Company: Inland Empire Consulting LLC
Position: Owner and Social Scientist
Pennick McIver, Chelsea; Cook, Philip S.; Becker, Dennis R. 2021. The Fiscal Burden of Wildfires: State
Expenditures and Funding Mechanisms for Wildfire Suppression in the Western U.S. and Implications for
Federal Policy. State and Local Government Review 53(4): 337-351.
Pennick McIver, Chelsea; Becker, Dennis. R. 2021. An Empirical Evaluation of the Impact of Collaboration on
the Pace and Scale of National Forest Management in Idaho. Forest Science 67(1): 49-59.
McIver, Chelsea P.; Metcalf, Alexander L.; Berg, Erik C. 2018. Procurement Contracting and Forest
Communities: Factors affecting local business utilization in the Inland Northwest. Journal of Forestry
116(5):412-419.
Sorenson, Colin B.; Keegan, Charles E., III; Morgan, Todd A.; McIver, Chelsea P.; Niccolucci, Michael J. 2016.
Employment and Wage Impacts of Timber Harvesting and Processing in the United States. Journal of Forestry
113(4).
McIver, Chelsea P.; Metcalf, Alexander; Dodson, Elizabeth. 2016. Making Every Dollar Count: Leveraging
federal investments in land management to benefit local communities. Rural Connections 10(2).
Ph.D., Natural Resources Policy & Administration | University of Idaho, May 2023
M.S., Forestry | University of Montana, 2015
B.A., Rural Sociology | University of Montana, 2006
Principal | Inland Empire Consulting, LLC, 2022 - present
Research Social Scientist | Forest Industry Research Program, Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
University of Montana, 2020 - 2023
Policy & Research Analyst | Policy Analysis Group, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, 2017 -
2020
Lecturer, Forest Policy & Administration | College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, 2020-2021
Research Specialist| Forest Industry Research Program, Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
University of Montana, 2015 - 2018
Research Associate| Forest Industry Research Program, Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
University of Montana, 2013 - 2015
Research Assistant| Forest Industry Research Program, Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
University of Montana, 2011 - 2013
Program Associate |Awards Programs, National Forest Foundation, 2008 - 2011
Program Assistant |Conservation Programs, National Forest Foundation, 2006 - 2008