Angela Sondenaa, Ph.D., C.S.E.

Board Member

Logsden, OR

Angela is a Siletz Tribal member from the coastal rainforests of Oregon. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University before moving to Idaho to work as a wildlife biologist with the US Forest Service. She later acted as director of the Stillinger Herbarium at the University of Idaho for three years during her graduate program. She joined the Nez Perce Tribe as a project biologist while finishing her PhD, and for many years, worked to safeguard treaty rights, conserve old growth forests, restore degraded ecosystems, and provide wise stewardship of the lifesources of importance to the Nimiipuu.  She has now returned to her homeland as the Natural Resources Director for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.  She hopes to grow a vibrant fire program there that combines the best of cultural stewardship with modern wildland fire science.  Angela has had a long engagement with federal land management policy including two appointments to federal advisory committees with the US Forest Service.