Michelle Johnson, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Natalia Piland, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen. 2026. Drawing systems of stewardship to guide action and reveal critical relationships of care
• Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen. 2025. Examining capacity-outcome relationships to develop an environmental stewardship capacity index in New York City
• John Paul Schmit, Lea R. Johnson, Matthew Baker, Lindsay Darling, Robert Fahey, Dexter H. Locke, Anita T. Morzillo, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Tara L. E. Trammell, Myla F. J. Aronson, Michelle Johnson. 2025. The influence of urban and agricultural landscape contexts on forest diversity and structure across ecoregions
• Miranda H. Mockrin, Michelle Johnson. 2025. Local government perspectives on housing buyouts in New York after Hurricane Sandy
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Chris Fremantle, David Maddox, Erika Svendsen, Mary Mattingly, Matthew López-Jensen, Nikki Lindt, Liza Paqueo, Michelle Johnson. 2024. Transdisciplinary and arts-centred approaches to stewardship and sustainability of urban nature
• Richard Hallett, Max R. R. Piana, Michelle Johnson, Leslie Brandt. 2024. Climate change and urban forests
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Natalia Piland, Dexter H. Locke, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Morgan Grove, Michele Romolini, Heather McMillen, Rachel Dacks, Bryce DuBois, Jesse Sayles, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Laura Landau, Lorien Jasny, Krista Heinlen, Maria Arroyave, Camille McCarthy, David Bloniarz, Brian Goldberg, Gerald Bauer, Travis Warziniack, Sophie Plitt, Julio Onofre, Nicole Heise Vigil, Arantxa Zamora-Rendon, Alejandra García Castro, Nicole Harmelin García, Bryan Flores. 2024. Reflecting on Local Ecological Stewardship, Care, and Action across Two Decades of Research
• Erika Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Natalia Piland. 2024. Why stewardship matters: reflections from two decades of learning from community-based environmental groups
• Levon M. Bigelow, Robert T. Fahey, Jason Grabosky, Richard Hallett, Jason G. Henning, Michelle Johnson, Lara Roman. 2024. Predictors of street tree survival in Philadelphia: Tree traits, biophysical environment, and socioeconomic context
• Anne Toomey, Monica Palta, Michelle Johnson, Jason Smith, Novem Auyeung Balladares, Erika Svendsen, Rob Pirani, Lindsay K. Campbell. 2023. Blue spaces as social spaces: Measuring the uses and values of urban waterfronts
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen, Brian Goldberg, Evan Guzik, Paul Archual, Chris McCollister, Sophie Plitt, Molly Radwell. 2023. Strengthening partnerships across the landscape: Bridger-Teton National Forest STEW-MAP report 2021
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Sophie Plitt, Laura Landau. 2022. Natural resource managers adapt to disturbance: understanding and strengthening public land management and civic stewardship across both rural and urban forests during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Anita T. Morzillo, Lindsay K. Campbell, Kristen L. King, Katherine J. Lautar, Lydia Scott, Michelle Johnson, Mysha Clarke, Luke Rhodes, Stephanie Pincetl, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Dexter H. Locke, John Paul Schmit, Robert T. Fahey, Matthew E. Baker, Lindsay Darling, Lea R. Johnson. 2022. A tale of urban forest patch governance in four eastern US cities
• Sonya Sachdeva, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen. 2022. Editorial: The COVID-19 pandemic's transformation of human relationships with nature at multiple scales
• Holly Caggiano, Laura F. Landau, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen. 2022. Civic Stewardship and Urban Climate Governance: Opportunities for Transboundary Planning
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Sophie Plitt. 2022. Not by trees alone: Centering community in urban forestry
• Sophie Plitt, Erik Andersson, Michelle Johnson. 2022. Assessing the Potential of E-Tools for Knowledge Sharing and Stewardship of Urban Green Infrastructure
• Max R. R. Piana, Richard Hallett, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Leslie Brandt, Myla F. J. Aronson, Mark Ashton, Max Blaustein, David Bloniarz, Ashley A. Bowers, Megan E. Carr, Vince D’Amico, Laura Dewald, Heather Dionne, Danica A. Doroski, Robert T. Fahey, Helen Forgione, Todd Forrest, Jack Hale, Eric Hansen, Lisa Hayden, Sarah Hines, Jessica M. Hoch, Taro Ieataka, Susannah B. Lerman, Charles Murphy, Eliot Nagele, Keith Nislow, Dhan Parker, Clara C. Pregitzer, Luke Rhodes, Jessica Schuler, Alexander Sherman, Tara Trammell, Brittany M. Wienke, Thomas Witmer, Thomas Worthley, Ian Yesilonis. 2021. Climate Adaptive Silviculture for the City: Practitioners and Researchers Co-create a Framework for Studying Urban Oak-Dominated Mixed Hardwood Forests
• Erika Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Sophie Plitt, Michelle Johnson. 2021. Open for All: How Are Federal and Municipal Land Management Agencies Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic Alongside Increased Societal Recognition of Racial Injustice
• Laura F. Landau, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson. 2021. Building Adaptive Capacity Through Civic Environmental Stewardship: Responding to COVID-19 Alongside Compounding and Concurrent Crises
• A.H. Toomey, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, L. Strehlau-Howay, B. Manzolillo, C. Thomas, T. Graham, M. Palta. 2021. Place-making, place-disruption, and place protection of urban blue spaces: perceptions of waterfront planning of a polluted urban waterbody
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Laura Landau. 2021. Activating urban environments as social infrastructure through civic stewardship
• Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen. 2020. Conceptualizing, analyzing, and supporting stewardship: examining the role of civil society in environmental governance
• Lea R. Johnson, Michelle Johnson, Myla F. J. Aronson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Megan E. Carr, Mysha Clarke, Vince D'Amico, Lindsay Darling, Tedward Erker, Robert T. Fahey, Kristen L. King, Katherine Lautar, Dexter H. Locke, Anita T. Morzillo, Stephanie Pincetl, Luke Rhodes, John Paul Schmit, Lydia Scott, Nancy Falxa Sonti. 2020. Conceptualizing social-ecological drivers of change in urban forest patches
• Emily S. S. Huff, Michelle Johnson, Lara Roman, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Clara C. Pregitzer, Lindsay K. Campbell, Heather McMillen. 2020. A literature review of resilience in urban forestry
• Nancy Falxa Sonti, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, D.S. Novem Auyeung. 2020. Fear and fascination: Use and perceptions of New York City’s forests, wetlands, and landscaped park areas
• Tischa A. A. Munoz, Gerald Bauer, Michelle Johnson, Ana Beatriz Pou Espinal, Leonardo Cortés, Claudia Caballero, Olga Ramos. 2019. Implementation of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment project (STEWMAP) in Santo Domingo’s National District, Dominican Republic
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Laura Landau, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen. 2019. Civic stewardship of urban ecosystems: forms of community engagement with landscapes and places
• Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Heather McMillen. 2019. Mapping Urban Park Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Comparison of Twitter and Semi-Structured Interview Methods
• Lorien Jasny, Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Josh Redmond. 2019. Working together: the roles of geographic proximity, homophilic organizational characteristics, and neighborhood context in civic stewardship collaboration networks in Philadelphia and New York City
• Michelle Johnson, Dexter H. Locke, Erika Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Lynne M. Westphal, Michele Romolini, Morgan Grove. 2019. Context matters: influence of organizational, environmental, and social factors on civic environmental stewardship group intensity
• Laura Landau, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen, Holly Berman. 2019. STEW-MAP in the New York City region: survey results of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project
• Michelle Johnson, D.S. Novem Auyeung, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Clara C. Pregitzer, Heather McMillen, Richard Hallett, Lindsay K. Campbell, Helen M. Forgione, Mina Kim, Sarah Charlop-Powers, Erika Svendsen. 2019. Social-ecological research in urban natural areas: an emergent process for integration
• David J. Nowak, Allison Bodine, Robert Hoehn, Alexis Ellis, Satoshi Hirabayashi, Robert Coville, D.S. Novem Auyeung, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Richard Hallett, Michelle Johnson, Emily Stephan, Tom Taggart, Ted Endreny. 2018. The urban forest of New York City
• Amanda E. ​Sorensen, Rebecca C. Jordan, Gloria Blaise, Jeff Brown, Lindsay K. Campbell, Myla F.J. Aronson, Michelle Johnson. 2018. Drivers of Public Participation in Urban Restoration Stewardship Programs: Linkages Between Environmental Identity and Knowledge, and Motivations​
• Simone Pulver, Nicola Ulibarri, Kathryn L. Sobocinski, Steven M. Alexander, Michelle Johnson, Paul F. McCord, Jampel Dell'Angelo. 2018. Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, and context
• Richard Hallett, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti. 2018. Assessing the tree health impacts of salt water flooding in coastal cities: A case study in New York City
• Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Philip Silva. 2018. Why count trees? Volunteer motivations and experiences with tree monitoring in New York City
• Michelle Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen. 2017. Why count trees: assessing volunteer motivations in participating in New York City's 2015 tree census
• Michelle Johnson, Kathleen P. Bell, Mario F. Teisl. 2016. Does reading scenarios of future land use changes affect willingness to participate in land use planning?
• Nancy Falxa Sonti, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, S. Daftary-Steel. 2016. Long-term outcomes of an urban farming internship program
• Kate Boicourt, Robert Pirani, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell. 2016. Connecting with our waterways: an assessment of public access and stewardship in the New York - New Jersey Harbor Estuary
• Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Michelle Johnson. 2016. A social assessment of urban parkland: Analyzing park use and meaning to inform management and resilience planning
• D.S. Novem Auyeung, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Erika Svendsen. 2016. Reading the landscape: citywide social assessment of New York City parks and natural areas in 2013-2014
• Erika Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Dana R. Fisher, James Connolly, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Dexter H. Locke, Lynne M. Westphal, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Morgan Grove, Michele Romolini, Dale Blahna, Kathleen Wolf. 2016. Stewardship mapping and assessment project: a framework for understanding community-based environmental stewardship

