David Havlick, PhD

• Ecological Restoration, Ethics, and Policy
• Conservation and Public Land
• Sustainability
• Military Geographies
• Political Ecology
• Critical Geography

• PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006
• MS, Environmental Studies, University of Montana, 1992
• AB, English, Dartmouth College, 1987

• World Regional Geography
• Conservation and U.S. Public Lands
• Restoration Geographies
• Militarization, Environment, and Society
• Introduction to Environmental Studies and Sustainability
• Cultural and Political Ecology
• Qualitative Methods in Geography
• Geographic Thought

• Derrien, Monika M., Lee K. Cerveny, and David G. Havlick. 2020. "Outdoor Programs for Veterans: Public Land Policies and Practices to Support Therapeutic Opportunities," Journal of Forestry, doi.10.1093/jofore/fvaa023.
• Havlick, David G. 2018. Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation and Ecological Restoration. University of Chicago Press, 204 pp.
• Gibbes, Cerian, David G. Havlick, and Joseph R. Robb. 2017. "Land Use and Land Cover in a Transitioning Militarized Landscape," Journal of Land Use Science 12(2-3): 182-196.
• Tredway, Jeremy and David G. Havlick. 2017. "Assessing the Potential of Low Impact Development Techniques on Runoff and Streamflow in the Templeton Gap Watershed, Colorado." The Professional Geographer 69(3): 372-382.
• Havlick, David G., Eric Billmeyer, Thomas Huber, Brandon J. Vogt, and Kyle Rodman. 2016. "Informal Trail Impacts: Hiking, Trail Running, and Mountain Bicycling in Shortgrass Prairie," Journal of Sustainable Tourism 24(7): 1041-1058.
• Hourdequin, Marion and David G. Havlick (eds.) 2016. Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture. NY: Oxford University Press. 272 pp.
• Havlick, David G., Marion Hourdequin, and Matthew John. 2014. "Examining Restoration Goals at a Former Military Site," Nature and Culture 9(3): 288-315.
• Havlick, David G. 2014. "Opportunistic Conservation at Former Military Sites in the United States, "Progress in Physical Geography 38(3): 271-285.
• Hourdequin, Marion and David G. Havlick. 2013. "Restoration and Authenticity Revisited," Environmental Ethics 35(1): 79-93.
• Havlick, David G. 2011. "Disarming Nature: Converting Military Lands to Wildlife Conservation," The Geographical Review 101(2): 183-200.
• Doyle, Martin W., Emily H. Stanley, David G. Havlick, Mark J. Kaiser, George Steinbach, William L. Graf, Gerald E. Galloway, and J. Adam Riggsbee. 2008. "Aging Infrastructure and Ecosystem Restoration," Science 319 (18 January): 286-287.
• Havlick, David G. 2002. No Place Distant: Roads and Motorized Recreation on America's Public Lands. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 297 pp.

• 2019-2022: National Science Foundation research grant, Science and Technology Studies: "Wild Trout: Conservation, Restoration, and the Molecular Turn," (with co-PI Christine Biermann), $208,988.
• 2019 Colorado Book Award finalist for general non-fiction (Bombs Away)
• 2018 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers, Bombs Away: Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration.
• 2015-2020: Joint Venture Agreement with USDA-Forest Service, "Palliative Nature: Long-Distance Outdoor Experiences as Therapy for PTSD," (with co-PIs Lee Cerveny and Monika Derrien), $23,998.
• 2016: UCCS Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
• 2015: UCCS Global Intercultural Research Center seed grant, "Commemoration and Reuse of Militarized Sites in Japan," $3,880.
• 2014: UCCS LAS Outstanding Research and Creative Works Award
• 2013: American Geographic Society, McColl Family Fellowship
• 2010-2014: National Science Foundation research grant, Science and Technology Studies: "Authenticity and Historical Fidelity in Ecological Restoration," (with co-PI Marion Hourdequin), $244,881

• UCCS Sustainability Committee
• LAS Representative, UCCS Faculty Assembly
• Stormwater Advisory Committee, City of Colorado Springs
• Board Member, Catamount Center for Geography of the Southern Rockies

David Havlick Curriculum Vitae

What do you value and care about outside of your professional duties?

This is a tricky first question as I'd say I care about all kinds of things, ranging from my family (spouse, two kids, a cat, 3 chickens) and friends to global concerns such as climate change and economic and social inequality. The simplest, cleanest response may be to say I care about upholding and advocating for key values, including fairness, honesty, curiosity, humility, a sense of adventure. At a personal level, mental and physical health are right at the top of the list.

What encouraged you to go into (and stay in) higher education?

Curiosity and feeling like I wasn't done asking and trying to respond to all kinds of questions about the world. I never really expected to work as a professor for as long as I have - I figured I might pursue other interests: writing, journalism, environmental advocacy, outdoor education, unemployment... some of those I've fit in along the way, so that's been a key to my staying in higher ed. I also really appreciate how students challenge me to continue to evaluate and reevaluate my ideas and actions. That, too, keeps me interested and motivated to keep teaching and doing research. My GES colleagues are great folks, they bear some responsibility for my still doing what I do as well.

What are your own professional goals and aspirations?

I'd like to write another book or two, maybe get a fellowship abroad for a semester, keep pursuing research grants. Also return fully to just being a professor and relinquishing the administrative/elected positions I've been in for the past 5 years. I'm also hoping to develop and teach a couple new courses - maybe one on Environmental Utopias, for starters.

What is your favorite place? 

The Pikes Peak Massif is a pretty incredible backdrop to explore. There are so many hidden canyons and peaks and ridges to explore if you can just move past the insult of the mountain having a road and a railway to the top. The foothills surrounding Boulder, CO, where I grew up remain special. Mt. Sentinel above Missoula, MT, and really much of western MT. Yellowstone National Park. The Sangre de Cristo Range. Southeast Alaska. Kanazawa and the mountains of Japan! My backyard garden. Rivers: the Arkansas, Clark Fork, Connecticut, Charles, the Tarryall, upper South Platte. Canyon country of Utah. The UCCS open space north of campus and the bluffs. The world is lovely and amazing. It's hard to narrow down to a single place.