IFMAT-IV Report

Mark Corrao, PhD Dr. Corrao has expertise in many diverse aspects of leadership, analysis, and policy across the disciplines of forestry, rangeland, and water resources. His experience throughout the U.S. with multiple Tribal Nations, State, Federal and private industrial forestlands afford him a unique perspective in natural resource services and research. Mark has more than 20 years’ experience in natural resource field data collection, academic research, environmental policy, Greg Dillon, MA Greg Dillon is the Director of the Fire Modeling Institute, part of the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. He is an ecologist and geographer with Michael Dockry, PhD Mike Dockry is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. He works at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of tribal natural resource management in the Department of Forest Resources. His interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on incorporating Indigenous knowledge and tribal perspectives into Marla Emery, PhD Dr. Marla R. Emery retired after 25 years as a scientist with the USDA Forest Service. During that time, she had the honor to Lloyd Irland, PhD Growing up in Chicago, Irland earned his B.S. at Michigan State; an M.S. at University of Arizona. He served in the Army in Vietnam, then earned a Ph.D. at Yale. He served as a U.S. Forest Service economist in the South, and worked ten years in Maine state government, serving in the Maine Forest Service, as Director of Public Lands, and as State Economist. He has worked on tribal issues on several occasions, including Dave Mausel, PhD Dave is enrolled in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and of Austrian and Scottish descent. He was raised in Massachusetts and studied forestry at the Univ. of Massachusetts B.S., and Forest Entomology at the Univ. of Washington M.S.

and leadership. As adjunct faculty, Mark serves as a mentor for graduate students in both the College of Agricultural Sciences and College of Natural Resources within the University of Idaho. He has provided multiple technology seminars through the U.S. and has attended ITC as a speaker and workshop lead since 2014. Mark holds a B.S. in Forest Ecosystem Management, M.S. in Watershed Hydrology, and a multi- disciplinary Ph.D. in Soils Physics and Environmental Law. almost 25 years in the US Forest Service. He has an M.A. in Geography from The University of Wyoming and a B.S. in Geography from James Madison University. forestry and natural resource management. He was a technical specialist supporting social science research for the IFMAT IV. He earned a B.S. in Forest Science from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. in Forest Resources from Penn State University, and a Ph.D. in Forestry from the University of Wisconsin.

conduct research in partnership with numerous tribes, intertribal organizations, and indigenous scholars, especially in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.

as consultant to the first Indian Forest Management Assessment Team. He has given talks at several ITC meetings. He is now on a student’s committee supervising a Ph.D. thesis at Yale on native rights and timber management in British Columbia, and while on faculty there for 2 years co-taught a workshop in tribal resource management and religions, joint with noted scholar John Grim. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters. and Virginia Tech Ph.D. Before joining the USFS in 2020, Dave worked for Menominee Tribal Enterprises and continues to work for the Keshena Fire Department. He lives in Shawano, WI with his wife, Pehsapan, and three sons, Julian, Rowan, and Henry.

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