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The Seeker Loves the Burden, Lauren de Paepe
Hydration Delivery Systems for Wildland Firefighters, Joseph Wiman Domitrovich
Bleeding heartwood: Stories from an environmental awareness peace corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, Aaron D. Drendel
When the night hour stalks about the steeple that is when it's fine to look., Myrrah Dubey
USING THE FREEZE-THAW CYCLE TO DETERMINE THE POSTMORTEM INTERVAL: AN ASSESSMENT OF PIG DECOMPOSITION IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA, Beatrix Dudzik
Half-life of Empathy, Rebecca A. Durham
RELIABILITY OF PROXY RESPONDENTS WHO REPORT COMMUNICATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR PERSONS WITH APHASIA, Megan Rose Eandi
PSEUDO_OP, Joshua Arnold Eck
Migratory Behavior and Survival of Adult Female Elk in a Partially Migratory Population, Scott Eggeman
Stories from the Clever Earth, Natalie Elliot
The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, Adrianna C. Ely
Written on the Rocks': The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre, Ann Emmons
Remembering paradise | histories of Glen Canyon, Jared Farmer
Five Stories, Bradin M. Farnworth
Procession of shadows: Abortion and the environment, Wren Farris
Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States, Michael P. Fawaz
Montana Dream Book, Will Fesperman
The H_Box, Rachel Finkelstein
Lines of Motion: Streets and Shores, Ellen Maureen Finnigan
BURDEN OF PROOF AND OTHER ESSAYS, Regina Rae Fitzsimmons
Or else we would fly away| A history of place and placelessness, Jenny Rachel Flynn
Travels with the lord of misrule| [Excerpts], Jenny Rachel Flynn
A GIS APPROACH TO ANALYZING STREAM TEMPERATURES IN THE SLEEPING CHILD CREEK WATERSHED, MONTANA, USA, Gabriel J. Frazier
Analyzing the error structure and simultaneous nature of multi-dimensional, density dependent growth models for ponderosa pine, James Furlaud
The Effect of Graphic Organizers on Fifth Grade Creative Writing, Bailey D. Furr
Gospel Night, Dana Fitz Gale
CONTINUOUS MEASURES OF MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW DURING ALL-OUT DYNAMIC EXERCISE, Tyler L. Gallo
Saline: On Walking Through, Kitty A. Galloway
Homemade, Jennifer Nicole Gann
Real-Time Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For CUDA, steven santos garcia
Demon Theory, Beatrice Garrard
Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness, Tim G. Gibbins
A Hunter's Shadows: A Personal Exploration of Hunting, James Giese
Mindfulness and Health Behaviors, Desleigh D. Gilbert
In Our Defense, Kristen Jean Gleason
The Transfer of Federal Public Lands to Tribal Trust Ownership: Statutes and Cases from 1970 - 2020, Audrey L. Glendenning
From Color Plates, Adam Golaski
UNDERSTANDING CYNICISM: USING A DISCREPANCY MODEL AS EVIDENCE FOR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC CYNICISM, L. Janelle Gornick
Edge Habits: Confessions of a Naturalist, Zoey Talon Greenberg
The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650-1787, Katie Elizabeth Green
This land is your land, this land is my land: A qualitative study of tensions in an environmental decision making group, Gabriel Patrick Grelle
WORK IN PROGRESS, Brian H. Groh
"Born of the River" The Literature of the Glen Canyon, Matthew Barrett Gross
“WE ON THE LAND”: COLLECTED ESSAYS IN ECOCRITICISM, Michelle Gullickson
PHYSICO-CHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1 (VGLUT1), Jing Guo
Chignik Summer, Peter Gurche
An Examination of Missoula Citizens' Perceptions of Local Law Enforcement, Leila M. Haack
Fire Finder: Life as a Lookout in the Northern Rockies, Austin Gregory Hagwood
Journey north| Hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, Adrienne Hall
Historical archaeology and the Garnet Mining Camp| 1865--1912, Daniel S. Hall
Intersecting Issues of the Kashmir Earthquake: Risk reduction, vulnerability and the erosion of seismic culture, Jennifer Hamilton
Erosion, Lauren Kearns Hamlin
