Erin Clover Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 6318024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Clover Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin Clover |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cal Poly Humboldt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1030-7316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating post-fire recovery
Highly destructive wildfires increasingly threaten communities across the western United States, necessitating a better understanding of how diverse communities recover post-fire. Working closely with partner organizations, we examined post-fire recovery in three case study locations impacted by the record-breaking 2020 fire season: Talent and Phoenix, Oregon; Happy Camp, California; and Ruth and Zenia, California. While each community experience…
By the Book
Private forest land policies in the U.S. differ by state and range from regulatory to non-regulatory. The state of California has a highly regulatory policy system to ensure sustainable forest management, and the state's family forest landowners, who hold 20% of the state's forests, navigate this regulatory system to achieve their management objectives. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 33 family forest landowners to better understand …
In flux
Rural towns across the US have undergone economic and social restructuring. We focus on two former timber towns adjacent to public lands that are transitioning to new production economies, wherein the communities develop new economic sectors. One of our cases has developed data centers, and the other prisons. Through in-depth interviews with residents, we explore the shifts toward these new sectors and their impacts on community social adaptabili…
The cost of doing business”
Introduction from the Editors
State-level forestry policies across the US
Policies impacting forest management on privately-owned lands demonstrate remarkable variety across the United States, with each state emphasizing different approaches to balancing private property rights with the protection of public trust resources. Though private property rights are historically paramount in the US, previous researchers have identified a variety of policy approaches on private forest lands, from regulatory to non-regulatory. W…
Exploring the foundation for Collaborative Governance to support early childhood in Nova Scotia
Providing the best start for our youngest generation is a growing priority internationally. Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) offers an approach to address complex system challenges and improve access to early childhood public services for young children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to use the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance to reflect on the elements of collaboration that may have influenced the establishme…
Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA
The restoration economy has seen significant growth in the United States in recent decades, especially within the context of rural economic development. This paper traces the establishment of the restoration economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, we identified cultural, social, human, financial and political capitals as important components in the creation and maintenance of th…
The economic and cultural importance of cannabis production to a rural place
Fostering collective action to reduce wildfire risk across property boundaries in the American West
Large-scale, high-severity wildfires are a major challenge to the future social-ecological sustainability of fire-adapted forest ecosystems in the American West. Managing forests to mitigate this risk is a collective action problem requiring landowners and stakeholders within multi-ownership landscapes to plan and implement coordinated restoration treatments. Our research question is: how can we promote collective action to reduce wildfire risk a…
From Lightning Rod to Community Asset? The Creation of a Protected Area in Northern California and its Evolving Relationship to a Nearby Community
Researchers have described shifting relationships between communities and Protected Areas (PAs), from excluding communities to consultative relationships to participatory models. This research focuses on a PA created on formerly industrial timberland that was the focus of conflict between environmental activists and the timber industry. In a nearby formerly timber-dependent community, we assessed community use and support of the PA, and its perce…
Introduction to HJSR Special Issue 40
Finding Solutions through Politics
There are many perspectives of the timber wars, and one perspective that is not frequently documented is that of government bureaucrats – policy makers, regulators, and others who were often caught in the crossfire of opposing sides. This oral history with Dr. Andrea Tuttle is one attempt to describe the Timber Wars from this perspective. On February 25, 2017, I invited Dr. Tuttle to sit down and discuss her history with forest regulation. I aske…
The Role of the Local Community on Federal Lands
In the wake of the timber wars, communities across the American West have struggled to redefine their relationships to nearby federal forests. The timber-dependent model of the pre-Timber War era, with clear timber targets and economic outputs, has been replaced by more nuanced and less clearly-defined model: ecosystem management. This case study research uses interviews with participants in the Weaverville Community Forest (WCF) to explore the r…
The Role of ‘the Public’ in the Management of Newfoundland’s Forestry Heritage
Forestry in Newfoundland has a long history of both subsistence and industrial uses, with separate associated tenure systems and property and use rights. Though most forest users on the island are subsistence or recreational users, the public plays only a minimal role in forest decision-making, which continues to revolve around industry-based harvesting decisions with little regard for the multiple forest uses valued by the public. With the rapid…
Ecosystem Service Commodification
In 2013 the state of California launched a cap-and-trade program with a groundbreaking protocol for improved forest management (IFM), providing a framework to monetize carbon sequestration in managed forests. Through in-depth interviews and document review, this research examines California's IFM program development as a case study in stakeholder-engaged ecosystem commodification. We consider how diverse, vested-interest actors contested rival pr…
Forest offsets and the California compliance market
Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects under the California cap-and-trade market allow production of new, non-traditional commodities: forest carbon offsets. Earlier analyses have considered forest offsets generated through tree planting in the Global South, as vehicles for sustainable development. However, the California IFM program is testing offset production in new geographic and forest management contexts: with offsets produced and consum…
