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- Creator:
- Brain, Flora H.
- Description:
- Wild Pacific salmon populations are declining throughout California. To strengthen applied salmonid restoration ecology, increased watershed-based understandings of socio-cultural issues thwarting recovery efforts are needed. This study explored perceptions of viabilities of threatened Mattole River salmonids and feelings concerning current human-fish interactions among local residents and fishermen. This qualitative research employed a social constructivist framework and phenomenological orientation. Narrative empirical evidence from lived experience is presented in conjunction with semi-structured interview data from watershed residents, salmon restorationists, poachers, and catch and release fishermen. While many perceive that Mattole coho salmon are facing extinction and consider Chinook salmon’s future nearly as tenuous, a minority of residents believe that Mattole River salmon are abundant. The latter approve and defend salmon poaching, whereas the majority strongly condemns it. Feelings are modulated by perceived threats to the fish runs, and by local identity. Poaching is justified through use of certain neutralization techniques, primarily condemnation of the local nonprofit salmon organization, and claims of local entitlement. The ways people view restoration efforts, poaching, and catch and release fishing in the Mattole River are affected by socio-cultural influences, which constitute barriers to collaborative restoration. Joint fact-finding and listening are among recommendations for trust-building techniques designed to increase recognition of the shared desire for abundant salmon and foster civic response to poaching. The major aim of this research is to inspire improved collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts to address the more significant challenges to salmon recovery, in the Mattole River and beyond.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
2. A policy analysis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's hydroelectric relicensing process
- Creator:
- Wright, Jay
- Description:
- In this thesis, the FERC’s hydroelectric relicensing process is examined from a historical perspective. It finds that strong federal control to ensure a comprehensive plan for private capital development of hydropower was necessary in the early development era and expansion of the United States economy. Over time, Congress and the courts have devolved this centralized decision-making authority away from the FERC and shared it with a plurality of other federal and state agencies. The Electrical Consumer’s Protection Act requires that the FERC give equal consideration between the needs of development with the needs of environmental protection. This shift brought the process substantially inline with a changing public desire for species protection and environmental preservation. The Klamath River relicensing provides a case example to analyze the impacts the process has on watershed communities. Restoration of ecosystems is increasingly seen as a means to achieve economically viable communities and preserving traditional cultural ways of life. Whether the FERC and its relicensing process will be staged to enter a new era in riverine management, and the reasons why it may not change constitute an important research question. Semi-standardized interviews with Klamath relicensing participants were conducted to evaluate the strengths and limits of the process. The analysis focuses on the FERC’s comprehensive planning mandate, the FERC’s consideration of preserving the tribal trust and sovereignty, and the issue of timeliness in obtaining relicensing decisions. This thesis finds that the FERC must further modify its relicensing process to consider holistic notions of ecosystem management in order to obtain fundamental restoration outcomes.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Escarcega Gomes, Vanessa
- Description:
- The role of the museum throughout its history has been to serve its community, through the education and entertainment of the public (Starn, 2005; Skramstad, 1999). An institution, where education intersects with entertainment, creates a space where people are drawn together and in which community flourishes (Association of Children’s Museums 2005; Gates 2003, Kreps 2009). The museum builds community by strengthening relationships through shared experience and interests. Many museums identify community-building as a goal in their mission statements. Unfortunately, some organizations fall short of that mission because they fail to effectively reflect and respond to their communities. With each exhibit installment and program design, with every newly developing museum organization, museums have the opportunity to share the power of decision-making with their audience, young or old. Some museum organizations have trouble relinquishing their “expert authority” while others fail at their feeble attempts of token public participation. Successful integration of the public does occur when museum leaders are diligent in their efforts and willing to commit to public participation at the institutional level. Participatory planning provides stakeholders, including community members, with a voice in the changes that will affect them, making the planning and design process a collaborative, grassroots production. With this method, the public is no longer just the audience, but an active participant in the museum design. For children’s museums, the child is the targeted visitor and the participation of children should be sought after. Enlisting children to participate holds real value, but that value is often overlooked. Children who are given the opportunity to participate and have their voice heard will more likely continue to seek out other opportunities to contribute to their community in meaningful ways. When today’s youth are encouraged to contribute to society, it fosters a culture of civic-mindedness, leading to a more engaged community tomorrow. This project identifies strategies for successfully enacting participatory planning in the context of museum development, highlighting the voice of the child in children’s museums. This was accomplished using multiple methods including key-informant interviews and participant observation. Content analysis of interviews was used to identify patterns of methods used by museums to successfully integrate the voice and actions of the surrounding and visiting community into a development project. Results and conclusions were synthesized into a best practices guide, which may serve as a reference for leaders in museum organizations. The guide’s purpose is to outline strategies to effectively incorporate communities into the planning and development process of a new museum project, such as an exhibit, a renovated museum component, or an entirely new museum building. By creating and distributing an easy-to-use guide which demonstrates past successes in participatory organizational planning, this project may benefit and aid in the advancement of the museum community as well as other similar organizations genuinely interested in the perspective and participation of the communities they serve.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Bramble, Portia Boni
- Description:
