Department of Wildland Resources (WILD). This department was previously known as Forest, Range, and Wildlife Sciences. The name was changed in Fall Semester 2006.

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Communication and Job Satisfaction Attitudes Within the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation, Brian J. Vachowski

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Comparative Studies in Rangeland Management: Examining the Foundational Assessments Relationship to the Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework and Assessment of Predicted Cattle Distributions Using GPS Collars in Rich County, Utah, Michael T. Anderson

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Comparing Conventional and Noninvasive Monitoring Techniques for Assessing Cougar Population Size in the Southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Peter D. Alexander

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Comparing Fecal DNA Capture-Recapture Methods to Traditional Mark-Resight Methods for Estimating Abundance of Mule Deer on Winter Ranges, Andi M. Stewart

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Comparison of Water Dynamics in Aspen and Conifer: Implications for Ecology Water Yield Augmentation, Eric Martin LaMalfa

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Competitive Interaction between Crested Wheatgrasses and Cheatgrass, Mark G. Francis

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Competitive Interaction in Plant Populations Exposed to Enhanced UV-B Radiation, Fred M. Fox

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Conflict in Outdoor Recreation, Gerald R. Jacob

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Conservation Conflict: Rare Plant Conservation and Energy Development and Potential in the Colorado Plateau, Joshua Carrell

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Consumption, Digestion, and Utilization by Goats of the Dry Matter and Nitrogen in Diets Containing Oak (Quercus gambelii) Foliage, Anastasios Stefanos Nastis

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Continental-Scale Characterization of Molecular Variation in Quaking Aspen, Colin M. Callahan

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Control and Evaluation of Big Game Browsing Damage to Commercial Fruit Orchards, William E. Stone

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Coprecipitation of Phosphorus With Calcium Carbonate in Bear Lake, Utah - Idaho, Paul W. Birdsey Jr.

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Cougar Exploitation Levels in Utah: Implications for Demographic Structure, Metapopulation Dynamics, and Population Recovery, David C. Stoner

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Cougar Predation and Ecological Energetics in Southern Utah, Bruce Bennet Ackerman

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Cougar Predation Behavior in North-Central Utah, Dustin L. Mitchell

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Cougar Resource Selection in Two Mountain Ranges in Utah: A Study on Scale and Behavior, Wendy R. Rieth

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Coyote Diet and Movements in Relation to Winter Recreation in Northwestern Wyoming: Implications for Lynx Conservation, Jennifer L. Burghardt Dowd

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Coyote-Food Base Relationships in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, John L. Weaver

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Coyote Foraging Ecology, Vigilance, and Behavioral Cascades in Response to Gray Wolf Reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park, T. Adam Switalski

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Coyote Movement Patterns with Emphasis on Home Range Characteristics, Stephen J. Hibler

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Coyote-Prey Relationships in Curlew Valley During a Period of Low Jackrabbit Density, Stephen W. Hoffman

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Demographic Analysis of a Utah-Idaho Coyote Population, Jeffrey J. Knudsen

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Density and Feeding Habits of Elk and Deer in Relation to Livestock Disturbance, Kenneth Clegg

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Desert Bighorn Sheep and Riverboat Interactions in Cataract Canyon, Utah, Mark C. Stanger

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Desert Bighorn Sheep in Canyonlands National Park, H. Clay Dean

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Determination of Digestibility of Lignin by Mule Deer, Robert B. Turner

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Developing a Field Indicator for Suckering Ability of Quaking Aspen, Abbey M. Hudler Oksness

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Development and Validation of Forest Habitat Models in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, Tracey S. Frescino

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Development and Validation Test of a Mule Deer Habitat Rule, Glenn Gephart

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Development of a Bird-Avoidance Model for Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, Edward J. Zakrajsek

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Development of an Innovative Statewide Population Monitoring Program for Mule Deer, Heather H. Bernales

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Development of an Interpretive Document for the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, William R. Burbridge

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Development of Environmental Education Field Trip Guides for Elementary School Teachers in Cache Valley, Utah, Sandra T. Brown

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Diel Vertical Migration and Feeding of Underyearling Bear Lake Sculpin Cottus extensus (Pisces, Cottidae), Darcy Neverman

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Dietary Shifts Related to Water Availability and the Demographic Response to Changing Prey Abundance of Carnivores in the West Desert, Utah, Ashley E. Hodge

