Bethany Muñoz Delgado is the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) co-lead to the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub and a Natural Resource Specialist at the USDA NRCS Central National Technology Support Center.
As co-lead to the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub (NFCH), Bethany supports regional and national approaches to better identify, develop, and communicate climate science efforts that are applicable to various audiences and programs of work, within and outside NRCS. She further represents and relays the NRCS mission and vision, and agency priorities, perspectives, and needs to the NFCH.
Originally from Texas, Bethany holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography (Geographic Information Science concentration, Forestry minor) from Texas A&M University, a Master of Science in Forest Resources from Oregon State University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Forest Resources from the University of Maine. She has held positions with the Bureau of Land Management, Pocatello Field Office (Idaho), U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station (Maine), Farm Production and Conservation – Business Center (Texas), and NRCS (Texas).
Featured Work
- Kenefic, Laura S.; Houston, David; Livingston, William; McNulty, Stacy; Allogio, Jeanette; Delgado, Bethany L. Muñoz; Keefe, Lauren. 2023. Beech Bark Disease Tolerance: An Emerging Concept in American Beech Management. In: Kern, Christel C.; Dickinson, Yvette L., eds. Proceedings of the first biennial Northern Hardwood Conference 2021: Bridging science and management for the future. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-211. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 222-225.
- Kern, C., Waskiewicz, J., Frelich, L., Muñoz Delgado, B., Kenefic, L., Clark, K., Kabrick, J. 2021. Understanding compositional stability in mixedwood forests of eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
- Kabrick, J., Clark, K., D'Amato, A., Muñoz Delgado, B., Dey, D., Kenefic, L., Kern, C., Keyser, T., Knapp, B., MacLean, D., Raymond, P., Schweitzer, C., Vickers, L. 2020. Research and management partnerships for resolving regeneration and recruitment challenges in hardwood-softwood mixtures in eastern North America. In: Pile, L., Deal, R., Dey, D., Gwaze, D., Kabrick, J., Palik, B., Schuler, T., comps. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: a focus on forest management-research partnerships. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-193. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 129-140.
- Kenefic, L., Muñoz Delgado, B., Rogers, N., Richley, A. 2020. Penobscot Experimental Forest boundary, roads, trails, management units, and permanent sample plot locations. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive.
- Soman, H., Kizha, A., Muñoz Delgado, B., Kenefic, L., and Kanoti, K. 2020. Production economics: comparing hybrid tree-length with whole-tree harvesting methods. Forestry 93(3), 389-400.
- Olson, E., Kenefic, L., Zukswert, J., Langley, C-J., Dibble, A., and Muñoz Delgado, B. 2019. Understory vegetation and site condition data from the "Nonnative Invasive Plants" study at the Penobscot Experimental Forest. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive.
- Muñoz Delgado, B., Kenefic, L., Weiskittel, A., Fernandez, I., Benjamin, J., & Dibble, A., 2019. Northern mixedwood composition and productivity 50 years after whole-tree and stem-only harvesting with and without post-harvest prescribed burning. For. Ecol. Manage. 441, 155–166.
