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Katherine J. Hansen
Professor of Geography
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall #205
Phone: (406) 994-6912
Email:
khansen(AT)montana.edu
Education
A.A., General studies, San Joaquin Delta Junior College
B.A., Geography-Ecosystems, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Geography, Portland State Univ., OR
Ph.D., Geography, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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Research Interests
My research includes the economics of hunting and the conservation of
habitats as a result of that economic input. My work, to date,
primarily involves the American model of wildlife management, but also
includes studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Spain, and New
Zealand.
I also continue to study changes in mountain
environments, primarily caused by human activities. These activities
include grazing impacts, fire suppression, forestry, subdivision
placement, and recreation. These studies are primarily in the Rocky
Mountain region of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Snow science continues to interest me.
Research, conducted with other faculty and with students, includes the
geography of snow stability and avalanches, over space and time. This
research has focused on the local mountain areas where field work is
most feasible.
Current Graduate Students
Tara
Chesley
Erich
Peitzsch
Eric Lutz
Selected Publications
Lutz, E.R., K.W. Birkeland, K. Kronholm, K. Hansen, R. Aspinall, (in
press). Correlating snow micro-structure with snow shear strength. Cold
Regions Science and Technology Journal.
Logan, S., K. Birkeland, K. Kronholm, K.
Hansen, (in press). Correlating snow micro-structure with snow shear
strength. Cold Regions Science and Technology Journal.
Janelle, D., Warf, B., Hansen, K. (2003)
World Minds: Solutions to 100 Geographic Problems. Kluwer Press.
Farnes, P., McCaughey, W. and Hansen, K.
2003. Role of fire in determining annual water yields in mountain
watersheds. In: Wallace, L. (ed.), An Ecosystem of Change: Ten Years
After the Yellowstone Fire.
Allen, K. and Hansen, K. 1999. Geography of
Exotic Plants Adjacent to Campgrounds, Yellowstone National Park. Great
Basin Naturalist, 59 (4): 315: 322.
Olson-Rutz, K.M., Marlow, C.B., Hansen, K.,
Gagnon, L.C., and Rossi, R.J. 1996; Recovery of a high elevation plant
community after packhorse grazing, Journal of Range Management, 49 (6):
541-545.
Hansen, K., Wyckoff, W., Banfield, J. 1995.
Shifting Forests: Historical Grazing and Forest Invasion in
Southwestern Montana, Forest and Conservation history, 39 (2): 66-76.
Hansen, K.J., 1986. Influence of Increasing
Elevation on Growth Characteristics at Timberline, Canadian Journal of
Botany, 64:2517-2523.
Hansen, K. J., and Price, L.W. 1985.
Turf-banked terraces in the Olympic mountains, Washington. Arctic and
Alpine Environments. 17 (3): 261-270.
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