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1971

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Response Of Fraxinus Pennsylvanica M. Provenances To Daylength And Temperature, Cheng-Chun Ying Dec 1971

Response Of Fraxinus Pennsylvanica M. Provenances To Daylength And Temperature, Cheng-Chun Ying

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


The Prairie Naturalist Vol. 3, Nos. 3 And 4. September-December, 1971 Dec 1971

The Prairie Naturalist Vol. 3, Nos. 3 And 4. September-December, 1971

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Badlands-Old and New ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

SEASONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ALGAE FROM DEVILS LAKE, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Richard Verch and Dean W. Blinn

THE VASCULAR FLORA OF PEMBINA COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Rays E. Willenbring and William T. Barker

LET'S EAT WILD ▪ Alan M. Cvancara

SURF SCOTER IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Harold A. Kantrud

SNOW GOOSE-CANADA GOOSE HYBRIDS ▪ David C. McGlauchlin

NOTES

Cowbird parasitism of an upland plover nest ▪ Kenneth F. Higgins

Birds sighted within one hour from one observation point in Burleigh County, North Dakota ▪ William A. Buresh

Golden-winged warbler in Burleigh County, North …


Report On Water Pollution Problems In Las Vegas Wash And Las Vegas Bay, Environmental Protection Agency Nov 1971

Report On Water Pollution Problems In Las Vegas Wash And Las Vegas Bay, Environmental Protection Agency

Publications (WR)

This report was prepared by the Federal Water- Quality Administration, Pacific Southwest Region, now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX, at the request of the State of Nevada, Department of Health, Welfare, and rehabilitation. In a letter, dated December 5, 1969, this agency asked for technical assistance, as authorized by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, in developing discharge standards appropriate for Las Vegas Bay, Lake Mead, and the Lower Colorado River. The subsequent study was performed by EPA from January through August, 1970. The establishment of Nevada State Water Quality Standards for these waters will enable responsible officials …


Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations Oct 1971

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 40, No. 2, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

Quarterly magazine created for WKU alumni. Regular features are Hilltopics, Sports, Alumni Newsgrams and Notes and In Memoriam. This issue includes:

  • Graduate School (College) is On Its Way
  • Evening Class is Thataway
  • The Hilltopper Hundred to the Rescue
  • ETV - Keep Watching, It's All in Color
  • Student Interns Learn How Government Works
  • Significant Statements: The New Year Begins
  • Good News for Fishermen: Reservoir Research
  • There it Was! Your Homecoming - 1971
  • Performing Arts Illuminate the Campus Scene
  • Discovery 1 - Uncovering the Kentucky of Antiquity
  • Discovery 2 - Reviving the Heritage of Kentucky
  • Discovery 3 - The Intercultural Studies Program …


A Study Of The Limnetic Zooplankton Of Five Flood Control Reservoirs, Glen R. Helzer Aug 1971

A Study Of The Limnetic Zooplankton Of Five Flood Control Reservoirs, Glen R. Helzer

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Numerical Computer Perpheral Interactive Device With Manual Controls, James C. Fletcher, Arthur I. Zygielbaum, Stanley S. Brokl Jun 1971

Numerical Computer Perpheral Interactive Device With Manual Controls, James C. Fletcher, Arthur I. Zygielbaum, Stanley S. Brokl

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

A computer peripheral device is disclosed which in cludes a joystick whose displacement from a center position along two axes X and Y in either a plus (+) or a minus (-) direction is sensed. The displacement magnitude in either direction controls the rate of clock pulses provided by a variable frequency clock. The clock pulses from the two clocks are accumulated in two separate counters, whose contents are dis played. The contents of the counters are suppliable to a computer to update the contents of specific cells which define the position of a cursor on a display which is …


The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.2. June, 1971 Jun 1971

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.2. June, 1971

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Environmental Rights ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

RIVER BASINS PLANNING ▪ H. A. Hendrickson

WATER RESOURCE PLANNING GONE AMUCK ▪ Charles H. Stoddard

THE INTERACTION OF CITIZENS' GROUPS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WITH RESPECT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ▪ Robert L. Burgess

WORDS AND MEANINGS ▪ Paul T. Crary

ENFORCEMENT OF NORTH DAKOTA ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS ▪ Robert E. Beck

BIRDS OBSERVED IN NORTH DAKOTA DURING THE WINTER OF 1970-71 ▪ John T. Lokemoen and Paul E. Springer

STATUS OF CLARK'S NUTCRACKER IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Lewis W. Oring and Robert W. Seabloom

WINGED ANTS AS FISH FOOD ▪ Charles H. …


Measuring The Intangible Values Of Natural Streams, Part I, John A. Dearinger, George M. Woolwine Jun 1971

Measuring The Intangible Values Of Natural Streams, Part I, John A. Dearinger, George M. Woolwine

KWRRI Research Reports

The purpose of this study was to apply the "uniqueness concept" to the quantification of the intangible values of natural streams. The methodology is based on procedures developed by Luna B. Leopold and Maria O. Marchand of the U.S. Geological Survey. It involves the evaluation of a set of characteristics or factors for selected stream sites. Each factor is rated for each site on a numerical scale indicative of the range of possible "values" for that factor. An "uniqueness ratio" (the reciprocal of the number of stream sites sharing a given category rating) is then computed for each stream for …


