Melissa R. Poe
Ph.D, Environmental Anthropology

collecting wild edible mushrooms, Sierra Juárez de Oaxaca, México

Research Interests My training and research have emphasized the anthropology of communities and conservation, environmental governance and social movements, collaborative resource management, and socio-economic change in resource-dependent communities in Central America and the Pacific Northwest United States. Other Research Projects I am working as a postdoctoral visiting scholar with the Institute for Culture and Ecology (IFCAE) on a socioecological mapping project, a collaboration with Rebecca McLain of IFCAE, Lee Cerveny and Dale Blahna of the Pacific Northwest Research Station (USDA Forest Service). I am also writing results from a collaborative Fire Social Science project with the PNW Research Station with Susan Charnley, Cassandra Moseley, and Ellen Donoghue. This research seeks to understand Institutional and Community dynamics in Fire Restoration in the Pacific West. Publications (click to download) Wild Mushrooms, Forest Governance and Conflict in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, PhD Dissertation. University of Washington. 2009. Northwest Forest Plan—The First 10 Years (1994–2003): Socioeconomic Monitoring of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Community Forestry in Theory and Practice: Where are we now? Annual Review of Anthropology: 36 (2007) Note: I am pleased to provide you complimentary one-time access to my Annual Reviewsarticle as a PDF file for your own personal use. Any further/multiple distribution, publication, or commercial usage of this copyrighted material requires submission of a permission request addressed to the Annual Reviews Permissions Department