Paul C Dunn

Forest life sciences have been a research interest of mine since my first experience in Pacific salmon stream restoration in the late 1980's. Since that time I have gained experience in wildlife population and habitat surveys, forest ecology and management, and ecological economics. This project and my proposed field work is a culmination of both work and research experiences, and when completed, I hope to pursue my PhD and work on global forest preservation issues. I am a graduate student of Geographic Information Sciences with an orientation toward biogeography and forest ecology. My background includes contributing to wildlife studies in the Altai Ecoregion of the Russian Federation, specifically monitoring surveys of Siberian Snow Leopard, Altai Argali and Siberian Ibex, and in the Klamath Ecoregion of Southern Oregon and Northern California for Northern Spotted Owl, Pacific Fisher and American Pine Marten population and habitat surveys. My forest research interests have taken me to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Montana, and Wyoming, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, and the Sierra Nevada in California. My field experience includes several years of forestry in Northern California. My current study extent is located in and adjacent to the Russian Wilderness in the Klamath National Forest, an area with the highest known conifer biodiversity in North America.

April 2016