rtoupal@email.arizona.edu, (p) 520-626-9269, (f) 520-621-9608
Anthropology Building Room 319, P.O. Box 210030
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721
curriculum vitae

Program: Cultural Resources Studies

Research Interests
My interests include natural and cultural resources management; peoples' relationships with their lands, particularly Native Americans; and how understanding of these relationships can benefit natural and cultural resource planning, management, and policy.

Presently, I am looking at ways of mapping cultural landscape relationships to better inform land managers about cultural significance and impacts; ways to incorporate traditional uses and management practices with western science methods to protect and enhance biodiversity; and understanding temporal, spatial, and social factors that affect the development of place relationships and conservation ethics.

Current Projects

Traditional Forest Maintenance in the Kawich Range of the Nevada Test and Training Range

Cultural Affiliation Study of New River Gorge National River, WV

Oral Traditions Interview Project for Fort Union National Monument, ND

Cultural Affiliation Study for Tonto National Monument, AZ

Ojibwa Ethnobotany Study of Indian Dunes National Lakeshore

Recent Projects

Ethnobotany Study of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, IN

Old Spanish Trail Hispanic Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Assessment of the Old Spanish Trail

Cultural Affiliation Study of the Flagstaff Area National Monuments, AZ

Traditional Use Study of Saguaro Fruit Gathering at Saguaro National Park, AZ

Ethnographic Research on Black Mountain, Nevada Test and Training Range, NV

Ethnographic Investigation of the Badger-Two Medicine Area, MT

St. Croix National Scenic Riverway Ethnographic Resource Survey, WI

Cultural Affiliation Study of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, and Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, ND

Selected Publications

Articles
2003 "Cultural Landscapes as a Methodology for Understanding Natural Resource Management Impacts in the Western United States." Conservation Ecology, 7(1): 12.

2001 "Cultural Landscapes and Ethnographic Cartographies: Scandinavian-American and American Indian Knowledge of the Land." Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 4(4-5):171-184. (lead author with M. Nieves Zedeño, Richard W. Stoffle, and Patrick Barabe.)

2000 "Cowboys and Conservation: The Influence of Private Landowners on the Success of Conservation Partnerships in the Western United States." High Plains Applied Anthropologist, 20(1):53-66.

Book chapters
2004 "Shifting Risks: Hoover Dam Bridge Impacts on American Indian Sacred Landscapes." In Facility Siting: Risk, Power, and Identity in Land Use Planning, Åsa Boholm and Ragnar Löfstedt, editors. Pp. 127-143. Part of Risk, Society, and Policy series. London, UK: Earthscan (with Richard W. Stoffle (lead), M. Nieves Zedeño, A. Eisenberg, and A. Carroll).

2003 "Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations." In Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures, H. Selin, editor. Pp. 97-114. Part of Science Across Cultures series. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. (Second author with Richard W. Stoffle (lead) and M. Nieves Zedeño).

Research reports
2007 Cultural Affiliation of the Flagstaff Area National Monuments: Sunset Crater Volcano, Walnut Canyon, and Wupatki. A report for the National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office. Tucson: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona (lead with Heather Fauland)

2007 Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Assessment of Contemporary Communities along the Old Spanish Trail. A draft report for the National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office. (with Richard W. Stoffle, Jessica Medwied-Savage, Sean O’Meara, Kathleen Van Vlack, and Heather Fauland)

2007 American Indians and the Old Spanish Trail. A report for the National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office. Tucson: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona (with Richard W. Stoffle, Kathleen Van Vlack, Sean O’Meara, and Richard Arnold)

2006 Traditional Saguaro Harvest in the Tucson Mountain District, Saguaro National Park. A report for the National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office. (lead with Henry F. Dobyns, Nathan O'Meara, and Richard W. Stoffle)

2006 An Ethnobotany of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: A Baseline Study Emphasizing Plant Relationships of the Miami and Potawatomi Peoples, 2 vol.. A report for the National Park Service, Midwest Regional Office. (lead with contributions from Ojeya Cruz Banks and Kristen J. Carroll)

2004 Traditional Resource Use of the Flagstaff Area Monuments. A report for the National Park Service, Intermountain Regional Office. (lead author with Richard W. Stoffle and Nathan O'Meara).

2004 TakuçkaÆçkaÆ äaÆnomoõe (The Everchanging Pipestone Quarries): Sioux Cultural Landscapes and Ethnobotany of Pipestone National Monument. A report for the National Park Service, Midwest Region. (lead author with Richard W. Stoffle, Nathan O'Meara, and Jill Dumbauld).

2003 Traditionally Associated Peoples and Ethnographic Resources: A Workshop to Enhance Understanding of National Park Service Resources. A report for the National Park Service, National Office. (co-editor with Mark Schoepfle).

2002 Cultural Landscapes of the Sheep and Pahranagat Mountain Ranges: An Ethnographic Assessment of American Indian Places and Resources in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge of Nevada. A report for Science Applications International Corporation and Nellis Air Force Base and Range Complex, Nevada (Second author with Richard W. Stoffle (lead) and M. Nieves Zedeño).

2001 The Isle Royale Folkefiskerisamfunn: Familier som levde av fiske. An Ethnohistory of the Scandinavian Folk Fishermen of Isle Royale National Park. Final Report. Tucson: Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona (lead; with Richard W. Stoffle and M. Nieves Zedeño).

2000 The Land Still Speaks: Traditional Cultural Property Eligibility Statement for Gold Strike Canyon, Nevada and Sugarloaf Mountain, Arizona. This project is an extension of the Hoover Dam By-Pass Project, Phase I. It is a Determination of Eligibility submitted to the Nevada and Arizona State Historic Preservation Offices by the Federal Highway Administration as partial fulfillment of Section 106 Requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (with Kristen J. Carroll, David Ruppert, Richard W. Stoffle (lead), and M. Nieves Zedeño).