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Cutbank 65 Jan 2006

Cutbank 65

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Exercises In Translation, Kimberly Johnson Jan 2006

Exercises In Translation, Kimberly Johnson

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From Helsinki, Peter Richards Jan 2006

From Helsinki, Peter Richards

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Cover, Epigraph, Cover Page, Staff List, Contents, Contributors Jan 2006

Cover, Epigraph, Cover Page, Staff List, Contents, Contributors

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Camas, Winter 2006 Jan 2006

Camas, Winter 2006

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First Person / Heather McKee -- A Winter Morning / Genevieve Jessop Marsh -- My Life as a Pantheist / Sharman Apt Russell -- Clarity Can Be Deceptive / Greg Gordon -- Interview / Anna Lappe by Peter Metcalf -- Borderland / Jerry Mathes II -- On the Alaskan Peninsula / Jerry Mathes II -- History / Heather Cahoon -- Embers / Heather Cahoon -- Shed and Redemption #1 / Josh Slotnick -- I never met a farmer / Jessica Babcock -- Coneflower / Jessica Babcock -- Soon / Jessica Babcock -- Beekeeping / Jill Beauchesne


Spring Thaw And Its Effect On Terrestrial Vegetation Productivity In The Western Arctic Observed From Satellite Microwave And Optical Remote Sensing, John S. Kimball, K. C. Mcdonald, M. Zhao Jan 2006

Spring Thaw And Its Effect On Terrestrial Vegetation Productivity In The Western Arctic Observed From Satellite Microwave And Optical Remote Sensing, John S. Kimball, K. C. Mcdonald, M. Zhao

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

Global satellite remote sensing records show evidence of recent vegetation greening and an advancing growing season at high latitudes. Satellite remote sensing–derived measures of photosynthetic leaf area index (LAI) and vegetation gross and net primary productivity (GPP and NPP) from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Pathfinder record are utilized to assess annual variability in vegetation productivity for Alaska and northwest Canada in association with the Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE). These results are compared with satellite microwave remote sensing measurements of springtime thaw from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). The SSM/I-derived timing of the primary springtime …


Rare Plants Are Common Where You Find Them, Peter Lesica, Raymond Yurkewycz, Elizabeth E. Crone Jan 2006

Rare Plants Are Common Where You Find Them, Peter Lesica, Raymond Yurkewycz, Elizabeth E. Crone

University of Montana Herbarium Publications

Broad patterns in distribution and abundance can elucidate processes of evolution. A positive association between local abundance and the size of the geographic range has been demonstrated for closely related species across many taxa. This pattern is usually explained by assuming that species with smaller ranges are ecologically inferior (e.g., poor competitors or dispersers). Many areas of high endemism support local species that have evolved recently. The distribution of these neoendemics may reflect historical processes not accounted for by ecological, equilibrium hypotheses. We asked whether such traditional macroecological hypotheses also applied to the local abundance of seven narrowly endemic species …


Bioarchaeology At Grand Bay And Tyrell Bay, Two Contemporary Amerindian Sites On Carriacou Island, Grenada, West Indies, Ryan R. Reeves Jan 2006

Bioarchaeology At Grand Bay And Tyrell Bay, Two Contemporary Amerindian Sites On Carriacou Island, Grenada, West Indies, Ryan R. Reeves

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Clearance| Poems, Elizabeth Sanger Jan 2006

Clearance| Poems, Elizabeth Sanger

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Community Dynamics And Social Status At The Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies, Jennifer B. Camp Jan 2006

Community Dynamics And Social Status At The Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, St. Kitts, West Indies, Jennifer B. Camp

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Corn Shocks And Bitterbrush| [Poems], Jeffrey Ross Jan 2006

Corn Shocks And Bitterbrush| [Poems], Jeffrey Ross

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Cumulonimbus On Clay| Five Letters To A Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields Jan 2006

Cumulonimbus On Clay| Five Letters To A Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Fates And Footprints| Yellowstone Grizzly Bears And The Endangered Species Act, Kelley Anne Mclandress Jan 2006

Fates And Footprints| Yellowstone Grizzly Bears And The Endangered Species Act, Kelley Anne Mclandress

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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From Turmoil To Discourse | The Function Of Rape And Incest In Fourteenth-Century "Popular" Middle English Romance, Desiree Cromwell Jan 2006

From Turmoil To Discourse | The Function Of Rape And Incest In Fourteenth-Century "Popular" Middle English Romance, Desiree Cromwell

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Development Of An Effective Forest Fire Management Strategy For Bhutan, Kinley Tshering Jan 2006

