Megan Dettenmaier, Forestry Extension Educator 

megan.dettenmaier@usu.edu.edu (435) 797-8424

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Education

2006, BS Wildlife, Unity College

2012, MS Wildlife Biology, Utah State University

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Research

Dettenmaier, Megan & Kartchner, B. Taking Care of Streams and Rivers in Cache Valley. PI, City of Logan & Logan River Taskforce, October 2015

Dettenmaier, Megan & Kuhns, M. Investigating the use of flexible sidewalks to mitigate tree/sidewalk conflicts in Logan, Utah. Co-PI, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands, 2014-2015; Community Forestry Partnership, October 2015

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Publications & Presentations

Dettenmaier, M. USU Forestry Extension: Producing Purposeful and Impactful Webinars, Northern Regional Extension Faculty Meeting, May 14, 2018.

McAvoy, D., Alston, D., Davis, R., Dettenmaier, M. Factsheet NR/FF/035 (pr). A New Utah Forest Insect Pest: Balsam Woolly Adelgid, May 2018. 

Dettenmaier, M., McAvoy, D., Dupéy, L. Reducing Hazardous Fuels to Improve Forest Health: DIY Biochar Kilns Remove Hazardous Fuels and Improve Forest Health in Utah Impact Report, Winter, 2018.

Dettenmaier, M. & Dupéy, L.N. (2018, February). Why “Restoring the West?” Poster session presented at the Utah State University Annual Extension Conference, Thanksgiving Point, UT.

McAvoy, D., Dettenmaier, M., Kuhns, M., 2017. Mobile Pyrolysis for Hazardous Fuels Reduction and Biochar Production in Western Forests, Journal of Extension.

Dupéy, L.N. & Dettenmaier, M. (2017). Bridging the (broken sidewalk) gap: What we learned about sidewalk tiles and urban tree preservation in northern Utah. Science flash talk presented at the Society of American Foresters, Albuquerque, NM. 

Dettenmaier, M., Kuhns, M., Unger, B., McAvoy, D. Factsheet NR/FF/032 (pr). Trees and Climate Change, May 2017.