I began conducting research on local ecological knowledge in 1997-98 with the Keekonyokie Maasai and Dorobo around Hell’s Gate National Park/Oloor Karian, Kenya. My master’s research carried out between 2003 and 2005 also engaged aspects of this topic with Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) around Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, USA. My doctoral research was conducted between 2004 and 2008 with the Khumbu Sherpa inside Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone (SNPBZ), Nepal—including 19 months of fieldwork and 2 months of local and national-level presentations about the results. My work with the Khumbu Sherpa and SNPBZ remains ongoing, and I plan to pilot a new project in an additional Nepali protected area in the summer of 2011. Finally, in 2008 I initiated three new projects with Southern Paiute/Chemehuevi, Western Shoshone, Owen’s Valley Paiute, and Mojave American Indian nations and the U.S. Forest and Fish and Wildlife Services and the Department of Defense. These efforts focus on government-to-government consultation, interpretive program planning, and collaborative resource management.