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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mount Rainier"”.
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Distribution of Invasive Plant Species on Debris Cones at Mount Rainier National Park
<p>Invasive plant populations within Mount Rainier National Park are a biological and ecological threat to the unique mountain landscape. A better understanding of their distribution and transport within the landscape is needed to improve invasive species monitoring for National Park Service …
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Resource Sovereignty: The Indigenous Value of Mount Rainier Within Activities of Traditional Resource Harvesting
… historically utilized the plant resources of Mount Rainier until the National Park Service established Mount Rainier National Park in 1899. Since 1992 there have been formal, written requests by these Tribes to revitalize the harvest of these culturally significant plant resources in their …
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Applications of Digital Remote Sensing to Quantify Glacier Change in Glacier and Mount Rainier National Parks
… glaciers from two geographic regions, the Intermountain Region (between the Rocky Mountain and Cascade Ranges) and the Pacific Northwest, were estimated for the years 1985, 2000, and 2015. Glacier National Park was studied for the Intermountain Region whereas Mount Rainier National Park was …
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Carbonado: The History of a Coal Mining Town in the Foothills of Mount Rainier, 1880-1937
<p>The history of the coal mining town of Carbonado, Washington was studied. Starting from a brief description of the formation and discovery of coal in Western Washington, the fifty-seven year history of active coal mining was covered in this project. Topics included town leadership, coal mining …
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The Origin of Dark Mats at the Sunrise Ridge Borrow Pit Site (45PI408) Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
… site located in the upland forest soils of Mount Rainier National Park. Site stratigraphy is complicated, consisting of tephra deposits from mostly known origins that are intercalated with dark sediments of unknown origin, referred to here as dark mats. Precontact occupation has been split …
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Subalpine Cover Ecology of Eutamias amoenus, Eutamias townsendii and other small Mammals in Huckleberry Park, Mount Rainier National Park
… was undertaken in subalpine Huckleberry Park, Mount Rainier National Park, to determine the species of small mammals in the area and some of their relationships with the environment and each other. The relationships between E. amoenus and E. townsendii were of special interest.</p>
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Upland Land Use and Intersite Lithic Assemblage Variation Across Two Rockshelter and Three Open-Air Archaeological Sites in Mount Rainier National Park
… model, rockshelter sites on the slopes of Mount Rainier were used for a more limited activity set than some open-air sites. Rockshelter sites are thought to be places of short-term occupancy consistent with hunting and/or overnight residence activities. Large open-air sites with relatively …
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Sedimentology of the Squantum ‘Tillite’, Boston Basin, USA: Modern Analogues and Implications for the Paleoclimate during the Gaskiers Glaciation (c. 580 Ma)
… diamicts produced at the heavily glaciated Mount Rainier volcano (Washington, USA), revealing that despite the presence of local glaciers, debris flow is the dominant process depositing diamicts due to eruptions and flood events. The major thrust of this thesis is that it highlights the key …
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Volcanic risk assessment: integrating hazard and social vulnerability analysis
… activity at Volcan Tungurahua, Ecuador and Mount Rainier in the USA provided the focus for this thesis. The research aimed to develop an integrated approach to risk assessments that combined both hazard and vulnerability analysis. In phase one, the study developed a novel methodology to …
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The educational program in the national parks with particular reference to those in the western states
… Grand Canyon, Lassen Volcanic, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, and Kings Canyon . In 1935 I visited the Olympic Peninsula, and have been in the region which is now the Olympic National Park.</p> <p>A great deal of the material has been …
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Introducing Godzilla to Marianne Moore's Octopus of Ice at the Intersection of Global Warming, Environmental Philosophy, and Poetry
… environmental philosophy of thinking like a mountain, the poet may describe the impact of global warming upon the mountain, glacier, flora and fauna, that form an interconnected web of life. A poem that thinks like a mountain already exists: Marianne Moore’s “An Octopus” (published in 1924), …