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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Native Trout Restoration in the National Parks of the Northern Rockies: An Analysis of Management Actions & Outcomes, Michael John Canetta

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EFFECT OF COVER ON SMALL MAMMAL ABUNDANCE AND MOVEMENT THROUGH WILDLIFE UNDERPASSES, Hayley R. Connolly-Newman

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NEST SITE CHARACTERISTICS OF LEWIS’S WOODPECKER (MELANERPES LEWIS) IN RIPARIAN SYSTEMS OF WESTERN MONTANA, Megan Fylling

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Paying to Play: Supply Management in Montana's Dairy Industry, Laura Ginsburg

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OPENING UP THE BOX: EXPLORING THE SCALING OUT OF THE GOOD FOOD BOX ACROSS CANADA, Stephanie Lentz Laporte Potts

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Responses to climate change in National Park Service Wilderness: What is happening in the field?, Katherine E. Nelson

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The Value of Knowing: Public Lands Monitoring by Non-Agency Groups, Aaron Richard Olsen

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ACCEPTANCE OF WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURES ON US HIGHWAY 93 MISSOULA, MONTANA, Jeremiah P. Purdum

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PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF WATER SYSTEMS, Meghan Rorick

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A Chicken in Every Lot: The 2007 Chicken Ordinance in Missoula, Montana, Kate Margaret Sheridan

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Putting Scientific Information into the Service of Environmental Justice for Residents Facing Groundwater Contamination, Yvonne Emily Sorovacu

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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age, Hudson Douglas Spivey

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Unsettled: A Memoir, Elizabeth Anne Baker

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Regulation or Litigation: Using the American Legal System to Address Climate Change, Stacy Lynne Boman

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In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change, Grace Charlotte Brogan

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Implications for Restoration: Effects of Riparian Vegetation and Shade on Temperature Gradients in Lower Gold Creek, Southwest Montana, Ashley Brandyn Burry-Trice

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The Ecology of Parafluvial Ponds on a Salmon River, Zachary Jon Crete

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RABBIT/RIDES: CONNECTING A CONTINENT BY BIKE, Douglas Augustus Davis

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Understanding Incubator Farms: Innovative Programs in New Farmer Development, Brianna M. Ewert

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Comparison of Charcoal and Tree-Ring Records of Recent Fires in The Northern Rocky Mountains, Kalispell, MT, USA, Ian Hyp

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Falling in Yellowstone: Stories from the Summer Season, Lauren L. Koshere

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Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia, Nancy Marie Moore

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Environmental Justice Impacts and Sustainable Solutions, Meghan K. Oswalt

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An Assessment of Livelihood Security in International Community-based Wildlife Conservation Projects, Monica Antonia Perez-Watkins

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TRADING OFF THE BENEFITS AND BURDENS: COAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY FLATHEAD RIVER VALLEY, Nadia E. Soucek

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Developing Successful Wilderness Stewardship Partnerships, Heather Day

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Green Roofs in the Garden City: Exploring the Opportunities for Green Roof Policies in Missoula, Montana, Matthew Ryan Hodges

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WHILE GLACIERS SLEPT, JERILYNN EMILY JACKSON

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Metadata Analysis of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's Reference Stream Project Datasets, Jonathan Samuel Leiman

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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship, Adam Carl Lohrmann

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Predicting Amphibian Occurrence Based on Wetland and Landscape Level Factors in Montana, Catherine Anne McIntyre

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Nest Site Characteristics and Breeding Biology of Flammmulated Owls in Missoula Valley, Mathew T. Seidensticker

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Sustaining A Conservation Legacy? An In Depth Perspective On the Interagency Bison Management Plan and the Potential for Collaboration, Jason Alan Brininstool

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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS, July Oskar Cole

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Factors Influencing the Distribution of Bull Trout and Westslope Cutthroat Trout West of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, Vincent Stephen D'Angelo

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The Last Standing Bear: a documentary film on the life and work of Charles Jonkel, Shannon Kelly Donahue

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Rooted: A new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana, Beth Jeannette Gibson

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“The Season of Famine” as a Challenge to Food Security in Northern Rural Togo: Addressing Seasonal Hunger through Household Coping Strategies, Jennifer Gorsegner

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Evaluating and remediating metals and arsenic in surface waters of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Montana, chauncey allan means

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New Trends In Wilderness Designation and The Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, Celina M. Moreno

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Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants, Theodore Rosenberger Morrison

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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

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Assessing Macroinvertebrate Community Recovery in Post Restoration Silver Bow Creek, Montana, Sean Patrick Sullivan

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Cairn Stones: A Mosaic Memoir and Manual, Bethany Mason Taylor

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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TROUT HABITAT RESTORATION IN EUSTACHE CREEK, A FORMERLY PLACER-MINED STREAM IN WESTERN MONTANA, Emily K. Thompson

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Assessing effects of an overwinter dewatering on the egg-to-fry survival of brown trout in a Montana stream, Christa Lyn Torrens

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Fences, Russell James Van Paepeghem

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Badluck Way, Bryce Patrick Chartier Andrews

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Charting a Sustainable Development Path: Prospects for Socially and Environmentally Beneficial Tourism in Caleta Tortel, Chile, Laura Becerra

