The inaugural event of the Warner College Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Further Together, delighted a sold-out crowd on Monday, Dec. 5 as more than 80 people filled Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins to hear CSU 2022 Distinguished Alumna, Cindy Williams, speak about her role as a co-lead for Envision Chaffee County.
Mya Hunter has always felt drawn to protect natural spaces. Growing up on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Hunter was constantly outside. Hunter’s choice to study Human Dimensions of Natural Resources comes from her experiences living on the island.
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.
A group of more than 40 international scientists, led by Colorado State University faculty, has released a policy brief ahead of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity to recommend adoption of a social science tool developed at CSU into the convention’s framework.
The Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources co-hosted two conferences in the month of October, one in-person at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands, and one virtually that reached a global audience.
Ecological restoration, which aims to rehabilitate an ecosystem that has been disturbed or damaged, has the potential to become a new form of outdoor recreation that benefits both people and the planet.
To break the flow of the illegal trade of live cheetah cubs, researchers at Colorado State University are searching for undocumented wild cheetahs that are supplying the high demand for pets in the Middle East. In the Horn of Africa, cheetahs are not so much poached for skins and parts, but rather caught as cubs and trafficked with other contraband through Somaliland and Yemen to wealthy collectors across the Arab Peninsula.
WCNR alumnus, Michael Czaja, completed a month-long Fulbright Specialist project in Portugal.
It comes as no surprise that many Rams thrive on being creative and spending their time enjoying and recreating in nature. However this truth is often overlooked in university settings such as the classroom. The Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources has created an opportunity to celebrate Ram's love of the outdoors and reward the best video submissions with a $1000 prize!
Nearly nine in 10 Americans are expecting to travel this summer. Eight in ten plan to travel in their personal vehicles and 46 percent plan to fly. With tourism being responsible for roughly eight percent of the world’s carbon emissions, tourists traveling this summer can rely on some tips to travel more sustainably.