A Conceptual Draft Of A Dynamic Hydro-Biological Model For Lake Mead, L. G. Everett, Bureau Of Reclamation Apr 1971

A Conceptual Draft Of A Dynamic Hydro-Biological Model For Lake Mead, L. G. Everett, Bureau Of Reclamation

Publications (WR)

Food and energy transformation in an aquatic system must be understood in order to develop a simulation approach. This report provides a comprehensive study of an aquatic ecosystem. The objectives of this report are to show:

(1) the biological relationships in an aquatic system

(2) the role of nutrients in the biological cycle

(3) the role of abiotic factors in a limnetic environment

(4) the status of the art of "Eutrophication modeling".


The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.1 March, 1971 Mar 1971

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 3, No.1 March, 1971

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: One House for Natural Resource Management ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

CHECKLIST OF BIRDS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE WOOD DUCK IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Edmund A. Hibbard

NOTES ON DANDELIONS ▪ O. A. Stevens

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS FOR NORTH DAKOTA—1970 ▪ Robert N. Randall

THE EROSION OF ONE OF MAN'S MOST PRECIOUS NATURAL RESOURCES: HIS FREEDOM OF CHOICE ▪ Gordon L. Iseminger

NOTEWORTHY PLANTS OF THE NORTH DAKOTA PRAIRIE COTEAU FOREST ▪ W. Carter Johnson

NOTE — Duck mortality caused by wind ▪ Harold Kantrud


Impoundment Effects On Water Quality As Reflected In Parasitism Of Reservoir Basses, David A. Becker Jan 1971

Impoundment Effects On Water Quality As Reflected In Parasitism Of Reservoir Basses, David A. Becker

Technical Reports

Our aquatic environments are rapidly becoming useless as natural resources through pollution from various sources. It is therefore necessary for us to further understand the various means which relate to this process. The interrelationships between the physico-chemical and biological water qualities undergo marked changes during the ageing of a reservoir. Eutrophication of these impoundments render them rela-tively useless as natural resources. It thus becomes apparent that we must gain further knowledge of these processes if we are to devise methods for proper reservoir management.


Population Dynamics Of The Mourning Dove In South Dakota, Leslie A. Rice Jan 1971

Population Dynamics Of The Mourning Dove In South Dakota, Leslie A. Rice

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mourning dove bandings in South Dakota totaled 44,842 from 1917 through 1970. Adult bandings totaled 44.4 percent of all bandings while immatures, juveniles, locals, and unknown age were 41.3, 0.8, 12.8, and 0.7 percent, respectively. Recoveries totaled 2.8 percent of the banded population, 2.5 percent from hunting and 0.5 percent from non-hunting. Annual mortality estimates of local (nestling) bandings from 1956-61 were between 54.4 and 64.5 percent. Subsequent adult mortality from local bandings was between 51.0 and 52.4 percent. Mean annuals mortality estimates of flying doves banded from 1964-69 were calculated using composite dynamic, composite time-specific, relative recovery rate, a …


Macroscopic Benthos Populations And Taxonomy Of The Family Chironomidae In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Stephen B. Smith Jan 1971

Macroscopic Benthos Populations And Taxonomy Of The Family Chironomidae In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Stephen B. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Benthos samples were collected in Lake Poinsett, a highly eutrophic eastern South Dakota lake, from March 1970 through February 1971. The lake bottom was divided into three substrate types (sand, sand-sapropel mixture and sapropel) and the percent of each substrate type was calculated. Nineteen macroscopic genera were taken from ten sampling stations located throughout the lake. Descriptions are presented for organisms in this group. Diversity of organisms was greatest in the sand substrates, in that all 19 genera were collected. Chironomus spp. (Chironomus plomosus, Chironomus attenuates and six unidentified species) was the most abundant group of organisms and occurred most …


Micronutrients And Biological Patterns In Lake Mead, Hasan K. Qashu, Lorne G. Everett, J. S. Carlson, Bureau Of Reclamation Jan 1971

Micronutrients And Biological Patterns In Lake Mead, Hasan K. Qashu, Lorne G. Everett, J. S. Carlson, Bureau Of Reclamation

Publications (WR)

Progressive increases in concentration of dissolved solids in the Colorado River water from Lake Powell to Imperial Dam seem to alter plankton dynamics and biological productivity of the river. Also, changes in biological productivity and micronutrients concentrations occur within the same reservoir. Development of a digital simulation model to predict micronutrients concentrations and biological productivity is necessary for diagnosing changes in plankton population and effluent-carrying capacity of the system.

