at nearby Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the CEMML team was just getting its footing as the base’s new Wildland Support Module.
There hasn’t been a comprehensive survey of glacial lakes in this region, until now.
A Colorado State University researcher has co-authored a chapter in the series Climbing Initiative Best Practice Project called "Climbers and Bat Conservation" that details the ways in which recreational climbers can aid researchers in bat conservation.
Matt McCombs will take leadership of the Colorado State Forest Service and become Colorado’s new state forester in early 2022.
After a decade working in the fields of forest, agriculture and disease entomology, Seth Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, will take his research even further with a $1 million CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
John Hayes, dean of the Warner College of Natural Resources, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year in June 2022.
Brothers Mike and Howie Fitz envision private lands as the future of conservation after witnessing firsthand a gradual decline in natural habitat in their nearly 55 years of outdoor activities including pheasant hunting.