Susan Charnley, PhD

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Research Social Scientist Emeritus

Pacific Northwest Research Station

susan.charnley@usda.gov

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Sylvia Kantor, Susan Charnley, Jeffrey V. Martin. 2026. In pursuit of coexistence: Wolves and livestock on national forests
Ada P. Smith, Jeffrey V. Martin, Taylor Kwait, Robert M. Anderson, Kathleen Epstein, Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell. 2025. Cowboying for coexistence? Range riding in the New West
Jeffrey V. Martin, Robert Anderson, Kathleen Epstein, Susan Charnley. 2025. Managing wolf-livestock conflict on national forests in the Western United States
Gregory E. Frey, Reem Hajjar, Susan Charnley, Kathleen McGinley, John Schelhas, Nathan A. Tarr, Lauren McCaskill, Frederick W. Cubbage. 2024. “Community Forests” in the United States – How Do we Know One When we See One?
Robert Anderson, Susan Charnley, Jeffrey V. Martin, Kathleen Epstein. 2024. Large, rugged and remote: The challenge of wolf–livestock coexistence on federal lands in the American West
Reem Hajjar, Kathleen McGinley, Susan Charnley, Gregory E. Frey, Meredith Hovis, Frederick Cubbage, John Schelhas, Kailey Kornhauser. 2024. Characterizing Community Forests in the United States
John Kirkland, Gordon Grant, Susan Charnley. 2023. Are you a beaver believer? Reasonable expectations for beaver-related restoration
Susan Charnley. 2023. Livelihood investments as incentives for community forestry in Africa
Susan Charnley, Emily Jane Davis, John Schelhas. 2023. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Forest Service: Insights for local job creation and equity from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Andrea Watts, Susan Charnley, Gregory E. Frey. 2023. What can we learn from community forestry in Tanzania?
Michelle Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley, Mark Adams. 2023. Cross-boundary cooperation in wildfire management during the custodial management period of the US Forest Service: A case study of the eastern Cascades of Oregon, USA, 1905–1945
Robert M. Anderson, Susan Charnley, Kathleen Epstein, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Jeffrey V. Martin, Alex McInturff. 2022. The socioecology of fear: A critical geographical consideration of human‐wolf‐livestock conflict
Kathleen McGinley, Susan Charnley, Frederick Cubbage, Reem Hajjar, Gregory E. Frey, John Schelhas, Meredith Hovis, Kailey Kornhauser. 2022. Community forest ownership, rights, and governance regimes in the United States
Susan Charnley, Shoana Humphries, Gretchen Engbring, Gregory E. Frey. 2022. Supporting community forestry certification in tropical countries by increasing actor engagement across scales
Susan Charnley, Gregory E. Frey, Jasper Makala. 2022. Community forests, timber production, and certification: success factors in the African context
Emily Platt, Susan Charnley, John D. Bailey, Lori A. Cramer. 2022. Adaptive governance in fire-prone landscapes
Gregory E. Frey, Susan Charnley, Jasper Makala. 2022. The costs and benefits of certification for community forests managed by traditional peoples in south-eastern Tanzania
Jeffrey V. Martin, Kathleen Epstein, Robert M. Anderson, Susan Charnley. 2021. Coexistence praxis: The role of resource managers in wolf-livestock interactions on federal lands
Paul F. Hessburg, Susan Charnley, Andrew Gray, Thomas Spies, David W. Peterson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Kendra Wendel, Jessica Halofsky, Eric M. White, John Marshall. 2021. Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests
Josh McDaniel, Mark Adams, Susan Charnley. 2021. Reducing fuels and advancing equity: Incorporating environmental justice into hazardous fuels management
Gregory E. Frey, Susan Charnley, Jasper Makala. 2021. Economic viability of community-based forest management for certified timber production in southeastern Tanzania
