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Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships -- Interagency Volunteer Program & Cooperative Conservation Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- Database now contains 1,807 records, a 15% increase over the last quarter.
- Website activity increased, recording an average of 38,399 hits per month, with an average of 3,537 pages viewed per month.
- Inaugural interagency volunteer recognition event held October 28, 2005.
- Interagency training program (phase 1) scheduled for February 2006 (four sessions).
- Alternative Workforce Survey completed and delivered to National Park Service.
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Anti-littering Programs
- Messaging campaign proposal approved by the federal Land Managers.
- Invitations sent to potential Community Steering Committee members.
- Project Manager Doug Joslin appointed to new county-wide Southern Nevada Recycling Advisory Committee.
- Four public service announcements produced by UNLV students.
- Contract with the Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) in progress for prison crew site clean-ups.
- Plan for agency requests for additional dumpsters and/or roll-offs approved by team.
College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2005, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2005, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects
Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge.
The senior design competition helps to focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects …
The Role Of Malagasy Women In Community Development: Analyzing The Potential For The Creation Of A Women’S Association For Alternative Livelihoods In Ifaty, Amanda Fencl
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Integrated Conservation and development projects (ICDPs) have increased in number worldwide as conservation organizations have to come to terms with the importance of involving and addressing the needs of local human populations to order to achieve their conservation goals. Madagascar’s unique biodiversity, environmental degradation, and plaguing poverty has made ICDPs crucial in achieving national goals of tripling the area of natural heritage conserved and poverty reduction through socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable development. In order to understand how such sustainable development can be achieved, it is essential to spend time enhancing one’s understanding of the local mentality and worldview. On …
The Role Of Tibetan Buddhism And Culture In Sustainable Development (A Case Study Of Yubeng Village), Frazer Lanier
The Role Of Tibetan Buddhism And Culture In Sustainable Development (A Case Study Of Yubeng Village), Frazer Lanier
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
During a lecture by Li Bo, of CBIK (the Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge a Chinese NGO), I was given a glimpse into the role that culture plays within poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. While poverty alleviation aims to develop community economies, this goal is usually seen as being in conflict with environmental conservation because it requires the use of environmental resources. This is a common misperception. According to Gou Jing’s article Gateway between Culture and Nature, “man’s touch bestows nature with culture” (Guo Jing 12). The interaction between nature and humans is the foundation for culture and the …
Coral Reef Tourism And Conservation In Bocas Del Toro: An Analysis Of Ecotourism And Its Tour Guide-Based Components, Rebecca Kayes
Coral Reef Tourism And Conservation In Bocas Del Toro: An Analysis Of Ecotourism And Its Tour Guide-Based Components, Rebecca Kayes
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Tourism of the coral reefs in Bocas del Toro is an important economic activity but also potentially harmful to the environment, creating an ecologically and economically unsustainable situation and doubts that the region engages in “ecotourism.” Coral reef tourism was analyzed with a specific emphasis on tours, tour guides, tourist motivations, tourist education and conservation-related activities. Research methods included participant observation in the tourism world in Bocas, interviews with guides, tourists and community members, and a tourist survey. Though local popular opinion disagrees, data collected shows tourism in Bocas does not emphasize reefs or reef conservation, a potentially catastrophic situation …
Agroecology Of The Naso-Teribe: The Management And Conservation Of Traditional Agroecological Systems, Maisie Ganz
Agroecology Of The Naso-Teribe: The Management And Conservation Of Traditional Agroecological Systems, Maisie Ganz
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The term “agroecology” is used to describe the sustainable design and management of agricultural systems by the application of ecological concepts and principles. The resulting agroecosystems, often practiced by indigenous or poor farmers in marginal environments without access to external technologies, are systems of food production that integrate cultivated crops into surrounding ecosystems. The Naso-Teribe, an indigenous community of approximately 3,800 individuals living in the forests of western Panama, practice a complex agroecological system. The Naso farmers’ agricultural practices contribute to, and are dependent on, the biodiversity of resources available. The ways in which Naso farmers manage, maintain, and preserve …
Periodismo Medioambiental, Peter Weisberg
Periodismo Medioambiental, Peter Weisberg
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
INTAG is a community run, environmental newspaper that serves the county of Intag on the western slopes of the Andes in northern Ecuador. For the month of November 2005, I worked for the newspaper, writing articles and researching ways in which the paper can increase communication among different organizations that formed over the last eleven years of resistance to proposed mining. After interviewing eleven community leaders, I conclude that the paper can 1) do more to elicit the participation of groups that are currently inactive and 2) maintain its ecological position while gaining credibility by constructively criticizing the anti-mining community …
