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Courses
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- POLS 494 Desert Politics, part of the Desert Studies Institute
- Summer 2009
- POLS 101 American National Government
- POLS 340 Environmental Policy
Research Interests
Dr. Freemuth teaches in the Boise State University Master of Public Administration Program and Political Science Department. Freemuth's research and teaching emphasis is in natural resource and public land policy and administration. He is the author of an award-winning book, Islands under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats (University Of Kansas, 1991), numerous articles on aspects of natural resource policy, and eight Andrus Center white papers, all of which can be found at http://andruscenter.org.
Dr. Freemuth has worked on many projects with federal and state resource bureaus, including the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service at the federal level, and the Departments of Fish and Game and Parks and Recreation, and the Division of Environmental Quality in the State of Idaho. He was the chair of the Science Advisory Board of the Bureau of Land Management, where he worked on policies that can improve the use of scientific information for land managers and better develop the relationship between science and democratic decision processes. He has also been a high school teacher and seasonal park ranger. While a ranger at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area he wrote "Wanderer for Beauty: Everett Ruess in the Glen Canyon Area," a park interpretive handout.