John Kirkland, Susan Charnley. 2021. Taking an “all-lands” approach to managing wildfire across diverse forest ownerships
Caroline Nash, Gordon Grant, Susan Charnley, Jason Dunham, Hannah Gosnell, Mark Hausner, David Pilliod, Jimmy D. Taylor. 2021. Great expectations: Deconstructing the process pathways underlying beaver-related restoration
Hannah Gosnell, Susan Charnley, Paige Stanley. 2020. Climate change mitigation as a co-benefit of regenerative ranching: insights from Australia and the United States
Mark Adams, Susan Charnley. 2020. The environmental justice implications of managing hazardous fuels on federal forest lands
Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell, Rachael Davee, Jesse Abrams. 2020. Ranchers and beavers: Understanding the human dimensions of beaver-related stream restoration on western rangelands
Paul F. Hessburg, Susan Charnley, Kendra Wendel, Eric M. White, Peter Singleton, David W. Peterson, Jessica Halofsky, Andrew Gray, Thomas Spies, Rebecca Flitcroft, Rachel White. 2020. The 1994 Eastside Screens large-tree harvest limit: review of science relevant to forest planning 25 years later
Sylvia Kantor, Susan Charnley. 2020. Ranchers, beavers, and stream restoration on western rangelands
Susan Charnley, Erin Kelly, A Paige. Fischer. 2020. Fostering collective action to reduce wildfire risk across property boundaries in the American West
Emily Jane Davis, Reem Hajjar, Susan Charnley, Cassandra Moseley, Kendra Wendel, Meredith Jacobson. 2020. Community-based forestry on federal lands in the western United States: A synthesis and call for renewed research
Erin Clover Kelly, Susan Charnley, Jodie T. Pixley. 2019. Polycentric systems for wildfire governance in the Western United States
Thomas Spies, Jonathan W. Long, Susan Charnley, Paul F. Hessburg, Bruce G. Marcot, Gordon Reeves, Damon B. Lesmeister, Matthew Reilly, Lee K. Cerveny, Peter Stine, Martin G. Raphael. 2019. Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?
Michelle Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley, Rebecca J. McLain, Mark Adams, Kendra Wendel. 2019. Traditional knowledge of fire use by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in the eastside Cascades of Oregon
Rachael Davee, Hannah Gosnell, Susan Charnley. 2019. Using beaver dam analogues for fish and wildlife recovery on public and private rangelands in eastern Oregon
Susan Charnley. 2019. If you build it, they will come: ranching, riparian revegetation, and beaver colonization in Elko County, Nevada
Jesse Abrams, Michael Johnduff, Susan Charnley. 2019. Beaver-related restoration in Owyhee County, Idaho: opportunities and challenges
Susan Charnley. 2018. Beavers, landowners, and watershed restoration: experimenting with beaver dam analogues in the Scott River basin, California
Susan Charnley, Rebecca J. McLain, Melissa Poe. 2018. Natural resource access rights and wrongs: Nontimber forest products gathering in urban environments
Susan Charnley, Jeffrey D. Kline, Eric M. White, Jesse Abrams, Rebecca J. McLain, Cassandra Moseley, Heidi Huber-Stearns. 2018. Chapter 8: Socioeconomic well-being and forest management in northwest forest plan- area communities
Susan Charnley, Delilah Jaworski, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Eric M. White, Elisabeth Grinspoon, Rebecca J. McLain, Lee K. Cerveny. 2018. Chapter 10: Environmental justice, low-income and minority populations, and forest management in the northwest forest plan area
Thomas Spies, Jonathan W. Long, Peter Stine, Susan Charnley, Lee K. Cerveny, Bruce G. Marcot, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg, Damon B. Lesmeister, Matthew Reilly, Martin G. Raphael, Raymond J. Davis. 2018. Chapter 12: Integrating ecological and social science to inform land management in the area of the northwest forest plan
David S. Pilliod, Ashley T. Rohde, Susan Charnley, Rachael R. Davee, Jason B. Dunham, Hannah Gosnell, Gordon Grant, Mark B. Hausner, Justin L. Huntington, Caroline Nash. 2018. Survey of beaver-related restoration practices in rangeland streams of the western USA
