Education:
- Ph.D., College of Natural Resources - University of Idaho, Moscow. 1998.
Dissertation title: Forest Patterning in the Interior Columbia River Basin: 60 years of social and biophysical interaction.
- M.S., Forestry and Environmental Studies - Yale University, New Haven. 1992.
- B.S., School of Forestry - Resource Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula. 1984.
Background:
Prior to joining the Leopold Institute in 2002, I worked as a community organizer in central and eastern Montana, for state and federal natural resource organizations in Washington D.C. and Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program, University of Colorado-Denver, and The Trust for Public Land - Northern Rockies Program.
Since joining the Institute, my work has focused on understanding and building the organizational capacity to restore fire to fire adapted ecosystems. Much of this work blends applied science and technology transfer in an 'action science' framework and includes partners in academic science, on-the-ground fire managers, and the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center.
Research Interests:
- Learning Organizations and High Reliability:
- What are the key features and parameters of a learning organization?
- What is the status of learning and reliability in the fire community?
- How do we measure progress?
- What are the most effective ways to teach and transfer key concepts and behaviors of sustainability, high reliability and learning?
- What are the barriers and facilitators to reliable management of fire?
- How can we overcome these barriers and reinforce facilitators?
- Ecosystem dynamics and the effect of meso - to broad-scale social and bio-physical changes on a system and its components.
Current Projects:
Completed Projects:
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Publications in Progress:
Mapping place values on public lands. (In Prep) Anne Black and Adam Liljeblad. - (Contact Anne if you're interested in seeing a draft).
Publications:
Christenson, David A.; DeGrosky, Mike; Black, Anne E.; Fay, Brett. 2008. HRO implementation at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. HRO Case Studies. Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center. 12 pp.
Leopold Publication Number 657
Black, Anne E.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen; Barton, Michelle; Dether, Deirdre. 2008. Assessing high reliability practices in the wildland fire community. Fire Management Today 68(2):45-48.
Leopold Publication Number 656
Anne Black, Martha Williamson, Dustin Doane. 2008. Wildland Fire Use Barriers and Facilitators. Fire Management Today 68(1):10-14.
Leopold Publication Number 630
Falk, Donald A.; Miller, Carol.; McKenzie, Donald.; and Black, Anne E. 2007. Cross-Scale Analysis of Fire Regimes. Ecosystems 10
Black, Anne.; Perin, Sue. 2007. Delivering the Science Synthesis: FuelsTools. Journal of Forestry. 105(4):192-200.
Leopold Publication Number 605
Black, Anne.; Dether, Deirdre. 2006. Learning from escaped prescribed fires - lessons for high reliability. Fire Management Today. 66(4):50-56.
Leopold Publication Number 596
Black, A.; Opperman, T. 2005. Fire Effects Planning Framework: a user's guide. Gen. Tech. Rep.GTR-RMRS-163WWW. Fort Colins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 63 p.
Leopold Publication Number 562
Black, A. 2005. The Fire Effects Planning Framework. International Journal of Wilderness. Science and Research Perspective. 11(1):19-20.
Leopold Publication Number 540
Black, Anne. 2004. Wildland Fire Use: the ‘other’ treatment option. Environmental Consequences Fact Sheet 6; Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration. Res. Note RMRS-RN-23-6-WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
Leopold Publication Number 535
Black, A.E., P. Morgan and P. F. Hessburg. 2003 Social and biophysical
correlates of change in the landscape structure of forests in the interior Columbia River Basin. Ecological Applications 13(i): 57-67
Tewksbury, J.J., A.E. Black, N. Nur, G. Geupel, V. Saab, B. Logan and D. S. Dobkin. 2002. Effects of anthropogenic fragmentation and livestock grazing on western riparian bird communities. Studies in Avian Biology No 5:158-202. Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on birds in western landscapes: contrasts with paradigms from the eastern United States.T. L. George and D.S. Dobkin (eds).
Shuford, W.D., N. Warnock, K.C. Molina, B. Mulrooney and A. E. Black. 2000.
Avifauna of the Salton Sea: abundance, distribution, and annual phenology. PRBO for U.S. EPA, Contract #R826552-01-0 Salton Sea
Authority.
http://www.institute.redlands.edu/salton/recon/Birds.htm
Black. A.E. 1998. Forest Patterning in the interior Columbia River Basin: 60 years of social and biophysical interaction. PhD
Dissertation. University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
Black, A.E., E. Strand, J.M Scott, R.G. Wright, P. Morgan. 1998. Land Use History of the Palouse Bioregion: pre-European to present. Land
Use Planning and Urban Development. http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap10.html
See also USGS LUHNA (Land Use History of North America) Homepage.
Black, A.E., E. Strand, J.M Scott, R.G. Wright, P. Morgan. 1998. Lessons learned from long-term landscape change analysis. USGS
Biological Resources Division.
Black, A.E. and S. Nadeau. 1998. Integrating scale and variability into small watershed management: Silver Creek Case Study. Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Lewiston, ID.
Morgan, P., S. C. Bunting, A.E. Black, T. Merrill and S. Barrett. 1995. Fire Regimes in the Interior Columbia River Basin: past and present.
Final Rept for RJVA-INT-94913; on file at Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory, INT, Missoula, MT. 12/29/95.
Shands, W., A. Black and J. Giltmire. 1993. From New Perspectives to Ecosystem Management: A report of an assessment of New
Perspectives. Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Springfield, VA.
Contact Information:
Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
790 E. Beckwith Ave.
Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: 406-329-2126
Fax: 406-542-4196
E-mail: aeblack@fs.fed.us
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