Michael
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Work experience:
2019-present- Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources; Affiliate Faculty Member, American Indian Studies Department
2013-2019- Research Forester, Northern Research Station, US Forest Service
2005–2013- Liaison to College Menominee Nation Sustainable Development Institute, US Forest Service
2001–2005 – Assistant Forest Planner, Green Mountain
1999–2000 – Natural Resource Manager and Ecologist Volunteer, US Peace Corps
1997–1999 – Forester and Environmental Educator Volunteer, US Peace Corps
1996–1997 – Environmental Planning Intern, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
Education:
Ph.D. Forestry; Minor: Geography; Nelson Institute Center for Culture, History, and Environment Certificate: Indigenous Landscapes, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2012
M.S. Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University, 1996
B.S. Forest Science and Certificate in Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1994
Selected Awards/Honors:
2022 Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Tenured Faculty. College of Food Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota
2022 Distinguished Professional Chapter of the Year, American Indian Science and Engineering Society [Dockry is the current chapter president]
2020 Michigan State University’s Community Engagement Scholarship Award (top university award for community engaged research). Member of the College of Menominee Nation Sustainable Development Institute partnership team.
2019 University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment Community Partnership
Award. Awarded for Manoomin Grand Challenges Project.
2017 Early Career Scientist Award, US Forest Service Northern Research Station
2016 Most Promising Scientist, American Indian Science
2015 US Forest Service Award for “Superior Performance”
2013 Certificate of Merit NRS/FPL Director’s Award for “Exceptional Cultural Transformation Team Leadership and Multi-location collaboration as part of the FY2013 Program Week Event ‘Many Cultures One World’.”
2011 Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society of Yale and Howard Universities – University Wisconsin Madison Chapter
2007 Greater Madison Federal Agency Association Award for “Equal Opportunity Employment/Diversity/Outreach to Non-Traditional Communities”
Selected Professional Associations and Service:
American Society of Environmental History – Executive Committee Member (elected 2019)
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Intertribal Timber Council – Member of Research Subcommittee (invited)
Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network Advisory Board, USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (2016-present)
Society of American Foresters
Selected Peer-reviewed Articles and Reports:
Dexter H. Locke, Sonya S. Sachdeva, Lynne M. Westphal, Laura S. Kenefic, Michael J. Dockry, and Cherie L. Fisher. 2023. Spatially explicit assessment of the USDA Forest Service as a representative bureaucracy. Forest Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxad018.
Diaz, Vicente M., Michael J. Dockry, Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Thomas Reynolds, and Rebecca Webster. 2023. “Teaching Indigenous Epistemologies at the University of Minnesota.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 23. https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/teaching-indigenous-epistemologies/.
Sonya S. Sachdeva, Lynne M. Westphal, Laura S. Kenefic, Michael J. Dockry, Dexter H. Locke & Cherie L. Fisher. 2023. Despite Workforce Diversity Efforts, Career Metrics Differ for Some Demographic Groups in the USDA Forest Service, Society & Natural Resources, 36:6, 680-695. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2183447
Erickson, Zachary J., Kevin Boston, Michael J. Dockry, and John-Pascal Berrill. 2022. Listening to Indigenous Voices, Interests, and Priorities That Would Inform Tribal Co-Management of Natural Resources on a California State University Forest. Forests 13(12): 2165. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13122165.
Michael J. Dockry, Sonya S. Sachdeva, Cherie L. Fisher, Laura S. Kenefic, Dexter H. Locke, and Lynne M. Westphal. 2022. Student trainee and paid internship programs have positive results but do little to influence long-term employee diversity in the USDA Forest Service. PLoS ONE 17(11):e0277423. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277423.
Michael J. Dockry, Serra J Hoagland, Adrian D Leighton, James R Durglo, Amit Pradhananga. 2022. An Assessment of American Indian Forestry Research, Information Needs, and Priorities. Journal of Forestry. 120(1)49-63. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvac030.
Forrest Fleischman, Cory Struthers, Gwen Arnold, Michael J. Dockry, Tyler Scott. 2022. The National Environmental Policy Act and the USDA Forest Service: Where We Agree, Where We Disagree, and Why. Journal of Forestry. 120(4) 392–394. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvab076. AND Forrest Fleischman, Cory Struthers, Gwen Arnold, Michael J. Dockry, Tyler Scott. 2022. Corrigendum to: The National Environmental Policy Act and the USDA Forest Service: Where We Agree, Where We Disagree, and Why. Journal of Forestry. 120(4) 481–482. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvac005.
