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 2024
Coalescence: A Carnivore Coexistence Curriculum that Braids Indigenous & Western Ecological Knowledge into a Relevant and Experiential Learning Opportunity for Youth, Stephanie Anne Barron
Breathing Hard in Beautiful Places, Lars Chinburg
UNLOCKING THE WEST: A CRITIQUE OF PREVIOUS STATUTORY ATTEMPTS AND A PROPOSED STATUTORY SOLUTION TO ALLOW ACCESS TO CORNER-LOCKED PUBLIC LAND, Sawyer J. Connelly
An Institutional and Policy Analysis of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change of the Agricultural Sector of Bangladesh, Calvin Wood Martin
Better Understanding the Barred Owl, Adam Lee Potts
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Biome Within: Conception and Change in the Paradise Valley, Austin Kirchhoff
"Our Loons": Participant Attachments and Motivations within a Community-Based Monitoring Program, Taylor Tewksbury
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Traversing Paradigms: An Environmental Journey to Body and Mind, Martin Ceja Mejia
Tales from a Placeholder: A Relational Journey with Land, Place, People and Self, Kalle O. Fox
Edge Habits: Confessions of a Naturalist, Zoey Talon Greenberg
Keeping What You Sow: Intellectual Property Rights for Plant Breeders and Seed Growers, Paulina B. Jenney
A Thinking Person's Guide to Immigration and Environmental Racism at the US - Mexico Border, Emma H. Kiefer
Re-Storying Grant Creek: A Case Study of Relational Dynamics on a Degraded Montana Stream, Seamus Rucci Land
NO DIVING FROM BRIDGE, Lia R. Mendez
Catch My Drift? Perceptions and Experiences of Pesticide Contamination of Organic Crops in Montana, sarah Rodgers
Trailing Fire: Working in the Woods and the Future of Forests in a Chaotic Climate, Claire Kilchrenan Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Building Bridges: How Collaboration is Addressing Wildlife-Vehicle Conflicts in Montana's Upper Yellowstone Watershed, Daniel Phelps Anderson
EVALUATING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON THE CROWN OF THE CONTINENT, Travis D. Anklam
Ragged Coast: Stories from the Easternmost Edge, Siobhan Justine Harrity
LIGHTMAN, Cynthia Ann Marbut
Policy and Collaborative Governance: Case Studies of Three Wildlife Crossings, Nicholas Maya
Collaborative Conservation and Backcountry Weed Control: A Case Study of the Great Burn Proposed Wilderness, Christopher James Prange
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Food Policy for a Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Local Food System: Recommendations for Missoula, Erika Berglund
Surface Tension: Essays on an Evolving Faith, Sydney Jo Bollinger
Down the Deer Path: Reflections on the Future of Hunting in America, Jackie A. Bussjaeger
Comparing Fence Modeling and Mapping Approaches to Support Wildlife Management and Research in Southwest Montana, Simon Albert Buzzard
RHETORIC AND PERCEPTION: A CASE STUDY OF THE PROPOSED NORTHMET MINE ON MINNESOTA’S IRON RANGE, Sophia J. Frank
Saline: On Walking Through, Kitty A. Galloway
Change is the Only Constant: A Snowpack Retention Analysis and Climate Vulnerability Road Map for the Skalkaho Creek Sub-Basin, Zachary Freeman Goodwin
Developing a Decision-Making Framework for Assisted Migration: Applying this to the American Pika and Whitebark Pine, Mia Kimya Hedayat-Zedah
A Policy Analysis of Lead Paint Disclosure Implementation in Residential Homes in Missoula Montana, Marissa Lein Lehner
An Exploration of Zero Waste Policies and Recommendations for Missoula, Sarah Blyth Lundquist
A Restless Imminent Dread, Elizabeth M. Pellegrino
Tending to the Tapestry: An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Women Farmer-Artists' Stories, Aubrey Pongluelert
Protecting Biodiversity on National Forests: The Evolution and Implementation of Forest Planning Regulations, Anna Wearn
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Recovering our Roots: The Importance of Salish Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Traditional Food Systems to Community Wellbeing on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana., Mitchell Rose Bear Don't Walk
Environmental Site Assessment and Hydrogeologic Impacts to Groundwater at St. Ignatius, Montana and Hanford, Washington, Ryan M. Carter
WATER USE IN CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS (CAFOS) IN MINNESOTA: WHO’S KEEPING TRACK?, Dara Meredith Fedrow
Missoula Prescription Produce Program: Lessons Learned 2015-2017, Harley Fredriksen
The Impact of Industrial Agriculture on Social-Ecological Resilience: A Case Study of the Fairfield Bench, Montana, Anne Preston Harney
Walking While Asking:Lessons from Agroecology Education in Chiapas, Mexico, Katherine E. Keller
Why Does My Town Smell Like Nail Polish?: Using The Toxics Release Inventory To Investigate Industrial Chemical Pollutants In Elkhart County, Indiana, Magdalena Lehman
Walking with the Wild: Finding an Ethic of Compassion in Conservation, Jane Hallie McGuire
Development Along Rattlesnake Creek: An Assessment of Stream Health, Channel Form, and Land Cover, Christopher D. Miller
