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Community Forestry Education In The Swan Valley, Mt: Contributions Of Northwest Connections' Field Program, Joanna Elizabeth Seibert
Community Forestry Education In The Swan Valley, Mt: Contributions Of Northwest Connections' Field Program, Joanna Elizabeth Seibert
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
As the community forestry movement matures, a question remains regarding what kind of educational experience nurtures and inspires people in community forestry? This thesis seeks to contribute to a better understanding of community forestry education by examining a field educational program known as “Landscape and Livelihood” (LL) offered by Northwest Connections, a small community-based conservation organization in the upper Swan Valley of western Montana. Based on extensive interviews, observation and the author’s own personal experience as a former LL student, the thesis documents the program’s use of field ecological studies involving both scientific and local knowledge integrated with journaling, homestays, …
Constraints And Opportunities Of Conservation Easements As A Tool For Agricultural Preservation In The Blackfoot Valley, Montana, Megan Huth
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Huth, Megan, M.S., May 2007 Resource Conservation The Constraints and Opportunities of Conservation Easements as a Tool for Agricultural Preservation in the Blackfoot Valley, Montana Chairperson: Jill Belsky Conservation easements have historically been used by land trusts and government agencies to preserve private land from development and subdivision, to preserve unique geological features, and protect fish and wildlife habitat. The national and Montana state conservation easement legislation does not explicitly state agricultural land as a conservation value that they aim to preserve. As such, land trusts and government agencies that are the holders of conservation easements do not typically identify …
Moving Boxes Closer To Home: The Role Of Sysco Corporation In Food System Localization, David Scott Kennedy
Moving Boxes Closer To Home: The Role Of Sysco Corporation In Food System Localization, David Scott Kennedy
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Increasing demand for local food by foodservice establishments creates new opportunities and challenges for the local food movement. While there is considerable potential for local suppliers to sell more product volume closer to home, the business needs of foodservice establishments may not be compatible with direct marketing approaches that have fueled the growth of the movement. Foodservice establishments typically rely on distributors to provide them with the majority of their food. Drawing on the success of direct marketing, new indirect marketing approaches that link producers and consumers through intermediaries are increasingly advanced within food system localization. The dominance of SYSCO …
My Brother The Buffalo: An Ethnohistorical Documentation Of The 1999 Buffalo Walk And The Cultural Significance Of Yellowstone Buffalo To The Lakota Sioux And Nez Perce Peoples, Sarah Anne Tarka
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This study was prepared for the National Park Service to serve as documentation of the cultural significance of Yellowstone buffalo to two American Indian cultural groups, the Nez Perce and the Lakota Sioux, and of the 1999 Buffalo Walk and accompanying ceremony that took place within the boundary of the park. Both Lakota Sioux and Nez Perce peoples had leadership roles in the Buffalo Walk, which was a benchmark event in the history of the park and of Yellowstone buffalo management. Participants in the Buffalo Walk walked and rode more than 500 miles from Rapid City, South Dakota to the …
Organizing Rural Communities For Effective Citizen Science Programs, Anna Dean Holden
Organizing Rural Communities For Effective Citizen Science Programs, Anna Dean Holden
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Citizen science, or the use of volunteers for scientific projects, is becoming a popular way for agencies and organizations to collect data. The benefits of citizen science include saving the agency or organization resources, educating the community about conservation issues, and promoting land stewardship. Currently, many citizen monitoring organizations are based in urban areas, whereas their projects are located near more rural towns. Research shows that demographics such as area of residence can be a factor in the public’s attitude toward any scientific or land management project (Williams et al, 2002; Kellert, 1978, 1985; Vaske et al, 2001). This fact …
How The Environmental Movement Has Failed The American Public. Reviving Environmental Action As Part Of The Public Consciusness: Advertising Is The Missing Tool, Ross Rademacher
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the environmental movement has failed to market and communicate effectively. Due to this failure, companies such as Chevron and Wal-Mart have taken the moral high ground away from environmental organizations. The movement as a whole, with a few exceptions, has not successfully promoted key themes that could motivate change. There are rare examples of successful marketing and …