Análisis Del Desarrollo Sustentable En La Industria Del Salmón En Chile, Theresa Mohin
Análisis Del Desarrollo Sustentable En La Industria Del Salmón En Chile, Theresa Mohin
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The focus of this independent study project is sustainable development, in the context of the Chilean salmon industry. The project centers on the environmental impacts of the salmon business, from its introduction as a fledgling industry in the eighties, to its arrival as one of the most important exporting markets in the Chilean economy. The discussion focuses on the economic history of the salmon industry, its environmental consequences, and the role of the government in environmental regulation, to discover whether or not current environmental programs in place are in fact sustainable. I conclude that while the efforts of the Chilean …
Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships -- Interagency Volunteer Program & Cooperative Conservation Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- 1,573 total volunteer records now loaded into database
- 230 new volunteers recruited through website: www.getoutdoorsnevada.org
- Website recorded an average of 35,000 hits per month for the quarter, with an average of 3,350 pages viewed per month
- Three major interagency volunteer events completed this quarter, at which more than 300 volunteers picked up a total of 128 cubic yards of litter at three separate National Public Lands Day clean-up events: September 17, 2005 - Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area September 24, 2005 - Red Rock National Conservation Area September 24, 2005 - Lake Mead National Recreation Area
- Interagency Volunteer Team selected …
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada
Anti-littering Programs
- Interagency Anti-Litter Team met on August 22 and September 14, 2005.
- Community Anti-Litter Steering Committee participants have been identified.
- Project Manager Doug Joslin has been recommended for appointment to the new county-wide Southern Nevada Recycling Advisory Committee.
- Five Take Pride in America public service announcements were produced and delivered to television stations in southern Nevada.
- A messaging campaign proposal will be shared with the federal land managers on October 27, 2005.
- An initial review of progress on the Spring Mountains anti-litter pilot project has been conducted.
- Three Take Pride in America clean-up events were supported by the Anti-Litter Team. The …
Interagency Science And Research: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Interagency Science And Research: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Interagency Science and Research Strategy
- Search for project manager was successfully completed in September 2005
- Project manager Debra Dandridge will start half-time (telecommuting) on November 1, 2005, and begins in Las Vegas full-time on January 1, 2006
Integrated Fisheries Management Report Abalone Resource., Department Of Fisheries
Integrated Fisheries Management Report Abalone Resource., Department Of Fisheries
Fisheries management papers
This report includes information on sustainability and sustainable harvest levels for Western Australian abalone stocks as required under the IFM policy. It also contains additional information on the current state of knowledge of the abalone resource, which provides a broader context for considering allocations. In particular, detailed information is provided on the Roe’s abalone resource in the Perth metropolitan area (commercial Area 7/recreational West Coast Zone).
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Habitat Conservation Plans, Susan Linner, Anne Ruggles, Anne Winans
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Habitat Conservation Plans, Susan Linner, Anne Ruggles, Anne Winans
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
5 pages (includes illustration).
Contains references.
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Section 7 Consultation, Susan Linner, Leslie Elwood, Steve Culver
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Section 7 Consultation, Susan Linner, Leslie Elwood, Steve Culver
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
10 pages (includes color illustrations and map).
Contains references.
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: States And The Esa, Pam Inmann, Tom Norton
Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: States And The Esa, Pam Inmann, Tom Norton
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
1 page.
Contains references.
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Colorado Native Aquatic Species Restoration Program, Dave Schnoor
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Colorado Native Aquatic Species Restoration Program, Dave Schnoor
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
6 pages (includes illustrations).
Contains one reference.
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Candidate Conservation Agreements And Collaborative Multi-Party Agreements, Al Pfister, Gary Skiba, Tim Lehmann
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Candidate Conservation Agreements And Collaborative Multi-Party Agreements, Al Pfister, Gary Skiba, Tim Lehmann
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
8 pages (includes illustrations and maps).
Contains references.
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Canada Lynx Reintroduction, Gary Skiba, Rob Edward, Bonnie Kline
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Canada Lynx Reintroduction, Gary Skiba, Rob Edward, Bonnie Kline
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
5 pages (includes some color illustrations and maps).
Contains references.
