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  Equitable Hiring Policy in Higher Education at the University of Montana

  Victoria McKinley Bigelow and Kinsey Anderson

  Higher Education; University of Montana; Equity; Hiring; University; College; Montana; Missoula; Public Administration; Organization; Missoula; Diversity; Women; Policy

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  Increasing Environmental Education Accessibility Through New Media

  Farrah Masoumi

  This portfolio shows projects that aim to create a larger outreach for environmental education through digital education content and expand already existing programs to enhance the learning and teaching experience. All of these components highlight the integration between environmental education and new media. By being ... Read More

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  Group Development in Natural Resource Collaboration in the Crown of the Continent: Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing

  Meghan Rene Neville

  This portfolio brings together three experiences of natural resource collaborative groups each in a different stage of development. Researcher, Bruce Tuckman, theorized that collaborative groups go through different stages in order to grow, face new challenges, tackle problems, deliver results, and become an effective team ... Read More

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  Conservation Education: Using Birds to Connect Communities to their Natural Environment

  Kathryn A. Olson

  The theme of my portfolio is conservation education, using birds as an example of how to connect people of all ages to their natural environment. Birds were chosen as an example because of a personal curiosity for the animal, and because they are an accessible ... Read More

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  Second Wind

  Anne A. Yoncha

  Second Wind is a kinetic, responsive art installation which examines invisible processes taking place in and around a Ponderosa pine tree. Wind speed data, measured at 20', 25', 30', 35', and 40' in the canopy of a Ponderosa on the University of Montana campus, is ... Read More

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  Full Circle: Building a Local Economy through Pollinator Enterprises in the Food System

  Catherine M. DeMets

  As the alternative food movement gains traction in mainstream American society, it is essential to document how enterprises in the movement are building robust local economies. As Eric Holt-Giménez (2010: 1) points out, the movement “has successfully shone the spotlight on hunger and food access ... Read More

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  Watershed Management Tools: Hazardous Site Case History, Reference Stream Analysis, and GIS Analysis of Fire Risk

  Patrick Doyle

  My portfolio explores some tools that are used to protect or assess watershed health and the experiences and lessons I learned during my time in the Environmental Studies program. The first piece in my portfolio is a case study that looks at the history of ... Read More

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  Resilience Through Connection To Place: How Native Peoples Rely on The Land and How the Land Relies On Us

  Tabitha N. Espinoza

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  Science, Advocacy, Policy, Planning: Tools for Advancing Transportation Equity

  Garrett S. McAllister

  The theme of this portfolio is how different tools and approaches can be used for advancing transportation equity. Broadly defined, transportation equity is about fairness in transportation. There are a number of ways this fairness can be assessed. The most common way to assess transportation ... Read More

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  Scene of a changing climate

  Mona Nazeri Dr

  For the last 500,000 years, the world climate has been in transition from warm to cold and vice versa. However, recent human-caused climate change has increased the rate of change in extreme and average climate conditions. Globally, people are facing higher than average temperatures as ... Read More

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  Restoring Watersheds and Building Watershed Communities

  Lindsay Wancour

  The central theme of my four portfolio pieces is restoring watersheds and building watershed communities. Each component of my portfolio approaches this theme differently. Using a broad approach allowed me to explore the various ways communities, watersheds, and restoration can intersect. My first portfolio piece ... Read More

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  Multi-Scaled Approaches for Protecting Montana's Watersheds and Water Resources

  Elizabeth Yoder

  The central theme carried among my four portfolio pieces is: using scientific and governmental approaches to conserve watershed health. For the purposes of this portfolio, I define watershed health as a very general term that describes the state of water quantity and quality that is ... Read More

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  Laying the Foundation for Effective Natural Resource Management

  Teresa Scanlon

  The following portfolio describes three distinct, yet not mutually exclusive, approaches for managing water and other resources. A common theme throughout the three approaches is that they “lay the foundation” for future management, and each piece depicts a different approach to natural resource management planning. ... Read More