"Fenced-In Place": White Settler Colonialism as Opposition to Increased Tribal Management of the National Bison Range, Brittany Lee Palmer
The Anatomy of Extinction: Stories of People as Place, Mason Parker
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Applications of GIS in Conservation, Heidi M. Daulton
A Comparison of Three Agricultural Startups, John Dindia
Policy Analysis: Alaska Salmon Hatcheries, Jessica Eller
ZONING AND COMPLEMENTARY INCENTIVES TO PROTECT FARMLAND: A CASE FOR MISSOULA COUNTY, Kaitlin McCafferty
Lessons Learned in the Superfund Process: A Guide for Community Advisory Groups, Terri Nichols
GROWING YOUTH PROGRAMMING AT GARDEN CITY HARVEST THROUGH PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, Hannah B. Oblock
Things That Fly, Melissa Anne Peterson
Transitioning Montana to a Renewable Energy Future: The Social and Economic Impacts, Jacqueline O. Sussman
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Poison in Pink, Sydney V. Cook
Carrying the Seeds: Adaptations and Transitions of Hmong American Food Producers in Missoula County, Montana, Rachel Cramer
Chignik Summer, Peter Gurche
GROUND FIRES: Essays on Land and Scouting, Matthew R. Hart
The Balancing Act: Ecological Interventions and Decision Tradeoffs to Preserve Wilderness Character, Lucy A. Lieberman
Wearing it on: A Map of Work and Land, Thomas Sentner
COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, Sophie C. Wolfram
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Comparison of Course Quality Surveiy Results from Students on Gender Balanced and Gender Imbalanced Field Courses at NOLS, Alexandra M. Alway
PERFORMANCE MEASURES OF ROAD CROSSING STRUCTURES FROM RELATIVE MOVEMENT RATES OF LARGE MAMMALS, Adam Andis
Between Rivers: Reflections on home, obligation, and otherness from a confluence of conservation and connectivity, Chandra M. Brown
Adapting Near-Ultraviolet Colorimetry for Long-Term In Situ Monitoring of Hexavalent Chromium in Groundwater Aquifers, Janine Carter
An Elemental Community: Contemplations of Place, Theresa A. Duncan
Aquatic food webs and heavy metal contamination in the upper Blackfoot River, Montana, Jack E. Landers
Beautiful, Battered Lands: Making Peace with Place from the Rust Belt to Appalachia, Katherine Leary
The Next Billion: Lessons in off-grid electricity development from the global south, Peter McDonough
73,401 Hexagons: A Geodiversity Gap Analysis of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Robina A. Moyer
Wingspan: Living with Birds, Lauren A. Smith
The Way Around: Walking into Revolution, Nicholas T. Triolo
Baseline study of recovering headwater streams in the Sapphire Mountains, western Montana, Morgan Vinyard
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOGS ON BOULDER, COLORADO OPEN SPACE AND MOUNTAIN PARKS LAND: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECT INDICATORS, Rachel A. Caldwell
Instituting Collaborative Conservation in Federal Land Management: the BLM's Resource Advisory Councils as an Example, Benjamin D. Donatelle
Off the Court, Onto the Farm, Arza E. Hammond
Speaking for You: Positions of Montana Ranching Organizations on Beef Market Concentration, Katie Marie LeBlanc
Farm-to-School in Montana: An Assessment of Program Participation, Autumn Lee
Legal Tools for Local Control of Oil and Gas Development: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities – Focusing on Select Eastern and Western U.S. States with Current and Potential Oil/Gas Development, Gabrielle M. Ostermayer
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION IN WILDERNESS: WHAT THE FISH TO DO?, Kelsey R. Patterson
Rural Food Procurement Strategies and Attitudes Towards Food Sourcing: A Case Study of Boulder Town, Utah, Jane R. Philips
Cultivating Opportunity: Land Transfer Tools to Support Land Access for Beginning Farmers, Samuel E. Plotkin
The Millennial Who Planted Trees, trevien stanger
Raising Grain in Next Year Country: Dryland Farming, Drought, and Adaptation in the Golden Triangle, Montana, Caroline M. Stephens
Sacred Zones: Examing Wilderness in Yellowstone, Maine and Russia, Lily S. Vonderheide
Unearthing Connections in a Storied Landscape: The Flathead River Honoring and Place-Based Education in the Flathead Valley, Melissa Wardlow
FRACTURE, Emily Withnall
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Use and Effectiveness of Wildlife Crossing Structures with Short Sections of Wildlife Fencing, Elizabeth Rose Fairbank
A Hunter's Shadows: A Personal Exploration of Hunting, James Giese
A SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE RESORT AT PAWS UP, Matthew S. Hannon
WHEN THE SAP FLOWS: AFFECTION AND INDUSTRY IN THE MAPLE WOODS, Nicholas R. Littman
Impacts of Montana Public Wolf Hunting and Trapping on Tolerance and Acceptance of Gray Wolves Among Rural Resident Ranchers, Trappers, and Big Game Hunters, Alia Winn Mulder
'This Disc is not for a Bird Bath, it's for my Tractor': Exploring Gender, Sustainable Agriculture, and Networks in Western Montana, Eva Kathryn Rocke
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Prioritizing The Upper Clark Fork River Tributaries for Instream Flow Restoration, Catherine B. Berg