Cultural entrenchment
The Mazama returns
After years of policies that undermined tribal sovereignty and land ownership, tribal access to traditional lands has expanded in the U.S., with growing opportunities for tribal land reacquisition. This is occurring within the context of changing rural land use, policies, and tenures, as timber and ranch land owners have divested ownership, resulting in greater land availability. This case study explores, through a political ecology lens, trends …
From Industrial Ownership to Multifunctional Landscapes
Over the past 15 years the U.S. forest industry has almost completely divested its forestland holdings, creating new ownership opportunities for timberland investors, land trusts, and government agencies. Many newly available forestlands are adjacent to communities transitioning away from timber dependence toward economies based on recreation and real estate. This case study research examines changing ownership and management on two formerly indu…
Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities
Since Kaufman and Kaufman's seminal 1946 Kaufman , H. F. and L. C. Kaufman . 1946 . Toward the stabilization and enrichment of a forest community . In Communities and forests: Where people meet the land , eds. R. G. Lee and D. R. Field , 96 – 112 . Corvallis , OR : Oregon State University Press . [Google Scholar] study examining the relationship between forests and communities, forest and community paradigms have shifted from (1) utilitarian view…
Forest offsets and the California compliance market
Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects under the California cap-and-trade market allow production of new, non-traditional commodities: forest carbon offsets. Earlier analyses have considered forest offsets generated through tree planting in the Global South, as vehicles for sustainable development. However, the California IFM program is testing offset production in new geographic and forest management contexts: with offsets produced and consum…
The economic and cultural importance of cannabis production to a rural place
Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities
Since Kaufman and Kaufman's seminal 1946 Kaufman , H. F. and L. C. Kaufman . 1946 . Toward the stabilization and enrichment of a forest community . In Communities and forests: Where people meet the land , eds. R. G. Lee and D. R. Field , 96 – 112 . Corvallis , OR : Oregon State University Press . [Google Scholar] study examining the relationship between forests and communities, forest and community paradigms have shifted from (1) utilitarian view…
From Industrial Ownership to Multifunctional Landscapes
Over the past 15 years the U.S. forest industry has almost completely divested its forestland holdings, creating new ownership opportunities for timberland investors, land trusts, and government agencies. Many newly available forestlands are adjacent to communities transitioning away from timber dependence toward economies based on recreation and real estate. This case study research examines changing ownership and management on two formerly indu…
State-level forestry policies across the US
Policies impacting forest management on privately-owned lands demonstrate remarkable variety across the United States, with each state emphasizing different approaches to balancing private property rights with the protection of public trust resources. Though private property rights are historically paramount in the US, previous researchers have identified a variety of policy approaches on private forest lands, from regulatory to non-regulatory. W…
Ecosystem Service Commodification
In 2013 the state of California launched a cap-and-trade program with a groundbreaking protocol for improved forest management (IFM), providing a framework to monetize carbon sequestration in managed forests. Through in-depth interviews and document review, this research examines California's IFM program development as a case study in stakeholder-engaged ecosystem commodification. We consider how diverse, vested-interest actors contested rival pr…
In flux
Rural towns across the US have undergone economic and social restructuring. We focus on two former timber towns adjacent to public lands that are transitioning to new production economies, wherein the communities develop new economic sectors. One of our cases has developed data centers, and the other prisons. Through in-depth interviews with residents, we explore the shifts toward these new sectors and their impacts on community social adaptabili…
The cost of doing business”
Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA
The restoration economy has seen significant growth in the United States in recent decades, especially within the context of rural economic development. This paper traces the establishment of the restoration economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, we identified cultural, social, human, financial and political capitals as important components in the creation and maintenance of th…
Cultural entrenchment
Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities
Since Kaufman and Kaufman's seminal 1946 Kaufman , H. F. and L. C. Kaufman . 1946 . Toward the stabilization and enrichment of a forest community . In Communities and forests: Where people meet the land , eds. R. G. Lee and D. R. Field , 96 – 112 . Corvallis , OR : Oregon State University Press . [Google Scholar] study examining the relationship between forests and communities, forest and community paradigms have shifted from (1) utilitarian view…
From Industrial Ownership to Multifunctional Landscapes
Over the past 15 years the U.S. forest industry has almost completely divested its forestland holdings, creating new ownership opportunities for timberland investors, land trusts, and government agencies. Many newly available forestlands are adjacent to communities transitioning away from timber dependence toward economies based on recreation and real estate. This case study research examines changing ownership and management on two formerly indu…
The Mazama returns
After years of policies that undermined tribal sovereignty and land ownership, tribal access to traditional lands has expanded in the U.S., with growing opportunities for tribal land reacquisition. This is occurring within the context of changing rural land use, policies, and tenures, as timber and ranch land owners have divested ownership, resulting in greater land availability. This case study explores, through a political ecology lens, trends …
Cultural entrenchment
The Role of ‘the Public’ in the Management of Newfoundland’s Forestry Heritage