Hunters In The Garden: Yup’Ik Subsistence And The Agricultural Myths Of Eden, Benjamin Kuntz
Hunters In The Garden: Yup’Ik Subsistence And The Agricultural Myths Of Eden, Benjamin Kuntz
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Yup’ik writers and Yup’ik subsistence offer valuable challenges, parallels, and alternative models to mainstream nature writing’s discourse surrounding human relationships to the land, a discourse that carries an inherent agricultural bias. An introduction to western Alaska’s Nunivak Island provides context for Chapter 1, which demonstrates the fluidity of cultural, geographical, and historical margins through discussion of the works of Yup’ik journalist John Active and historian and ethnographer James Clifford. Chapter 2 provides an overview of Yup’ik subsistence centered around the community of Bethel, Alaska, then subjects mainstream nature writing, represented mostly by Wendell Berry, to critiques supplied by Canadian anthropologist …
Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition And Agricultural Practices In Guaimaca, Honduras, Sarah Lynne Potenza
Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition And Agricultural Practices In Guaimaca, Honduras, Sarah Lynne Potenza
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Agricultural policies and global economic forces negatively affect many small-scale farmers in developing countries, resulting in widespread micronutrient malnutrition and environmental degradation. This study explores the connections between these issues, and the efficacy of using participatory education on sustainable agriculture to address them at a local level. Specifically, it evaluates an action-oriented education and sustainable agriculture program in Honduras, from the perspective of the participants and my own participation, as a means to improve agricultural practices and rural nutrition among subsistence farmers. As in many developing countries, access to land, poor soil conditions, steep hillsides, adverse climatic conditions, and limited …
Glacier, Leah Katz
Glacier, Leah Katz
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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First-Year Growth And Survival Of Habitat Revegetation Trials On The Lower Colorado River, Mexico, Stephen Dwight Handler
First-Year Growth And Survival Of Habitat Revegetation Trials On The Lower Colorado River, Mexico, Stephen Dwight Handler
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Sweeping changes across the Colorado River watershed in the 20th century resulted in near-complete collapse of the natural communities in the Colorado River Delta (CRD) in Mexico. A brief return of freshwater flows in the 1980s and 1990s showed the riparian corridor remains resilient to past damage, and the CRD remains a vital area for habitat conservation and restoration. This project aimed to test conclusions drawn from similar projects in the United States and show that revegetation projects are possible along the lower Colorado River in Mexico. From November 2006 to October 2007, we tested the effects of various treatments …
Cumulonimbus On Clay| Five Letters To A Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields
Cumulonimbus On Clay| Five Letters To A Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Good Like The Sea, Becca Hall
Good Like The Sea, Becca Hall
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Effectiveness Of Stand-Scale Forest Restoration, Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, Jay C. Lininger
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
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 …
Protecting The Integrity Of Organic Food In The Face Of Genetic Engineering: The Case Of Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Kristina Joy Hubbard
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 …
A Land Link For Western Montana: Keeping Land In Agriculture From One Generation To The Next, Paul Fuller Hubbard
A Land Link For Western Montana: Keeping Land In Agriculture From One Generation To The Next, Paul Fuller Hubbard
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Western Montana’s agricultural land is rapidly being developed in the wake of an increasing population and aging farmers and ranchers. The subsequent high land values make it difficult for producers to access agricultural land. The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition has prioritized the creation of a land link matching service to help connect farm and ranch owners with people looking for agricultural land to expand or start production operations. This professional paper aims to provide the first step towards this objective by exploring how a matching service might be designed, administered and implemented. The research has two components: 1) to …
Addressing Contaminants In Traditional Foods In Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing And Policy Approaches, Mary Beth Mckinley
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 …
Is Everything Connected? Following The Predators, Pests, And Plants Within A No-Till, Western Montana Agroecosystem, Ethan A. Smith
