William Riebsame Travis, Ph.D., Clark, 1981, is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published previous works under the name William Riebsame. His work focuses on natural resources management, culture and landscapes of the American West, public lands, and the evolution of governing approaches to western land and resources. He has a long-term research interest in how groups, like ranchers, construct notions of landscapes and resources.