Congratulations to all of these award winners and nominees for these highly deserved awards and for your service to FRS, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, and your communities. These awards would not be possible without the efforts of nominators who take the time to help highlight their colleagues.
Read about wildfire in a Q&A with Courtney Schultz. Schultz is a professor of natural resource and fire policy, director of the Public Lands Policy Group, and director of the Climate Adaptation Partnership, housed in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship in the Warner College of Natural Resources.
Zoe Lipscomb is receiving a B.S. degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability from the Warner College of Natural Resources. She worked in Troy Ocheltree’s plant ecophysiology laboratory while at Colorado State University and plans to combine her love for working with people with her passion for rural communities.
Esme Wissinger is receiving their B.S. in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with a concentration in Forest Management from the Warner College of Natural Resources. Esme worked at the Environmental Learning Center during their time at Colorado State University and found joy in communicating with people of all ages about natural resources.
Read a Q&A with Angelika Helmer, a student graduating from the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with B.S. degrees in forest management and natural resources management and a minor in ecological restoration. Angelika served the department as a peer advisor, offering support and guidance to other students.
Camille Stevens-Rumann is an assistant professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University and assistant director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Her research focuses on post-disturbance recovery and challenges facing disturbed lands, whether that is understanding species and ecosystem responses to disturbances or applications for improving future ecosystem management.
The University houses an extraordinary array of research, education, and engagement activities to tackle the climate crisis. CSU experts are working on the interrelated challenges of climate change mitigation, which requires reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and emissions, and adaptation, which involves adjusting infrastructure, policy, and social systems to new conditions.
Katelynn Martinez’s career has been propelled by a simple — but ambitious — goal: to help humans coexist with the environment in a mutually beneficial balance. She helped launch Colorado's first reforestation company, OneCanopy, a privately funded conservation nursery that grows native trees and shrubs for reforestation in the Rocky Mountain region. Within five years, the Loveland-based social enterprise aims to grow three million seedling trees per year, aiding in the reforestation of 10,000 acres annually in the Rocky Mountain region.
Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly. Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk.
Rick Knight, professor emeritus, will be speaking at a special seminar entitled "Ranchers as a Keystone Species in a West that Works."