Jo Ellen Force Department Head Professor of Forest Resources  E-mail: joellen@uidaho.edu Office: Room 204A, CNR Phone: (208) 885-7311

Education & Experience:

• B.S. Science and Math Education, Iowa State University
• M.S. Natural Resource Management, Ohio State University
• Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio State University
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, 1979-present
• Department Head, Department of Forest Resources, UI, 1997-present
• Have taught and consulted in social forestry programs in India and Pakistan

Specialty Areas of Interest:

• Forest planning and policy, particularly the relationships between people and natural resources
• Human Ecosystem Model and related studies
• Public involvement in natural resource decision-making

Current University of Idaho Courses:

• Introduction to Forest Management - UGrad
• Forest Policy and Administration - UGrad
• Natural Resource Policy Development - Grad

Continuing Education or Service Activities:

• Public Involvement Concepts and Techniques - workshops for National Park Service and USDA Forest Service professionals
• Member of External Review Panel for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Recent and Current Research:

• Public participation in forest planning activities - empirical studies looking at who participates, why, and how; gender studies
• Sense of place and interdisciplinary assessments of biodiversity conservation and sustainable production in fragmented landscapes (NSF/IGERT project)
• Social indicators for monitoring ecosystem management

Selected Publications and Presentations:

• Machlis, Gary E., Jo Ellen Force, and William R. Burch, Jr. 1997. The Human Ecosystem Part I: The Human Ecosystem as an Organizing Concept in Ecosystem Management. Society and Natural Resources 10:347-367.
• Force, Jo Ellen and Gary E. Machlis. 1997. The Human Ecosystem Part II: Social Indicators in Ecosystem Management. Society and Natural Resources 10:369-383.
• Cohn, Patricia, Matt Carroll and Jo Ellen Force. 2004. So Happy Together or Better Off Alone? Women’s Economic Activities, Cooperative Work and Empowerment in Rural Paraguay. Journal of the Community Development Society 34(1):57-74.
• Parkinson, Tamara M., Jo Ellen Force, and Jane Kapler Smith. 2003. Hands-on Learning: Its Effectiveness in Teaching the Public about Wildland Fire. Journal of Forestry 101(7): 21-26.
• Force, Jo Ellen and Deborah Forester. 2002. Public Involvement in National Park Service Land Management Issues. Social Science Research Review, vol. 3, no. 1. 28 pgs.
• Movich, Randi and Jo Ellen Force. 2002. Women and Northwest Forest Service Planning: Barriers in Participation. Women in Natural Resources 23(3):31-43. Papers Presented at Scholarly Meetings:
  
  “The Structure of Human Ecosystems,” poster presented at the XXII IUFRO World Congress, Brisbane, Australia, August 8-13, 2005 (with Gary E. Machlis and William R. Burch, Jr.).
  
  “An integrative model of graduate education in biodiversity conservation and sustainable production in fragmented landscapes,” at the Fifth Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 14-17, 2004.
  
  “Social values and forests: The disconnect between what I say and what I do”, presented at the 8th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Bellingham, Washington,  June 20, 2000.