- In this study I explore the revolution in food consciousness currently progressing in the United States, with an emphasis on the important role farmers’ markets play in supporting access to healthful, nutritious fresh produce, rural economies, and community building. Through a year of transition from intern to Executive Director of the North Coast Growers’ Association (NCGA), I gained invaluable first-hand experience in running a successful, healthy, and robust farmers’ market in Humboldt County, California. A review of the relevant literature revealed a lack of resources to guide market managers in the various processes necessary to support and manage a farmers’ market. This paper builds upon existing literature to provide a detailed manual for running a successful farmers’ market.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Barnett, Jyl
- Description:
- How can school districts, food service workers, parents and communities address childhood food insecurity and obesity? Limited nutrition and environmental education programs in schools also perpetuate problems of inactivity, poor nutrition among youth and a disassociation with local environments. The Farm-to-School program is explored as one method Humboldt County is using to unite schools and farmers in a mutually beneficial relationship. This project assisted Farm-to-School’s educational component by developing classroom presentations and slideshows as tools to integrate agricultural literacy into school curricula. A program evaluation design was also developed for future use in measuring Farm-to-School’s various program objectives and outcomes. In addition, this project assisted in the development of a salad bar pilot program. Literature in the areas of food insecurity, food and nutrition policies, and farming practices is used as a background and framework for the existing problems. By incorporating these areas of study, methods for food security such as food policy councils and Farm-to-School programs are explored as strategies for change. Collected data and observations show that programs like Farm-To-School are extremely valuable to small farmers and teachers in Humboldt County. Participants in Farm-to-School are enthusiastic and eager for extended education programs and increased marketing strategies that closely link local agriculture with county-wide school lunch programs.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Klessig, Barbara K.
- Description:
- Over the past several decades, the research and analysis of archaeological textiles has become of ever increasing importance in gender, trade and production studies. When analyzing archaeological textiles, researchers must take into consideration the tools that were required to create textiles and how those tools influenced the quality and quantity of fiber that was needed to create multiple forms of textiles used to clothe a population. In past publications, researchers have focused on the analysis and interpretation of the remains of textiles found on the island of Gotland, but have not included in their studies the tools for the production of these textiles. Some of the tools that will be examined in this thesis include spindle whorls, weaving tablets, needles and needle cases. By examining the tools, found in the Viking Age grave sites excavated on Gotland and collecting data in the form of dimensions, weights and quantity of tools found, an interpretation can be made as to what type of textiles could have been created with these tools. By conducting analysis on the textiles and mineralized impressions, we can compare these to data from the tools and extrapolate whether the tools present could have created the fibers found alongside them in the burials. The analysis of this data can give insight into the various types and quality of textiles produced by the tools from the grave sites and to determine whether textiles could have been produced locally or were traded in. In this thesis, I will examine and analyze the textile tools found in approximately 200 Viking age graves located throughout Gotland in an effort to determine whether the production of textiles is feasible with the tools assembled and the types of textiles that could be produced. Not only can this give us insight into the production and trade of textiles during the Viking age on Gotland, but also how the production and/or trade of textiles influenced the daily lives of the inhabitants and how they affected trade and gender in an ever expanding economy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Price-Hall, Rebecca S.
- Description:
- This project is a study of the Integrated Regional Water Management Plan in Humboldt County, focusing on how the processes of plan development, integration and stakeholder coordination affect prosperity. The State of California is promoting the development of Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Plans with a broad range of environmental, social and economic goals and priorities. Integrated water management is based on the cooperation and coordination of government, business and nongovernmental stakeholders and projects to establish goals and to develop and implement strategies which are integrated, provide multiple benefits and optimize the use of resources to achieve the goals. This research project evaluates the compatibility of this integrated regional approach to water policy with Humboldt County’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), also known as the “Prosperity” strategy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Bergeson, Alysha Brianna
- Description:
- Food advertisements represent complex and constant conversations about race, class, gender, and modernity within an American context. Inherently visual, food advertisements suffer from a lack of research that analyzes them in their entirety. By taking a postmodern feminist approach that considers the imagery of food advertisements as a text, this thesis will attempt to unravel the complex messages that food advertisements relay about a person's identity, particularly, what these messages say about gender and gender roles. Present-day food advertisements are shown in comparison with food advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s, seeking to discover whether the messages regarding gender and identity have changed, or if the only the image has changed. Additionally, this thesis examines gender attitudes and beliefs connected to the messages in food advertisements. Food advertisements’ visual components are analyzed as texts, searching for signs, signifiers, and postmodern imagery, while also acknowledging the inherently gendered canvas, on which the advertisements are printed. A content analysis of three women’s magazines, Good Housekeeping (founded in 1885), Ladies Home Journal (founded in 1883), and Better Homes and Gardens (founded in 1922), from three different time periods, 1950-52, 1960-62, and 2009-2013, was used to survey a breadth of food advertisements, while also providing a method to individually examine many of the advertisements. Only magazines geared toward women were utilized with the goal of analyzing the messages food advertisements send to a mostly female audience. This thesis suggests that these advertisements not only harbor American gendered societal requirements and desires but also carry a heavy, influential, gendered anchor.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Menzies, Scott M.