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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley, Sarah Carvill

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Upstream Geomorphic Response to Dam Removal: The Blackfoot River, Montana, Joshua Aaron Epstein

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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness, Tim G. Gibbins

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Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness, Merrilyne Lundahl

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An Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Several of Montana's Reference Streams: Working Toward a More Holistic Management Strategy, Kathryn Elizabeth Makarowski

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Fertile Ground: Reflections on Christian Faith Practices as Care for the Earth, Peter William Metcalf

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YOUTH HARVEST: EXPLORING AN EMPLOYMENT-BASED, SERVICE-ORIENTED, THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM FOR “AT-RISK YOUTH”, Rachel Christine O'Brien

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MONITORING NOXIOUS WEEDS INVASIONS IN RIPARIAN AREAS FOLLOWING LIVESTOCK EXCLUSION OF THE UPPER BIG HOLE RIVER VALLEY: ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT UNDER THE CANDIDATE CONSERVATION AGREEMENT WITH ASSURANCES PROJECT, Ana Ingrid Pederson

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Forever Wild: Journeys Through the North Fork, Gregory Merrill Deschaine Peters

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Assessing Efforts To Reduce Sediment Impacts In Cottonwood Creek, Blackfoot Basin, Montana, Natalie Regina Marie Shapiro

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THE MEANING OF MARKETS: HOW THE DOMESTIC FAIR TRADE ASSOCIATION UNDERSTANDS CREATING SOCIAL CHANGE USING MARKET INITIATIVES, Emily Elizabeth Thorn

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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

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ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF WATER RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS IN THE BAGRAMI DISTRICT OF KABUL PROVINCE, Mumtaz Ahmad

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Redeveloping a Montana Food Processing Industry: The Role of Food Innovation Centers, Jessica Babcock

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The Klamath's Path after Termination, Monika Nicole Bilka

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FIELD METHOD EFFICACY TO DETECT MEDIUM AND LARGE MAMMAL PRESENCE NEAR ROADWAYS AT VAIL PASS, COLORADO, Paige Bonaker

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Between Earth &Sky: A Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Landscape, Allison Danae De Jong

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The Blackfoot Valley Trumpeter Swan Reintroduction: A Chronology and Case Study, Brian Kevin Ferrasci-O'Malley

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PLACE-BASED CONSERVATION LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE BEAVERHEAD-DEERLODGE PARTNERSHIP, Michael Thomas Fiebig

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RIVER HOUSE, Sarahlee Lawrence

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The Federal Land Policy and Management Act: The Role of the Quality of the Environment Language in Multiple Use, Ron W. Malecki

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Black Leaves, Nathaniel Ian Miller

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Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks, Cassidy J. Randall

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THE LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF RIVERINE SOCKEYE SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA) IN A LARGE FLOODPLAIN RIVER, Tyler Huntley Tappenbeck

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Development of an Environmental Law Curriculum for Kosovo Universities, Nebojsa Vlajic

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Achieving Environmental Justice for the Community of Opportunity, Montana: An Assessment of Superfund Concerns, Kathleen A. Hasenbank

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Organizing Rural Communities for Effective Citizen Science Programs, Anna Dean Holden

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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization, David Scott Kennedy

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Building a Better Local Food System: A Case Study of the Western Montana Growers Cooperative, Beth Anne Neely

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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

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Reducing Dental Mercury Discharge in Missoula, Montana: Collaborative Opportunities, Jamie Elaine Silberberger

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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World so sweet| Essays on the nature of food, Allison K. Clark

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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area, Alison L. Duvall

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Of both worlds: How the personal computer and the environmental movement change everything, William Henry Green

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Good Like the Sea, Becca Hall

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Protecting the Integrity of Organic Food in the Face of Genetic Engineering: The Case of Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Kristina Joy Hubbard

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A Land Link for Western Montana: Keeping Land in Agriculture from One Generation to the Next, Paul Fuller Hubbard

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

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TO NEIGHBOR: Stories from Melville, Montana, a Crossroads of Land, Community, and a Way of Life, Genevieve Jessop Marsh

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Addressing Contaminants in Traditional Foods in Alaska: Environmental Justice Framing and Policy Approaches, Mary Beth McKinley

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Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South, Catherine Meeks

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Web-based learning among Rare Pride conservation education campaign managers., Ashley Jeanne Parkinson

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In the Light Beyond Dreaming, Robin Sisson Patten

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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

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Impact of farm size tenancy and landowner gender on riparian buffer width, Mark A. River

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Cumulonimbus on Clay| Five Letters to a Difficult Place, Jesslyn Capen Shields

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Is Everything Connected? Following the Predators, Pests, and Plants Within a No-Till, Western Montana Agroecosystem, Ethan A. Smith

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Mobile Processing: Developing Appropriate Technology for Pastured Poultry Producers, Sarah Diane Stokes

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Rhetoric and the Restoration Landscape: Forest Restoration in Environmental Debate, Gregory M. Vranizan

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Encompassing| Notes from New Mexico, John Bateman

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Community-based monitoring A Strategy for Public Engagement in Natural Resource Issues, Paul Bélanger