Karen Prentice

BLM
Washington, DC

Biographical Sketch: Karen is the National Healthy Landscapes Coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management. She was raised in Washington state and received her BA in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College in 1990. Throughout much of the 1990’s she worked for a Colorado-based firm that conducted baseline botanical assessments and post-reclamation monitoring on coal mines and other projects throughout the west. In 2000, she completed an MS in Range Science from Colorado State University and started her career with the Bureau of Land Management’s Ely (Nevada) District. She served there through 2010 in several capacities, including Rangeland Management Specialist, District Noxious and Invasive Weed Specialist, Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation Coordinator, and Special Projects Manager. In January 2011, she transferred to Washington D.C. where, as the BLM’s National Healthy Landscapes Coordinator, she provides leadership for several aspects of the BLM’s landscape approach including coordinating landscape resiliency activities with internal and external partners and stakeholders, developing national policy on landscape restoration, and supporting development of the BLM’s Rapid Ecoregional Assessments. She was recently appointed to the Joint Fire Science Governing Board.

Papers:
230 Healthy Landscapes: Targeting Investments in Landscape Resiliency P11 Introduction to the BLM's Landscape Approach to Multi-Scale Natural Resource Decisions