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Coast Salish Foods Gathered On Clam Gardens And Rocky Intertidal Beaches, Amy Rose Cline
Coast Salish Foods Gathered On Clam Gardens And Rocky Intertidal Beaches, Amy Rose Cline
WWU Graduate School Collection
Indigenous Peoples have been gathering foods using traditional technologies since time immemorial. Indigenous Peoples are intertwined with the environment by practicing traditional technologies and transmitting Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) within their communities. Since the beginning of time Indigenous People have interworking relationships with the natural world, these relationships are a result of thousands of years of transmitting TEK about the environment and traditional food systems. Clam gardens are one example of traditional mariculture that increases the optimal habitat for clams, increases biomass, and clam density. In addition to clam garden beaches providing productive habitats for clams, the clam garden rock …
An Ecocentric Turn: Emerging Narratives In The Growing U.S. Rights Of Nature Movement, Raechel E. Youngberg
An Ecocentric Turn: Emerging Narratives In The Growing U.S. Rights Of Nature Movement, Raechel E. Youngberg
WWU Graduate School Collection
This research project utilizes the Narrative Policy Analysis framework to analyze print news media coverage of the Rights of Nature (RoN) movement in the United States. This burgeoning movement draws upon Indigenous principles of animism and interconnectedness to recognize the existence rights and legal personhood of non-human animals, plants, and ecosystems. This project highlights the legal and legislative challenges the RoN movement has faced. Including the complexities of attempting to incorporate Indigenous epistemologies into a colonialist legal system and highlighting the narrative strategies and emerging coalitions present in the U.S.-based movement.
Affordable Infill, Virginia Macdonald
Affordable Infill, Virginia Macdonald
WWU Graduate School Collection
This graduate research field study delves into the design of land use and municipal policies aimed at fostering the creation of entry-level homeownership opportunities in Bellingham, Washington. Drawing upon recommendations from the Final Report of the Washington Department of Commerce Homeownership Disparities Working Group and the American Planning Association's "Planning for Equity Policy Guide," this study prioritizes affordable homeownership. Methodologically, it incorporates insights from a thorough literature review, an analysis of diverse case studies across North America, and guidance from the Incremental Development Alliance. Furthermore, it integrates proposed modifications to Bellingham's municipal code, as advocated by the Kulshan Community Land …
Beyond Dystopia: The Effect Of Reading Hopeful Climate Fiction On Climate Anxiety And Environmental Self-Efficacy, Brandon Mcwilliams
Beyond Dystopia: The Effect Of Reading Hopeful Climate Fiction On Climate Anxiety And Environmental Self-Efficacy, Brandon Mcwilliams
WWU Graduate School Collection
Climate communication and climate storytelling have thus far been unrelentingly bleak. However, growing evidence suggests that the barrage of negative, technical communication may result in negative mental health impacts and doesn’t necessarily translate into climate action. Rather than continuing to focus on technical and fear-based communication, there are calls to shifts towards narrative communication and hopeful communication frames. In this study, I investigate what effect hopeful climate fiction has on readers through three related avenues of inquiry using the popular solarpunk novella A Psalm for the Wild Built as an experimental text. I examined (1) what effect, if any, the …
Restoring Forest Habitat Using Assisted Migration As A Climate Change Adaption, Chelsea Harris
Restoring Forest Habitat Using Assisted Migration As A Climate Change Adaption, Chelsea Harris
WWU Graduate School Collection
Rapid climate change alters the conditions for which tree species can migrate successfully. Restoration efforts are vital for our future forests to ensure healthy and sustainable forests. Assisted migration is a restoration practice that can speed up trees' slow migration process, promoting resilient forests. This study assessed how genotypes from California, Oregon, and Washington nursery stock plants would succeed in a Western Washington-assisted population migration project. Additionally, we want to evaluate how transfer to new soil microbiomes will affect ectomycorrhizal (ECM), a fungus that forms symbiotic relationships with certain plant root tips. To achieve this, in January 2022, 900 plants …
Attitudes Towards Conservation In The Sagarmatha And Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal, Morgan A. Scott
Attitudes Towards Conservation In The Sagarmatha And Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal, Morgan A. Scott
WWU Graduate School Collection
Rural alpine communities in Nepal and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation both face the challenge of balancing economic needs with conservation and environmental goals. Both Sagarmatha National Park and Makalu-Barun National Park in northeast Nepal are popular tourist destinations, and the tourism economy is both vital to local communities and residents of the parks, and also can be detrimental to conservation and environmental goals of the parks. This research set out to assess the concerns of residents of both protected areas and to compare the concerns of residents between three major valleys, Hinku, Gokyo, and Khumbu. This …
Collective Benefits, Individualized Responsibility: A Q Method Case Study Of Local Food Consumer Subjectivities In Bellingham, Wa, Henry Fisher
WWU Graduate School Collection
The local food movement (LFM), positioned as a challenge to the dominant industrial agri-food system (IAFS), has become increasingly visible in the United States cultural mainstream since the 1990s. For LFM advocates, local food consumption promises personal (e.g., enhanced nutrition, higher quality), economic (i.e., supporting small-scale producers, keeping money in the community), and environmental (e.g., organic and/or regenerative production methods) benefits. However, a body of theoretical literature advanced by political economists, critical sociologists, and critical geographers suggests that the prevalence of neoliberal notions of individual responsibility in LFM discourse may—at a basic level—reproduce some of the very processes the movement …
A Spatial Representation Of Wilderness Character Degradation In The Stephen Mather Wilderness Of North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Andrew Giacomelli
A Spatial Representation Of Wilderness Character Degradation In The Stephen Mather Wilderness Of North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Andrew Giacomelli
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Wilderness Act of 1964 outlined five qualities of wilderness character for protection in Federal wilderness areas under the National Wilderness Preservation System. These attributes include the degree to which the wilderness area is untrammeled by modern humans, natural, undeveloped, contains outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined types of recreation, and other features of value specific to each wilderness area. Using spatial analysis, GIS modeling techniques, raster calculations, and over 40 data measures, this study mapped degradation to these five qualities in the Stephen Mather Wilderness (SMW) of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex (NOCA), Washington. …
Improving Riparian Restoration Planning Efforts In San Juan County Using A Site-Specific Planting Tool, Julia Jaquery
Improving Riparian Restoration Planning Efforts In San Juan County Using A Site-Specific Planting Tool, Julia Jaquery
WWU Graduate School Collection
The purpose of this project was to develop a riparian planting planning tool and standard operating procedure for riparian restoration site preparation for the use of land managers working for the San Juan Islands Conservation District, to improve restoration planting establishment. The primary use of the Excel tool is to select appropriate plants for restoration sites based on the assessed soil conditions of a site. The Excel tool includes a list of riparian plant species for potential selection by land managers, with species-specific information that may inform selection. It also includes data from soil sample analysis within restoration sites, compared …
Better Data Creates Better Science: Using Strategic Planning And Process Documentation To Improve The Islands Conservation Corps’ Field Data Collection System, Bernard Cowen
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Islands Conservation Corps is an AmeriCorps-sponsored program in the San Juan Islands that blends ecological restoration fieldwork with a hybrid field and virtual educational certificate conferred by Western Washington University. The ICC has been using an ArcGISbased field data collection system for the last one and a half years to meet annual and grant reporting requirements, improve restoration implementation efficiency, and begin asking research questions about restoration implementation tactics. This project used the Balanced Scorecard, a strategic planning methodology to provide direction for the data collection system and used process documentation methodology to create detailed documentation that acts as …