 When I tell my friends and family what I do, there are typically a lot of follow-up questions. My PhD is in human dimensions of ecosystem science and management. And my position title is social ecological rangeland scientist, another mouthful. And if I leave my explanation at that, I see people's eyes glaze over, much like yours probably did just now. But when I tell people that I got into this field because I want to conserve the lands that we all work, live and play in, that sometimes gets their interest. Because people are inseparable from their environments. Our actions have impacts on the land and inversely the land and how we relate to it is part of who we are. Whether we realize it or not, we all have traditions and how we relate to the environment. I study how these traditions are cultivated and how a change in the environment or us or the social connections we have with others impacts those traditions.