Bio

Michelle Steen-Adams is a research associate with the School of the Environment at Washington State University Vancouver. Michelle oversees and conducts research about the social aspects of forest ecosystems and forest management. With an interdisciplinary training in environmental history, rural sociology and landscape ecology, her research strives to bring to light the historical, organizational, political and ecological factors that drive forestry decisions. Focusing on public lands management agencies, she is especially interested in the processes of decision-making, climate adaptation and agency-citizen collaboration. The goal of this work is to inform management of topics relevant to communities, including severe wildfire, insect outbreak and forest cultural  resources. In her free time, Michelle enjoys baking, family activities, trail walking and traveling.

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