Development Of An Effective Forest Fire Management Strategy For Bhutan, Kinley Tshering

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Effectiveness Of Stand-Scale Forest Restoration, Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, Jay C. Lininger Jan 2006

Effectiveness Of Stand-Scale Forest Restoration, Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, Jay C. Lininger

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Lininger, Jay Charles, Fall 2006 Environmental Studies Chair: Dr. Len Broberg This case study documents the effectiveness of stand-scale forest restoration activities undertaken in the “Penny Stew” project on federal land in the central Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon. Its dual purpose is to 1) define reference conditions and build a site-specific case for restoration through multi-scale analysis of historical ecology (Chapter III), and 2) demonstrate streamlined monitoring protocols that practitioners can use to adapt restoration practices over time (Chapter IV). Discussion of methodological efficacy in Chapter IV offers implications for FEAT-FIREMON Integration (FFI), a fire effects monitoring and data …


Rhetoric And The Restoration Landscape: Forest Restoration In Environmental Debate, Gregory M. Vranizan Jan 2006

Rhetoric And The Restoration Landscape: Forest Restoration In Environmental Debate, Gregory M. Vranizan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Vranizan, Gregory M. M.S. Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies RHETORIC AND THE RESTORATION LANDSCAPE: FOREST RESTORATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE Committee Chairperson: Phil Condon Forest restoration on federal land has become the focus of an ongoing public debate in the West. Interest groups on various sides have engaged in a rhetorical contest to define restoration in ways that accord with their own ideas about the use and management of the nation’s public lands. This study examines the positions taken by different groups and considers the rhetorical claims they make. Disputes over meanings and practices have thus far limited the chances for a …


Risk-Sensitive Foraging In Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated With Real-World Financial Situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera Jan 2006

Risk-Sensitive Foraging In Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated With Real-World Financial Situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Foraging theory has been studied extensively in non-human animals. Using models developed through animal-study, researchers have recently begun to examine how humans make decisions with regard to resource-expenditure. Using a computer-based task, the proposed study investigated risk-sensitive decision-making, in humans. Participants were asked to "spend" a most valuable resource, time, in order to complete a computer-based task. Participants were asked to choose between two computer-generated selection boxes, each yielding a different delay-value. However, participants were given different feedback as to how each session progressed (i.e. whether ahead or behind) depending on the budget condition to which he was assigned. It …


Protecting The Integrity Of Organic Food In The Face Of Genetic Engineering: The Case Of Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Kristina Joy Hubbard Jan 2006

Protecting The Integrity Of Organic Food In The Face Of Genetic Engineering: The Case Of Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Kristina Joy Hubbard

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Genetically engineered (GE) seeds are central to the debates around agricultural biotechnology, and continue to be rapidly adopted across the globe. At the same time that GE crops increase in acreage, the organic market has become one of the fastest growing sectors of the American food industry. While biotechnology companies claim there is a successful “coexistence” of GE crop technologies and organic crops, many organic producers are already challenged by keeping unwanted GE traits out of their fields. Still, little attention has been given to the role of regulations in the face of organic contamination by genetically engineered material. This …


Differences Of Dna-Transcription Factor Interactions Following Chromium Exposure, Kathryn Louise Mintz Jan 2006

Differences Of Dna-Transcription Factor Interactions Following Chromium Exposure, Kathryn Louise Mintz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The effect of 8-oxoguanine in the consensus sequence of êB DNA on the binding affinity of p50BD was determined using a 22-mer and a 30-mer double-stranded DNA oligonucleotide containing the NF-êB binding site. The addition of a carboxyl moiety at position 8 on guanine (creating 8-oxoguanine) was observed to change the binding affinity of the transcription factor for the êB DNA sequences at each modified guanine site. The protocol used a p50 binding domain protein (residues 23 to 366 from the p50 protein) and a p50 mutant protein with a single amino acid mutation of the wild type histidine 67 …


Addressing Contaminants In Traditional Foods In Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing And Policy Approaches, Mary Beth Mckinley Jan 2006

Addressing Contaminants In Traditional Foods In Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing And Policy Approaches, Mary Beth Mckinley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The transport of contaminants to the Arctic and their presence in traditional foods in the region is causing concern about potential adverse health impacts resulting from exposure to these globally-borne chemicals. In this study, ten stakeholders in the issue of contaminants in traditional foods in Alaska were interviewed to determine how they define the problem, and in doing so, to determine if they perceive that the situation constitutes an environmental injustice for Alaska Natives. The interview transcripts were analyzed using five sub-frames of the environmental justice framework: distributive justice, procedural justice, indigenous rights, corrective justice, and ecological sustainability. The interview …


