Natural Resource Management

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Karam Sheban

2025 Fellow
Karam Sheban supports agroforestry adoption through targeted science that builds toward effective policy, viable economies, and cultural revitalization. He sees his work as part of a larger reimagining of our agricultural and forested landscapes for a more just and equitable world.
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Maya Caine

2025 Fellow
Maya Caine is a slow fashion entrepreneur focused on designing life-affirming systems that prioritize longevity, circularity, and justice. With a background in corporate strategy and systems thinking, she has spent the past seven years building slow and circular fashion solutions that challenge the industry’s dependence on overproduction and waste.
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Klamath River runs again: Keith Parker quoted on significance of dam removal

“Those birds and all the living things up there haven’t heard running water in over 100 years — it’s a completely different landscape. The ecosystem is healing itself,” Keith says in The New York Times story With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River.
September 16, 2024
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Linwood Pendleton: Should we put a price on nature?

Will putting a price on nature help us protect it or will it become another tool for greenwashing?
August 26, 2024
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Landry Guillen

2024 Fellow
Landry strives to integrate environmental justice principles with ecological stewardship and foster connection through food and forestry.
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Ataya Cesspooch

2024 Fellow
Ataya (Ute, Assiniboine, Lakota) examines the complex and contradictory relationships between oil and gas development, tribal sovereignty, and environmental justice on the northern Ute reservation.
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Fen Levy

2024 Fellow
Fen is an avian ecologist unraveling how forested landscapes can jointly support ecosystems and human need, specifically in the North Woods of Maine.
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Alejandra Cano

2024 Fellow
Alejandra is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.
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Steele’s Friends of the Verde River wins ASU Resilience Prize

Friends of the Verde River was recognized as the 2022 winner of the statewide Resilience Prize for its collaborative, data-driven work to ensure the long term health of one of Arizona’s last free-flowing rivers. The annual prize, awarded by...
April 24, 2024
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Melinda Adams podcast: When Fire Speaks: Traditional Ecological Practices in Action

Melinda Adams recently spoke to the Climify podcast about the value of a place-specific, Indigenous-led stewardship approach to burns.They summarize: “How do we learn from the land and its lineage? In this special bridge episode, Dr...
March 18, 2024