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Community Development at Heronswood Botanical Garden

The overall main goal of this research is to assist with the planning and creation of an ethnobotanical addition at the Heronswood Garden, a botanical garden located in northwest Washington state recently purchased by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. Methods included a three month long ethnographic study of Heronswood Garden as an official intern, and conducting a needs assessment that primarily employed participant observation and semi-structured open-ended interviews with all garden employees. Information revealed through the research includes causal issues behind a lack of community participation at the garden, elaboration on the solutions to various issues facilitated by negotiating and combining the views and opinions of the garden’s employees, and author reflections on the needs assessment report and the project as a whole. This research connects itself with and utilizes the methodologies and theories from applied anthropology, environmental anthropology, and environmental science to provide contemporary perspective into the subject of preserving or preventing the loss of biodiversity, language diversity, and sociocultural diversity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc799524
Date05 1900
CreatorsCherry, Levi Scott
ContributorsDavenport, Beverly Ann, Jordan, Ann, Montler, Timothy
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 72 pages : color illustrations, color maps, Text
CoverageUnited States - Washington - Kitsap County
RightsPublic, Cherry, Levi Scott, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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