The Salazar Center is proud to announce that Dr. Citlali Cortés Montaño will be joining us Denver, Colorado, for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
Citlali has worked in ecology, management, and conservation in México for over 20 years. Since 2015, she has served as the senior sector coordinator for the México office of KfW (the German Development Bank) in biodiversity and forestry. Citlali’s work keeps her connected with community-based conservation and the management of biodiversity and ecosystems.
She has a Ph.D. in Forest Science from Northern Arizona University, and her dissertation focused on old-growth habitats and their relationships to wildfire. Her research has helped to provide a new depiction of fire regimes in the Sky Islands that can help inform fire management, restoration, and regional conservation planning, fostered by local and traditional knowledge and collaboration among landowners and managers.
A major impact of climate change, very evident in recent news, is the increase in the frequency of large fires. In her paper, “Climate Change, Forests and Fire in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico”, Citlali collaborated with Dr. Don Falk to compare forests and forest management in the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico.