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Divided Culture: Integrating And Conservation Biology Agriculture, John Banks
Divided Culture: Integrating And Conservation Biology Agriculture, John Banks
SIAS Faculty Publications
Production agriculture, with its implied ecosystem simplification, pesticide and fertilizer use, and emphasis on yield, often appears to be at odds with conservation biology. From a farmer's perspective, the weight conservation biology places on wildlife may seem overly idealistic and naive, detached from economic and sociopolitical reality. In fact, these endeavors are two sides of the same coin, with a shared heritage in decades of population and community ecological theory and experimentation. Better integration of the two disciplines requires acknowledging their various goals and working to produce mutually beneficial outcomes. The best examples of this type of integrated approach result …
Developing A Research And Restoration Plan For Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (Western Alaska) Salmon, Craig L. Fleener
Developing A Research And Restoration Plan For Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (Western Alaska) Salmon, Craig L. Fleener
Craig L Fleener
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Sources Of Ancient Maize Found In Chacoan Great Houses, Larry Benson
Sources Of Ancient Maize Found In Chacoan Great Houses, Larry Benson
United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications
Between the 9th and 12th centuries A.D., Chaco Canyon, located near the middle of the high-desert San Juan Basin of north-central New Mexico (fig. 1), was the focus of an unprecedented construction effort by pre-Columbian Native Americans. It has been estimated that from 2,000 to 6,000 people occupied Chaco Canyon during its heyday (Windes, 1984; Drager, 1976). One indication of Chaco’s regional importance is a network of roads that linked Chaco Canyon with other great houses and communities spread throughout a region covering at least 60,000 km2 (fig. 2). At the height of its cultural florescence in the 11th century, …