{"id":14,"date":"2015-12-16T18:43:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2015-12-16T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:48:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
Education:<\/strong><\/div>\n

Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI,<\/p>\n

M.S. in Wildlife Biology from University of Washington, Seattle, WA,<\/p>\n

B.S. in Wildlife Biology from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC,<\/p>\n

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Awards, Honors, Grants:<\/strong><\/div>\n

Association for Publishing & Media 2012 \u201cEXCEL Award for General Excellence in Journal Publishing\u201d for editing an issue of Rangelands on ecosystem services. Gold award category, 2012<\/p>\n

Colorado Book Award for Anthology, 2008<\/p>\n

Harry E. Troxell Distinguished Service To Students Faculty Award, 2008<\/p>\n

Warner College Students Favorite Professor (5 time recipient), 2015<\/p>\n

Board of Governor\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award, Colorado State University, 2007<\/p>\n

Publications:<\/strong><\/div>\n

The Essential Aldo Leopold
\nUniversity of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin. 362pp. , 1999<\/i>
\nMeine, C., & Knight, R.L. Eds. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Wildlife and Recreationists: Coexistence Through Management and Research
\nIsland Press , 1995<\/i>
\nKnight, R. L., & K. J. Gutzwiller<\/span><\/p>\n

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A New Century for Natural Resources Management
\nIsland Press , 1995<\/i>
\nKnight, R. L., & S. F. Bates<\/span><\/p>\n

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Home Land: Ranching and a West That Works
\nJohnson Books , 2007<\/i>
\nPritchett, L., R. L. Knight, & J. Les<\/span><\/p>\n

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Conservation for a new generation: Redefining natural resources management
\nIsland Press, Washington, D.C. , 2008<\/i>
\nKnight, R.L., & White, C. Eds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ecosystem management: adaptive, community-based conservation
\nIsland Press, Washington, D.C. 304pp. , 2002<\/i>
\nMeffe, G.K., Nielsen, L.A., Knight, R.L., & Schenborn, D.A.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aldo Leopold and the ecological conscience
\nOxford University Press, New York, NY. 190pp. , 2002<\/i>
\nKnight, R.L., & Riedel, S. Eds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ranching west of the 100th meridian
\nIsland Press, Washington, D.C. 259pp. , 2002<\/i>
\nKnight, R.L., Gilgert, W.C., & Marston, E. Eds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Memberships:<\/strong><\/div>\n

Aldo Leopold Foundation<\/p>\n

American Association of Biological Sciences<\/p>\n

Ecological Society of America<\/p>\n

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Interests & Studies:<\/strong><\/div>\n

Rick\u2019s life\u2019s passions align with his academic interests: to find ways that human land uses can be more restorative than destructive to land health. His interests, for example, include finding ways to recreate, ranch, farm, log, develop energy, and divert water in ways that minimize harm to soil, plants, animals, and water so that these human economies can move sustainably into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Education: Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, M.S. in Wildlife Biology from University of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.S. in Wildlife Biology from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Awards, Honors, Grants: Association for Publishing & Media 2012 \u201cEXCEL Award for General Excellence in Journal Publishing\u201d for editing an issue of Rangelands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/richardknight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}