ALWRI welcomes ORISE Fellow, Stephanie Barron

10/25/24 

Earlier this month ALWRI welcomed new ORISE Social Science Research Fellow Stephanie Barron to our staff. 

Stephanie brings her background working with and for federal, state, tribal, and nonprofit entities in botany, forestry, fisheries, wildlife, kincentric ecology, environmental education, and tribal relations to work with ALWRI social scientists on an ongoing research project in the high-visitation, urban-proximate Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, outside of Seattle, WA. Managers and partners of Alpine Lakes are working to balance management objectives for visitation with biodiversity conservation, tribal treaty rights and trust responsibilities. Among other things, Stephanie will seek to learn more about local Tribal perspectives on wilderness and wilderness management, while identifying opportunities to inform management approaches through a multi-partner collaborative (the Alpine Lakes Collaborative). We are delighted to welcome Stephanie to our team!

To learn more about Stephanie's background and research, check out her bio.