This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Environmental Studies. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Responses to climate change in National Park Service Wilderness: What is happening in the field?, Katherine E. Nelson
The Value of Knowing: Public Lands Monitoring by Non-Agency Groups, Aaron Richard Olsen
ACCEPTANCE OF WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURES ON US HIGHWAY 93 MISSOULA, MONTANA, Jeremiah P. Purdum
PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF WATER SYSTEMS, Meghan Rorick
A Chicken in Every Lot: The 2007 Chicken Ordinance in Missoula, Montana, Kate Margaret Sheridan
Putting Scientific Information into the Service of Environmental Justice for Residents Facing Groundwater Contamination, Yvonne Emily Sorovacu
We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age, Hudson Douglas Spivey
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Unsettled: A Memoir, Elizabeth Anne Baker
Regulation or Litigation: Using the American Legal System to Address Climate Change, Stacy Lynne Boman
In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change, Grace Charlotte Brogan
Implications for Restoration: Effects of Riparian Vegetation and Shade on Temperature Gradients in Lower Gold Creek, Southwest Montana, Ashley Brandyn Burry-Trice
The Ecology of Parafluvial Ponds on a Salmon River, Zachary Jon Crete
RABBIT/RIDES: CONNECTING A CONTINENT BY BIKE, Douglas Augustus Davis
Understanding Incubator Farms: Innovative Programs in New Farmer Development, Brianna M. Ewert
Falling in Yellowstone: Stories from the Summer Season, Lauren L. Koshere
Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia, Nancy Marie Moore
Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions, Meghan K. Oswalt
An Assessment of Livelihood Security in International Community-based Wildlife Conservation Projects, Monica Antonia Perez-Watkins
TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY, Nadia E. Soucek
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Developing Successful Wilderness Stewardship Partnerships, Heather Day
Green Roofs in the Garden City: Exploring the Opportunities for Green Roof Policies in Missoula, Montana, Matthew Ryan Hodges
WHILE GLACIERS SLEPT, JERILYNN EMILY JACKSON
Metadata Analysis of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's Reference Stream Project Datasets, Jonathan Samuel Leiman
Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship, Adam Carl Lohrmann
Predicting Amphibian Occurrence Based on Wetland and Landscape Level Factors in Montana, Catherine Anne McIntyre
Nest Site Characteristics and Breeding Biology of Flammmulated Owls in Missoula Valley, Mathew T. Seidensticker
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Sustaining A Conservation Legacy? An In Depth Perspective On the Interagency Bison Management Plan and the Potential for Collaboration, Jason Alan Brininstool
WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS, July Oskar Cole
Factors Influencing the Distribution of Bull Trout and Westslope Cutthroat Trout West of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, Vincent Stephen D'Angelo
The Last Standing Bear: a documentary film on the life and work of Charles Jonkel, Shannon Kelly Donahue
Rooted: A new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana, Beth Jeannette Gibson
“The Season of Famine” as a Challenge to Food Security in Northern Rural Togo: Addressing Seasonal Hunger through Household Coping Strategies, Jennifer Gorsegner
Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana, chauncey allan means
New Trends In Wilderness Designation and The Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, Celina M. Moreno
Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants, Theodore Rosenberger Morrison
IDENTIFYING WILDLIFE CROSSING ZONES FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF HIGHWAY MITIGATION MEASURES ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 2: WEST GLACIER, MT TO MILEPOST 193, Mike J. Roesch
Assessing Macroinvertebrate Community Recovery in Post Restoration Silver Bow Creek, Montana, Sean Patrick Sullivan
Cairn Stones: A Mosaic Memoir and Manual, Bethany Mason Taylor
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TROUT HABITAT RESTORATION IN EUSTACHE CREEK, A FORMERLY PLACER-MINED STREAM IN WESTERN MONTANA, Emily K. Thompson
Assessing effects of an overwinter dewatering on the egg-to-fry survival of brown trout in a Montana stream, Christa Lyn Torrens
Fences, Russell James Van Paepeghem
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Badluck Way, Bryce Patrick Chartier Andrews
Charting a Sustainable Development Path: Prospects for Socially and Environmentally Beneficial Tourism in Caleta Tortel, Chile, Laura Becerra
On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley, Sarah Carvill
Upstream Geomorphic Response to Dam Removal: The Blackfoot River, Montana, Joshua Aaron Epstein
Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness, Tim G. Gibbins
Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness, Merrilyne Lundahl
An Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Several of Montana's Reference Streams: Working Toward a More Holistic Management Strategy, Kathryn Elizabeth Makarowski
