Morey Burnham

Biographic Data

ID	99675
NAME	Morey Burnham
GIVEN NAMES	Morey
FAMILY NAME	Burnham
SIGNATURE	BURNHAM M
AFFILIATIONS	Idaho State University
ORCID	0000-0001-5716-9964
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	33
TOTAL CITATIONS	107
AUTHOR COUNT	33
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	6

Understanding the Role of Climate Skepticism in Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Western U.S. Ranchers
Open AccessLauren Hunt, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2026
Rangelands cover over 50% of the land surface area in the western United States, providing important economic, social, and environmental benefits. The resilience of western rangelands, however, is increasingly threatened by climate change impacts. Although climate skepticism among agricultural producers is often cited as a barrier to adaptation, emerging evidence suggests that producers adapt regardless of climate beliefs. This raises critical qu…
Proximity, politics, and preferences: Spatial and contextual patterns in management opinions for an imperiled multifunctional landscape
Open AccessHaley K Netherton-Morrison, Matthew A Williamson et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025References: 68
Landscape governance is challenged by a range of factors, including the uneven spatial distribution of people, their identities, and ecosystems, in addition to mismatches in ecological boundaries, jurisdictional boundaries, and the spatial extent of readily available public opinion data. Using Idaho’s sagebrush steppe as an illustrative example of the patchwork of actors and ownership that exists in imperiled multifunctional landscapes, we aim to…
Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions
Open AccessChloe B Wardropper, Rose A Graves et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024
Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches are integral to large landscape conservation goals and there are numerous influences on ranchers' conservation actions, including their relational values, perceived self‐efficacy and property rights concerns. Using survey data from 681 ranchers in eastern Idaho and western Montana, we sought to answer…
Understanding the Hidden Costs and Benefits of Living With Grizzly Bears in Montana
Sara Lamar, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2024References: 6
Wildlife sometimes impose unmitigated costs and provide unevenly distributed benefits that exacerbate conflict among people or between wildlife and groups of people. Although previous research has primarily focused on the visible effects of wildlife, reducing conflict will require a broader understanding of wildlife effects on human well-being. Using a "noticing, collecting, thinking" analysis of 25 interviews with people living near grizzly bear…
Shared Ideals, But Persistent Barriers: Improving Tribal-University Research Engagement to Strengthen Native Nation Building and Rural Development☆
Open AccessLaticia J Herkshan, Georgia Hart-Fredeluces et al.ARTICLERural Sociology2024References: 52
Research partnerships between Tribal Nations and rural colleges and universities can support rural development and strengthen Tribal Nation building through reclamation of economic, political, cultural, and social affairs. However, Tribal Nation-University relationships have received little attention in rural sociology. While scholars identify best practices for research engagement in light of colonial harms, the ideal visions that Tribally and u…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: Identifying and responding to six key research gaps
Open AccessGeorgia Hart-Fredeluces, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLESocio-Ecological Practice Research2023
Strengthening Relationships to Traditional Foodways: Adapting Food Practices Through Camas Cultivation Experiments on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Open AccessSidney Fellows, Georgia Hart-Fredeluces et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnobiology2023
Contemporary efforts to strengthen Indigenous food sovereignty can take many forms, some of which may depart from traditional food gathering practices. Common camas ( Camassia quamash) is a wild-gathered geophyte that served as a staple food for Indigenous Peoples prior to colonialism. Because the abundance of camas has declined and gathering areas are difficult to access, this project sought to increase Shoshone-Bannock Tribal citizen access to …
Testing the Affect of Modified Sense of Place, Conservation Ethic, and Good Farmer Identity Measures on Predicting the Adoption of Cover Crops in Working Landscapes in Iowa
Open AccessEmily A Bennett, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2023References: 18
While sense of place (SOP) has been used in amenity landscapes to understand pro-environmental behavior, in working landscapes, SOP has not been a valid or reliable predictor for explaining conservation behavior. In this paper, we advance theory on SOP in working landscapes by assessing the relationship between several new and modified sense of place measures and farmer adoption of cover crops in Iowa. We used data from a 2018 survey of Iowa farm…
Transboundary cultural resources: Sacred wildlife, Indigenous emotions, and conservation decision-making
Open AccessBlake Corvin, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Ecology2023
For many Indigenous communities in North America, the grizzly bear is a symbol associated with tribal medicine, spirituality, history, and knowledge. Despite its cultural importance to Indigenous communities and also federal trust responsibilities, Indigenous Peoples are rarely consulted in conservation decision-making concerning grizzly bears, and the emotional outcomes of these decisions are poorly understood. In 2017 grizzly bears were removed…
Advancing the scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes: A co-produced research agenda
Open AccessWeston M Eaton, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLESocio-Ecological Practice Research2022