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, Bob Muth, Tom Pitts, Dan Luecke
Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, Bob Muth, Tom Pitts, Dan Luecke
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
58 pages (includes illustrations and maps).
Contains references.
Aquaculture-Based Calibration Of The M.Edulis Isotope Paleothermometer, Karl J. Kreutz, Harold Borns, Douglas Introne, Bruce Barber, Sven Funder
Aquaculture-Based Calibration Of The M.Edulis Isotope Paleothermometer, Karl J. Kreutz, Harold Borns, Douglas Introne, Bruce Barber, Sven Funder
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Oxygen isotopic analysis of marine carbonate shells (δ18Oc) is a standard paleoceanographic technique used to document the chronology of seawater temperature change. Shell δ18Oc depends not only upon seawater temperature, but also upon the isotopic composition of the seawater (δ18Ow; related to salinity) and any species-specific fractionation that occurs during biomineralization. In the past, the interpretation of shell δ18Oc has been based upon theoretical studies of chemical equilibrium and kinetics, or laboratory experiments involving the inorganic precipitation of CaCO3 from solution. Other methods have employed …
Congressional Staff Update August 17, 2005, Public Lands Institute
Congressional Staff Update August 17, 2005, Public Lands Institute
Presentations (PLI)
The Public Lands Institute is dedicated to strengthening the national fabric that is essential for the protection, conservation, and management of public lands.
In collaboration with federal, state, and non-profit partners, the institute is creating new knowledge, advancing technology, improving education, and engaging the public to enhance public lands stewardship.
Agenda: Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
The Center sponsored its third annual field tour for staff members of the United States Congress, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Colorado state legislature.
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Introduction, Mark Squillace
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Introduction, Mark Squillace
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
5 pages.
Contains references.
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Biodiversity And Critical Habitat, Charles Bedford, Federico Cheever, Tim Sullivan
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Biodiversity And Critical Habitat, Charles Bedford, Federico Cheever, Tim Sullivan
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
6 pages (includes color illustration).
Contains references.
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Science And The Esa, Joy Nicholopoulos, William Lewis
Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Science And The Esa, Joy Nicholopoulos, William Lewis
Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)
43 pages (includes illustrations and map).
Contains references.
Ua3/9/5 Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (Crep), Wku President's Office
Ua3/9/5 Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (Crep), Wku President's Office
WKU Archives Records
Talking points used by WKU president Gary Ransdell regarding WKU's partnering with Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
Street Trees In The Urban Forest Canopy: Portland, Oregon, Joseph Poracsky, David Banis
Street Trees In The Urban Forest Canopy: Portland, Oregon, Joseph Poracsky, David Banis
Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations
Attempts to identify the contribution of street trees to the overall urban forest of a city have been rare and lack consensus on how to measure that contribution – percentage of trees, percentage of canopy cover, or percentage of leaf area. The actual numeric values presented in the literature also vary over a broad range and often are based on estimates, extrapolations from aggregated data, or simply stated with no empirical data referenced. This study was undertaken to evaluate the contribution of street trees to canopy in Portland, Oregon. The study involved both visual and digital analysis of multi-band aerial …
Fire-Induced Albedo Change And Its Radative Forcing At The Surface In Northern Austrailia, Y. Jin, David P. Roy
Fire-Induced Albedo Change And Its Radative Forcing At The Surface In Northern Austrailia, Y. Jin, David P. Roy
GSCE Faculty Publications
This paper investigates the impact of fire on surface albedo and the associated radiative forcing over 56% of continental Australia encompassing the fire-prone northern tropical savanna. Fire-affected areas and albedos are derived for the 2003 fire season using daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) surface reflectance data. Near-infrared and total shortwave albedos are observed to generally decrease after fire occurrence. Regionally, the total shortwave albedo drops by an average of 0.024, with increasing reductions as the dry season progresses and larger reductions in grasslands than woody savannas. These fire-induced albedo changes exert a positive forcing at the surface that increases …
Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships -- Interagency Volunteer Program & Cooperative Conservation Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending June 30, 2005, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- 1,289+ records are now loaded into volunteer database.
- 150 volunteers registered for events on the interagency website.
- Three interagency events were successfully completed: April 2 – Red Rock Day at Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area; April 15 – Stewardship Saturday at Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge; June 4 – National Trails Day at Spring Mountains National Recreation Area.
- 25 interagency volunteer events are identified for year-two.
- Volunteer recognition program is underway.
- Volunteer training program syllabus is under development.
- Potential funding sources are identified (grants).