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Native American Studies

Fernando Sanchez

Director of the Cobell Institute, Assistant Professor

Contact

Office
Native American Center, 203F
Phone
406-243-6001
Email
Fernando.Sanchez@mso.umt.edu
Office Hours

Please refer to the course syllabus or contact me to make an appointment.

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Fernando Sanchez

Personal Summary

I am the Director of the and an assistant professor in the departments of Native American Studies and Environmental Studies at the 妖姬直播. As a quantitative researcher with academic interests in both the STEM and the social sciences, my scientific approach is diverse but fundamentally founded on data science and geographical thinking, which I leverage to characterize environmental dynamics and their impacts on coupled human-nature systems, inform climate disaster mitigation, and bring indigenous perspectives on conservation into higher education.

Courses Taught

NASX 303 (Ecological Perspectives in Native American Traditions). Every Fall and every other Spring.

ENSC 474 (Environmental Analytics). Every Fall.

Projects

  • Centering Indigenous Epistemologies: Connecting generations and sustaining Indigenous scholarship (2023 - 2026; Mellon Foundation - Higher Learning)
  • Precision Forestry and Rangeland Technologies (Senior Partner; 2023 - 2024; NSF - Regional Innovation Engines)
  • Tribal Interests in Landscape Fire Planning (2023 - 2024; US Forest Service)
  • Visitor Survey at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (2024 - 2026; US Forest Service)

Selected Publications

Stumpff, L.M.; Sánchez-Trigueros, F.; Watson, A.; Mdodi, F.; Teasdale, A. (2020). Grassland, forest and riparian ecosystems on mixed-ownership federal lands adjacent to the Crow Reservation: developing a protective shield for sustainability of the environment and culture from impacts of climate-related disturbance. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-410. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 84 p. []

Wynecoop, M.D.; Morgan, P.; Strand, E.; Sanchez-Trigueros, F. (2019) “Getting back to fire sumé艥: exploring a multi-disciplinary approach to incorporating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments”. Fire Ecology, 15: 17. []

Baldauf-McBride., B.; Sanchez-Trigueros, F.; Carver, S.; Watson. A.; Stumpff, L.M.; Matt, R.; Borrie, W.T. (2017) “Participatory Geographic Information Systems as an organizational platform for the integration of traditional and scientific knowledge in contemporary fire and fuels management”. Journal of Forestry 115 (1): 43-50. []