About the Author

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Serra J. Hoagland (PUEBLO OF LAGUNA, NM), PhD, is the liaison officer for the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Montana. Hoagland is a member of the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, The Wildlife Society, and the Intertribal Timber Council. Steven Albert (RAMAH, NM) is an assistant director at the Institute for Bird Populations, a conservation science nonprofit, where he works on avian ecology initiatives in North America and Latin America. He was the Fish and Wildlife Department Director and Chief Conservation Law Enforcement Officer at the Pueblo of Zuni, where he helped develop the nation's first tribal eagle aviary and a program of sacred spring and wetland restoration.