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Diet Composition and Activities of Elk on Different Habitat Segments in the Lodgepole Pine Type, Uinta Mountains, Utah, William B. Collins

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Diet, Density, and Distribution of the Introduced Greenhouse Frog, Eleutherodactylus planirostris, on the Island of Hawaii, Christina A. Olson

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Direct Effects of Warming Increase Woody Plant Abundance in a Subarctic Wetland, Lindsay G. Carlson

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Disease and Habitat Change as Factors Associated with Mourning Dove Population Decline, William D. Ostrand

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Distribution and Ecology of the Desert Bighorn Sheep in Southeastern Utah, Lanny O. Wilson

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Distribution and Habitat Characteristics of the Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis) in Utah, John C. McGrew

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Diversity and Production of Herbaceous Vegetation in a Northern Utah Subalpine Chronosequence, Gary A. Reese

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Does Experience with Sagebrush In utero and Early in Life Influence the Use of Sagebrush by Sheep?, Ashley T. Longmore

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Douglas-Fir Beetle Mediated Changes to Fuel Complexes, Foliar Moisture Content and Terpenes in Interior Douglas-Fir Forests of the Central Rocky Mountains, Andrew D. Giunta

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Drivers of Nest Success and Stochastic Population Dynamics of the Common Eider (Somateria mollissima), David Thomas Iles

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Drivers of Plant Population Dynamics in Three Arid to Subhumid Ecosystems, Luke J. Zachmann

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Dynamic Multi-Species Animal Habitat Modeling with Forest Succession Models, Stephen A. Compton

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Eared Grebe Nesting Ecology and Chronology Along the Great Salt Lake, Utah, Leah M. Delahoussaye

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Early Life History of the Mountain Whitefish Prosopium williamsoni (Girard) in the Logan River, Utah, Lawrence Guy Brown

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Ecological Amplitude and Invasion of Diffuse Knapweed at Yakima Training Center, Washington, Donna Denise Wilcox

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Ecologically-Based Manipulation Practices for Managing Bromus tectorum-infested Rangelands, Beth Fowers

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Ecological Relationships of Accipiters in Northern Utah - With Special Emphasis on the Effects of Human Disturbance, Stephen P. Hennessy

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Ecology and Seasonal Habitat Use Patterns of Columbian Sharp-Tailed Grouse in Northern Utah, Ron D. Greer

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Ecology of Badgers in Curlew Valley, Utah and Idaho With Emphasis on Movement and Activity Patterns, Frederick G. Lindzey

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Ecology of Coyotes on the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico: Implications for Elk Calf Recruitment, Suzanne J. Gifford

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Ecology of Aroga websteri Clarke in Curlew Valley, Utah-Idaho, Reed L. Kirkland

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Ecology of Greater Sage-Grouse Inhabiting the Southern Portion of the Rich-Morgan-Summit Sage-Grouse Management Area, M. Brandon Flack

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Ecology of Isolated Greater Sage-Grouse Populations Inhabiting the Wildcat Knolls and Horn Mountain, Southcentral Utah, Christopher J. Perkins

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Ecology of the Common Snipe in Northern Utah, Samuel C. Winegardner

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Ecology of the Morgan Creek and East Fork of the Salmon River Bighorn Sheep Herds and Management of Bighorn Sheep in Idaho, James K. Morgan

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Economic Impact of Snowmobiling in Utah, Ikuko Fujisaki

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Economics of Carry-Over Forage Production, Increased Grazing Season Length, and Increased Livestock Production from Rangeland Fertilization, Dean L. Roberts Jr.

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Economics of Carry-Over Production and Increased Grazing Season Length Due to Range Fertilization, Paul W. McCormick

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Ecotypic Variation in Elymus Elymoides Subspecies Brevifolius Race C in the Northern Intermountain West, Matthew C. Parsons

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Effectiveness of Carbaryl and Pyrethroid Insecticides for Protection of Engelmann Spruce from Attack by Spruce Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Karen J. Johnson

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Effectiveness of Earthen Escape Ramps in Reducing Big Game Mortality in Utah, Mary L. Hammer

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Effectiveness of Grid Systems for Pheromone-Trapping Sparse Gypsy Moth Populations in Mountainous Terrain in the Intermountain West, Colleen Keyes

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Effect of Bear River Storage on Water Quality in Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, Robert L. Nunan

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Effect of Biocrust Development on Establishment of Native Plants in a Salt Desert System, Merran Owen

