FIRE EXPERTS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
FIRE EXPERTS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
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Dr. William L. Baker is an ecology professor in the Department of Geography & Recreation at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His specialty is landscape ecology of large disturbances (fire, floods) in the Rocky Mountains. He is the author of recent book chapters on Indians and fire in the Rocky Mountains and on fire and climate in the Rocky Mountains. Current research is on fire history and ecology in Rocky
Mountain National Park, Colorado, and the Medicine Bow Mountains in Wyoming.
Phone: 307-766-2925
email: BAKERWL@UWYO.EDU
Dr. Penelope Morgan is a professor in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho. She teaches, conducts research, and co-directs the Natural Resources Ecology and Conservation Biology Program. For more than 20 years, she have been involved in forest and natural resource management in the West. Most of her involvement is through teaching and research in ecology, especially fire ecology and landscape ecology. She was born and raised in the West, and have never lived far from the spine of the Rocky Mountains. In recent research projects, she has investigated the linkages of fire, vegetation and climate across multiple temporal and spatial scales in Rocky Mountain Wilderness areas, evaluated the ecological effects and role of fire in whitebark pine forest ecosystems, mapped changing fire regimes, and focused on restoration ecology. she has worked in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests, subalpine forests at high elevation, and warm, mesic forests supporting western white pine in northern Idaho.
email: pmorgan@uidaho.edu