Victoria Sturtevant


Southern Oregon Institute for Environmental Studies
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR 97520

Victoria Sturtevant received her PhD degree in rural sociology from Cornell University and has taught sociology at Southern Oregon University since 1980. Her research interests include forest community capacity and federal policies which support community-based forestry and adaptive management. For the past three years she’s been involved in USFS-funded research studying communities planning for wildfire and assessing innovative programs such as Fire Safe Councils and The Nature Conservancy Fire Learning Network. Recent work has focused on socio-demographic changes in rural forest communities and collaborative groups, such as the Applegate Partnership. Sturtevant contributed to the NW Forest Plan as a member of the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team and served as a special consultant for the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project.










































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