All Publications

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Fire Policy & Management

McGrath Novak, K., McCaffrey, S., and Schultz, C.A., 2022. Comparing land manager and community perceptions of a Colorado prescribed fire outreach program. Journal of Forestry, 1-10. DOI: 10.1093/jofore/fvac026. Available here.

Huber-Stearns, H.R., Santo, A.R., Schultz, C.A., and McCaffrey, S.M. 2021. Network governance in the use of prescribed fire: roles for bridging organizations and other actors in the Western United States. Regional Environmental Change 21(118): 1-17. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01850-7

Greiner, S.M., Schultz, C.A., Kooistra, C. 2020. Pre-season fire management planning: The use of Potential Operational Delineations fo prepare for wildland fire events. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20124

Schultz, C.A., Moseley, C. 2019. Collaborations and capacities to transform US fire management. Science 366 (6461): 38-40; doi: 10.1126/science.aay3727
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Schultz, C.A., McCaffrey, S., Huber-Stearns, H. 2019. Policy barriers and opportunities for prescribed fire application in the Western United States. International Journal of Wildland Fire (online); Available at: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19040

Schultz, C.A.,P. Thompson, S. McCaffrey. 2019. Forest Service fire management and the elusiveness of change. Fire Ecology 15: 13; Available at : https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0028-x

McWethy, D., Schoennagel,T., Higuera, P.E., Krawchuk, M., Harvey, B.J., Metcalf, E.C., Schultz, C.A., Miller, C., Metcalf, A.L., Buma, B., Virapongse, A., Kulig, J.C., Stedman, R.C., Ratajczak, Z., Nelson, C.R., Kolden, C. 2019. Wildfire in the West: Learning to live in increasingly fire-prone landscapes. Nature Sustainability 2, 797-804. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0353-8

Higuera, P.E., Metcalf, A.L., Miller, C., Buma, B., McWethy, D.B., Metcalf, E.C., Ratajczak, Z., Nelson, C.R., Chaffin, B.C., Stedman, R.C., McCaffrey, S., Schoennagel, T., Harvey, B.J., Hood, S.M., Schultz, C.A., Black, A.E., Campbell, D., Haggerty, J.H., Keane, R.E., Krawchuk, M.A., Kulig, J.C., Rafferty, R., Virapongse, A. 2019. Integrating subjective and objective dimensions of resilience in fire-prone landscapes. Bioscience 69: 375-388; Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz030

Forest Policy & Planning

Wurtzebach, Z., Schultz, C.A., Waltz, A.E.M., Esch, B.E., and Wasserman, T.N. 2019. Broader-scale monitoring fore federal forest planning: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Forestry (online). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvz009

Ricco, G., Schultz, C.A. Understanding organizational learning during policy implementation: lessons from US forest planning. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 21: 275-287; Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1623659

Wurtzebach, Z., Schultz, C. A., Waltz, A.E.M., Esch, B., Wasserman, T. 2019. Adaptive governance and the administrative state: knowledge management for forest planning in the western United States. Regional Environmental Change (online). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01569-6

Schultz, C. A., Mattor, K. D., Moseley, C. 2016. Aligning policies to support forest restoration and promote organizational change. Forest Policy and Economics 73, 195-203. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2016.09.015

Schultz, C. 2008. Responding to scientific uncertainty in forest policy and planning. Environmental Science and Policy 11, 253-271. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2007.09.002

Schultz, C.A., Timberlake, T.J., Wurtzebach, Z.P., McIntyre, K.B., Moseley, C. 2019. Policy tools to address scale mismatches: lessons from US forest governance. Ecology and Society 24(1). Available at: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art21/

Huber-Stearns, H.R., Schultz, C.A., Cheng, A.S. 2019. A multiple streams analysis of institutional innovation in forest watershed governance. Review of Policy Research 36 (6), 781-804. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12359

Pitt, A. N., Schultz, C.A. 2018. Youth-based citizen science monitoring: Case studies from three National Forests. Journal of Forestry 116(2), 109-116. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvx008

Wurtzebach, Z., Schultz, C. A. 2016. Measuring ecological integrity: history, practical applications, and research opportunities. BioScience 66, 446-457. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw037

 

Climate Change Considerations in Forest Management

Stephens, S., Westerling, A., Hurteau, M., Peery, M., Schultz, C.A., Thompson, S. 2020. Fire and climate change: Conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (in press). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2218

vonHedemann, N., Wurtzebach, Z, Timberlake, T.J., Sinkular, E., Schultz, C.A. 2020. Forest policy and management approaches for carbon dioxide removal. Royal Society Interface Focus 10(5), 20200001. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2020.0001

Buma, B., Schultz, C.A. Disturbances as opportunities: Can we learn from disturbance-response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change? Journal of Applied Ecology 57(6), 1113-1123. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13606

Timberlake, T.J., Schultz, C.A. 2019. Climate change vulnerability assessment for forest management: the case of the U.S. Forest Service. Forests 10, 1030; Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/f10111030

Rutherford, T., Schultz, C.A. 2019. Adapting wildland fire governance to climate change in Alaska. Ecology and Society 24(1), 27-40. URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art27/

Timberlake, T.J., Schultz, C.A. 2018. Policy, practice, and partnerships for climate change adaptation on U.S. national forests. Climatic Change 144, 257-269. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-2031-z

 

Wildlife Conservation

Niemiec, R., Berl, R.E.W., Gonzalez, M., Teel, T., Camara, C., Collins, M., Salerno, J., Crooks, K., Schultz, C., Breck, S., Hoag, D. 2020. Public perspectives and media reporting of wolf reintroduction in Colorado. Peer J 8, e9074. Available at: https://peerj.com/articles/9074/

Nie, M. A., Schultz, C. A. 2012. Decision-making triggers in adaptive management. Conservation Biology 26(6), 1137–1144. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01915.x

Schultz, C. A., Sisk, T. D., Noon, B. R., Nie, M. A. 2013. Wildlife conservation planning under the United States Forest Service’s 2012 planning rule. The Journal of Wildlife Management 77(3), 428–444. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.513

Schultz, C. A. 2010. Challenges in connecting cumulative effects analysis to effective wildlife conservation planning. Bioscience 60(7), 545–551. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2010.60.7.10

 

Collaborative Forest Management

Kooistra, C., Schultz, C., Abrams, A., Huber-Stearns, H. 2022. Institutionalizing the United States Forest Service’s Shared Stewardship Strategy in the Western United States. Journal of Forestry. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvac010

McIntyre, K.M., Schultz, C.A. Facilitating Collaboration in Forest Management: Assessing the Benefits of Collaborative Policy Innovations. Land Use Policy 96, 104683. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104683

Cyphers, L., Schultz, C.A. 2019. Policy Design to Support Cross-Boundary Land Management: The Example of the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership. Land Use Policy; Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.021

Schultz, C.A., McIntyre, K.B., Cyphers, L., Kooistra, C., Ellison, A., Moseley, C. 2018. Policy Design for Forest Restoration: The Value of Focused Investment and Collaboration. Forests 9: 512, doi:10.3390/f9090512. Available at: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/9/512

Schultz, C. A., Coelho, D. L., Beam, R. D. 2014. Design and governance of multiparty monitoring under the USDA Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program. Journal of Forestry 112(2), 198–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.13-070

Schultz, C. A., Jedd, T., Beam, R. D. 2012. The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: a history and overview of the first projects. Journal of Forestry 110(7), 381–391. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.11-082