The objectives of the study are: (1) to determine trace metal balance at different locations in Lake Mead, (2) to measure biological productivity and conduct plankton population counts at each sampling …


Recent Sediments Of Humboldt Bay, Eureka, California, Robert Wayne Thompson Jan 1971

Recent Sediments Of Humboldt Bay, Eureka, California, Robert Wayne Thompson

Special Collections Archived Publications

Humboldt Bay is a coastal lagoon, 14 mi. long and a maximum of 4 mi. wide. The bay has three distinct segments, South, Entrance, and Arcata Bays, each of which occupies the seaward end of one or more stream valleys cut into Plio- Pleistocene paralic sediments. The segments are linked by narrow tidal channels which are bounded by a barrier spit on the west and by high valley interfluves on the east. Climate of the area is rainy temperate . Tides are of the mixed type with a mean range of 6.5 ft.

Textural variations of the surface sediments in …


Models Of Ingestion Rates For Desert Biome Rodents Process Study, Donald R. Johnson Jan 1971

Models Of Ingestion Rates For Desert Biome Rodents Process Study, Donald R. Johnson

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Development Of Techniques For Estimating Biomass Of Desert Inhabiting Invertebrate Animals Methodological Study, Gordon L. Bender Jan 1971

Development Of Techniques For Estimating Biomass Of Desert Inhabiting Invertebrate Animals Methodological Study, Gordon L. Bender

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Validation Studies At Deep Creek, Curlew Valley Validation Study, G. W. Minshall, F. L. Rose, D. A. Andrews, D. M. Shaw Jan 1971

Validation Studies At Deep Creek, Curlew Valley Validation Study, G. W. Minshall, F. L. Rose, D. A. Andrews, D. M. Shaw

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Validation Studies At Tucson, Arizona, David Hendricks, A. Neil Macgregor, E. Lendell Cockrum, Et Al Jan 1971

Validation Studies At Tucson, Arizona, David Hendricks, A. Neil Macgregor, E. Lendell Cockrum, Et Al

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Validation Studies At Locomotive Springs, Curlew Valley Validation Study, J. Anne Holman Jan 1971

Validation Studies At Locomotive Springs, Curlew Valley Validation Study, J. Anne Holman

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Data Bank And Data Processing, Us/Ibp Analysis Of Ecosystems Desert Biome Jan 1971

Data Bank And Data Processing, Us/Ibp Analysis Of Ecosystems Desert Biome

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Of Aspen And Pine Communities In The Northern Black Hills, Jeremiah J. Kranz Jan 1971

A Comparison Of Aspen And Pine Communities In The Northern Black Hills, Jeremiah J. Kranz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Three study areas, each containing an aspen (Populus tremuloides) community, a pine (Pinus ponderosa) community, and a mixed aspen-pine community, were studied during the summers of 1968, 1969, and 1970. Soil chemistry, plant chemistry, overstory density, understory production, and use by whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and cattle (Bos taurus) were determined for each community in each study. Pine and aspen communities of one study area were sampled for soil and plant chemistry. Soil phosphate and potassium levels were higher in the aspen community, while soil nitrates were higher in the pine community. Soil pH was similar to the two communities. …


Development Of A Technique For Measuring The Water Balance Of Validation Study Areas Methodological Study, John Thames, H. Qashu, C. Kiesel Jan 1971

Development Of A Technique For Measuring The Water Balance Of Validation Study Areas Methodological Study, John Thames, H. Qashu, C. Kiesel

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


The Jornada Validation Site (Playa- Nmsu Ranch) Validation Study, Walter G. Whitford, John Ludwig Jan 1971

The Jornada Validation Site (Playa- Nmsu Ranch) Validation Study, Walter G. Whitford, John Ludwig

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Growth And Development Of Sitanion Hystrix Process Study, M. Hironaka, E. W. Tisdale Jan 1971

Growth And Development Of Sitanion Hystrix Process Study, M. Hironaka, E. W. Tisdale

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Techniques For Estimating Population Sizes In Desert Rodents Methodological Study, C. D. Jorgensen, H. D. Smith, D. T. Scott, H. D. Tolley Jan 1971

Evaluation Of Techniques For Estimating Population Sizes In Desert Rodents Methodological Study, C. D. Jorgensen, H. D. Smith, D. T. Scott, H. D. Tolley

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Diets, Food Preferences And Reproductive Cycles Of Some Desert Mammals Process Study, Russell P. Balda, Gary C. Bateman, Terry A. Vaughan Jan 1971

Diets, Food Preferences And Reproductive Cycles Of Some Desert Mammals Process Study, Russell P. Balda, Gary C. Bateman, Terry A. Vaughan

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Autecological Studies Of Atriplex Confertifolia And Eurotia Lanata Process Study, Martyn M. Caldwell, Neil E. West, Peter J. Goodman Jan 1971

Autecological Studies Of Atriplex Confertifolia And Eurotia Lanata Process Study, Martyn M. Caldwell, Neil E. West, Peter J. Goodman

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Soil Model -- Heat, Water, And Salt Flow, R. J. Hanks, D. D. Austin, W. T. Ondrechen Jan 1971

Soil Model -- Heat, Water, And Salt Flow, R. J. Hanks, D. D. Austin, W. T. Ondrechen

Progress reports

No abstract provided.


Sampling Small Mammal Population In Curlew Valley Methodological Study, David F. Balph Jan 1971

Sampling Small Mammal Population In Curlew Valley Methodological Study, David F. Balph

Progress reports

No abstract provided.