Green Mountain College : Masters of Science in Environmental Studies (MSES).
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Used oil management in Texas provides significant and unique compliance challenges. In an effort to assist those that are involved in or contemplating participation, this guide has been developed to provide an overview of used oil management environmental compliance requirements associated with Used Oil Handlers (UOH) in Texas. The typical facility covered by this guide would store from 50,000 gallons to 1,000,000 gallons, and perform used oil collection...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An ecocritical lens allows for the interpretation of the role of the environment within a literary text. Five novels by Herman HessePeter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, knulp, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmundas well as several poems, are read from an ecocritical perspectice to show how Hesse's main characters interact with the natural world. Each of these characters forms connections with nature in his home place, on a journey away from home,...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Field journaling is an adaptable process of observation and perception which engages individuals of all ages, helping them to construct their own deep connection with the more than human wold. Compared to journals in general, a nature journal is unique in that place takes on a central role as the main subject along with the journalist as observer. This activity generates a foundation of wonder, joy and caring in the individual practitioner. The following...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Amphibian education and community involvement is critical at this time. We face a global amphibian extinction crisis. Of the more than 6,000 recognized species of amphibians, over one third are suffering serious declines or have recently become extinct, despite having survived millions of years. The reasons for the decline vary, but without educating our youth to appreciate and understand amphibians and their environments, they are destined to go...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Every year, 200 million Americans ride aboard passenger vessels and as transportation gridlock on roads increases, growth is expected in many markets throughout the U.S. Global climate change has become a major concern for the general population according to public opinion polls, and awareness of environmental concerns are making consumers more interested in patronizing "green" or environmentally friendly businesses. Equally, businesses are becoming...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Integrating technology with physical field surveying provides a unique perspective on how we view our environment. Through studying the results of field data, we can understand a living ecosystem's tendencies of change. Erosion on native prairie land at the Weldon Spring Site, Missouri has been an ongoing issue since 2004 when the prairie was first created. Establishing a baseline of erosion features is important for effectively monitoring changes...
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Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this applied project was two-fold. One goal of this research was to further the collective knowledge of environmental attitude formation and change. This study aimed to determine if participation in an outdoor education program at White Pines Ranch had any effect on a student's attitude toward the environment. To measure attitudes, about 100 sixth graders were asked to complete Malkus' (1992) Adults' Attitudes Toward the Environment...
8) A year on Turtle Hill: a natural history and guidebook for Camp Friedenswald and Southwest Michigan
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Multiple traditional field guides exist for the state of Michigan, providing those who are curious with identification tools for mammals, birds, fish, butterflies, trees, rocks, and other ecosystem components. Their coverage of the entire state and lack of place-based story, however, limit the extent to which they might motivate actual engagement with the natural world, or commitment to its conservation. For this project I authored, illustrated, and...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the Eastern U.S, the federal singing-ground survey (SGS) of American woodcock (Scolopax minor) has shown a long term declining trend in the number of singing males per route. Loss of young forest habitat is believed to be the primary driver of this decline. However, there may be a variety of factors unrelated to woodcock demographics that affect the efficacy of the survey and reliability of population indices derived from the survey data. The federal...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of the website, smalldamremoval.com, is to inform towns, private landowners, and curious minds about the various benefits of reconnecting the rivers in Massachusetts via small dam removal. It is a compilation of information for Massachusetts residents, though the general issues can apply to other states as well. New England has one of the highest densities of dams in the country and, while removal is becoming more common in aquatic restoration...
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Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this applied professional project is to design and implement an interdisciplinary class for The Klahre House alternative high school students that integrates 3 parts: current environmental issues, how we came to be this way, and visions for the future. There are many underlying and deep-seated attitudes towards natural resources and the Earth that should be explored in conjunction with environmental problems and solutions. The idea...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 2006, members of the Jamestown Audubon Nature Center staff identified the invasive Water Chestnut (Trapa natans L.) in "Big Pond", a freshwater emergent wetland located in Jamestown Audubon Society's (JAS) Burgeson Wildlife Sanctuary (BWS). T. natans L.is listed as a prohibited invasive species by New York State under 6 NYCRR Part 575 because of its threat, both environmental and economic, to the state's natural communities and systems...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
This thesis describes a project completed in the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion. I collaborated with Frank Kanawha Lake (Karuk descendant and Ph.D.), a United States Forest Service (USFS) research ecologist who specializes in traditional ecological knowledge, ethno-biology, and fire ecology. Together we hypothesized that identifiers of biophysical diversity (dominant vegetation, fire histories) may be correlated to particular geological types (soil, parent...
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Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus populations have suffered a steep decline in the past few decades, but the reasons for this decline remain unclear. Until recently little information was known about the species' ecology due to its secretive nature and the remoteness of its breeding habitats in the boreal forest, but the recent development of a working group of biologists to study the species is rapidly improving our knowledge of the species. A number...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
International trade in wildlife and wildlife parts exists on a massive scale. Iconic mammals such as elephants, rhinos and tigers are killed daily for fashion and traditional medicine. Reptiles, birds and primates languish in cramped cages to supply exotic pet collectors around the world, and hundreds end up served as bush meat to satisfy a growing human appetite. This demand for rare and endangered species not only impacts biodiversity, but also...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
With an abundance of natural resources, from gold to timber to breathtaking tropical scenery, the Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru is caught between the drive for development based on resource extraction and calls for conservation of one of the most biologically diverse areas on the planet. This thesis project is a proposal for a book exploring the concept of "sustainable development" in Amazon through a journey into Madre de Dios along the...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The United States Fish & Wildlife Service has identified the search for new populations and exploration of historic sites to be one of its recovery goals for the Muhlenberg's (bog) turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii). The species is considered rare and declining, though sites may exist that are currently unknown. While being used in other areas of species range, soil series mapping has not been investigated for its use within the northeast as a tool to...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Significant landscape level changes have occurred in Indiana since European settlement, there are no scientific accounts of the ecological conditions that may have occurred across Indiana landscapes prior to this period. Clearing forests, draining wetlands, and altering headwater streams have facilitated the grown of agricultural productivity; it has also compromised stream ecosystems. Excessive loss of nutrients and soil from upland areas decreases...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Both traditional knowledge of the medicinal uses of plants among American Indians and ecological study provide approaches for conserving biodiversity in my bioregion of the eastern Adirondack foothills. Ethnobotany is a powerful tool for connecting students to plants in their region, through the compelling stories of vital relationships between indigenous people and plants. Native American perspectives vary hugely in their plant traditions and medicines...
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Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The Inuit of Canada used to be nomadic subsistence hunters. Following World War II, however, the Canadian Government created settlements into which they relocated most Inuit. With few job opportunities, members of these communities lacked ways to make money and survive. The arts became a vital form of income for them when, in 1948, an artist from the South taught printmaking to residents of Cape Dorset, Canada. Now, One in every four people in Cape...