HANNAH GOSNELL. Center of the American West University of Colorado Boulder, CO

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1 HANNAH GOSNELL Center of the American West University of Colorado Boulder, CO EDUCATION Ph.D. Geography, 2000, University of Colorado, Boulder. Dissertation: Water, Fish, Tribes, and Choice: A Geographic Evaluation of Endangered Species Act Implementation in the San Juan River Basin, USA. Areas of Specialization: Water Resource Geography, Biodiversity Conservation, the U.S. West. M.A. Geography, 1995, University of Colorado, Boulder. Thesis: Rangeland Reform '94 and the Politics of the Old West: An Analysis of Institutional and Ideological Barriers to Reforming Federal Rangeland Policy. B.A. American Civilization, 1988, Brown University. Certifications: Environmental Policy Program, University of Colorado (1997) Graduate Teacher Program, University of Colorado (1996) Relevant Coursework: Agroecosystems, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, Foundations of Natural Resource Law, Water Law, Public Lands Law, Advanced Natural Resource Law Seminar: The Endangered Species Act, Advanced Natural Resource Law Seminar: The Colorado Plateau, Policy Responses to Global Change, Geography of the Western U.S., Western History Research Seminar, Colorado River History Seminar, Geography of Metropolitan Water. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Professional Research Associate, Center of the American West (CAW), University of Colorado Boulder. Supervisor: Dr. W. (Riebsame) Travis (Fall 2000 present) Co-manage the Ranchlands Project ( including setting the general research direction and specific research questions, establishing the budget and tracking expenses, and assigning duties to and supervising graduate research assistants and student hourly workers Conduct research in cooperation with faculty at the CAW on Western land use changes, including data collection and manipulation, analysis, and writing and reporting of results to funding organizations and professional societies. Conduct interviews in case study counties with ranchland owners, appraisers, assessors, realtors, public land managers, local environmentalists, etc. to assess changing ranchland ownership patterns and associated social and ecological implications Prepare technical reports synthesizing findings for funders

2 Initial pilot study ( ) was a joint venture with The Nature Conservancy and American Farmland Trust and focused on three counties in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana; current research is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is focused on the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion, southeastern Arizona, and the northern Sierra Nevada Research Consultant, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project and Turner Endangered Species Fund (TESF) (Summer 2001 Spring 2002 short-term contract position) Analyzed socioeconomic data for 64 counties in Southern Rockies Ecoregion (e.g., population trends, regional demographics, economic trends, resource management trends) Co-authored Human Landscape chapter for TESF report/book, Suitability of the Southern Rockies for Wolf Restoration: An Ecological and Social Assessment; Human Landscape chapter also used in Southern Rockies Wildlands Network Design document, sponsored by Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, The Wildlands Project, and Denver Zoological Foundation Reviewed literature on human attitudes towards wolf reintroduction in the Southern Rockies for another chapter in the book Research Assistant, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law. Supervisor: Elizabeth Rieke, NRLC Director (Spring 1996) Collaborated on multidisciplinary grant proposal to NSF/EPA to study the efficacy and viability of watershed initiatives Developed compilation of bibliographies on community based natural resource problem solving and watershed management Research Assistant, Global Change and Environmental Quality Program, Sustainability Project, University of Colorado - Boulder. Supervisor: Dr. W. Riebsame. (Spring 1995) Collaborated on multidisciplinary grant proposal to NSF to develop a Human Dimensions of Global Change Program on campus Compiled data on environmental studies programs around the country for University of Colorado's Environmental Policy Certificate Program Research Assistant, U.S. Forest Service Study, Department of Geography, University of Colorado - Boulder. Supervisor: Dr. W. Riebsame (Fall Fall 1994). Collaborated on research on the social and ecological dimensions of changing land use patterns in the Colorado Rocky Mountains for the U.S. Forest Service Conducted archival research and in-depth interviews with ranchers, realtors, planners, environmentalists, developers, federal land managers, tax assessor, etc. in Gunnison Cty, CO Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Colorado - Boulder Supervisor: Dr. L. Staeheli. (Spring 1995). Collected data for NSF funded project entitled "Citizens and Local Democracy" Conducted telephone interviews with citizens in cities around the West regarding changes in quality of life over the past ten years Transcribed interviews and entered data into computer database

