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DEAN'SSTATEMENTThe dawn of a new year invites us to take stock of our accomplishments and set sights on new opportunities. This report provides a glimpse of a few of the significant contri-butions in 2014 of our College’s people — be they students, faculty, alumni, or staff. You’ll find innovative ways we have approached field-based education to prepare the next generation of conservation leaders. You’ll recognize how our supporters have fostered the means to launch our students toward successful careers. You’ll learn of some of the remarkable research projects undertaken by our faculty to fulfill our mission to cultivate science that makes a difference. You’ll see how all of us become energized by the excite-ment of discovery and the joy of learning.
The College will not stand still in 2015, but advance toward that hopeful horizon where human society works in harmony with the natural world. We will attract those students whose curiosity and drive fuel our common aspiration to apply knowledge to solve problems. We will act with both boldness and humility to tackle our most pressing challenges. We will devote ourselves to the union of science and caring so we might jointly embrace the solemn responsibility to leave the world a better place. Come and join us on this journey. We invite you to visit us here in Missoula or on our web site to see how you might participate in this uplifting pursuit.
Jim Burchfield
Dec. 31, 2014
Centennial festivities included: Top row: Singing forestry songs on the steps of Main Hall Middle row: Left- Banquet attendees Ken & Patti Bullman, Dave Wanderaas, Larry & Sandra Nelson and Deen Boe; Middle - eldest alumni in attendance Zane Smith, Jean Hamre (one of the earliest women graduates in 1947), Vern Hamre and Howie Hunter; Right - crosscut saw competition at LubrechtBottom row: Left - The fun group from the 80s; - Deb Bond, Dennis Riley, Jocelyn, Sandy Mack, Zimmerman, Frank Maus, Mindi Feder-man, Risa Lange Navarro, Hank Goetz, Dean Marsh, Nancy Ross, Margaret Gimmy, Ian, Dennis Middle - watching the Woodsman’s Team demonstration at Ft. Missoula; Right - catching up with old friends at our BBQ
Highlights of 100 years of forestry1913: Montana Legislature passes bill to establish School of Forestry and includes $6,000 for set up costs1914: Forestry Club established1922: First forestry classes held in the new Forestry building - where we still reside today1928: Josephine Darlington is first female graduate of the school1935: School of Forestry accredited by Society of American Foresters; accreditation aintained continuously since1936: Wild Life Management program established (now known as Wildlife Biology)1937: Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station founded by Montana Legislature1937: Anaconda Copper Mining Company gives land to the school; combined with later gift from Pacific Northern Railway, this ecomes Lubrecht Experimental Forest1947: Jean Hamre is the second female graduate of the school 1964: Forestry PhD program started1970: Dean of the school Arnold Bolle wrote “A University View of the Forest Service” for Senator Lee Metcalf1974: The Wilderness Institute and the Wilderness & Civilization program established1987: Ed Bandy gives the Bandy Ranch to the school2003: School of Forestry becomes College of Forestry and Conservation
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Celebrating our centennialIn the fall of 2013 more than 200 alumni came back to campus to celebrate 100 years of forestry. Listen to oral history recordings on our web site.
ALUMNI NEWS
Distinguished alumni 2014
CONNECT WITH USWe love to hear from our alumni. Drop us a note at [email protected] to let us know what you're up to. We are active on Facebook, so go to www.facebook.com/forestryandconservation for your daily dose of UM forestry. Planning to visit Missoula this year? Let us know and we'll show you around campus.
Jim Durglo1987 ForestryJim was selected as the Dis-tinguished Native American Alumni this year. He is a member of the Confeder-ated Salish, Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai tribes with over 30 years of experience in wildland fire, forest planning and mangement. He is the forest manager for CSKT.
Zane Smith1955 ForestryZane is retired from the U.S. Forest Service (34 years of service) and the U.S. Air Force Ready Reserve. In his long career he was a district ranger, forest supervisor, national director of recreation and wilderness, and the region-al forester for California, Hawaii and Micronesia.
