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HSU Masters Student Theses and Projects

Current Students

Dawn Albrecht - From Vulnerability to Resilience - Emergency Planning for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Humboldt County, California

Lori Biondini - Fisheries Management in Hoopa

Rebecca Cashero - Resilience, Place, and Collaborative Organization: A Political Ecology of Distributed Woody Biomass Energy Development in Rural California Communities

Imil Ferrara - A Political Ecology of Northwest California Land Communities

Leanne Lynch - Access to Recreational Open Space in Patterson, CA: A Geospatial Analysis Utilizing Geographic Information Systems

Kagat McQuillan - Yurok Food Resources from the Redwood Experimental Forest (REF) with an emphasis on Vaccinium parvifolium

Past Students

2015

Sarah Aldinger - Rural Resilience: Local agro-ecological knowledge, sustainable agriculture and cycles of change in Hayfork, CA: An exploratory case study

Rebekah Rafferty - Rancher Adaptations to Wolf Depredation in Western Montana

2014

Dawn Walker - Feeding our Families: A Process of Reconnecting with Food, the Earth, and Each Other

2013

Rebekah Dickens - Ecological and social considerations in tropical forest conservation: a case study in Ecuador

2012

Judy Sears - Building local capacity for disaster response: An assessment of community emergency response models In rural areas

Grace Sparks - Conserving Working Landscapes and Open Space: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Private Parcels Suitable for Conservation Easements in Calaveras County, California

Michelle Fuller - Herding Cats: Grassroots and centralized organizing in the case of California's Fire safe Councils

Max Kaufmann - Ecosystem service value of water supply benefits provided by forest stands in the Mattole River Watershed, California: A bioeconomic and benefit transfer - spatial analysis application.

Flora Brain - Eating Totem Salmon: Exploring extinction and collaborative restoration in a coastal California watershed community

Alyssa Hosbach - Managing land for resilience: a comparative analysis of conservation planning and holistic management

2011

Emily Walters - Defining restoration goals for the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center, Manila, California based on an analysis of ecological processes in coastal dunes

Kihyun Kim - A comparative institutional analysis of management in urban riparian greenways: the American River Parkway(Sacramento, California) and the Willamette River Greenway (Portland, Oregon)

Haley West - Home gardens of Humboldt County, California: exploring the politics of knowledge, reciprocity and community

Jennifer Mayberry - Community wildfire preparedness: Balancing community safety and ecosystem sustainablitity in southern California chaparral

2009

Abbey Stockwell - Analysis of barriers to low impact development in the North Coast Redwood Region, California

Cybelle Immitt - The potential of community action plans to promote economic revitalization through rural county planning

Lenya Quinn Davidson - Prescribed fire: Influences on community support and Management activities in Northern California

2008

Lisa Spadoni - The effectiveness of land use planning on the preservation of open space in five rural, high amenity communities in the Rocky Mountains

2007

Ben Letton - Hazardous fuel mapping and thematic accuracy assessment in the wildland urban interface

2004

Patty Clifford - Integrating logistic regression and GIS to predict the distribution of Petasites frigidus var. Palmatus in the Klamath Mountain subregion, California

Jolie Lonner - Determining the Sustainable Harvest of Oregon Grape (Berberis nervosa)