Mark Adams, Susan Charnley. 2018. Environmental justice and U.S. Forest Service hazardous fuels reduction: A spatial method for impact assessment of federal resource management actions
Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell, Kendra L Wendel, Mary M. Rowland, Michael Wisdom. 2018. Cattle grazing and fish recovery on US federal lands: can social-ecological systems science help?
Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley, Mark Adams. 2017. Historical perspective on the influence of wildfire policy, law, and informal institutions on management and forest resilience in a multiownership, frequent-fire, coupled human and natural system in Oregon, USA
Sara Jo Breslow, Margaret Allen, Danielle Holstein, Brit Sojka, Raz Barnea, Xavier Basurto, Courtney Carothers, Susan Charnley, Sarah Coulthard, Nives Dolšak, Jamie Donatuto, Carlos García-Quijano, Christina C. Hicks, Arielle Levine, Michael B. Mascia, Karma Norman, Melissa Poe, Terre Satterfield, Kevin St. Martin, Phillip S. Levin. 2017. Evaluating indicators of human well-being for ecosystem-based management
Rachael Davee, Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell. 2017. Silvies Valley Ranch, OR: using artificial beaver dams to restore incised streams
Jeffrey D. Kline, Eric M. White, A Paige Fischer, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Susan Charnley, Christine S. Olsen, Thomas Spies, John D. Bailey. 2017. Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems
Thomas Spies, Eric M. White, Alan Ager, Jeffrey D. Kline, John P. Bolte, Emily Platt, Keith A. Olsen, Robert J. Pabst, Ana M. G. Barros, John D. Bailey, Susan Charnley, Anita T. Morzillo, Jennifer Koch, Michelle M. Steen-Adams, Peter Singleton, James Sulzman, Cynthia Schwartz, Blair Csuti. 2017. Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA
Marie Oliver, Susan Charnley, Thomas Spies, Jeffrey D. Kline, Eric M. White. 2017. Forests, people, fire: Integrating the sciences to build capacity for an “All Lands” approach to forest restoration
Susan Charnley, Courtney Carothers, Terre Satterfield, Arielle Levine, Melissa Poe, Karma Norman, Jamie Donatuto, Sara Jo Breslow, Michael B. Mascia, Phillip S. Levin, Xavier Basurto, Christina C. Hicks, Carlos García-Quijano, Kevin St. Martin. 2017. Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
Susan Charnley, Thomas Spies, Ana M. G. Barros, Eric M. White, Keith A. Olsen. 2017. Diversity in forest management to reduce wildfire losses: implications for resilience
Susan Charnley, Erin C. Kelly, Kendra L. Wendel. 2017. All lands approaches to fire management in the Pacific West: a typology
A. Paige Fischer, Thomas Spies, Toddi A Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R Johnson, John D Bailey, Alan Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D Kline, Jessica E Leahy, Jeremy S Littell, James DA Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S Olsen, Travis B Paveglio, Christopher I Roos, Michelle M Steen-Adams, Forrest R Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M White, David M. J. S. Bowman. 2016. Pathology of wildfire risk: A characterization of social and ecological dimensions
Rachel White, Susan Charnley, Gordon Grant, Mary M. Rowland, Michael Wisdom. 2016. Restoring rivers, sustaining communities
Sara Jo Breslow, Brit Sojka, Raz Barnea, Xavier Basurto, Courtney Carothers, Susan Charnley, Sarah Coulthard, Nives Dolšak, Jamie Donatuto, Carlos García-Quijano, Christina C. Hicks, Arielle Levine, Michael B. Mascia, Karma Norman, Melissa Poe, Terre Satterfield, Kevin St. Martin, Phillip S. Levin. 2016. Conceptualizing and operationalizing human wellbeing for ecosystem assessment and management
C. C. Hicks, A. Levine, A. Agrawal, X. Basurto, S. J. Breslow, C. Carothers, Susan Charnley, S. Coulthard, N. Dolsak, J. Donatuto, C. Garcia-Quijano, M. B. Mascia, K. Norman, M. R. Poe, T. Satterfield, K. St. Martin, P. S. Levin. 2016. Engage key social concepts for sustainability