Russ Graham1972 ForestryRuss has over 39 years experience with the Rocky Mountain Research Station and for 38 years has been in charge of the Priest River and Deception Creek Experimental Forests in Idaho. He's published more than 210 scholarly articles on forest productivity and landscape proceses.
Peter Leech1965 ForestryPeter is retired from Wey-erhauser where he worked since 1979. There he created the Environmental Management System for the company's Mississippi/Alabama tree farm. He also served for 14 years in Vietnam and Korea and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor.
Alum Dave Fauss shared this photo from senior spring camp in 1963. Does anyone know where this quarter-long camp was held? Send us a note at [email protected] with the correct answer and we'll send you a prize. Dave notes that the cooks, at the front left in photo, provided great food.
The Centennial celebration kept us busy last fall with fun events, including a lecture by renowned environmental historian Char Miller and the events you read about on the previous page. The Montana Legislature approved the Forestry School in 1913, the first classes started in Sept. 1914. To learn more about the Centennial festivi-ties or to read our two official school histories, visit our web site. One history was prepared by the Mansfield Library Archives & Special Collections to go along with the great display they hosted in the library last year (you can also view part of the exhibit online). Minie Smith compiled more of the school's history in her booklet "Montana's School of Forestry: Highlights of 100 Years."
We also honored four distinguished alumni this year during UM's Homecoming Week. Join us in congratulating Jim, Russ, Peter and Zane for this honor. More complete biographies are also on our web site.
Who can resist a peek at someone else's report card? We discovered this from Kenneth Davis, who got his bachelor's of forestry here in 1928 and then served as Dean of the School of Forestry from 1945 to 1949. The class of 1980 left their mark on the Rec Hall at Lubrecht.
Recognize any names?
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Sue Vap, 1972 forestry grad and one of our distinguished al-ums, met up with Helen Bolle during the Centennial celebration last fall. Helen is the widow of legendary dean Arnold Bolle. Bolle served as dean from 1962 to 1972 and authored the influential report “A University View of the Forest Service,” better known as the Bolle Report. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the college's Bolle Center for People and Forests, founded in 1994 by a gift from the Art Ortenburg and Liz Claiborne Foundation to honor Bolle and support education and research on sustainable livelihoods, communities and forests. Learn more about the Bolle Center.
Distinguished alum Zane Smith and his wife Betty at the Foresters’ Ball in 1954. The 98th Foresters' Ball takes place Feb. 6 and 7, 2015 in Schreiber Gym.
Photo: Undergrad Aspen Ward working on a snow acumulation study at Lubrecht with PhD student Eryn Schneider. Aspen is the recipient of a CFC scholarship and Eryn's doctoral fellowship is funded by the Plum Creek Company. Read more from the UM Foundation newsletter.
Plum Creek made a gift to the college in 1994 to support the Plum Creek Distinguished Lecture Series and a Plum Creek fellow. This year's Plum Creek Distinguished Lecture will take place in October, 2015, during Montana Forest Products Week and will focus on forest certifica-tion. Check out the Plum Creek web site this spring for details.
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Earle Layser, ‘65 forestry alumnus, and his late wife Pattie established a profes-sorship earlier this year with a generous bequest of $1.5 million. The Earle and Pattie Layser Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Conservation Biology and Policy will support a professor in conser-vation biology, ecosystems restoration, threatened and endangered species and wildland conservation.
Earle and Pattie - writers, naturalists and conservationists - loved the Greater Yellowstone area and its rich natural re-sources. “We were exceptionally fortunate to visit and write about some of Earth’s beautiful, wild and biologically unique places,” says Layser. “But in the process, we also witnessed firsthand humankind’s sobering worldwide assault on natural places and wildlife.”
With this gift the Laysers ensured that the College of Forestry and Conservation will continue working to preserve the land and wildlife they love.
“We already have a strong foundation of scholarship and research in natural resource policy and land conservation,” Dean of the college Jim Burchfield said. “This generous gift will help future stu-dents better understand the connections
between people, wildlife and land-scapes in the West.” Read more in
the UM Foundation newsletter.
