Lincoln Bramwell

Fort Collins, CO 80526-2098
United States
Position Statement:
Lincoln is responsible for making Forest Service history more accessible to the public and more meaningful to the agency. He directs all aspects of the agency’s history program, including research and publication, public speaking, external outreach, producing and managing oral histories, as well as policy support, expert testimony in Federal court, and developing a strategic vision for history within the agency’s mission.
Forest Management for All: State and Private Forestry in the U.S. Forest Service. (Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2013).
Stein, S. M.; Menakis, J.; Carr, M. A.; Comas, S. J.; Stewart, S. I.; Cleveland, H.; Bramwell, L.; Radeloff, V. C. 2013. Wildfire, wildlands, and people: understanding and preparing for wildfire in the wildland-urban interface - a Forests on the Edge report. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-299. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 36 p.
- University of New Mexico, Phd, United States History, 2007
- University of Utah, Master Of Arts, United States History, 2000
- Brigham Young University , Bachelor Of Arts, History, 1996
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Affiliated Faculty,
Colorado State University,
2017 -
Current
Teach graduate research seminar on Environmental History topics.
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Chief Historian,
USDA Forest Service,
2009 -
Current
Duties include directing all aspects of this Federal agency’s history program, including research, public speaking, digital asset management, archival storage, external outreach, as well as policy support, expert testimony in Federal court, and developing a strategic vision for history within the land management agency’s mission.
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Research Director, Public History Program,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
2007 -
2009
Co-Principal Investigator, Yosemite Administrative History, Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit, National Park Service. Co-Principal Investigator, Lake Mead National Recreation Area Historic Resource Study, National Park Service. Co-Principal Investigator, St. Thomas, Nevada, Historic Resource Study, National Park Service.
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Assistant Editor,
University of New Mexico Press,
2004 -
2007
Evaluated, reviewed, and prepared manuscripts for publication.
- Editorial Positions, Society of American Foresters (SAF), 2017 - Current
- Prize Committee Member, Society for History in the Federal Government, 2015 - Current
- Editorial Board Member, American Society of Environmental History, 2013 - Current
- Advisory Committee, American Society of Environmental History, 2012 - Current
- Executive Council, Society for History in the Federal Government, 2014 - 2016
- Conference Program Committee Co-Chair, Organization of American Historians, 2013 - 2015
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Finalist--Spur Award, Best Contemporary Nonfiction book, Western Writers of America, 2015
Finalist for Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge.
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Friend's Choice Award, Montana Historical Society, 2010
For best article in Montana Magazine.
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Graduate Dean's Dissertation Scholarship, 2007
University of New Mexico
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Regents Fellowship , 2007
University of New Mexico
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Walter Rundell Dissertation Award, 2006
Western History Association
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Frederick G. Bohme Memorial Prize in History, 2006
University of New Mexico
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Dorothy Woodward Memorial Fellowship in History, 2004
University of New Mexico
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John F. Kennedy Award, 2004
University of New Mexico
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Howard Rabinowitz Award, 2001
University of New Mexico
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Award of Merit, 1999
Pike National Forest
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Award of Merit, 1998
Ashley National Forest
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Boy Scouts of America, 1987
Eagle Scout
- Stein, S. M.; Menakis, J.; Carr, M. A.; Comas, S. J.; Stewart, S. I.; Cleveland, H.; Bramwell, L.; Radeloff, V. C.. 2013. Wildfire, wildlands, and people: understanding and preparing for wildfire in the wildland-urban interface - a Forests on the Edge report
- Maxwell, Dillon M.; Rhoades, Charles C.; Bramwell, Lincoln ; Paschke, Mark W.. 2021. A history of land use and vegetation change in California Park, a high-elevation rangeland in northwestern Colorado
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Books
Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature’s Edge. Foreword by William Cronon, Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014).Forest Management for All: State and Private Forestry in the U.S. Forest Service. (Durham, NC: Forest History Society, 2013).
Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West. Hal Rothman. Lincoln Bramwell, editor. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007).
Our New Mexico: A Twentieth Century History. Lincoln Bramwell, Sonia Dickey, Lisa Pacheco and Calvin Roberts, eds. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005).
Articles“Mad Skills: How Historians Are Like Swiss Army Knives,” Perspectives on History Vol. 54, No. 5 (May 2016), 24-25.
“History of Smokejumping,” Fire Management Today Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 2015), 5-7.
“Firefighters in the Sky: 75 Years and Still Smokejumping over Montana,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History Vol. 65, No. 1 (April 2015), 60-69.
“Fire on Denver’s Edge,” Journal of the West Vol. 53, No. 4 (Fall 2014), 44-55.
“The 1911 Weeks Act: The Legislation That Nationalized the U.S. Forest Service,” Journal of Energy and Natural Resource Law Vol. 30, no. 3 (2012), 325-36.
“The Law That Nationalized the U.S. Forest Service,” with Jamie Lewis, Forest History Today 17, nos. 1 & 2 (December 2011), 8-16.
“When the Mountains Roared: The 1910 Northern Rockies Fires,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Autumn 2010), 54-69.
“The Looming Fire Problem in the East,” Penn State Environmental Law Review Vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 2010), 101-107.
“Hotshots: The History and Work Culture of America’s Elite Wildland FireFighters,” New Mexico Historical Review Vol. 83, no. 3 (Summer 2008), 291-322.
Book Chapters
“The Grand Canyon: From Great Barrier to Grand Resort,” in American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition. J. Mark Souther and Nicholas Dagen Bloom, eds. (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2012).
“Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain Development,” in Country Dreams, City Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Urban West. Amy Scott and Kathleen Brosnan, eds. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2011).