College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

• Conservation Stewards Program

  Conservation Stewards Program participants learn about the history of conservation activities in Michigan, ecological principles, ecoregional classifications, and the choices that manage our natural resources. In addition to this foundation, participants learn about terrestrial ecosystems (forestlands and grasslands) and aquatic ecosystems (wetlands, lakes and streams) through classroom and in-field instruction.

• Michigan Master Naturalist

  Become a Michigan Master Naturalist and help protect Michigan’s wildlife heritage.

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  Shari Dann

  Associate Professor Emeritus
  sldann@msu.edu
  517-432-0267
  

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  Logan Rowe

  Conservation Associate- Zoologist
  roweloga@msu.edu
  517-284-6186
  

• Revising China's Environmental Law

  Published on July 22, 2013
  China’s Environmental Protection Law (EPL) is the main national environmental legislative framework. Yet the environmental legal system is incomplete

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program

  Published on July 9, 2018
  This study highlights that local human–nature interactions driven by telecouplings, such as human–wildlife conflicts, may trigger feedbacks that affect telecouplings themselves.

• A synthesis of giant panda habitat selection

  Published on January 12, 2015
  The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a global conservation icon, but its habitat selection patterns are poorly understood.

• An Integration of Habitat Evaluation, Individual Based Modeling, and Graph Theory for a Potential Black Bear Population Recovery in Southeastern Texas, USA

  Published on September 25, 2010
  Our objective was to evaluate habitat for a possible Louisiana black bear recovery in southeastern Texas.

• Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

  Published on September 12, 2014
  Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge.

• Modeling Human Agency in Land Change in Madagascar: A Review and Prospectus

  Published on June 1, 2009
  This article explores advances in understanding human agency in land change in Madagascar in order to synthesize lessons learned and identify remaining challenges.

• JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES -- Spillover effect offsets the conservation effort in the Amazon

  Published on October 4, 2018
  We used the two supply-chain agreements implemented in the Amazon biome as examples and evaluated their spillover effects to the Cerrado.

• Views of Private-Land Stewardship among Latinos on the Texas-Tamaulipas Border

  Published on December 4, 2010
  We used a case study in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas to address this gap by identifying and assessing Latino views of PLS.

• Spatial Assessment of Attitudes Toward Tigers in Nepal

  Published on July 12, 2013
  Our study provides insights and descriptions of techniques to improve attitudes toward wildlife in Chitwan and many regions around the world with similar conservation challenges.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

  Published on October 1, 2015
  Even a protected area like the Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas in southwest China has multiple telecoupling processes with the rest of the world.

• SCIENCE - Ecological degradation in protected areas: The Case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas

  Published on April 6, 2001
  Analyses of remote sensing data from pre- and post-establishment periods indicate that the Wolong National Nature Reserve has become more fragmented and less suitable for giant panda habitation.

• Activity patterns of the giant panda

  Published on July 30, 2015
  Activity patterns of the elusive and endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are not well understood

• Predicting habitat suitability for eleven imperiled fluvial freshwater mussels

  Published on February 6, 2018
  Understanding patterns in freshwater mussel distributions and habitat use, particularly for imperiled species, is critical for their conservation

• Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China

  Published on October 7, 2015
  This research applied the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model to illustrate and analyze the 30-year evolution of tourism in Wolong Nature Reserve.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Integration across a metacoupled world

  Published on November 26, 2017
  This paper presents an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling).

• Adolescents Leaving Parental Home: Psychosocial Correlates and Implications for Conservation

  Published on May 5, 2003
  This study demonstrates an important link between psychosocial factors and biodiversity conservation.