This past summer Stephen and Jane Baldock (‘72, ‘72) committed $500,000 of their estate to the UM College of Forestry and Conservation. The gift creates the University of Montana Native American Natural Resources Program Fund and will focus on the greatest needs facing Native American students enrolled in the College of Forestry and Conservation. We're excit-ed to continue offering support, academic advising, internship and job placement and other services for the college's native students.
The family of legendary conservationist William “Bud” Moore is continuing Bud’s passion for protecting wild places. They’ve established the William R. (Bud) and Jane Buckhouse Moore Graduate Research Endowment to support research projects by graduate or post-graduate students studying the Northern Rocky Mountain Crown of the Continent Bioregion. Read more about Bud in the UM Foundation newsletter.
DONORSUPPORT
In fiscal year 2014, the University of Montana raised a record amount of support from private donors: nearly $54 million.
FY14 Private support: $2,628,392
Student support $806,030
Faculty support $1,500,000
Programs $322,362
Photo: Donna Hulsey, Earle Layser, Gaia Layser, Gavan Layser. Donna is the sister of Pattie Layser; Gaia is the Layser's niece and Gavan is her son, a UM student.
Thank you to everyone who supported us in FY2014
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Interns Charlie Hopkins (foreground) and Mike Wentz at Lubrecht.
Ecological restoration students raised $22,500 in competitive grants this year to support their research projects.
75 incoming freshmen spent three nights in the wilderness before school started in a new program run by the Wilderness Institute.
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Professor Libby Metcalf and the UM Outdoor Program started the university's first Outdoor Recreation Living Learning Community. Students took over a floor of Aber Hall and took an introductory Parks, Tourism & Recreation Management course together, learning about recreation bene-fits and impacts.
OUR STUDENTSWe're excited to share with you a few examples of how our students suceed both in the classroom and out in the world.
Mara Menahan was appointed a 2014 Truman Scholar and Hope Radford won a Udall scholarship this year. Both are in the climate change studies program and Radford is also a resource conservation major.
In seven years of participating in the Prescribed Fire Practicum, UM students have restored nearly 6,000 acres of longleaf pine forest in Georgia. Our newest minor in Wildland Fire Sciences & Man-agement draws students to UM from all over the U.S. who want to study fire in both applied and academic settings.
The student chapter of The Wildlife Society had a busy semester this fall. Club members conducted moun-tain goat surveys, wrote grants for the Be Bear Aware Program, practiced telemetry and gave presentations to local schoolkids about bear awareness. They also spent a weekend removing barbed wire fence from the Blackfoot-Clearwater Game Range — 42 club members took down 3.25 miles of hazardous fencing. Students partnered with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Backcountry Horsemen of Montana on this project.
The first round of our International Sustainability Fellows program kicks off in January with trips to Vietnam and Chile. We're building leaders through international experiences that connect students to local natural resource issues in India, Chile, Vietnam and Zambia.
of CFC graduates are employed or in graduate school.
of those are employed in the field they studied in.
Interns at Lubrecht Forest
Charlie Hopkins and Mike Wentz supported forest management operations at Lubrecht and Bryan Rameriz helped with marketing of recreational facilities. Mike, from New Jersey, and Charlie, from Georgia, are both forestry majors. They worked closely with professor Alex Metcalf and forest planner Tom Perry to support the CFC’s forest management goals for Lubrecht.
During last year’s centennial cele-bration, alumni of the College of Forestry and Conservation donated to the Centennial Fund to support student field work and classes - like the Lubrecht internships.
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The U.S. Forest Service employs 29% of our grads; other federal agencies employ an additional 22% and 9% of grads work at state agencies. Our recent survey found that ten years post-grad-uation, 82% of alumni work full-time in their field. Most alums live in Montana, California, Idaho or Oregon, but there are CFC alumni in every other U.S. state plus countries like Bhutan, Canada, Bo-tswana and Afghanistan.
Thanks to all of you who completed the survey!
Check out the newly updated Lubrecht web site.