Lynne M. Westphal, Michael J. Dockry, Laura S. Kenefic, Sonya S. Sachdeva, Amelia Rhodeland, Dexter H. Locke, Christel C. Kern, Heidi R. Huber-Stearns, and Michael R. Coughlan. 2022. USDA Forest Service Employee Diversity During a Period of Workforce Contraction. Journal of Forestry. 120(4) 434–452. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvab071.
David N. Bengston, Lynne M. Westphal, Michael J. Dockry, Jason Crabtree. 2021. A “serious game” to explore alternative forestry futures. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvab059.
Michael J. Dockry and Kyle Whyte. 2021. Improving on Nature: The Legend Lake Development, Menominee Resistance, and the Ecological Dynamics of Settler Colonialism. American Indian Quarterly. 45(2), 95-120. http://doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2021.0008.
Vicente M. Diaz, Michael J. Dockry, G.-H. Crystal Ng, Virajita Singh, Daniel F. Keefe, Katie Johnston-Goodstar, Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould, James Rock, Christine Taitano DeLisle. 2020. Navigating Indigenous Futures with the Mississippi River. Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 17. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/navigating-indigenous-futures/.
Vicente M. Diaz, Michael J. Dockry, G.-H. Crystal Ng, Virajita Singh, Daniel F. Keefe, Katie Johnston-Goodstar, Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould, James Rock, Christine Taitano DeLisle. 2020. Navigating Indigenous Futures Gallery. Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 17. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/navigating-indigenous-futures-gallery/.
Laura Matson, G.-H. Crystal Ng, Michael J. Dockry, Madeline Nyblade, Hannah Jo King, Mark Bellcourt, Jeremy Bloomquist, Perry Bunting, Eric Chapman, Diana Dalbotten, Mae A. Davenport, Karen Diver, McKaylee Duquain, Willian (Joe) Graveen, Katherine Hagsten, Kari Hedin, Susannah Howard, Thomas Howes, John Johnson Sr., Shannon Kesner, Erik Kojola, Roger LaBine, Daniel J. Larken, Melonee Montano, Seth Moore, Amy Myrbo, Michael Northbird, Meghan Porter, Rich Robinson, Cara M. Santelli, Riley Schmitter, Robert Shimek, Nancy Schuldt, Allison Smart, Donovan Strong, Joshua Torgeson, Darren Vogt, Alexander Waheed.. 2020. Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice). Environmental Science & Policy, 115, pp.108-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.10.010.
David Bengston, Lynne Westphal, and Michael Dockry. 2020. Back from the Future: The Backcasting Wheel for Mapping a Pathway to a Preferred Future. World Futures Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1946756720929724.
Dockry, Michael; Benedict, Michael; Wrobel, Alexandra; Karnes, Keith. 2020. Innovations in partnerships and tribal forest management: A panel discussion. In: Pile, Lauren S.; Deal, Robert L.; Dey, Daniel C.; Gwaze, David; Kabrick, John M.; Palik, Brian J.; Schuler, Thomas M., comps. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: a focus on forest management-research partnerships. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-193. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 95-101. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTRP-193-paper13.
Forrest Fleischman, Cory Struthers, Gwen Arnold, Michael Dockry, Tyler Scott. 2020. US Forest Service implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act: fast, variable, rarely litigated, and declining. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvaa016.
Kern, Christel C, Laura S Kenefic, Michael J Dockry, and Alan Cobo-Lewis. 2020. Discrimination and Career Satisfaction: Perceptions from Us Forest Service Scientists. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvz057.
Emery, M.; Benedict, M.; Dockry, M.; and Hoagland, S. U.S. Native Peoples and Forests. p. 50-54. In: Oswalt, Sonja N.; Smith, W. Brad; Miles, Patrick D.; Pugh, Scott A., coords. 2019. Forest Resources of the United States, 2017: a technical document supporting the Forest Service 2020 RPA Assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-97. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington Office. 223 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-97.
Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. 2019. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 81 p. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57939.
DeVaney, Leif A.; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J.; Hines, Andy. 2019. Exploration of a Horizon Scanning Trend: Growing Indigenous Empowerment. In: Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 42-48. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57947.