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Effect of Mild Water Stress and Enhanced Ultraviolet-B Irradiation on Leaf Growth of Rumex obtusifolius L. and Rumex patientia L. (Polygonaceae)., Steve R. Holman

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Effect of Predator Removal on Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Ecology in the Bighorn Basin Conservation Area of Wyoming, Elizabeth Kari Orning

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Effect of Short Duration Grazing on Soil Moisture Depletion and Plant Water Status in a Crested Wheatgrass Pasture, Jon M. Wraith

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Effect of Spring Grazing by Cattle on Growth and Survival of Shrub Seedlings Interplanted in Crested Wheatgrass, Lynn M. McConville

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Effect of Tannin-Containing Legume Hays on Enteric Methane Emissions and Nitrogen Partitioning in Beef Cattle, Elizabeth K. Stewart

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Effects of a Wildfire on Seed Rain and Soil Seed Reserve Dynamics of a Good Condition Sagebrush-Grass Rangeland in Central Utah, Mohamed Ali Hassan

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Effects of Beaver on Stream Flow and Water Quality, James W. Bates

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Effects of Changing Environments on Survival of a Widely Distributed Ungulate, S Andrew Sims

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Effects of Chiselling and Sulfur Fertilization on Infiltration, Soil Water Content, Peak Season Biomass Production, and Botanical Composition in the Ait Rbaa Perimeter, Mohammed Tigma

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Effects of Condensed Tannins on the Toxicity of Fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis) to Cattle, Carolyn L. Wong

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Effects of Coyote Removal on Pronghorn and Mule Deer Populations in Wyoming, Dylan Earl Brown

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Effects of Exercise on Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity of Catchable-Size Hatchery Rainbow Trout, Salmo gairdneri, Gerlad T. Klar

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Effects of Fertilizers on Cultured Salt Marsh Plants, Ruppia and Chara, Scott Marshall Stenquist

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Effects of Foraging Sequence on the Ability of Lambs to Consume Endophyte-Infected Tall Fescue (Alkaloids), Birdsfoot Trefoil (Tannins), and Alfalfa (Saponins), Emily Lockard

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Effects of Myxobolus cerebralis on the Population Dynamics of Kokanee in Porcupine Reservoir, Utah, Arthur E. Butts

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Effects of Non-Surface-Disturbing Restoration Treatments on Native Grass Revegetation and Soil Seed Bank Composition in Cheatgrass-Invaded Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystems, Alexandra D. Reinwald

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Effects of Non‐Surface‐Disturbing Treatments for Native Grass Revegetation on Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) Metrics and Soil Ion Availabilities, Jan C.R. Summerhays

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Effects of Polyacrylamide on Rangeland Soils and Plants, Saud Leily R. Al-Rowaily

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Effects of Range Plant Foliage Removal on Soil Moisture Regime at Two Elevations in Central Utah, John C. Buckhouse

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Effects of Season, Spacing and Intensity of Seeding on Emergence and Survival of Four Wheatgrass Species in Central Utah, Edwin B. Abbott

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Effects of Starvation and Time at Stocking on Survival of Stocked Rainbow Trout, Salmo gairdneri, Marlin John Bricker

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Effects of Sublethal, Cerebral X-Irradiation on Movement and Home-Range Patterns of Black-Tailed Jackrabbits, Lewis Nelson Jr.

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Effects of Tannin-Containing Feed on Haemonchous contortus in Sheep and Its Behavioral Implications, Jessica A. Juhnke

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Effects of UV-B Radiation on Egg and Larval Golden Shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) in Castle Lake, California, Jai-Ku Kim

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Effects of Winter Ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) on the Reproduction of Utah Moose (Alces alces shirasi), Samuel D. Robertson

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Efficacy of Denning in Alleviating Coyote Depredations upon Domestic Sheep, James A. Till

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Efficacy of Guard Llamas (Lama glama) in Reducing Canid Predation on Domestic Sheep, Laurie E. Meadows

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Efficacy of Translocation as a Management Tool for Urban Mule Deer in Utah, Channing R. Howard

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Emergence and Survival of Four Introduced Wheatgrasses as Influenced by Rate and Season of Planting on Abandoned Farm Lands of Utah, Donald N. Hyder

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Emerging Technology to Exclude Wildlife from Roads: Electrified Pavement and Deer Guards in Utah, USA, Joseph P. Flower