UM’s wildlife biology professor Mark Hebblewhite helped solve the mystery of declining numbers of elk in the West Fork of the Bitterroot. Hebblewhite and his graduate stu-dents worked with MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks over the past three years to collar elk, study vegetation in the area and document calf mortality to figure out what’s killing the elk.
Local residents and wildlife biologists became concerned when elk num-bers dropped by more than half from 2005 to 2009. Many residents figured wolves were to blame. Researchers found otherwise.
The researchers found that 36% of the elk calf mortalities were caused by mountain lions. Wolves killed just five percent of the calves.
“When we look at the number of elk calves that we can document were killed by wolves, the number is fairly insignificant,” says project co-leader Hebblewhite. “For instance, we didn’t have even one confirmed wolf kill this past year. Not to have even one out of 36 confirmed elk calf fatalities is shocking to me.” Read the full story in the Nov.-Dec. 2014 issue of Montana Outdoors.
RESEARCH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
College of Forestry and Conservation scientists brought in more than $35,000,000 in 2013-14 in external grants to support their work.
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Large photo: Professor Mark Hebble-white collaring an elk.
Inset photo: Students Ellen Brandell and Nicole Hupp studying the forage elk consume in the West Fork of the BItterroot.
Largest research grant in UM historyIn May, UM received a $45 million cooperative agree-ment award from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Three CFC faculty are working under the grant award: Libby Metcalf, Cara Nelson and Winsor Lowe (DBS).
New fish discovered Professor Lisa Eby and wildlife biology PhD student Mike LeMoine discovered the Cedar Sculpin - a new fish species they found with partners from the U.S. Forest Service.
Professor named most influential scientistThomson Reuters compiled a list of the most influen-tial names in science, based on the number of their papers cited by others in the field. Regents Professor of Ecology Steve Running made the list this year.
Research on support for elk management Professors Libby Metcalf and Alex Metcalf conducted a study of Montana residents' willlingness to accept elk management actions to limit the spread of brucel-losis. Their results were used by the state's Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Climate office provides data to the stateThe Montana Climate Office, led by professor Kelsey Jencso, supplies the state with climate data through the Montana State Library and its official climate data layer.
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Photo: Lubrecht forest
Professor Ron Wakimoto was awarded the Biswell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Fire Ecology in May. The award, named for fire ecol-ogist Harold Biswell, was given during AFE's Large Fire Conference in Missou-la. Wakimoto was one of three PhD students who studied under Biswell at the University of California-Berkeley to receive this honor. Wakimoto has taught at UM since 1982.
Photo: Wakimoto teaching prescribed burn-ing in Bhutan in 2006.
Professor Carl Seielstad was given the Paul Gleason Lead by Example Award from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Leadership subcommittee ear-lier this year. Seielstad was selected for his initiative and innovation in estab-lishing the college's Wildland Fire pro-gram and practicum course. The award committtee noted that Seielstad's "visionary leadership offers students a unique opportunity."
Professor Martin Nie was appointed to the Planning Rule Advisory Committee by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Aug. 2014. The committee provides guidance and recommendations on management of America's national forests for implementing the 2012 plan-nign rule. Nie joins 20 other members as the sole representative of the scien-tific community.
