Welcome to the Bolle Center

The Bolle Center was established in 1994 at the School of Forestry of the University of Montana to honor the late Arnold Bolle, a former dean of the school and reknown forester and conservation leader. The center provides interdisciplinary education, participatory research, and community service to foster resilient and sustainable livelihoods, communities and forests in the U.S. intermountain west and internationally.

Announcements

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The Bolle Center is the new editorial home for the flagship international journal, Society & Natural Resources. Jill Belsky, Director of the Bolle Center, along with Daniel Williams, Research Social Scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station have begun as the journal's new editors-in-chief. Maureen Bookwalter is serving as Assistant Editor. This editorial board will serve a three year term 2012 - 2015. Society & Natural Resources publishes cutting edge scientific research that informs scholarship and natural resource management decisions from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary social science perspectives. It is the official journal of the International Association for Society & Natural Resources. For more information about the journal and an introduction from the new editors-in-chief see: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920.2011.644219 .

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Hilary Eisen, CFC Wildlife Biology masters student, receives a 2012 fellowship from the Wyss Scholars for Conservation in the American West Program, a program jointly administered by the Bolle Center and the Environmental Studies Program (see fellowships for additional information).

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Nov 18, 2010 marked the 40th Anniversary of the "Bolle Report" in the Congressional Record and launched the center's first-ever fund-raising campaign to support its endowment and establishment of the "Arnold Bolle Graduate fellowship in Conservation and Forestry". Thank you to everyone who contributed to our growing endowment. If you want to contribute you may do so by cliqing the button below.

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Bolle Center's Natural Resource Policy Specialist, Professor Martin Nie, reflects on the legacy of the Bolle Report with the following comment .

The Bolle Center and the U.S. Forest Service initiated a blog where the public, forestry practitioners and policy makers discuss U.S. forest planning and new forest planning regulations. Read and enter your own comments here.

Bolle Center Natural Resource Policy Specialist, Dr. Martin Nie, interviews former Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey about some of the hot-button issues during his tenure in office. To read the interview