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Advisory Panel of Historians and Social Scientists

The National Museum of Forest Service History's Advisory Panel of Historians and Social Scientists is a group of fourteen nationally recognized authors, researchers and academics who advise in the development and programming of the National Conservation Legacy and Education Center. 

The advisory panel includes award-winning authors and lecturers whose specialties range from U.S. environmental history, natural resource and public land policy, the history of the American West, tourism in the upper Midwest, the creation of eastern National Forests, Native American history and the history of the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service. The fourteen advisory panel members are:

Patricia Limerick, Ph.D., Panel Chair, Faculty Director and Chair of the Board, Center of the American West and Professor of History at the University of Colorado

Thomas Glen Alexander, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Brigham Young University

Richmond Clow, Ph.D., Professor of Native American Studies, University of Montana, College of Arts and Sciences

Mark T. Fiege, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Colorado State University

John Freemuth, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, Boise State University

Anthony Godfrey, Ph.D., President, U.S. West Research, Inc.

Sara Gregg, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of History, The University of Kansas

Joseph Jones, Ph.D., Independent Research Historian, Houston, Texas

Nancy Langston, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Char Miller, Ph.D., Director of Environmental Analysis Program; and W. M. Keck Professor, Pomona College.

Susan Schrepfer, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Auburn University

Paul Sutter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

Lincoln Bramwell, Ph.D., Ex Officio Member, Chief Historian, U.S. Forest Service

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