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Arizona Quail: Species In Jeopardy?, Ron Engel-Wilson, William P. Kuvlesky Jr. Jul 2017

Arizona Quail: Species In Jeopardy?, Ron Engel-Wilson, William P. Kuvlesky Jr.

National Quail Symposium Proceedings

We begin the 21st century with the Midwestern northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) range reduced to a small portion of its historic distribution. This precipitous decline occurred largely during the last quarter of the 20th century, coincident with widespread intensive agricultural land use, unchecked natural plant succession, and frequent severe weather. Various bobwhite enthusiasts of the 1960s–1980s era including Klimstra, Dumke and Stanford had evaluated agricultural land use trends and predicted the near demise of bobwhites that we now lament. Alarmed upland bird hunters have repeatedly spurred policy makers and administrators into action. However, because bobwhites still are only an incidental …


The History And Development Of De-Swiddening Among The Ersu In Sichuan, China, Edwin A. Schmitt Dec 2014

The History And Development Of De-Swiddening Among The Ersu In Sichuan, China, Edwin A. Schmitt

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

The process of coercing or forcing farmers to transition from shifting agriculture to more sedentary agricultural practices, a process I refer to as “de-swiddening”, has been well documented for many decades. Most often this process takes place in the political context of a state’s attempt to make an agricultural system more “legible”, as Scott (1998) has aptly described it. In a more recent context, de-swiddening has actually been taken under the banner of environmental protection. In both instances, institutional bodies which design de-swiddening policies rarely consider its unintended consequences. In China, to prevent erosion in upland regions of the country, …


A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose May 1993

A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Green Cathedral: Sustainable Development of Amazonia by Juan de Onis and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England by Theodore Steinberg