Bengston, David N.; DeVaney, Leif A.; Dockry, Michael J.; Hines, Andy; Kubik, George H.; Roe, Bo; Romero, Maria. 2019. Using the Implications Wheel in Horizon Scanning: Exploring Implications of Growing Apathy Toward the Environment. In: Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 34-41. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57946.
Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J.; Cowart, Adam. 2019. Setting Up the Forest Futures Horizon Scanning System. In: Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 5-13. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57942.
Cowart, Adam; Hines, Andy; Callaway, Kurt; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J. 2019. Forest Futures: A Guide for Scanners. In: Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 67-80. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57950.
Michael J Dockry and Nancy Langston. 2019. Indigenous protest and the roots of sustainable forestry in Bolivia. Environmental History 24(1): 52-77. https://academic.oup.com/envhis/article-abstract/24/1/52/5101435.
Floress, Kristin; Haines, Anna; Usher, Emily; Gobster, Paul; Dockry, Mike. 2018. Landowner and visitor response to forest landscape restoration: the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Northeast Sands Project. Stevens Point, WI: University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Center for Land Use Education; and University of Wisconsin Extension. 57 p. https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/clue/Pages/Forests.aspx.
Andy Hines, David N. Bengston, Michael J. Dockry, and Adam Cowart. 2018. Setting Up a Horizon Scanning System: A US Federal Agency Example. World Futures Review 10(2): 136–151. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/55609.
Bengston, D.N., M.J. Dockry
Michael J. Dockry, Sophia Gutterman, and Mae Davenport. 2018. Building Bridges: Perspectives on Partnership and Collaboration from the US Forest Service Tribal Relations Program. Journal of Forestry 116(2): 123-132. http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/54758.
Dockry, Michael J and Hoagland, Serra J. 2017. A Special Issue of the Journal of Forestry—Tribal Forest Management: Innovations for Sustainable Forest Management. Journal of Forestry 115(5) 339-340.
Bengston, D., Dator, J., Dockry, M., and Yee, A. 2016. Alternative Futures for Forest-based Nanocellulose Materials: An Application of the Manoa School’s Alternative Futures Method. World Future Review. 8(3) 25p.
Dockry, Michael J. 2015. Looking back to move forward: collaborative planning to revise the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests Land and Resource Management Plan. Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. 2(1): Article 5.
Moser, W. Keith; Hansen, Mark H.; Gormanson, Dale D.; Gilbert, Jonathan; Wrobel, Alexandra; Emery, Marla; Dockry, Michael. 2015. Paper birch (Wiigwaas) of the Lake States, 1980-2010. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-149. Newtown Square, PA. USDA, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 37p.
Dockry, Michael J; Hall, Katherine; Van Lopik, William; Caldwell, Christopher. 2015. Sustainable development education, practice, and research: an indigenous model of sustainable development at the College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, USA. Sustainability Science. 11(1): 127-138.
Whyte, K.P., M. Dockry, W. Baule, D. Fellman, 2014. Supporting tribal climate change adaptation planning through community participatory strategic foresight scenario development. In Project Reports. D. Brown, W. Baule, L. Briley, and E. Gibbons, (eds.). Great Lakes Science and Assessments Center.
Emery, Marla R.; Wrobel, Alexandra; Hansen, Mark H.; Dockry, Michael; Moser, W. Keith; Stark, Kekek Jason; Gilbert, Jonathan H. 2014. Using traditional ecological knowledge as a basis for targeted forest inventory: paper birch (Betula papyrifera) in the US Great Lakes Region. Journal of Forestry 112(2): 207-214.
Selected Professional and Invited Presentations:
Dockry, M. J. (Panelist), Lemos, M. C. (Panelist), Maldonado, J. (Panelist), Garfin, G. (Panelist), Redsteer, M. (Moderator). 2021. Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS) Knowledge Co-production Webinar, “Aligning Co-Production of Environmental Knowledge with Trust, Justice, and Equity,” National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine, Virtual. (July 12, 2021).
Michael J Dockry. 2021. North American Forest Ecology Workshop: Turning Ecological Answers into Forest Management Actions, “Indigenous leadership, innovation, and partnerships as critical responses to climate change,” North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada. (June 21, 2021).
