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Organized Village Of Kake V. United States Department Of Agriculture, Maresa A. Jenson
Organized Village Of Kake V. United States Department Of Agriculture, Maresa A. Jenson
Public Land & Resources Law Review
In an en banc rehearing, the Ninth Circuit, in Organized Village of Kake v. United States Department of Agriculture, determined that the Roadless Rule should apply to the largest National Forest, the Alaskan Tongass. The significant socioeconomic impacts on Southeast Alaska contrasted with important environmental roadless values make the management of the Tongass National Forest unique and controversial. The Ninth Circuit concluded that Alaska, an intervener, had standing to appeal and that the 2003 Tongass Exception to the Roadless Rule was arbitrary and capricious.
Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito
Trust In Scientists On Climate Change And Vaccines, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Joel N. Hartter, Kei Saito
Sociology
On climate change and other topics, conservatives have taken positions at odds with a strong scientific consensus. Claims that this indicates a broad conservative distrust of science have been countered by assertions that while conservatives might oppose the scientific consensus on climate change or evolution, liberals oppose scientists on some other domains such as vaccines. Evidence for disproportionately liberal bias against science on vaccines has been largely anecdotal, however. Here, we test this proposition of opposite biases using 2014 survey data from Oregon and New Hampshire. Across vaccine as well as climate change questions on each of these two surveys, …
Monitoring Herpetofauna In A Managed Forest Landscape: Effects Of Habitat Types And Census Techniques, Travis J. Ryan, Thomas Philippi, Yale A. Leiden, Michael E. Dorcas, T. Bently Wigley, J. Whitfield Gibbons
Monitoring Herpetofauna In A Managed Forest Landscape: Effects Of Habitat Types And Census Techniques, Travis J. Ryan, Thomas Philippi, Yale A. Leiden, Michael E. Dorcas, T. Bently Wigley, J. Whitfield Gibbons
Travis J. Ryan
We surveyed the herpetofaunal (amphibian and reptile) communities inhabiting five types of habitat on a managed landscape. We conducted monthly surveys during 1997 in four replicate plots of each habitat type using several different methods of collection. Communities of the two wetland habitats (bottomland wetlands and isolated upland wetlands) were clearly dissimilar from the three terrestrial communities (recent clearcut, pine plantation, and mixed pine–hardwood forest). Among the three terrestrial habitats, the total herpetofaunal communities were dissimilar (P<0.10), although neither faunal constituent group alone (amphibians and squamate reptiles) varied significantly with regard to habitat. Three survey techniques used in the …
Market For Amazonian Açaí (Euterpe Oleraceae) Stimulates Pulp Production From Atlantic Forest Juçara Berries (Euterpe Edulis), Adriana Carla Dias Trevisan, Alfredo Celso Fantini, Abdon Luis Schmitt-Filho, Joshua Farley
Market For Amazonian Açaí (Euterpe Oleraceae) Stimulates Pulp Production From Atlantic Forest Juçara Berries (Euterpe Edulis), Adriana Carla Dias Trevisan, Alfredo Celso Fantini, Abdon Luis Schmitt-Filho, Joshua Farley
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Publications
Three important policy goals in Brazil are economic growth, forest conservation and poverty alleviation. Agricultural production makes a major contribution to economic growth while posing a major threat to forest conservation, while the conversion of farmland to forest necessary to protect the Atlantic Forest threatens to drive small family farmers into poverty. Development of commercially important non-timber forest products (NTFPs) can play an important role in alleviating this conflict. The Euterpe genus stands out among the Brazilian NTFP production chains, with Euterpe oleraceae in the Amazon Basin and Euterpe edulis in southern part of Atlantic Forest - one of the …
Compatible Merchantable Stem Volume And Taper Equations For Eucalyptusplantations In The Eastern Mediterranean Region Of Turkey, Ramazan Özçeli̇k, Mehmet Fati̇h Göçeri̇
Compatible Merchantable Stem Volume And Taper Equations For Eucalyptusplantations In The Eastern Mediterranean Region Of Turkey, Ramazan Özçeli̇k, Mehmet Fati̇h Göçeri̇
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
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Droughts, Floods, And Wildfires: Paleo Perspectives On Disaster Law In The Anthropocene, Ryan Stoa
Droughts, Floods, And Wildfires: Paleo Perspectives On Disaster Law In The Anthropocene, Ryan Stoa
Faculty Publications
Humanity’s impact on the earth has become so pronounced that momentum is building toward adopting a new term for the modern geological age — the “Anthropocene.” The term signifies that human activity has reached a scale that it is now a planetary force capable of shaping ecosystems and natural processes. And yet, anthropocentric natural resources management and environmental lawmaking in the United States reveals a lack of control in managing natural systems and fostering resilience to extreme events. These systems do not easily conform to the whims of reactionary environmental policies. Droughts, floods, and wildfires, in particular, are often conceptualized …