Dr. Linda Nagel

Quinney College of Natural Resources

Dean

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Biography

Linda Nagel co-leads the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network aimed at bringing together practitioners and scientists to co-develop adaptive forest management practices in the face of climate change. This high-impact research and outreach project is translating climate adaptation theory into practice, with 14 research sites across North America, and includes over 100 partners. She has a long record of directing, teaching, and facilitating professional training courses and workshops, including the National Advanced Silviculture Program for the United States Forest Service.

Prior to joining the Quinney College of Natural Resources as dean, Linda served on the faculty at Michigan Technological University, the University of Minnesota where she also served as Director of Operations of the Cloquet Forestry Center and the Hubachek Wilderness Research Center, and Colorado State University where she was department head. She has a BS in Biology from South Dakota State University, MS in Natural Resource Sciences from Washington State University, and PhD in Forestry from the University of Montana.

Publications

Palik, B., P. Clark, A. D’Amato, C. Swanston and L. Nagel. 2022. Operationalizing forest assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: examples from the eastern USA. Ecosphere 2022,13:e4260. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4260

Looney, C.L., W.J. Previant, J.B. Bradford and L.M. Nagel. 2021. Species mixture effects and climate change influence growth, recruitment and mortality in Interior West U.S.A. Populus tremuloides-conifer communities. Journal of Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13709

Looney, C., W. Previant and L. Nagel. 2021. Variations in tree growth across species mixtures provide evidence of complementarity in Interior West USA mixed-conifer forests. Journal of Ecology 109:952-965 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13523   

Muller, J.J., L.M. Nagel and B.J. Palik. 2021. Comparing long-term projected outcomes of adaptive silvicultural approaches aimed at climate change in red pine forests of northern Minnesota, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2021-0097

Muller, J.J., L.M. Nagel and B.J. Palik. 2019. Forest adaptation strategies aimed at climate change: Assessing the performance of future climate-adapted tree species in a northern Minnesota pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 451(2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117539

Nagel, L.M., B.J. Palik, M.A. Battaglia, A.W. D’Amato, J.M. Guldin, C.W. Swanston, M.K. Janowiak, M.P. Powers, L.A. Joyce, C.I. Millar, D.L. Peterson, L.M. Ganio, C. Kirschbaum and M.R. Roske. 2017. Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: A National Experiment in Manager-Scientist Partnerships to Apply an Adaptation Framework. Journal of Forestry 115:167-178. https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.16-039