- Description:
- In an age of the ever-increasing scale and mega-corporatization of the means of daily existence through such entities as Wal-Mart, Costco, Starbucks and Home Depot, are we losing the places and spaces that we, as people, need in order to stay psychologically, socially, and culturally healthy? Is the local Wal-Mart as equally capable of acting as a site of community-building as the old general store? Is a chain-formula Starbucks just as good as an independent coffee shop or the old “local pub”? Can Starbucks ever be a place “where everybody knows your name”? Does it even matter? This pilot study explores small, local, independent businesses as sites of passive community-building as compared to their larger and/or mega-corporate counterparts. Chain coffee shops are compared to independent shops using direct observation and qualitative interviewing. Small natural food stores are compared to their post-expansion larger versions through qualitative interviewing. Preliminary results indicate that small, independent businesses are the best sites of community-building. However, both chain stores and the larger natural food stores were found to serve other goals and objectives, the importance of which individual communities should be ready to debate. Simplified Chinese: 在如沃尔玛、好事多、星巴克和家得宝等大型企业规模正在持续增长的时代，作为人类的我们是否正在丢失能让我们从心理上、社会上和文化上保持健康的空间? 在当地，作为一个社区建设地点之一的沃尔玛是否能替代古老的杂货店? 以连锁方式经营的星巴克是否能媲美于独立的一家咖啡店或者是酒吧? 在星巴克，是否人人都能熟知彼此? 它对于人们的生活是否至关重要？ 这份研究报告把作为被动式社区建设地点之一的当地小型独立企业与它的竞争对手----那些规模较大的或（和）大型企业相比，而后作了一番探索。通过直接观测和定性试验，连锁咖啡店被比做了独立的商店。通过定性试验，小型天然食品店被比做其后因扩展而形成的大型商店。 初步研究的结果表明，小型独立企业是最佳的社区建设地点之一。 然而，连锁商店和规模较大的天然食品店，都是为了其他目标而设立的。这些目标的重要性，将会激起个体群的争辩。 Traditional Chinese: 在如沃爾瑪、好事多、星巴克和家得寶等大型企業規模正在持續增長的時代，作為人類的我們是否正在丟失能讓我們從心理上、社會上和文化上保持健康的空間? 在當地，作為一個社區建設地點之一的沃爾瑪是否能替代古老的雜貨店? 以連鎖方式經營的星巴克是否能媲美於獨立的一家咖啡店或者是酒吧? 在星巴克，是否人人都能熟知彼此? 它對於人們的生活是否至關重要？ 這份研究報告把作為被動式社區建設地點之一的當地小型獨立企業与它的競爭對手----那些規模較大的或（和）大型企業相比，而後作了一番探索。通過直接觀測和定性試驗，連鎖咖啡店被比做了獨立的商店。通過定性試驗，小型天然食品店被比做其後因擴展而形成的大型商店。 初步研究的結果表明，小型獨立企業是最佳的社區建設地點之一。 然而，連鎖商店和規模較大的天然食品店，都是為了其他目標而設立的。這些目標的重要性，將會激起個體群的爭辯。
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community
- Creator:
- Holmlund, Robert Croy
- Description:
- Religious freedom is necessarily a broad concept since it must apply to a wide range of religions. Yet, religious freedom in the United States is rooted in the First Amendment, which was created for a limited set of religions (i.e., Protestant Christian faiths) by a group of men with a limited range of knowledge about other religions and cultures at a time when slavery was legal and the mass extermination of Native Americans was common. These historically-based limitations of the First Amendment remain today, meaning that for Native Americans religious freedom is not as easily secured as it is for the Christian people for whom the First Amendment was originally intended. Among the many challenges facing American Indian attempts to obtain full religious freedom, Native religions are inherently bound in environmental relationships. Therefore, actions that lead to environmental or ecological alterations can be a violation of Native American religious freedom. The right to free exercise, for many Indians, must include the right to engage in the spiritually-enriched environmental relationships that are foundational to their particular faiths. The viability of this right is directly dependent upon the health and integrity of select ecosystems. In this way, religious freedom is intimately linked to environmental issues. American Indian Tribes have repeated appealed to the Supreme Court in pursuit of religious freedom protections related to environmental concerns, but have yet to receive a favorable verdict. The Karuk Tribe of California is among the Tribes currently seeking religious freedom protections. In particular, the Tribe seeks to practice their spiritually-guided systems of ecological management. Religious freedom for the Karuk requires more than separation of church and state; the right to the free exercise of religion for Karuk peoples hinges upon the ecological integrity of the Klamath River and its surrounding biomes. As a series of interviews conducted specifically for this study indicates, Karuk Tribal members believe their religious freedom is being violated in several ways, particularly through environmental alterations perpetuated by Federal Natural Resource Agencies. These violations must be acknowledged by the federal government, for each individual person within each generation must have the autonomy and opportunity to practice the tenets of their religious beliefs. This is the heart of a universal religious freedom that all people inherently deserve. Yet, if the conditions that make Tribal religions possible – social, cultural, or ecological – are in any way eliminated, the religious freedoms of current and coming generations are destroyed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Environment and Community