Is Everything Connected? Following The Predators, Pests, And Plants Within A No-Till, Western Montana Agroecosystem, Ethan A. Smith
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Agricultural systems are being re-engineered with hedgerows, living mulches, or minimum tillage activities in hopes of retaining populations of beneficial, predatory insects that may decrease the need for pesticide use. The purpose of this research was twofold. First, this on-farm research assessed the population and activity of six beneficial arthropod predators - the carabid beetle (Carabidae: Coleoptera), minute pirate bug (Orius spp.: Hemiptera), nabid bug (Nabis spp.: Hemiptera), lady beetle larvae (family Coccinellidae: Coleoptera), syrphid fly larvae (Syrphidae: Diptera) and spiders (Araneae) - and one crop pest - the imported cabbage worm (Pieris rapae: Lepidoptera) - within a no-till Brussels …
Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives On The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, Alison L. Duvall
Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives On The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, Alison L. Duvall
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Duvall, Alison, M.S., Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the Blackfoot Valley and The Nature Conservancy to purchase and re-sell up to 88,092 acres of mid-elevation Plum Creek Timber Company lands to private and public interests as an alternative to subdivision and fragmentation of the landscape. In line with the project’s goal to maintain the working landscapes of the Blackfoot Valley and rural lifestyle through a “community-driven” process, the partnership has …
Pack Station, Robert Theodore Gail
Pack Station, Robert Theodore Gail
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Prologue He was as broken-down an old horseshoer as I had ever met, but by God could he shoe a horse. How he did it seemed to be some mystery acquired over a lifetime of bending over beneath a million horses and mules. And yet maybe there wasn’t any mystery at all. Maybe it was simply that over the course of those million or so animals he’d lost the hesitation and doubt and fear the rest of us struggled with from time to time,and just got shoes on the damn things—though with as much beauty and skill as a guy …
How Still The Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense Of Naturalness, Jill M. Beauchesne
How Still The Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense Of Naturalness, Jill M. Beauchesne
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Beauchesne, Jill, M.A., Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of natural landscapes as much as a writer’s individual haunts or favorite creatures. In a contemporary context, a writer steps down a long, wellworn path when he or she attempts to describe a bird taking flight or the way the sunlight feels at a certain time of afternoon. …
Impact Of Farm Size Tenancy And Landowner Gender On Riparian Buffer Width, Mark A. River
Impact Of Farm Size Tenancy And Landowner Gender On Riparian Buffer Width, Mark A. River
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Trust And Ownership In Community Wildfire Protection Planning In West Central Montana, Paul R. Lachapelle
The Role Of Trust And Ownership In Community Wildfire Protection Planning In West Central Montana, Paul R. Lachapelle
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Of Both Worlds: How The Personal Computer And The Environmental Movement Change Everything, William Henry Green
Of Both Worlds: How The Personal Computer And The Environmental Movement Change Everything, William Henry Green
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
An Organizational And Functional Classification Of The Stone Tool Assemblage From The Bridge River Archaelogical Site (Eer14) (2003 And 2004 Field Seasons), David S. Clarke
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Utilizing The Citizens' Forest Restoration Principles: An Evaluation Of The Knox Brooks Stewardship Project And Proposals For Integration Into The Forest Service Structure, Adam S. Rissien
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Salmon Oysters And The Spotted Owl: Environment And Economy In Coastal Washington 1985-2006, Robert A. Bauer
Salmon Oysters And The Spotted Owl: Environment And Economy In Coastal Washington 1985-2006, Robert A. Bauer
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Web-Based Learning Among Rare Pride Conservation Education Campaign Managers., Ashley Jeanne Parkinson
Web-Based Learning Among Rare Pride Conservation Education Campaign Managers., Ashley Jeanne Parkinson
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
World So Sweet| Essays On The Nature Of Food, Allison K. Clark
World So Sweet| Essays On The Nature Of Food, Allison K. Clark
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.
Caught In The Headlights| Reflections From The Making Of A Documentary Film That Explores The Conflicts Between Wildlife And Our Automobile Culture, Charles Wolf Drimal
Caught In The Headlights| Reflections From The Making Of A Documentary Film That Explores The Conflicts Between Wildlife And Our Automobile Culture, Charles Wolf Drimal
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
No abstract provided.