James Pritchett,^* Emily Kachergis,^* Jay Parsons,^* Maria Fernandez-Gimenez,^* John Ritten<sup>*


*</sup>Authors are Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA, James.Pritchett@ColoState.edu (Pritchett); Postdoctoral Research Ecologist, USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit, Cheyenne, WY 82009, USA (Kachergis); Codirector, Western Center for Integrated Resource Management, and Special Appointment Assistant Professor, Dept of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA (Parsons); Associate Professor, Dept of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA (Fernandez-Gimenez); and Assistant Professor, Dept of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA (Ritten). The project is supported by USDA-NIFA grant COL0-2008-00725 titled “Linking Ecological and Economic State-and-Transition Models for Adaptive Management of Rangeland Ecosystems.”