3 TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Instructor (GPTI), Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder Conservation Practice: Resource Management (Fall 1996) Examines the social and policy dimensions of natural resource management in the western United States. Topics include minerals, water, soil, range, timber, wildlife, fisheries, and wilderness. Water Resource Management: The Colorado River (Summer 1996) Using the Colorado River as a case study, the course covers topics such as dam management, transbasin diversions, salinity control, endangered species restoration, and Indian water rights. Water Resource Management: The U.S. West (Summer 1995) This course gives students the background necessary to understand and evaluate many water-related problems confronting the region from a geographic perspective. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Environmental Systems I: Climate and Vegetation (Fall 1993, Spring 1994) Environmental Systems II: Landforms and Soils (Spring 1996) Introduction to Human Geography (Fall 1995) World Geographic Problems (Fall 1994) Conservation Practice: Resource Management (Fall 1994) Water Resource Management in the West (Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 2000) Environment and Culture (Fall 1998) Field Instructor, Yosemite Institute, Yosemite National Park, CA ( ) Planned and presented five-day outdoor programs to participants focusing on natural history, environmental issues, group dynamics Prepared and presented naturalist evening programs Led backpacking trips in Yosemite National Park Hosted visiting groups, coordinated meals, programs, etc. Field Instructor, Pacific Crest Outward Bound School ( ) Instructed 126 field days in the Sierra Nevada, Joshua Tree National Monument, and Central Cascades Led standard and adjudicated students on 3rd, 4th, and 5th class terrain; taught backpacking, mountaineering, minimum impact camping, rock climbing, rappelling, backcountry skiing, natural history, wilderness ethics Instructor, Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, Finland, MN (Spring 1989) Prepared and taught up to seven ecology and recreation classes each week to elementary and high school students Presented naturalist evening programs to Wolf Ridge community Managed month-long phenology project Trip Leader, Wilderness Ventures, Jackson, WY (Summer 1988) Co-led groups of ten high school students on backpacking trips throughout PNW Planned rations and shopped for 4-6 day backcountry trips for 35 people

4 Trip Leader, Student Hosteling Program, Conway, MA (Summers ) Led group of eleven high school students on four-week bike trip through Holland and France Managed $10,000 budget in four different currencies Handled logistics, first aid, and bike repair Assisted on six-week bike trip through eastern Canada (1986) OTHER EMPLOYMENT Event Coordinator, Colorado Mountain Club and Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, Boulder, CO (Summer/Fall 2000 short-term contract position) Planned, coordinated, and created series of five events around the state of Colorado focusing on the state of the Southern Rockies Ecoregion and its future Responsible for creative aspects of the series (50 minute Powerpoint presentation, large displays, etc.), as well as administrative details (created invitee database and invitations, publicized events, etc.) Editor, The Yosemite Guide, Yosemite Association, El Portal, CA, ( ) Edited quarterly page newspaper for park visitors; wrote articles; solicited submissions; worked with designer and printer Redesigned and produced site bulletins (information handouts) for Yosemite National Park's Public Information Office PUBLICATIONS Articles Gosnell, H. and W.R. Travis. In press. Ranchland ownership dynamics in the Rocky Mountain West. Rangeland Ecology and Management (formerly Journal of Range Management). Gosnell, H Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act and the art of compromise: the evolution of a Reasonable and Prudent Alternative for the Animas-La Plata Project. Natural Resources Journal 41:3, Riebsame, W.E., H. Gosnell, and D.M. Theobald Land use and landscape change in the Colorado mountains I: theory, scale, and pattern. Mountain Research and Development 16:4, Theobald, D.M., H. Gosnell, and W.E. Riebsame Land use and landscape change in the Colorado mountains II: a case study of the East River Valley. Mountain Research and Development 16:4, Book Chapters Gosnell, H. In review. Healing with howls: why the Southern Rockies need wolves. In: S. Collinge and A. Cowell (eds.), Essays on Healing the West. Washington: D.C.: Island Press. Shinneman, D. and H. Gosnell The human landscape. In B. Miller, et al. (eds.), Southern Rockies Wildlands Network Vision. Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, The Wildlands Project, and Denver Zoological Foundation. Colorado Mountain Club Press: Golden, CO.

5 Gosnell, H. and D. Shinneman The human landscape. In M.K. Phillips, et al. (eds.), The Feasibility of Reintroducing Wolves into the Southern Rockies: An Ecological and Social Assessment. Turner Endangered Species Fund (Bozeman, MT) and the Denver Zoological Foundation (Denver, CO). Gosnell, H Water for the New West. In W.E. Riebsame, H. Gosnell, D.M. Theobald (eds.), Atlas of the new west: portrait of a changing region. W.W. Norton: New York. Technical Reports Travis, W.R., Gosnell, H., J.H. Haggerty, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Summary Report." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 42 pp. plus maps. Gosnell, H., J.H. Haggerty, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Park County, Wyoming." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 35 pp. plus maps. Gosnell, H., J.H. Haggerty, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Sweet Grass County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 33 pp. plus maps. Gosnell, H., J.H. Haggerty, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Carbon County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 26 pp. plus maps. Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Madison County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 38 pp. plus maps. Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Beaverhead County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 30 pp. plus maps. Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Park County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 31 pp. plus maps. Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Stillwater County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 18 pp. plus maps. Gosnell, H., J.H. Haggerty, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Sublette County, Wyoming." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 25 pp. plus maps. Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Fremont County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 26 pp. plus maps.