A Paige Fischer, Thomas Spies, Toddi A Steelman, Cassandra Moseley, Bart R Johnson, John D Bailey, Alan Ager, Patrick Bourgeron, Susan Charnley, Brandon M. Collins, Jeffrey D. Kline, Jessica E Leahy, Jeremy S Littell, James DA Millington, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Christine S Olsen, Travis B Paveglio, Christopher I Roos, Michelle M Steen-Adams, Forrest R Stevens, Jelena Vukomanovic, Eric M. White, David MJS Bowman. 2016. Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology
A. Paige Fischer, Ken Vance-Borland, Lorien Jasny, Kerry E. Grimm, Susan Charnley. 2016. A network approach to assessing social capacity for landscape planning: The case of fire-prone forests in Oregon, USA
Geoff Koch, Susan Charnley. 2016. From Top-Down to Grassroots: Chronicling the Search for Common Ground in Conservation in the West
Susan Charnley, Melissa Poe, Alan Ager, Thomas Spies, Emily Platt, Keith A. Olsen. 2015. A burning problem: social dynamics of disaster risk reduction through wildfire mitigation
Marc Miller, Thomas E. Sheridan, Susan Charnley, Christy Plumer, Jim Lyons, Tom Martin. 2015. Working landscapes: the future of land use policy?
John A. Stanturf, Scott Goodrick, Melvin L. Warren, Susan Charnley, Christie Hawley. 2015. Social vulnerability and Ebola virus disease in rural Liberia
Cassandra Moseley, Susan Charnley. 2014. Understanding micro-processes of institutionalization: stewardship contracting and national forest management
Susan Charnley. 2014. Strategies for job creation through national forest management
Patricia L. Winter, Jonathan W. Long, Susan Charnley. 2014. Social/economic/cultural components
Patricia L. Winter, Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake, Susan Charnley. 2014. Broader context for social, economic, and cultural components
Susan Charnley, Jonathan W. Long. 2014. Managing forest products for community benefit
Susan Charnley, Jonathan W. Long, Frank K. Lake. 2014. Collaboration in national forest management
Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Susan Charnley, Ken R. Hubbert, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Marc Meyer. 2014. Post-wildfire management
Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Hugh Safford, Susan Charnley, Patricia L. Winter. 2014. Introduction
Paige Fischer, Jeffrey D. Kline, Alan Ager, Susan Charnley, Keith A. Olsen. 2014. Objective and perceived wildfire risk and its influence on private forest landowners’ fuel reduction activities in Oregon’s (USA) ponderosa pine ecoregion
Peter Stine, Paul F. Hessburg, Thomas Spies, Marc Kramer, Christopher J. Fettig, Andrew Hansen, John F. Lehmkuhl, Kevin O'Hara, Carlos M. Polivka, Peter Singleton, Susan Charnley, Andrew Merschel, Rachel White. 2014. The ecology and management of moist mixed-conifer forests in eastern Oregon and Washington: a synthesis of the relevant biophysical science and implications for future land management
Max Nielsen-Pincus, Susan Charnley, Cassandra Moseley. 2013. The influence of market proximity on national forest hazardous fuels treatments
Paige Fischer, Jeffrey D. Kline, Susan Charnley, Christine Olsen. 2013. Erratum to ‘Identifying policy target groups with qualitative and quantitative methods: the case of wildfire risk on nonindustrial private forest lands’ [Forest Policy and Economics. 25: 62–71]
Joan O’Callaghan, A. Paige Fischer, Susan Charnley. 2013. Managing wildfire risk in fire-prone landscapes: how are private landowners contributing?
Paige Fischer, Susan Charnley. 2012. Private forest owners and invasive plants: risk perception and management
Paige Fischer, Susan Charnley. 2012. Risk and cooperation: managing hazardous fuel in mixed ownership landscapes
R.J. McLain, Katherine MacFarland, L. Brody, J. Hebert, P. Hurley, M. Poe, L.P. Buttolph, N. Gabriel, M. Dzuna, Marla R. Emery, Susan Charnley. 2012. Gathering in the city: an annotated bibliography and review of the literature about human-plant interactions in urban ecosystems