Michael J Dockry (Moderator). 2021. Great Lakes Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) – Webinar Series, “TEK Guidance Initiatives in the U.S. and Canada,” Science Annex (Annex 10) of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement | UMN American Indian Studies, Virtual. (May 26, 2021).
Dockry, M. J. (Speaker), Pradhananga, A. K. (Speaker). 2021. 44th National Indian Timber Symposium, “Tribal Research Needs Assessment: Introduction and Update,” Intertribal Timber Council. (May 19, 2021).
Michael J Dockry [Keynote/Plenary Speaker]. 2021. Ecological History Lecture Series, “Learning from the Indigenous Roots of Sustainable Forestry in the USA: Promoting Sustainability, Community Healing, and Partnerships,” Winona State University. (April 21, 2021).
Dockry, M. J. (Moderator), Odegard, T. (Panelist), Bellcourt, M. (Panelist), Ng, G.-H. C. (Panelist), Rico, C. (Panelist). 2021. Climates of Inequalities, “University-Tribal Partnerships to Support Sovereignty and Environmental Justice,” Bell Museum – University of Minnesota. (April 14, 2021).
Dockry, M. J. (Presenter), King, H. J. (Presenter), Sayers, J. (Presenter), Hedin, K. (Presenter). 2021. Tribal Environmental Program Management (TEPM) Conference, “First We Must Consider Manoomin Emergent understandings of meaningful research and relationships in tribal-university collaboratives through centering Manoomin (Psiŋ, wild rice, Zizania palustris),” EPA Region 5. (March 15, 2021).
Michael Dockry. 2021. MN Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting and 2021 UMN Forestry and Wildlife Research Review. [Keynote]. Indigenous World Views, Perspectives, and Forest Management. Cloquet Forestry Center/Virtual. January 12, 2021.
Michael Dockry. 2020. Tribal Forest Management: The Intersection of Industrial and Indigenous Forest Management. SJ Hall Lecture in Industrial Forestry. University of California Berkeley [Invited panel participant]. October 16, 2020.
Michael Dockry and Kawe Gidaa-Naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin Project Team. 2020. “Building partnerships with tribal communities to support manoomin (wild rice) ecosystems, tribal natural resource sovereignty, and integrated research.” [Keynote]. 2020 Upper Midwest Stream Restoration Symposium. Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest – University of Minnesota. Stillwater, MN. February 23, 2020.
Michael Dockry. [Invited] “Using Indigenous Experience and Knowledge to Guide Sustainable Forestry in the Twenty-first Century.” University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum. Fall lecture series: Indigenous Knowledge Inspired by the Land. October 22, 2019. Madison, WI.
Michael J Dockry. 2019 [Invited]. Climate Solutions: The importance of building partnerships with Indigenous communities. Plenary session. Economic Botany Society Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH. June 4, 2019.
Michael J Dockry. 2019 [Invited panel organizer and speaker]. Innovations in partnerships and tribal forest management. National Silviculture Workshop. US Forest Service. Bemidji, MN. May 21-23, 2019.
Michael J Dockry. 2019. Tribal forestry: leading
Michael J Dockry. 2018. The Indigenous roots of sustainable forestry in the USA. Azhegiiwe Bagwajaya’ii (She/he goes back to the wilderness) Lecture Series. Leech Lake Tribal College. Cass Lake, MN. March 22, 2018.
Michael J Dockry. 2018. Indigenous Perspectives on the Use of Biotechnology in Forests. National Academies of Sciences research project on the potential for biotechnology to address forest health. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Webinar Presentation. March 2, 2018. http://nas-sites.org/dels/studies/forest-biotech/webinar-indigenous/.
Michael J Dockry. 2017. Indigenous Perspectives & Storytelling: a Hosted Conversation on Integration of Knowledge.
Michael Dockry. 2016. The land and the future: improving ecosystems by integrating American Indian science into forestry. Keynote Plenary. Society of American Foresters National Convention. November 3, 2016. Madison, WI.
Michael Dockry. 2016. Forestry to solve
Michael J Dockry. 2015. The origins of sustainable forest management in the USA: how the Menominee Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin have balanced economics, ecology, and community perspectives over time. [Plenary session]. Canadian Institute of Forestry Annual General Meeting. Kenora, Ontario, Canada. Sept. 16, 2015.