Crane Collaborations: Community Outreach and Education
For more than a decade, I worked with rural communities in New Mexico and the Four Corners states in forest restoration, participatory action research, and natural resources planning and education. I ran most of this work through my firm Crane Collaborations - a name that I chose based on the Pueblo myth of Old Man Crane, a wise leader who alerts others when change is needed. Below I highlight a few projects from this work. Additional projects have included:
For more than a decade, I worked with rural communities in New Mexico and the Four Corners states in forest restoration, participatory action research, and natural resources planning and education. I ran most of this work through my firm Crane Collaborations - a name that I chose based on the Pueblo myth of Old Man Crane, a wise leader who alerts others when change is needed. Below I highlight a few projects from this work. Additional projects have included:
- Post-fire rehabilitation curriculum
- Payment for Ecosystem Services Plan, Santa Fe Watershed
- U.S. Forest Service, Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Monitoring Guidebooks
- Collaborative Forest Restoration Program MONITORING CURRICULUM: Background and Activities for Ecological Monitoring
- Youth involvement in ecological restoration and post-fire rehabilitation
- Community assessment of culturally important plants, Santo Domingo Pueblo
- Collaborative forest restoration grantwriting and project conceptualization for the Black Lake region of New Mexico, with Herman Vigil, the Forest Guild, and others.