Forestry in Newfoundland has a long history of both subsistence and industrial uses, with separate associated tenure systems and property and use rights. Though most forest users on the island are subsistence or recreational users, the public plays only a minimal role in forest decision-making, which continues to revolve around industry-based harvesting decisions with little regard for the multiple forest uses valued by the public. With the rapid…
Ecosystem Service Commodification
In 2013 the state of California launched a cap-and-trade program with a groundbreaking protocol for improved forest management (IFM), providing a framework to monetize carbon sequestration in managed forests. Through in-depth interviews and document review, this research examines California's IFM program development as a case study in stakeholder-engaged ecosystem commodification. We consider how diverse, vested-interest actors contested rival pr…
Forest offsets and the California compliance market
Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects under the California cap-and-trade market allow production of new, non-traditional commodities: forest carbon offsets. Earlier analyses have considered forest offsets generated through tree planting in the Global South, as vehicles for sustainable development. However, the California IFM program is testing offset production in new geographic and forest management contexts: with offsets produced and consum…
Introduction to HJSR Special Issue 40
Finding Solutions through Politics
There are many perspectives of the timber wars, and one perspective that is not frequently documented is that of government bureaucrats – policy makers, regulators, and others who were often caught in the crossfire of opposing sides. This oral history with Dr. Andrea Tuttle is one attempt to describe the Timber Wars from this perspective. On February 25, 2017, I invited Dr. Tuttle to sit down and discuss her history with forest regulation. I aske…
The Role of the Local Community on Federal Lands
In the wake of the timber wars, communities across the American West have struggled to redefine their relationships to nearby federal forests. The timber-dependent model of the pre-Timber War era, with clear timber targets and economic outputs, has been replaced by more nuanced and less clearly-defined model: ecosystem management. This case study research uses interviews with participants in the Weaverville Community Forest (WCF) to explore the r…
Fostering collective action to reduce wildfire risk across property boundaries in the American West
Large-scale, high-severity wildfires are a major challenge to the future social-ecological sustainability of fire-adapted forest ecosystems in the American West. Managing forests to mitigate this risk is a collective action problem requiring landowners and stakeholders within multi-ownership landscapes to plan and implement coordinated restoration treatments. Our research question is: how can we promote collective action to reduce wildfire risk a…
From Lightning Rod to Community Asset? The Creation of a Protected Area in Northern California and its Evolving Relationship to a Nearby Community
Researchers have described shifting relationships between communities and Protected Areas (PAs), from excluding communities to consultative relationships to participatory models. This research focuses on a PA created on formerly industrial timberland that was the focus of conflict between environmental activists and the timber industry. In a nearby formerly timber-dependent community, we assessed community use and support of the PA, and its perce…
Exploring the foundation for Collaborative Governance to support early childhood in Nova Scotia
Providing the best start for our youngest generation is a growing priority internationally. Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) offers an approach to address complex system challenges and improve access to early childhood public services for young children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to use the Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance to reflect on the elements of collaboration that may have influenced the establishme…
Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA
The restoration economy has seen significant growth in the United States in recent decades, especially within the context of rural economic development. This paper traces the establishment of the restoration economy in the Mattole River Watershed, USA. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, we identified cultural, social, human, financial and political capitals as important components in the creation and maintenance of th…
The economic and cultural importance of cannabis production to a rural place
State-level forestry policies across the US
Policies impacting forest management on privately-owned lands demonstrate remarkable variety across the United States, with each state emphasizing different approaches to balancing private property rights with the protection of public trust resources. Though private property rights are historically paramount in the US, previous researchers have identified a variety of policy approaches on private forest lands, from regulatory to non-regulatory. W…
By the Book
Private forest land policies in the U.S. differ by state and range from regulatory to non-regulatory. The state of California has a highly regulatory policy system to ensure sustainable forest management, and the state's family forest landowners, who hold 20% of the state's forests, navigate this regulatory system to achieve their management objectives. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 33 family forest landowners to better understand …
In flux
Rural towns across the US have undergone economic and social restructuring. We focus on two former timber towns adjacent to public lands that are transitioning to new production economies, wherein the communities develop new economic sectors. One of our cases has developed data centers, and the other prisons. Through in-depth interviews with residents, we explore the shifts toward these new sectors and their impacts on community social adaptabili…
The cost of doing business”
Introduction from the Editors
Navigating post-fire recovery
Highly destructive wildfires increasingly threaten communities across the western United States, necessitating a better understanding of how diverse communities recover post-fire. Working closely with partner organizations, we examined post-fire recovery in three case study locations impacted by the record-breaking 2020 fire season: Talent and Phoenix, Oregon; Happy Camp, California; and Ruth and Zenia, California. While each community experience…
Business (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Forest Management and Policy (14 works) · Environmental resource management (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 works) · Forest management (8 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Forestry (7 works)