This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Estimation of brook trout movement in a beaver pond complex using multi-state capture-recapture models : examination of restricted movement, Ryan L. Benson

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Factors affecting the costs of fuels management| An analysis of the FASTRACS database, Alison Berry

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Remediation and restoration of the Upper Clark Fork River Basin : a union of science law and public policy, Kimberly L. Brown

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Remote sensing based assessment of fire severity, Stephen R. Brown

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Difficulties in determining the benefits of riparian grazing level indicators to water quality and stream corridor condition in southwestern Montana, Amy C. Chadwick

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Effects of stand spatial patterns on the accuracy of FVS model predictions of tree canopy cover, Treg A. Christopher

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Do highways influence population connectivity in small mammals?, Reesa Yale Conrey

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Movement and resource selection of recolonizing bighorn sheep in western Montana, Nicholas J. DeCesare

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An Evaluation of GIS-based habitat models for bighorn sheep winter range in Glacier National Park Montana USA, Gordon H. Dicus

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Price beyond the pump: Social economic and environmental effects of United States oil development in Ecuador: How might U.S. corporations reduce negative impacts?, Tamara Diane Egans

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Exploring Visitor Experiences on Going-To-The-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Robert N. Giordano

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Minding the meaning of wilderness: Investigating the tensions and complexities inherent in wilderness visitors' experience narratives, Brian S. Glaspell

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Spatial and temporal response of grizzly bears to recreational use on trail, Tabitha A. Graves

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Narratives on nature beauty and public land: A search for an elusive environmental ethics, James A. Harding

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Modeling approach to analyzing ecological condition as a result of alternative fuel treatment strategies, Donald J. Helmbrecht

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Local distribution of brown-headed cowbirds relative to movement of livestock and a comparison of cowbird detection techniques, Jennifer Jolivette Lair

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Landscape level to elemental scale: pH copper and vegetation in the Upper Clark Fork River National Priority List Site, J. Gant Massey

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Undergrowth vegetation response to fuel reduction treatments in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, Kerry L. Metlen

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Habitat selection of large flying foxes using radio telemetry : targeting conservation efforts in Subic Bay Philippines, Tammy L. Mildenstein

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Exploring community forestry : an examination of the Collaborative Community Forestry Initiative in Ghana West Africa and a methodology for community forestry leadership, Robert G. Moler

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Estimates of nonpoint source pollution to watersheds in Belize using the AGNPS model, Philip A. Morgan

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Instream flow and water regime of selected riparian habitats in west-central Montana, Stephanie K. Mulica

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Alien plant species in protected areas and their matrices: Understanding invasions at multiple scales, Aníbal Pauchard

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Conflict and communicatively rational public discourse: Exploring an approach to social assessment to facilitate collaboration, Robert S. Potts

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Salt-affected sites in the Teton Wilderness, Dustin K. Walters

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Influences of elk management on the common raven population in Jackson Hole Wyoming, Crow White

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Recent sediment deposition on the South Fork of the Snake River Idaho and implications for cottonwood regeneration, Michael C. Williamson

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Fire in the mountains| Campesino and natural resource manager perspectives on agro-pastoral burning and forest fires in Honduras, Dale Gregory Woitas

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The ecology of Malayan sun bears (Helarctos malayanus ) in the lowland tropical rainforest of Sabah Malaysian Borneo, Siew Te. Wong

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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The debate surrounding newly implemented recreation user fees on federal lands: an examination of those actively opposed, Kristin H. Anderson

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Use of prescribed fire| Identifying perspectives and the resulting policy implications, Michelle Dawn Anderson

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The Golden Guipil: A story of the endangered Maya-Pokomchi and the golden-cheeked warbler in Guatemala, Douglas S. Booth

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Survival and dispersal of yellow warblers in Montana, Amy B. Cilimburg

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Efficacy of translocations for restoring populations of black-tailed prairie dogs in north-central Montana, Jo Ann Dullum

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A conservation strategy for the six sensitive species of Botrychium on the Kootenai National Forest, Roger D. Ferriel

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Viewing grizzly bears in captivity | an exploration of visitor dialogue and meanings associated with the experience, Stefanie A. Kearns

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Simulating the effects of climate change on the carbon balance of North American high latitude forests, Alisa Renae Keyser

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Effects of fire on range plant species in the northern mixed grass prairie, Sarah Kruger

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Effects of forest fragmentation and forest edge on Columbian mouse and southern red-backed vole demography, Kevin Patrick Lair

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Avian community composition and nesting productivity relative to cattle grazing in north-central Montana, Brian D. Logan

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Monitoring social conditions in wilderness: Visitor carrying capacity and Isle Royale National Park, Ann Mayo Kiely

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Development of a school gardening environmental education curriculum for rural Paraguayan schools, Anna Michelle Moline

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The delegation of law -making authority to the United States Forest Service: Implications in the struggle for national forest management, Michael J. Mortimer

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Floodplain plant diversity and conservation in regional and local contexts, Jason E. Mouw

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Forest health: Coming to terms, Ashley L. Preston

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Effects of intensive salvage logging on Rocky Mountain elk at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range, Jennifer Morgan Rinehart

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Validation and calibration of the FARSITE fire area simulator for Yellowstone National Park, Kristen A. Sanders

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Social dimensions of exotic weed management in national forests and adjacent communities, Ann Ellen Schwaller

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The influence of gene flow and landscape location on genetic variation in two threatened carnivores: The Canada lynx and San Joaquin kit fox, Michael Kenneth Schwartz