Participatory approaches to science and decision making, including stakeholder engagement, are increasingly common for managing complex socio-ecological challenges in working landscapes. However, critical questions about stakeholder engagement in this space remain. These include normative, political, and ethical questions concerning who participates, who benefits and loses, what good can be accomplished, and for what, whom, and by who. First, opp…
An Inventory and Assessment of Sample Sources for Survey Research with Agricultural Producers in the U.S
Open AccessJessica D Ulrich-Schad, Shuang Li et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2022References: 3
Researchers need probability samples to collect representative survey data about the behaviors and attitudes of agricultural producers they study in relation to the natural resources that they manage, yet obtaining accurate and complete sampling frames is challenging. We extract data from a publication database to identify the most commonly used sampling frame sources in survey research of agricultural producers in the U.S., finding that governme…
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices
Open AccessGeorgia Hart-Fredeluces, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2022
Indigenous ecologies have persisted through major social and ecological changes including settler colonialism. Adaptations have been a necessary part of this resilience, however little attention has been given to the consequences of these adaptations for Indigenous Peoples and ecologies. Without exploring these consequences, we are left with an incomplete understanding of adaptation that potentially obscures social and ecological costs associated…
Farmer Lifeways and the Lived Experience of Adaptation to Water Policy Change in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Region
Open AccessM V Du Bray, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLECulture Agriculture Food and…2022References: 46
Anthropologists developed the lifeways construct to understand how communities make a way of life on certain landscapes. In this paper, we pair the lifeways construct with that of "lived experiences" to include processes of change in lifeways. Using a case study of farmers in Idaho's Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer region, we explore farmers' efforts to adapt to changes in agricultural water policy. Based on interviews with farmers, we identify sever…
Visions for large landscape drought resilience in rangelands
Open AccessLily Fanok, Bray J Beltrán et al.ARTICLERangelands2021
Expert habits of mind: Implications for knowledge co-production in energy transitions
Open AccessWeston M Eaton, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2021Cited by: 1References: 28
Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science
Open AccessChloe B Wardropper, Jay P Angerer et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2021Cited by: 1References: 19
A Conceptual Framework for Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Change through Stakeholder Engagement in Water Resource Management
Open AccessWeston M Eaton, Kathryn J Brasier et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2021Cited by: 6References: 16
Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, fro…
Sustainability, resilience, adaptation, and transformation: Tensions and Plural Approaches
Open AccessLaura Zanotti, Zhao Ma et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2020Cited by: 4
Zanotti, L., Z. Ma, J. L. Johnson, D. R. Johnson, D. J. Yu, M. Burnham, and C. Carothers. 2020. Sustainability, resilience, adaptation, and transformation: tensions and plural approaches. Ecology and Society 25(3):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11642-250304
Integrated spatial analysis for human–wildlife coexistence in the American West
Open AccessNeil H Carter, Matthew A Williamson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019
Farmer adaptation to reduced groundwater availability
Open AccessKatrina Running, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019
The sustainability of agriculture in the American West depends on the capacity of farmers to adapt to water resource constraints. Most US studies of agricultural adaptations measure farmers’ willingness to adopt various water use reduction strategies, meaning we have little empirical data on which strategies farmers implement and how these decisions impact their farms. We use survey data from 265 farmers in southeastern Idaho who, beginning in 20…
Perceptions of fairness in common-pool resource access: Farmer responses to new agricultural water use restrictions in Idaho
Katrina Running, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Sociology2019References: 18
This study examines farmers’ perceptions of fairness regarding an agricultural water use policy change in Idaho: the 2015 settlement agreement, a compromise between ground- and surface water farmers in Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer (ESPA) that requires reductions in groundwater withdrawals of about 13% for all groundwater farmers. We characterize the agreement as an attempt to solve a common-pool resource social dilemma and draw on Elinor O…
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Open AccessWeston M Eaton, Morey Burnham et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2019Cited by: 1References: 27
Trouble with Sense of Place in Working Landscapes
Weston M Eaton, Francis R Eanes et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2019Cited by: 11References: 15
The sense of place (SOP) conceptual framework offers theoretical and empirical evidence that links peoples’ multifaceted connections to place(s) to their engagement in pro-environmental and conservation behaviors. The bulk of this research has focused on peoples’ connection to high-amenity places and landscapes. Recent research applies SOP in working landscapes—however, these studies encounter “troubles” that include measurement challenges and mi…
Climate change adaptation pathways: Synergies, contradictions and tradeoffs across scales
Open AccessMorey Burnham, Laura Vang Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 4References: 6
Multi-Scalar Pathways to Smallholder Adaptation
Open AccessMorey Burnham, Z MaARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 18References: 14