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Jason Scullion

Forest Strategy Director, New Mexico

Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Jason Scullion Jason Scullion is the Forest Strategy Director for TNC New Mexico. © Jason Scullion

Area of Expertise

Forest restoration

Biography

As the Forest Strategy Director, Jason Scullion leads TNC New Mexico’s Forest and Fire Program in its mission to conserve and restore New Mexico’s forests for current and future generations. Jason has a PhD in forest and environmental sciences from the University of Washington and has worked on forest conservation and restoration issues for more than a decade in the United States and abroad. Jason’s priorities include scaling the impact of the Rio Grande Water Fund and the Western Dry Forests Program and implementing TNC New Mexico’s new Good Fire Strategy and Fire and Fuels Conservation Module.

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Publications

Landscape change and its environmental justice implications for Indigenous and local communities in Tubará, Colombia. 2025. C Gomez de la Rosa, KA Vogt, J Aldana-Dominguez, JJ Scullion. Sustainability Science, 1-15.

Conserving the last great forests: A meta-analysis review of the drivers of intact forest loss and the strategies and policies to save them. 2019. JJ Scullion, KA Vogt, B Drahota, S Winkler-Schor, M Lyons. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 62.

Designing conservation-development policies for the forest frontier. 2016. JJ Scullion, KA Vogt, S Winkler-Schor, A Sienkiewicz, C Peña, F Hajek. Sustainability Science 11 (2), 295-306.

Evaluating the environmental impact of payments for ecosystem services in Coatepec (Mexico) using remote sensing and on-site interviews. 2011. JJ Scullion, CW Thomas, KA Vogt, O Pérez-Maqueo, MG Logsdon. Environmental conservation 38 (4), 426-434.

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