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Working with community-based organizations to develop nature tourism : a case study from the tropical lowlands of Bolivia, Jennifer Snyder

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River recreation policy for Kansas, Brian A. Sweatland

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Multiple use on our national forests?| A literature review and discussion, David F. Wickwire

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Comparison of techniques for estimating overstory canopy cover, Jason R. Applegate

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Effects of whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) restoration treatments on the distribution of bark beetle attacks, Kristen M. Baker

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The effects of wildfire and prescribed fire on soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in ponderosa pine forests, Urszula Choromanska

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Nesting habitat selection and productivity of northern goshawks in west-central Montana, Lorraine T. Clough

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Status and management of forest carnivores on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Benjamin R. Conard

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Wolf and elk predator-prey dynamics in Banff National Park, Mark Hebblewhite

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A Comparative Analysis of Surface Erosion and Water Runoff from Existing and Recontoured Forest Roads: O'Brien Creek Watershed, Lolo National Forest, Montana, Jennifer Hickenbottom

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Stand dynamics of Cinnamomum burmannii an invasive tree on O'ahu Hawaii, Andy T. Horcher

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Effectiveness of covered track plates for detecting American marten, Jacob Scott Ivan

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South Fork Tenderfoot Creek: Watershed analysis, Steven E. Kem

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Analysis of perceptions of natural resource planning in four 'wicked' situations, Paul R. Lachapelle

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Avian seed dispersal of Cinnamomum burmannii in Nuuanu Valley O'ahu Hawaii and its implications for alien species invasion, Sarah E. Laughlin

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Vegetation and process of the Kootenai National Forest, Daniel M. Leavell

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Height growth model for young lodgepole pine in western Montana| Quantifying small tree and competing vegetation relationships, Mark W. Loveall

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Habitat ecology and vulnerability to hunting mortality of elk in the southcentral Washington Cascades, Scott M. McCorquodale

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Social acceptability of alternatives to clearcutting in southeast Alaska| An exploratory study of the factors affecting judgement, Jeffrey Michael Miller

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Experiencing wolves in Yellowstone National Park: The wolf watching story, Jessica M. Montag

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Assessment of accident investigation methods for wildland firefighting incidents by case study method, Steve Munson

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Even-aged and multiaged ponderosa pine: A physiological comparison of stand structure and productivity, Linda Marie Nagel

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Effects of snow depths on seasonal movements and homerange distributions of wolves, moose, and woodland caribou in and around Pukaskwa National Park, Ontario, Canada, Graham K. Neale

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Agroecology hydrology and conservation of ephemeral streams and alluvial fans Zuni Pueblo New Mexico, Jay B. Norton

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Analysis and dynamic simulation of morphologic controls on surface- and ground-water flux in a large alluvial flood plain, Geoffrey Candler Poole

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Development of nuclear DNA markers to detect hybridization and assess phylogenetic relationships among subspecies of rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss) and cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki), J.W. Pearce Smithwick

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Noninvasive fecal monitoring of glucocorticoids in Alaskan brown bears (Ursus arctos horribilis), Christina G. Von der Ohe

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Incorporating competition between life forms into the soil water submodel within STAND-BGC a vegetative process model, Ellen P. Voth

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Building a Lubrecht Forest inventory Internet mapping service and volume comparisons, John R. Waterman

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Growth and structural dynamics of uneven -aged ponderosa pine stands in eastern Montana, Christopher William Woodall

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Influence of upland cover on occupancy rates of nest structures by mallards, Michael J. Artmann

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Field testing the accuracy and generality of selected wildlife-habitat models, Thomas R. Baumeister

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Riparian management and restoration in the Upper Henry's Fork basin Idaho, Nicholas C. Bezzerides

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How to change the growth of wildlife populations: Applications and experimental tests of demographic sensitivity analysis, John Citta

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A guide to important forestry tree species native to the Atlantic Slope of Costa Rica, Brian Daly

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Yellowstone National Park winter visitor stories : an exploration of the nature of recreation experiences and visitor perceptions of management change, Mae A. Davenport

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Evaluating the usefulness of the Internet as a survey method for testing visual preferences, Thale Dillon

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Modeling the initiation and spread of crown fires, Miguel Gomes da Cruz

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Modeling the occurrence of stand replacement fire in regeneration stands following the 1994 wildfires on the Kootenai National Forest, northwest Montana, Wendy L. Hall

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Nest habitat selection by grassland birds : the role of vegetation structure and floristics, Steven T. Hoekman

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Climatic and hydrologic effects on the establishment of Tamarix ramosissima in the cold desert of northern Wyoming (Bighorn Lake), Laura Elizabeth Hudson

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Biophysical differences between primary forest and traditional hillside farms in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Jennifer C. Karsner

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Planted conifer and surface vegetation responses to herbaceous vegetation control in western Montana, Chad E. Keyser

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Comparison of methods for the quantification of coarse woody debris and identification of its spatial scale| A study from the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest, Montana, Duncan Campbell Lutes

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Relating Piparian Habitat Variables to Incidence of Whirling Disease, Jack McWilliams

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Relating riparian habitat variables to incidence of whirling disease, Jack McWilliams

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Old-growth ponderosa pine in the Bull Mountains of central Montana, Todd A. Morgan

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Revegetation for riverbank stabilization on the upper Clark Fork River, Montana, Brendan James Moynahan

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Internet in wilderness distance education : a case study of an online course, Stephen L. Peel

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Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) regeneration processes in a ponderosa pine stand at the Lick Creek study area, Kristi D. Pflug

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Application of the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System for landscape ecosystem simulation, Michael J. Roberts