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Creator:: Duffy, Laura
Abstract:: The conservation community has long recognized the critical role that agricultural landowners play in efforts to improve fish and wildlife habitat in order to recover threatened and endangered species. In many rural areas dominated by agricultural working landscapes, government agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) struggle to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: programs, can serve to inform natural resource management policy and actions and foster improved

Creator:: Cogan, Leah R.
Abstract:: In the western United States, climate change is likely to bring greater uncertainty and extreme events outside the range for which water infrastructure, governance, and allocation mechanisms have been designed. In addition, many water systems already struggle with issues of institutional fragmentation, ineffective governance, and unsustainable management practices. Adaptive capacity,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Professor, representing Water Resources Policy and Management Director of the Water Resources

Creator:: Pike-Urlacher, Zach R.
Abstract:: Reconciling working landscapes with Endangered Species Act (ESA) requirements is a vexing challenge playing out in watersheds across the western United States. Beaver-related watershed restoration (BRR) methodologies have the potential to reconcile competing demands for resource extraction and recovery of ESA-listed species by restoring ecosystem functionality more effectively and at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for the degree of Master of Science in Water Resource Policy and Management presented on June 6, 2019

Creator:: Detwiler, Stacey M.
Abstract:: This study explores how environmental governance mechanisms affect state management of forest roads to address the chronic delivery of sediment to streams in Oregon, Washington, and California on private and state forestlands. Forest roads can degrade water quality and harm aquatic life when runoff mobilizes fine sediments from the road...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Water Resources Policy and Management Director

Creator:: Burright, Harmony S. J.
Abstract:: Irrigated agriculture accounts for 90 percent of consumptive use of freshwater in the western US and is considered the largest contributor to nonpoint source water pollution. The diffuse nature of most water quality and quantity challenges necessitates institutions that can more effectively engage agricultural producers in strategic, integrated, watershed-scale approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Harmony S J Burright for the degree of Master of Science in Water Resources Policy and Management

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