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FacultyDavid Affleck – Associate Professor, Biometrics; Experiment Station Statistician; Director, Inland North-west Growth and Yield Cooperative Brady Allred – Assistant Professor, Rangeland EcologyAshley Ballantyne – Assistant Professor, BioclimatologyJill Belsky – Professor, Rural/Environmental Social Science Bill Borrie – Professor, Park & Recreation ManagementKeith Bosak – Associate Professor, Nature–based Tourism & RecreationJames Burchfield – Dean; Director of Montana Forest & Conservation Experiment Station; Professor, Forest Social SciencesEdwin Burke – Professor, Wood Science & Technology; Chair – Dept. of Forest ManagementCory Cleveland – Associate Professor, Terrestrial BiogeochemistryNatalie Dawson – Research Professor, Ecosystem Sciences; Director, Wilderness InstituteSolomon Dobrowski – Associate Professor, Forest Landscape EcologyBeth Dodson – Associate Professor, Integrated Natural ResourcesVictoria Dreitz – Assistant Professor, Wildlife Biology; Director, Avian Science Center Lisa Eby – Associate Professor, Aquatic EcologyWayne Freimund – Professor, Protected Area Management; Chair, Dept. of Society & ConservationJohn Goodburn – Champion Associate Professor, SilvicultureMark Hebblewhite – Associate Professor, Ungulate Habitat EcologyKelsey Jencso – Assistant Professor, Watershed HydrologistChristopher Keyes – Research Professor, Silviculture; Director, Applied Forest Management program Paul Krausman – Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation
Andrew Larson – Assistant Professor, Forest EcologyPaul Lukacs – Associate Professor, Quantitative Wildlife EcologyAngela Luis – Assistant Professor, Population and Disease EcologyAlexander Metcalf – Research Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural ResourcesElizabeth Covelli Metcalf – Assistant Professor, Parks Tourism & Recreation Management Brendan Moynahan – Faculty Affiliate; Research Coordinator & Science Advisor for Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystems Studies UnitDave Naugle – Professor, Large Scale Wildlife EcologyCara Nelson – Associate Professor, Restoration EcologyNorma Nickerson – Research Professor; Director, Institute for Tourism & Recreation ResearchMartin Nie – Professor, Natural Resource Policy; Director, Bolle Center for People & ForestsMichael Patterson – Associate Dean; Professor, Wildlife/Recreation Management Nicky Phear – Climate Change Studies Instructor & Program CoordinatorLLoyd Queen – Professor, Remote Sensing; Director, National Center for Landscape Fire AnalysisSteve Running – Regents Professor of Ecology; Director, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation GroupDane Scott – Associate Professor, Ethics; Director, Center for EthicsCarl Seielstad – Associate Professor, Fire Sciences & ManagementStephen Siebert – Professor, Tropical Forest Conservation & ManagementDiana Six – Professor, Forest Entomology/Pathology; Chair, Dept. of Ecosystems & Conservation SciencesRonald Wakimoto – Professor, Forest Fire ScienceLaurie Yung – Associate Professor, Natural Resource Social Science
StaffJim Adams – Accounting AssociateLisa Arends – Budget AnalystSam Barkley – Director of DevelopmentLaurie Belcher – Director of Accounting & Fiscal OperationsYoungee Cho – Program Director, NTSGCory Davis – Monitoring Coordinator for Southwestern Crown of the Continent CFLRPKit Edington – Information TechnologyWilliam Fabro – Manager of the Wilderness Management Distance Education ProgramJeanne Franz – Academic Advisor, Wildlife BiologyLisa Gerloff – Citizen Science Program Director, Wilderness Institute; Executive Coordinator, Rocky Mountains CESUKara Grau – Assistant Director of Economic Analysis, ITRRRobin Hamilton – Administrative Associate, Wildlife BiologyValentijn Hoff – GIS Analyst, Fire CenterMarybeth Horvath – Administrative AssociateRachel James – Assistant Director, Wilderness InstituteRobert Logan – Network Administrator, QSGWendy Maltonic – Database Administrator & Federal LiaisonNiels Maumenee – Fire Center, Systems AdministratorFrank Maus – Forest Manager, LubrechtSherri McWilliams – Systems Support, QSGLinda Nitz – Facilities Director, Lubrecht ForestThomas Perry – Forest PlannerCatherine Redfern – Budget AnalystLisa Ronald – Wilderness Information, Technology, New Media, and E–Learning Specialist at the Wilderness InstituteMarie Rothell – Administrative Associate Eric Rowell – Image Programmer & Remote Sensing Analyst, Fire CenterLeana Schelvan – Director of CommunicationsMegan Schultz – Project Manager & Research Associate, ITRRJami Sindelar – Program Coordinator, Fire CenterMichael Sweet – Research & Information Systems Specialist, QSG & Montana Climate Office Shonna Trowbridge – Director of Student ServicesDavid Weis – Bandy Ranch ManagerDevi Zdziebko – Manager of International Sustainability Fellows Program & Administrative Supervisor
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