CWU's Cultural and Environmental Resource Management (CERM) Master's Program offers students an interdisciplinary resource management curriculum drawing from Geography and Anthropology, as well as Biology, Economics, History, Philosophy, and Political Science. CERM offers two emphases: Cultural Resource Management and Natural Resource Management. Program objectives include further qualifying students for management positions in resource fields and promoting wiser and more effective management of resources in the future.
This collection features theses from Master of Science students in the Cultural and Environmental Resource Management Program at Central Washington University.
Theses from 2015
Organization of Technology at the Sanders Site (45KT315): Analysis of Formed Tools from the Yakima Uplands, WA, Patrick D. Garrison
Elk and Deer Hunters in Washington State: Affiliations and Ethical Behavior, Isa O. Harrison
Understanding Vulnerability in Alaska Fishing Communities: A Validation Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Well-Being Indices, Conor M. Maguire
Small Islands, Big Heart: Reproducing the Marquesas Islands Through The Body, Patrick E. Molohon
Rediscovering an Upland Site: The Manastash Pines (45KT346) Kittitas County, Washington, Christopher J. Moose
Renewing Spokane: A study of motivating forces behind downtown revitalization projects, Kara K. Mowery
My Family, My Identity: An Ethnohistorical Exploration of a Multiethnic Family, Sarah Oosahwee-Voss
Behavioral Response of Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) to Predator Odors, Laurie L. Porter
Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington, David J. Sheldon
Applying Wetland Rating Systems to Assess Functions of Depressional Wetlands Created by a Mass Wasting Feature, Table Mountain, Washington, Thomas S. Wachholder
Building a History: Evaluation of Central Washington University Campus Buildings to Determine Eligibility for Listing on the National Register of Historic Places, Lauren M. Walton
Washington's Fish Consumption Rate and Water Quality Standards: Fostering Allies to Keep Our Seafood Clean, Tiffany J. Waters
Theses from 2014
The Museum as an Inclusive Community: A Blueprint for Moving Forward, Howard P. Scott
Alpine and Other Abandoned Towns along the Great Northern Railroad near Stevens Pass, Washington, 1890-1930, Stacy Marie Stanley
GIS Modeling of Elk Habitat Suitability in the North Cascades of Washington State, Anna Yost
Sustainability Policy’s Inherent Dilemmas – Exemplified Via Critical Examination of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Sustainability Campaign, Kathryn A. Zimmerman
Theses from 2013
Experiments to Measure the Effects of Timber Harvesting Equipment on Surface Lithic Scatters, Douglas J. Baughman
The Elwha River Restoration: Landscape Change, Salmon, and Sense of Place, Kelseyanne Johnson
The Roles of Humans and Climatic Variation on the Fire History of Subalpine Meadows - Mount Rainer National Park (Washington), Michael Louis Lukens
Theses from 2012
The Grissom Site (45KT301): A Review and Synthesis of Investigations and Exploration of the Site's Research Potential, Holly Ann Cecilia Shea
The Identification and Historic Context of Mining Archaeology of the Wenatchee Mountains within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Jared Valenta
Theses from 2003
Tracks in the Woods: Identifying and Evaluating Historic Logging Railroad Systems within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Carol Taylor Hearne
GIS Modeling of Desert Root Crop Maturation on the Mid-Columbia Plateau, Mary Michelle Phillips
TOWARD A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO SIGNIFICANT ASSESSMENTS OF PREHISTORIC ACHAEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Nicholas James Smith
Theses from 2002
An Assessment of Potential Habitat Corridors and Landscape Ecology for Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca Fascicularis) on Bali, Indonesia, Mark Warren Southern
Environment-Based Education: Policy, Practice, and Place, Eric N. Wickwire
Theses from 1999
A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Riparian Vegetation along Satus Creek on the Yakama Indian Reservation, Kathryn Gellenbeck
Theses from 1997
Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) Restoration in Altered Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Habitat of the Yakima Training Center in Central Washington, Margaret Ann Pounds
Issues and Conflicts in the Management of the Public Domain of the Saddle Mountains in Eastern Washington: A Case Study, James Jack Sharpe
Theses from 1995
Impacts of Irrigation Development on Anadromous Fish in the Yakima River Basin, Washington, Robert L. Tuck
Theses from 1979
Energy Education Materials for Elementary School, Marcia Keizer Fraser