Degrees

B.A. Colorado College: Natural Resource Management and Policy;
Member - Colorado Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

About

Patrick comes to Yale from Colorado where he served as co-founder and co-editor of the State of the Rockies Report Card in 2004 and 2005. The report grades communities in the Rocky Mountain West on a host of environmental and socioeconomic indicators and looks to share best practices at the interface between conservation and economic development. The 2005 effort was recently nominated as a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. Patrick is coauthor of “The Colorado Plateau Economy: Shifting Patterns and Regional Disparities,” appearing in the book the Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research; “Does Wilderness Impoverish Rural Regions?: Research on Economic Conditions in Rural Counties in the American West Containing Designated Wilderness,” appearing in the International Journal of Wilderness, December 2004; “The Changing Economy of the West,” Sonoran Institute, September 2003;and a number of editorial articles concerning western resource issues appearing in popular press including The Denver Post and the online news service Headwaters News. In 2005 Patrick was selected as one of 16 international conservation fellows to participate in the Kinship Conservation Institute, a month-long seminar for mid-career professionals interested in applying market-based techniques to conservation problems.