Karen B. Arabas is associate professor of geography at Willamette University where she teaches courses in biogeography, forest ecology and policy, and water resources. Dr. Arabas worked as a researcher and policy analyst for World Resources Institute, ICF Incorporated, and the Centers for Values and Social Policy and Space and Geosciences Policy at the University of Colorado. She has authored and co-authored publications on forest disturbance, climate variability, and fire ecology. Joe Bowersox is associate professor of politics at Willamette University. He teaches courses in forest ecology and policy, environmental policymaking, environmental ethics, and law and public policy, and he has worked in the US Senate as a forest policy analyst. He has published articles and chapters on environmental policy, and environmental theory, and is co-editor (with John Martin Gillroy) of The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decisionmaking.