Chelsea Pennick (McIver)
Chelsea Pennick (McIver), Ph.D.
Associate Director of Policy Analysis Group and Research Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Policy and Administration
Chelsea is the associate director of the Policy Analysis Group and an Assistant Research Professor with the College of Natural Resources. Her research interests lie at the nexus of public lands, forest communities and rural economies.
Chelsea has led studies on policy options for reforming payments to counties for federal public lands, the impact of collaboration on pace and scale of management on Idaho’s national forests and has contributed to studies on state funding for wildfire suppression. Chelsea also teaches Forest Policy and Administration.
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Idaho, 2023, Natural Resources Policy and Administration
- M.S., University of Montana, 2015, Forestry
- B.A., University of Montana, 2006, Rural Sociology
2024 - Best Dissertation Award, Public Management Research Association
2022 - American Association for Public Administration’s State and Local Government Review Best Field Note Award.
Pennick McIver, Chelsea; Cook, Philip S.; Becker, Dennis R. 2021. The Fiscal Burden of Wildfires: State Expenditures and Funding Mechanisms for Wildfire Suppression in the Western U.S. and Implications for Federal Policy. State and Local Government Review 53(4): 337-351.
Pennick McIver, Chelsea; Becker, Dennis. R. 2021. An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Collaboration on the Pace and Scale of National Forest Management in Idaho. Forest Science 67(1): 49-59.
Marcille, Kate C.; Morgan, Todd A.; McIver, Chelsea P.; Christensen, Glenn A. 2020. California’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2016. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-994. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 58 p.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Metcalf, Alexander L.; Berg, Erik C. 2018. Procurement Contracting and Forest Communities: Factors affecting local business utilization in the Inland Northwest. Journal of Forestry 116(5):412-419.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Sorenson, Colin B.; Morgan, Todd A. 2018. Wyoming’s Forest Products Industry and Timber Harvest, Part I: Timber harvest, products and flow. RMRS-RB-27-1. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Electronic
McIver, Chelsea P.; Sorenson, Colin B.; Morgan, Todd A. 2018. Wyoming’s Forest Products Industry and Timber Harvest, Part II: Industry sectors, capacity and outputs. RMRS-RB-27-2. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Electronic.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Marcille, Kate C.; Morgan, Todd A. 2018. Wyoming’s Forest Products Industry and Timber Harvest, Part III: Sales, employment and economic contribution. RMRS-RB-27-3. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Electronic
Kelly, Erin Clover; McIver, Chelsea P.; Standiford, Richard B.; Haggerty, Mark. 2017. Socioeconomics of the Redwood Region. In Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Science Symposium-2016. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 345-356.
Sorenson, Colin B.; Keegan, Charles E., III; Morgan, Todd A.; McIver, Chelsea P.; Niccolucci, Michael J. 2016. Employment and Wage Impacts of Timber Harvesting and Processing in the United States. Journal of Forestry 113(4).
McIver, Chelsea P.; Metcalf, Alexander; Dodson, Elizabeth. 2016. Making Every Dollar Count: Leveraging federal investments in land management to benefit local communities. Rural Connections 10(2).
McIver, Chelsea P.; Meek, Joshua P.; Morgan, Todd A.; Christensen, Glenn A. 2015. California’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2012. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-908. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 49p.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Sorenson, Colin B.; Keegan, Charles E.; Morgan, Todd A.; Thompson, Mike T. 2014. Wyoming’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2010. Resour. Bull. RMRS-RB-17. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 29 p.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Sorenson, Colin B.; Keegan, Charles E.; Morgan, Todd A.; Menlove, Jim. 2013. Montana’s forest products industry and timber harvest, 2009. Resour. Bull. RMRS-RB-16. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 42 p.
- Collaborative governance
- Public lands policy
- Street-level bureaucracy
- Rural communities