6 Haggerty, J.H., H. Gosnell, T. Dickinson, G. Mixon and W.R. Travis "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Lincoln County, Montana." Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder. 25 pp. plus maps. Travis, W.R., J. Hobson and H. Gosnell "Ranchland Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem." Center of the American West, University of Colorado-Boulder. 23 pp. Riebsame, W.E., D.M. Theobald, and H. Gosnell Assessing the social and ecological dimensions of changing land use patterns in the Colorado mountains. Report to the U.S. Forest Service, Contract No. 28-C Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Ft. Collins, CO. Gosnell, H Case study: the proposed Lake Catamount ski area and Routt National Forest. Working Paper 94-53, February 1994, Conflict Resolution Consortium Working Paper Series, University of Colorado. Other Publications Gosnell, H Returning to the original intent of the Endangered Species Act. Editorial in The Daily Camera, Boulder, CO, Sunday, May 24, Gosnell, H Yosemite. Chronicle Books: San Francisco. Gosnell, H Educational adventures in nature's classroom. Yosemite 54:1. Gosnell, H On the "cutting" edge in Yosemite. Yosemite 53:3. Gosnell, H Electric climber: finding one's way in the age of motorized bolting. Yosemite 53:1. INVITED PRESENTATIONS Presenter, Words to Stir the Soul. Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, August 26, Healing the Southern Rockies Ecoregion: What Will it Take? Chancellor s Community Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the CU-Boulder s Chancellor s Office, the Center of the American West, and the Colorado Chautauqua Association, Boulder, CO, April 7, Implementing Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act in the San Juan River Basin, USA: Constraints on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service s Decisionmaking Process. Department of Resource Recreation and Tourism, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, May Saving Endangered Fish, Endangering Tribal Waters: The Endangered Species Act in the San Juan River Basin. Center of the American West Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 7, 1998.

7 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Ownership Change in the Working Landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion: Findings and Implications. 10 th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Keystone, CO, June 2-6, Ownership Change in the Working Landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion: Findings and Implications. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19, Where the Lear Jets and the Antelope Play: Changing Patterns of Ranchland Ownership in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion. Beyond the Arch: Community and Conservation in Greater Yellowstone and East Africa, 7 th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 6-8, Ranchland Ownership Dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion. Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management, Casper, WY, February 1-6, Ranchland Ownership Dynamics in the Rocky Mountain West: A Pilot Study. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23, Implementing the Endangered Species Act in the San Juan River Basin. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29, "Boosting Basin-of-Origin Protection: John Wesley Powell's Vision for Western Watersheds. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, August 8-11, "Rangeland Reform '94 and the Politics of the Old West: Institutional and Ideological Barriers to Reforming Federal Rangeland Policy. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 14-18, "Institutional and Ideological Barriers to Reforming Federal Rangeland Policy: The Role of the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act. Biannual Meeting of the American Society of Environmental History, Las Vegas, NV, March 8-11, "The Social Ecology of Mountain Valley Development in Colorado" (with W.E. Riebsame and D.M. Theobald). Fifth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Ft. Collins, CO, June 7-10, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Menlo Park, CA Co-wrote grant proposal for ranchlands research ( ) - $150,000 Sussman Foundation - Greenwich, CT Edna Bailey Sussman Grant for Environmental Research (1997) - $3000 American Association of University Women - Boulder, CO Branch Brown-Ricketts-Udick Grant (1995) - $500

8 University of Colorado - Boulder University Fellowship ( ) - $3000/year Dean s Small Grant (1999) - $375; (1997) - $500 Mabel Duncan Memorial Grant (1994, 1997) - $1200/year Graduate School Travel Grants ( ) - $250/year Four Corners School of Outdoor Education - Monticello, UT Teaching Environmental Ethics Course (1996) - $450 scholarship National Outdoor Leadership School - Lander, WY Summer Instructor's Course (1990) - $1500 scholarship AWARDS 2001, Honorable Mention, the Universities Council on Water Resources Research Committee Award for the Outstanding Water Resources Ph.D. Dissertation in the Field of Water Policy and Socio-Economics MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS American Water Resources Association Association of American Geographers International Association for Society and Natural Resources Society for Conservation Biology, North American Chapter Society for Range Management COMMUNITY SERVICE Board of Directors, Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, Fall 2003 to present Board of Directors, Boulder Community Rowing, REFERENCES Dr. William Riebsame Travis (current supervisor, MA committee chair, PhD committee) Department of Geography UCB 260 University of Colorado Boulder, CO wtravis@colorado.edu Dr. James L. Wescoat, Jr. (Ph.D. committee chair, MA committee) Department of Landscape Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 101 Buell Hall, 611 Taft Dr., MC-620 Champaign, IL wescoat@uiuc.edu

9 Prof. Charles F. Wilkinson (Ph.D. committee) University of Colorado School of Law UCB 401 University of Colorado Boulder, CO Dr. Patricia Nelson Limerick (Ph.D. committee, MA committee) Departments of History and Environmental Studies Center of the American West UCB 282 University of Colorado Boulder, CO

HANNAH GOSNELL EDUCATION

HANNAH GOSNELL EDUCATION HANNAH GOSNELL Department of Geosciences Wilkinson 104 Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Phone: 541.737.1222 Fax: 541.737.1200 Email: gosnellh@geo.oregonstate.edu Website: http://www.geo.oregonstate.edu/people/faculty/gosnell.htm