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/silvics-north-america
• Tool
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project (STEW-MAP): Southeast New England 2021-2022

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/stewardship-mapping-project-stew-map-southeast-new-england-2021-2022

• Project
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project (STEW-MAP)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/stew-map
• Program
  

  Communities and Landscapes of the Urban Northeast

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/urbanne
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project: Valledupar, Colombia

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/stewmapvalledupar
• Project
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project (STEW-MAP): Philadelphia

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/stewmapphiladelphia
• Project
  

  The Stewardship Mapping Project (STEW-MAP): Medellín, Colombia

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/stewmapmedellin

Other Publications

• General
  

  STEW-MAP Step by Step Slide Presentation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/understory/stew-map-step-step-slide-presentation
• Business Report
  

  STEW-MAP NYC User Research Report

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/understory/stew-map-nyc-user-research-report
• User Guide
  

  STEW-MAP Interactive Map - Help Guide

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/understory/stew-map-interactive-map-help-guide

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Human Dimensions: Partnering with Communities

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-human-dimensions-partnering-communities
• Webinars
  

  STEW-MAP: Stewardship and Recreation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/stew-map-stewardship-and-recreation

• University of Maine, Ph.D., Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2014
• University of Vermont, M.S., Natural Resource Planning, 2004
• Eckerd College, B.S., Biology, 1997