Pacific Northwest Research Station

Urban-Wildland Interactions Team

Dale Blahna, Team Leader
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
400 N 34^th Street, Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone: (206)732-7833

Team Members:

Ralph Alig, Research Forester (retired)
Lee Cerveny, Research Social Scientist
Jean Daniels, Research Forester
Geof Donovan, Research Forester
Kathy La Plante, Social Science Analyst
Kathy Wolf, Research Social Scientist (University of Washington)

Our Goal

Our research aims to increase understanding of human and natural resource interactions for the purposes of enhancing ecological and human health. Our research ranges from the value of individual trees in the city to the implications of broad-scale changes in forest cover types for climate change. We take an “all lands approach” to understanding the role and values of public access to nature across the urban to wildland gradient. >>More

Research Themes and Projects

Sustainable recreation: connecting people and nature

Urban ecosystem services: Benefits of urban trees and nature
Green Cities Research Alliance

Regional landscape interactions: Population, land use change, restoration, and fire

Community resilience: Timber production and tourism

Benefits of partnerships, civic engagement, and stewardship

Agency capacity for effective planning and decisionmaking

Climate change, people, and natural resources

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