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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Mountain West"”.
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
This study considers the impact of community-level inequality of income and education on the ways individuals participate in local government and community development activities. It adapts the standard identity-augmented utility model to demonstrate that, given the choice to participate or not to …
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
This study considers the impact of community-level inequality of income and education on the ways individuals participate in local government and community development activities. It adapts the standard identity-augmented utility model to demonstrate that, given the choice to participate or not to …
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Planning Gone Hog Wild: Mega-Hog Farm in a Mountain West County
Lacking the natural amenities “New West" counties, some rural communities have attempted to attract land use activities that are normally seen as undesirable. One example of these undesirable industries is the hog concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO. While a number of studies have …
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Impossible Heights: From Mining to Sport in the Mountain West, 1849 to 1936
… a rush of amateur miners to the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1849. Meanwhile, Europeans hurried to their Alps to climb during the Golden Age of Mountaineering. These events, seemingly separate, came from the same basic impetus. The Scientific Revolution eased the old fear of mountains from the …
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Hard-Rock Miners of the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain West, 1860-1920
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THE EFFECTS OF FEDERAL LAND ON RURAL POPULATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST
… land plays in shaping rural counties in the Western United States. Some argue that the restrictive policies imposed on federal lands harm rural economies because the extractive industry is not allowed to operate at its potential. Others believe that those restrictions benefit rural economies …
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THE EFFECTS OF FEDERAL LAND ON RURAL POPULATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST
… land plays in shaping rural counties in the Western United States. Some argue that the restrictive policies imposed on federal lands harm rural economies because the extractive industry is not allowed to operate at its potential. Others believe that those restrictions benefit rural economies …
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Impact of bark beetle infestation on water quality and hydrology in the Rocky Mountain West, The
… forested landscape covering much of the Rocky Mountain West. With canopy loss and changes in water and nutrient uptake, watershed hydrology and terrestrial biogeochemical cycling have been significantly altered. This dissertation contributes to our scientific understanding of these intertwined …
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A Collaborative & Systematic Approach To Implementing An Effective Standards-Based Grading And Reporting System: A Change Leadership Plan
… Grading and Reporting Committee (SBGRC) at Mountain West High School (MWHS) and the Leadership District Team (LDT), which consisted of the following stakeholders: the district superintendent, the chief business officer, the chief financial officer, multiple principals and assistant …
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A Collaborative & Strategic Approach To Improve School Achievement Through Effective Attendance/Truancy Policies And Procedures
… attendance/truancy policies and procedures of Mountain West High School (MWHS), identify gaps and concerns, analyze data, and make actionable recommendations that would foster improvement in academic achievement through attendance efforts. A growing body of research indicates that missing 10% …
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Exploring the Impact of Leadership Values and Practices to Support Equity and Social Justice in an Urban School
… sixth through twelfth-grade school in the Rocky Mountain West to determine how leadership values and practices support the implementation of equitable and socially just practices in the school. Five key themes emerged: (a) equity as a Black/non-Black construct; (b) a lack of knowledge and …
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Between hot opposition and lukewarm support : innovation and community in land planning and development
Research on two innovative developments in the Mountain West region of the United States validates an argument by Donald Schon that effective "coordination of conflicting frames" represents a "more promising line of attack" on the numerous issues that challenge land planners and developers. This …
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ASSESSMENT AND POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS TO THE SNOW-RELATED ALGORITHMS IN BIOME-BGC, v4.2
Many watersheds throughout the mountain west are snow-melt dominated. Recent studies suggest that climatic shifts throughout the 20th century have diminished snowpack around the west, a trend that may accelerate in the future. Loss of critical snowpack could negatively affect the ecosystems and …
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ASSESSMENT AND POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS TO THE SNOW-RELATED ALGORITHMS IN BIOME-BGC, v4.2
Many watersheds throughout the mountain west are snow-melt dominated. Recent studies suggest that climatic shifts throughout the 20th century have diminished snowpack around the west, a trend that may accelerate in the future. Loss of critical snowpack could negatively affect the ecosystems and …
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The transformation of place: Boom, bust, and adjustment in Rifle, Colorado
… nonmetropolitan towns and counties in the Rocky Mountain West experienced rapid growth due to the development of energy resources and the construction of power generation facilities. After 1983, however, many of these energy-impacted communities went bust as energy producers abandoned, downsized, …
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Chronotopic Figurations of Coal Mining at Blair Mountain
Blair Mountain, West Virginia, site of both the largest labor insurrection since the Civil War and, more recently, contested terrain for mountaintop removal mining, is an exemplar of Appalachia coal mining's uniquely American tropes. In 1921, roughly 8,000 miners were held up at Blair as they …
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Relationships Among Socio-Economic Status, Self-Esteem, and College Aspirations of High School Seniors in One Small City
… dropouts in a small city located in the Rocky Mountain west with a population of approximately 30,000. The data analysis supports the research hypotheses that socio-economic status will be positively correlated with college aspirations and parents’ encouragement to make healthy lifestyle …
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Relationships Among Socio-Economic Status, Self-Esteem, and College Aspirations of High School Seniors in One Small City
… dropouts in a small city located in the Rocky Mountain west with a population of approximately 30,000. The data analysis supports the research hypotheses that socio-economic status will be positively correlated with college aspirations and parents’ encouragement to make healthy lifestyle …
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'Wild' vs 'Mild' West: A Binary or Symbiotic Unit? The Complexity of the Mythic West Re-Imagined from a Canadian Perspective, 1970-1914
In popular imagination, the mythical West is widely associated with the American West. It is misleading to regard the prairie or mountain West in Canada as the mythical West. The mythical West is a constellation of images defined by the interrelation of American imagination, myth, and history. …
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