Carrie Monohan

Dr. Carrie Monohan, PhD is the Director of Natural Resources for Mooretown Rancheria, a federally recognized tribal government in Northern California. She helps advance Mooretown’s efforts to develop tribally-led management of working forests that advance Indian Forestry and Indian Self Determination. After earning her PhD in Forest Resources and Hydrology from the University of Washington (2004), Dr. Monohan has spent two decades living in the Sierra Nevada mountains and working on Natural Resource Management. She has first-hand experience of the ongoing impacts of the California Gold Rush on forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. Dr. Monohan is also faculty at California State University, Chico and has taught courses in the Earth and Environmental Science Department since 2011. She has expertise in monitoring forest health conditions, streams and groundwater, anadromous fish populations, sediment and mercury loading, biochar production and application, reservoir sedimentation and post fire restoration.