Susan Charnley, Pamela J. Jakes, John Schelhas. 2012. Socioeconomic assessment of Forest Service American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects: key findings and lessons learned
Susan Charnley, Lee K. Cerveny. 2011. US Forest Service experimental forests and ranges: an untapped resource for social science
Susan Charnley, Pamela J. Jakes, John Schelhas. 2011. A socioeconomic assessment of Forest Service American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects: eight case studies
Paige Fischer, Susan Charnley. 2010. Social and cultural influences on management for carbon sequestration on US family forestlands: a literature synthesis
Susan Charnley, David Diaz, Hannah Gosnell. 2010. Mitigating climate change through small-scale forestry in the USA: opportunities and challenges
Susan Charnley, William H. Durham. 2010. Anthropology and environmental policy: What counts?
David Diaz, Susan Charnley, Hannah Gosnell. 2009. Engaging western landowners in climate change mitigation: a guide to carbon-oriented forest and range management and carbon market opportunities
Susan Charnley, Ellen Donoghue, Cassandra Moseley. 2008. Forest management policy and community well-being in the Pacific Northwest
Susan Charnley, Ellen Donoghue, Cassandra Moseley. 2008. Forest Management Policy and Community Well-Being in the Pacific Northwest
Rebecca J. McLain, Ellen Donoghue, Jonathan Kusel, Lita Buttolph, Susan Charnley. 2008. Multiscale socioeconomic assessment across large ecosystems: lessons from practice
Susan Charnley, Candace Dillingham, Claudia Stuart, Cassandra Moseley, Ellen Donoghue. 2008. Northwest Forest Plan--the first 10 years (1994-2003): socioeconomic monitoring of the Klamath National Forest and three local communities.
Susan Charnley, A. Paige Fischer, Eric T. Jones. 2008. Traditional and local ecological knowledge about forest biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest.
William M. Kay, Ellen Donoghue, Susan Charnley, Cassandra Moseley. 2007. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994–2003): socioeconomic monitoring of the Mount Hood National Forest and three local communities.
Susan Charnley. 2006. The Northwest Forest Plan as a model for broad-scale ecosystem management: a social perspective.
Rebecca J. McLain, Lisa Tobe, Susan Charnley, Ellen Donoghue, Cassandra Moseley. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994–2003): socioeconomic monitoring of Coos Bay District and three local communities.
Lita P. Buttolph, William Kay, Susan Charnley, Cassandra Moseley, Ellen Donoghue. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years: socioeconomic monitoring of the Olympic National Forest and three local communities.
Susan Charnley. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994–2003): socioeconomic monitoring results.
Susan Charnley. 2005. From nature tourism to ecotourism? The case of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania.
Susan Charnley, Bruce Engelbert. 2005. Evaluating public participation in environmental decision-making: EPA's superfund community involvement program.

Stanford University, Ph.D., Anthropology, 1994
Stanford University, M.A., Anthropology, 1989
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., Biology, 1981
University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., Environmental Studies, 1981

Last updated June 10, 2026

Susan Charnley, PhD

Treesearch Publications

Identifying and Assessing Needs, Values, Capacities and Future Landscape Visions to Inform Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Strategies

West-Side Fire and Climate Adaptation Research Initiative

Carbon Dynamics Research for Land and Watershed Managers

People, Natural Resources, and Economics

Fire- and carbon-oriented management across Pacific Northwest forests

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