Fertile Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith Practices as Care for the Earth, Peter William Metcalf
YOUTH HARVEST: EXPLORING AN EMPLOYMENT-BASED, SERVICE-ORIENTED, THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM FOR “AT-RISK YOUTH”, Rachel Christine O'Brien
Forever Wild: Journeys Through the North Fork, Gregory Merrill Deschaine Peters
Assessing Efforts To Reduce Sediment Impacts In Cottonwood Creek, Blackfoot Basin, Montana, Natalie Regina Marie Shapiro
THE MEANING OF MARKETS: HOW THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION UNDERSTANDS CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE USING MARKET INITIATIVES, Emily Elizabeth Thorn
A Social Marketing Intervention to Improve Asbestos Inspection Compliance for Missoula Public Buildings and the Role of Upstream Approaches, Holly N. Truitt
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF WATER RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS IN THE BAGRAMI DISTRICT OF KABUL PROVINCE, Mumtaz Ahmad
Redeveloping a Montana Food Processing Industry: The Role of Food Innovation Centers, Jessica Babcock
The Klamath's Path after Termination, Monika Nicole Bilka
FIELD METHOD EFFICACY TO DETECT MEDIUM AND LARGE MAMMAL PRESENCE NEAR ROADWAYS AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO, Paige Bonaker
Between Earth &Sky: A Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Landscape, Allison Danae De Jong
The Blackfoot Valley Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction: A Chronology and Case Study, Brian Kevin Ferrasci-O'Malley
PLACE-BASED CONSERVATION LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE BEAVERHEAD-DEERLODGE PARTNERSHIP, Michael Thomas Fiebig
RIVER HOUSE, Sarahlee Lawrence
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act: The Role of the Quality of the Environment Language in Multiple Use, Ron W. Malecki
Black Leaves, Nathaniel Ian Miller
Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks, Cassidy J. Randall
THE LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF RIVERINE SOCKEYE SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA) IN A LARGE FLOODPLAIN RIVER, Tyler Huntley Tappenbeck
Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities, Nebojsa Vlajic
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Achieving Environmental Justice for the Community of Opportunity, Montana: An Assessment of Superfund Concerns, Kathleen A. Hasenbank
Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs, Anna Dean Holden
Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization, David Scott Kennedy
Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative, Beth Anne Neely
Reducing Dental Mercury Discharge in Missoula, Montana: Collaborative Opportunities, Jamie Elaine Silberberger
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
World so sweet| Essays on the nature of food, Allison K. Clark
Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, Alison L. Duvall
Of both worlds: How the personal computer and the environmental movement change everything, William Henry Green
Good Like the Sea, Becca Hall
Protecting the Integrity of Organic Food in the Face of Genetic Engineering: The Case of Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Kristina Joy Hubbard
A Land Link for Western Montana: Keeping Land in Agriculture from One Generation to the Next, Paul Fuller Hubbard
Effectiveness of Stand-Scale Forest Restoration, Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, Jay C. Lininger
TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life, Genevieve Jessop Marsh
Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches, Mary Beth McKinley
Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South, Catherine Meeks
Web-based learning among Rare Pride conservation education campaign managers., Ashley Jeanne Parkinson
In the Light Beyond Dreaming, Robin Sisson Patten
Impact of farm size tenancy and landowner gender on riparian buffer width, Mark A. River
Cumulonimbus on Clay| Five Letters to a Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields
Is Everything Connected? Following the Predators, Pests, and Plants Within a No-Till, Western Montana Agroecosystem, Ethan A. Smith
Mobile Processing: Developing Appropriate Technology for Pastured Poultry Producers, Sarah Diane Stokes
Rhetoric and the Restoration Landscape: Forest Restoration in Environmental Debate, Gregory M. Vranizan
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Encompassing| Notes from New Mexico, John Bateman
Community-based monitoring A Strategy for Public Engagement in Natural Resource Issues, Paul BeÌlanger
Public communication strategies for low-budget environmental campaigns: a guide for environmentalists, Kate M. Cywinski
Work and the nature of place: Personal essays exploring the connection between work and a relationship to place, Patrick J. DelHomme
Bleeding heartwood: Stories from an environmental awareness peace corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, Aaron D. Drendel
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
Revegetating decommissioned roads in a dry Douglas-fir forest of the Oregon Cascades : seeding with non-natives versus natural recovery, Jolanta H. Glabek