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

Please contact Julie Tompkins [julie.tompkins@mso.umt.edu] for the 2012 application to the WYSS Scholars Program for Conservation of the American West.

Bolle Center Director, Jill Belsky, named one of two Editors-in-Chief for the flagship international journal, Society & Natural Resources. Joining her as Editors-in-Chief is Dan Williams, Research Social Scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. They will serve a three year term 2012 - 2015.

Bolle Center Director, Jill Belsky is Local Program Chair (along with Neva Hassainen, Dept of Environmental Studies) for a major, international conference on food and agriculture held at the University of Montana from June 9-12, 2011 . Attendance is by registration only. More information about the event is available online here.

Sonya Germann, CFC Resource Conservation masters student, receives 2011 fellowship from the Wyss Scholars for Conservation in the American West Program (see fellowships for additional information)

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 Director, Dr. Jill Belsky, receives 3 year MacArthur Foundation Grant with UM colleague Dr. Stephen Siebert to assist with the training and development of the Ugyen Wangchuk Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) in Bhutan (2008-2011). They also received Fulbright Grants to support this work in fall 2010.

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