Mindy Crandall

Crandall, Mindy

Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Associate Professor in Forest Policy and FERM Associate Department Head
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Office Location:
232 Peavy Forest Science Center (PFSC)
Email:
mindy.crandall@oregonstate.edu
CV:
Crandall_CV_CurrentAbridged.pdf
Advising:  Graduate Major Advisor
Website:
Forests, Industries, and Communities in the United States
Education
A.A., Native American Studies, Salish Kootenai College, 1994
B.S., Forest Management, OSU, 1998
M.S., Resource Economics, OSU, 2004
Ph.D., Applied Economics, OSU, 2014
Research Areas
Forest Policy Analysis and Economics
Research Interests
  • Forest Economics
  • Forest Policy, Private
  • Forest Policy, Public
  • Human Dimensions
  • Rural Development
My Forests, Industries, and Communities Lab is focused on the intersection between forests and human communities, particularly in the US. I’m interested in how these two systems interact through the forest products industry/labor market and through people’s attachment to place, and how people make decisions about managing forests.
Graduate Students:
Courses Taught:
  • FE/FOR 463
    Forest Policy and Regulation (Writing Intensive)
  • FOR 461/561
    Forest Policy Analysis
  • FOR 499/599
    Exploring the Pine Tree State: Evolving Forests and Communities in Maine (Faculty Led Spring Break Program)
Selected Publications:

  1. Reilley, C., Dunn, C. J., Crandall, M. S., & Kline, J. D. (2024). Socially vulnerable U.S. Pacific Northwest communities are more likely to experience wildfires. Environmental Research Letters, 19(9), 94053-. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad6cec

  2. Mallory, G., Crandall, M. S., Hajjar, R., & Leahy, J. (2024). An Analysis of Political Identity Development in State Forest Advisory Groups. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvae014

  3. Poudel, K., Crandall, M. S., & Kelly, E. C. (2024). Regulatory Intensity on Private Forestland and its Relationship with State Characteristics in the United States. Environmental Management (New York), 73(6), 1121–1133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-01974-6

  4. Walrath, M. C., Morzillo, A. T., Bell, K. P., Colocousis, C. R., Crandall, M. S., Poppick, M. I., & Munroe, D. K. (2024). Rural forested community shocks as perceived by in-migrants versus long-term residents. Journal of Rural Studies, 105, 103188-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103188

  5. Goldstein, B. A., Kelly, E. C., & Crandall, M. S. (2024). By the Book: Examining California’s Private Forest Regulations from the Perspectives of Family Forest Landowners. Society & Natural Resources, 37(3), 328–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2286652

  6. Reilley, C., Crandall, M. S., Kline, J. D., Kim, J. B., & de Diego, J. (2023). The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Human Wildfire Ignitions in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Fire (Basel, Switzerland), 6(8), 300-. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6080300

  7. Deak, A., Huber-Stearns, H., Crandall, M., Poudel, K., Davis, E. J., Coughlan, M. R., & Wilmsen, C. (2023). Documenting Twenty Years of the Contracted Labor-Intensive Forestry Workforce on National Forest System Lands in the United States. Journal of Forestry, 121(5–6), 457–469. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvad026

  8. Goldstein, B., Crandall, M. S., & Kelly, E. C. (2023). “The cost of doing business”: Private rights, public resources, and the resulting diversity of state-level forestry policies in the U.S. Land Use Policy, 132, 106792-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106792

  9. Kelly, E. C., & Crandall, M. S. (2022). State-level forestry policies across the US: Discourses reflecting the tension between private property rights and public trust resources. Forest Policy and Economics, 141, 102757-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102757

  10. Bernsen, N. R., Crandall, M. S., Leahy, J. E., & Biddle, C. (2022). How Far to Go? Community Influences on Youth Educational Aspirations in Rural, Resource-Dependent Places. RSF : Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(3), 189–207. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.08

  11. Bernsen, N. R., Crandall, M. S., Leahy, J. E., Abrams, J. B., & Colocousis, C. R. (2022). Do rural youth want to stay rural? Influences on residential aspirations of youth in forest-located communities. Community Development (Columbus, Ohio), 53(5), 566–584. https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2021.1998170

  12. Crandall, M. S., Costanza, K. K. L., Zukswert, J. M., Kenefic, L. S., & Leahy, J. E. (2020). An Adaptive and Evidence-Based Approach to Building and Retaining Gender Diversity within a University Forestry Education Program: A Case Study of SWIFT. Journal of Forestry, 118(2), 193–204. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvz072

  13. Bernsen, N. R., Crandall, M. S., & Leahy, J. E. (2020). An Educational Needs Assessment of Workforce Supply and Readiness in Maine’s Forest Products Industry. Forest Products Journal, 70(1), 22–27. https://doi.org/10.13073/FPJ-D-19-00046