Michael Dockry

Background & Expertise

Mike Dockry is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation with traditional territories around Lake Michigan and a reservation in central Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dockry is a nationally recognized expert in tribal forestry, tribal relations, tribal climate change planning and building tribal partnerships. He works at the University of Minnesota as an associate professor for tribal natural resource management in the Department of Forest Resources, is an affiliate faculty member of the American Indian Studies Department, and an Institute on the Environment fellow. His research and teaching focus on tribal natural resource management, planning, incorporating Indigenous knowledge into forestry, and helping state, federal, and universities form partnerships with American Indian tribes. His research supports tribal sovereignty and addresses tribal environmental issues. Dockry is engaged with many professional societies including the Intertribal Timber Council, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, the Society of American Foresters, and the American Society for Environmental History. He earned a BS in forest science from the University of Wisconsin, an MS in forest resources from Penn State University, and a PhD in forestry from the University of Wisconsin.