Kellen Nelson, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Kellen Nelson, Lacey Hankin, Laura Lowrey, Sarah M. Bisbing. 2026. Whitebark pine persistence potential highly variable following disturbance in the Intermountain West, USA
• Michael Howe, Karen Hutten, Jessie Moan, Kellen Nelson. 2026. Warming temperatures to expand spruce beetle outbreak distribution in northern but not southern Picea forests of western North America
• Michael Howe, Elizabeth E. Graham, Kellen Nelson. 2025. Defoliator outbreaks track with warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest of North America
• Philip Manlick, Michael Howe, Jennifer Wen, Jeff Barnard, Kellen Nelson. 2025. Thinning restores ungulate foraging habitat in historically logged forests
• Michael Howe, Elizabeth Graham, Kellen Nelson. 2025. A shrinking envelope? Climate warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest and its projected impact on a native defoliator
• Hailey Wilmer, Abigail R. Kaminski, Kendra Wendel, Nicole Grewe, Tracy Hruska, Lee K. Cerveny, J. Ryan Bellmore, Chanda L. Meek, Kellen Nelson. 2024. Southeast Alaskans want food sovereignty and reimagined rural futures
• Justin S. Crotteau, William J. Beese, John-Pascal Berrill, Robert Deal, Constance A. Harrington, Kellen Nelson. 2024. Ecological silviculture for North American Pacific coastal temperate rainforests [Chapter 15]
• Kellen Nelson, Jeff Barnard, Preston Massingham, Justin S. Crotteau. 2023. Tree pruning improves tree form but not understory plant production in mixed stands of Sitka spruce and western hemlock, USA
• Jeff Barnard, Preston Massingham, Kellen Nelson, Justin S. Crotteau. 2022. Effect of pruning in Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests in the Pacific Temperate Rainforest
• Kellen Nelson, Emily O’Dean, Eric E. Knapp, Albert J. Parker, Sarah M. Bisbing. 2021. Persistent yet vulnerable: resurvey of an Abies ecotone reveals few differences but vulnerability to climate change

• Center or Group
  

  Northwest Water Research Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/centers/nwri
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Program
  

  Forest and Range Ecology and Management

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/programs/frem
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Héen Latinee Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/forestsandranges/locations/heen
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station

Events

• University of Wyoming, Ph.D., Ecology, 2019
• Colorado State University, M.S., Forestry, 2009
• Colorado State University, B.S., Forestry, 2004