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Personal Safety of Federal Land-Management Field Employees Working Along the Mexican Border
Lisa Outka-Perkins received her master’s degree in sociology with an emphasis in criminology from the University of Montana in 2001. She works for the Missoula Technology and Development Center as a sociologist. Her most recent project has been the production of the Forest Service training video series, Personal Safety in Remote Work Locations.
Jon Driessen received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado in 1969. From 1969 until 2001, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Montana. Since 1977, he has worked as a faculty affiliate at the Missoula Technology and Development Center. His most recent project has been the production of the Forest Service training video series, Personal Safety in Remote Work Locations. His most recent reports include: Problems Faced by Forest Service Coordinators of Volunteer and Hosted Program Workgroups (0167–2841–MTDC, updated November 2003) and Crew Cohesion, Wildland Fire Transition, and Fatalities (0251–2809–MTDC). These reports are available at the Web site /eng/t-d.php.
Theron Miller received his Ph.D. in natural resources social science from the University of Montana in 1997. For the past 13 years, his research and teaching has been in applied social sciences directly related to management of natural resources on public lands. During the last several years, his interests have increasingly focused on the role of technology both to shape and be shaped by the social contexts in which it is used and adopted. He recently explored the social shaping of information technology in the contexts of wildland fire and natural resource management.
For additional information about personal safety, contact
Lisa Outka-Perkins at MTDC:
Phone: 406–329–3849
Fax: 406–329–3719
E-mail: loutka-perkins@fs.fed.us
Electronic copies of MTDC’s documents are available
on the Internet at:
/eng/t-d.php
Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management employees
can search a more complete collection of MTDC’s documents, videos,
and CDs on their internal computer networks at:
http://fsweb.mtdc.wo.fs.fed.us/search/
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