Making of foreign correspondents in Asia: Who they are and where they are going, Timothy Lee Hanson
Complete guide to women's strength training, Joe Harlan
Impacts of Industrial Development Upon Indigenous Farming and Grazing Traditions in Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, James Robert Harper
Ragged Coast: Stories from the Easternmost Edge, Siobhan Justine Harrity
Soil Properties and Plant Community Productivity Mediate the Population Level Consequences of Rodent Seed Predation, Ryan James Hegstad
Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh, Matthew Henry
AND THE MACHINE CONTINUES WITHOUT PAUSE, Mark Hernberg
An Experiential Perspective on the Buddhist Not-Self: Implications for Western Psychology, Christian Herwitz
The Theme of rest in the works of Saint Augustine, Thomas J. Hesse
Beyond the Prow, Michael Hicks
In Situ Measurements and Modeling Used to Constrain Heat Transfer in the Western Greenland Ice Sheet, Benjamin H. Hills
Like Skipping Stones, Stacia Lynn Hill
Under the Orchard - Novel Excerpt, Madison Rose Hinrichs
Self-Portrait of the Artist Stupid with Grief, Franziska C. Hofhansel
On the day you were born: Family legacies created by tradition, Diane Marie Holden
Most hours| [Poems], Anne Holub
Issues in information technology, Bill Hook
At home and in transit, Lizabeth Houchin
DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE ACADEMIC AND EMPLOYMENT EXPECTATIONS OF GRADUATE ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINERS, Christine D. Howard
Food for Thought on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation: The Political Ecology Behind Food Security, Penny D. Hudson
"We Have Found the Native Tongue Indispensable": Missionary Interactions with the Dakota Language, 1834-1893, Dylan Fredric Huisken
Mein, Diane R. Hunt
Giving the Ghost, William Hutchinson
Sugarsnap, Liana J. Imam
Eagle Creek Site (24PA301)| A prehistoric archaeological site near Gardiner, Montana, Janet A. Jackman
WHILE GLACIERS SLEPT, JERILYNN EMILY JACKSON
The Light Outside: Stories and a Novella, Roland Jackson
A Feasibility study for a credit analysis consulting business for small independently owned banks, Kenneth L. Jansa
Sofia: A Novel, Anna S. Jedrzejczyk
The Loss of Play in Organized Youth Sports, Audrey Lea Jensen
Controls on the Spatial-temporal distribution of soil moisture under snow dominated conditions in a naturally vegetated, sub-alpine mountain catchment, Adam Collier Johnson
Habitat influences on avian diversity and reproductive success in western aspen forests, Amy B. Johnson
Rattling the chain, Ann LaRee Johnson
Yugoslavia| An unstable federation, Kendal D. Johnson
In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kira Stacey Jones
A Comparison of Lexical Inferencing Skills in Third-, Fourth-, and Fifth-Grade Students, Noelle Angeline Jones
Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on streamflow variability in the North Fork of Elk Creek Experimental Watershed, West-Central, Montana, Katie Marie Jorgensen
Rules for Talking, Joanna Lee Keilp
Quiet People, Abigail Hope Keller
An Environmental history of the Rocky Mountain Front, David W. Keller M.D.
Frank Bird Linderman Collection| A study in historic material culture, Billie G. Kelly
Revisiting the Ladle House Site: A Starch Granule Analysis of Ground Stone Artifacts from 5MT3873, Cortez, Colorado, Kathryn Marie Kemp
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Essays on Purpose and Perpetuity and to a Lesser Extent Gospel Music, Recycling, Bikes, Life, Death and Things Found in Alleys, Brian Lukas Kevin
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE OCTOBER 8, 2005 KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE: ASSESSING POST-SEISMIC LANDSLIDING PROCESSES BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010, Shah F. Khan
Blackfoot Ceremony Through the Power of Song, Kevin Dale Kicking Woman
Montana's environmental place-based writers, Annie Probst Kilgour