Monitoring Survival Of Young In Ungulates: A Case Study With Rocky Mountain Elk, Nyeema Charmaine Harris Jan 2006

Monitoring Survival Of Young In Ungulates: A Case Study With Rocky Mountain Elk, Nyeema Charmaine Harris

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Harris, Nyeema C., M.S., Spring 2007 Wildlife Biology MONITORING SURVIVAL OF YOUNG IN UNGULATES: A CASE STUDY WITH ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK Chairperson: Daniel H. Pletscher Survival of young is an important determinant of population growth and persistence in ungulate populations. Therefore, monitoring the survival of young is an essential component in many research and management programs. The primary techniques used to monitor survival of young in ungulate populations are age ratios, obtained from herd composition surveys, and telemetry studies of marked individuals. Concerns about survival of young and the impact of predators on recruitment have recently arisen because of reported …


North Hill Hawk, Jill M. Beauchesne Jan 2006

North Hill Hawk, Jill M. Beauchesne

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

NORTH HILL HAWK By Jill Marie Beauchesne (No abstract available)


The Roles Of Food And Predation In Shaping Adaptive And Maladaptive Behaviors In Postfire Bird Species, Bruce Andrew Robertson Jan 2006

The Roles Of Food And Predation In Shaping Adaptive And Maladaptive Behaviors In Postfire Bird Species, Bruce Andrew Robertson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Most animals live in rapidly changing environments, and within-individual phenotypic plasticity can allow populations to track sources of selection that often vary dramatically in time and space. However, if conditions change too rapidly, the cues animals use to track environmental changes may become uncoupled from the ultimately important factors with which they have been historically correlated. Animals relying upon proximal cues to guide their behaviors may, in novel environments, consistently make errors. When these errors occur within the context of choosing a habitat, the organism is said to be caught in an ‘ecological trap’. Herein, I develop a conceptual model …


Nomad School, Laura Penelope Baquero Jan 2006

Nomad School, Laura Penelope Baquero

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Baquero, Laura, M.A., Autumn 2006 Fine Arts A Journey of Self Transformation Dr. James Kriley Dr. Randy Bolton As a result of social and family expectations I was pushed to pursue a lifestyle where my passion and talent for the Arts did not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research project in which I took a life changing experience of living in a nomad community, to develop a body of work that would tell the story of my personal transformation into the artist that I always wanted to be. I used journals and sketchbooks as my …


Using Place Attachment To Determine The Acceptability Of Restoring Fire To Its Natural Role In Wilderness Ecosystems, Eric Paul Turbeville Jan 2006

Using Place Attachment To Determine The Acceptability Of Restoring Fire To Its Natural Role In Wilderness Ecosystems, Eric Paul Turbeville

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This study was conducted to explore the social dimensions of wilderness fire management. I set out to answer the question what role does an individual’s attachment to place play in determining the acceptability of management actions directed towards fire? I feel that problems will arise if management agencies attempt to restore natural fire regimes to wilderness areas without accounting for the effects on meanings and values different people attach to landscapes. I used a qualitative method and conducted guided interviews with 27 people from three different groups: (1) fire and wilderness management personnel from the Bitterroot National Forest, (2) residents …


Which Way For Catalan And Galician?, Jay Gordon Bostrom Jan 2006

Which Way For Catalan And Galician?, Jay Gordon Bostrom

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Bostrom, Jay, M.A., Autumn 2006 Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Spanish Minority Language Attitudes in Galicia and Catalonia Chair: Professor Anthony Beltramo Despite legitimate fears of the effects twenty-first century globalization will have on linguistic diversity, vigorous efforts are being made to maintain minority languages in multi-national/ethnic states such as Spain. Catalonia and Galicia have not forgotten the severe treatment they received under the Franco dictatorship that resulted in untold damage to the trajectory of the languages. Even today, thirty-one years later, the negative effects are palpable and alive in the language attitudes of the Catalan and Galician people. …


Treasure State, Chad Dundas Jan 2006

Treasure State, Chad Dundas

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Postmodern Hybridity| The Magical Conflation Of Nature, Humankind, And Technology In Karen Tei Yamashita 'S Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest, John Wesley Ross Jan 2006

Postmodern Hybridity| The Magical Conflation Of Nature, Humankind, And Technology In Karen Tei Yamashita 'S Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest, John Wesley Ross

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Genomic Analysis Of Human Neuroblastoma Cells In Response To Paraoxon Exposure, Matthew D. Thullbery Jan 2006

Genomic Analysis Of Human Neuroblastoma Cells In Response To Paraoxon Exposure, Matthew D. Thullbery

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.