Biography

Tony Cheng is Director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and Professor in the Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University. Tony’s primary research interest is in forest governance, policy and administration, with a focus on collaborative approaches to promote resilient social-ecological systems linked to forest landscapes. In his capacity as director of CFRI, Tony oversees programs to develop, compile, and apply locally-relevant scientific information to achieve forest restoration and wildfire hazard reduction goals. His research publications appear in a wide diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, such as Forest Science, Forest Policy & Economics, Environmental Management, Human Ecology Review, Human Dimensions of Wildlife, and Society & Natural Resources. Born and raised in eastern Washington’s Palouse country, Tony has a PhD in Forestry from Oregon State University, a MS in Forestry from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in Political Science from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA.