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The Influence Of Sea Power Upon Oceanography: A Historical And Policy Analysis Of Governmental Support For Marine Science, Daniel Stuart Schwartz

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

In a time of austere funding for national ocean science R & D programs and Congressional balanced budget constraints, marine science investigators and program managers must increasingly ponder how committed to the support of oceanography our government will continue to be. The questions might better be phrased as how, in the absence of a credible open-ocean naval threat (the traditional focus of both basic and applied research), will policy makers justify the expenditure of scarce public revenues on marine science programs? Sea Power-as broadly defined in the works of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sergei Gorshkov-has driven, and will continue to …

Protection Of Marine Fish Habitat: Towards An Integrated Approach To Management, Andrea L. Oliver

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

This paper focuses on the problems associated with marine fish habitat protection and conservation at the federal level in the United States. The intent of the study is to provide a general overview of the issues, impacts, management problems and potential solutions. Federal statutory legislation that impacts marine fish habitat and agency authority derived from those legislative mandates are examined with a view toward promoting integrated management for marine biodiversity and overall ecosystem health. The concepts of coordinated and integrated approaches to management are discussed in the context of the present management regimes. Given the fragmented authority over the policy …

Rain Forest Curriculum For Upper Elementary And Middle Grades, Nancy Jane Brinkley

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Storm Water Pollution Patrol: A Thematic Unit For Use In Elementary Classrooms, Linda Ann Sánchez

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

More Than Trees: An Interdisciplinary, Literature-Based Unit, Emphasizing Drama And Hands-On Activities, Tracee Joanne Vickery

Theses Digitization Project

This guide was developed to provide a hands-on, interdisciplinary curriculum, based on children's literature for grades four through six. It is a resource for teachers incorporating environmental education into their regular curriculum, revolving around a common theme, trees.

The Development Of An Ecological Teaching Perspective: A Teacher Education Program, Caroline Conway Kolbert

Theses Digitization Project

This project describes a four-year teacher education program conducted at the Living Desert, a botanical and wildlife park located in Palm Desert, California. The program brought 12 classroom teachers and 3 zoological educators together to expand their understanding and practice of environmental education. This project concentrates on how the program affected my educational philosophy, strategy and practice as an educator at The Living Desert, and how it shifted the focus of our department's docent (volunteer guide) education in general.

Amazopoly A Game Of Survival In A Tropical Rain Forest, Michael William Morris

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Incorporating Environmental Education Into The Curriculum Through The Use Of Children's Literature, Tina Marie Prosch

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Windbreak Management, Craig Stange

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The windbreaks on your farm are an important part of the agricultural landscape. They provide protection for the farmstead, livestock, and crops; provide habitat for wildlife; and contribute to an overall healthy environment for you and your family. They are living systems with youth, maturity, and old age. Like any other living thing they need proper care and management in order to continue to function at their best.

Windbreak management requires an understanding of how your windbreak works. Your goal is to maintain the health and vigor of individual trees and shrubs while maintaining the overall structure of the windbreak …

An Overview Of Environmental Development In The Game Parks Of Kenya, Carolyn G. Ginter

Theses Digitization Project

Kenya has one of the oldest and most developed national park and reserve systems among developing nations in Africa. Kenya's ecosystems have felt the impact of tourists, from big game hunters to photographic safaris, for over a century. This project contains the research on which the author intends to base a future book about Kenyan ecoturism for the general public.

Land Use Patterns In Relation To Lake Water Quality In The North Pond Watershed, Problems In Environmental Science Course (Biology 493), Colby College, Colby Environmental Assessment Team, Colby College

Colby College Watershed Study: East and North Ponds (2011, 1999, 1996, 1991)

Human activity within the watershed can greatly accelerate the eutrophication process by increasing the rate at which nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen enter the lake (Fernandez et al. 1992). Increased nutrient loading causes dramatic increases in algal populations resulting in algal blooms. Many New England lakes develop a greenish tint because of algal blooms during early summer or early fall. Populations of bacteria which feed on organic material rise because of increased food supply. Bacterial activity decreases the level of dissolved oxygen in the lake (Henderson-Seller and Markland, 1987). A sharp decrease in dissolved oxygen levels can cause massive …

Task Lll Report: Deficit Analysis, L. Ormsbee, J. Herman

KWRRI Research Reports

This report summarizes the water supply deficit results of Phase lll of the KWRRI Kentucky River Basin Water Supply Assessment Study commissioned by the Kentucky River Authority. The purpose of Phase lll is to quantify water supply in the Kentucky River Basin during a severe drought for the existing supply system/resources under current and projected demand forecasts. A quantification of the susceptibility of the basin to a severe drought is necessary for the Authority to properly develop a long-range water supply plan.

This is part 3 of a three part Assessment Study of the River basin water supply.

Appendix 1 Public Comments And Forest Service Responses To The Environmental Assessment For 36 Livestock Grazing Allotments On The Shoshone National Forest, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Forest Service Regulations (36 CFR 215.6d) require publication of this appendix. Material in this appendix addresses comments received from the public during the comment period for the Environmental Assessment for 36 Livestock Grazing Allotments on the Shoshone National Forest. This appendix will be attached to any Decision Notices that may result.

South Manti Timber Salvage Sales Environmental Assessment, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

This environmental assessment (EA) is intended to foster informed decision making and public participation on a site-specific proposal to implement activities designed to meet the purpose and need and goals and objectives of the Manti-La Sal National Forest Land and Resources Management Plan (Forest Plan). This EA discloses the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts of three action alternatives for timber harvest and road construction, and a no action alternative on portions of the Ferron/Price and Sanpete Ranger Districts, Manti-La Sal National Forest in Sanpete and Sevier Counties, Utah. The area to be analyzed in support of this decision includes …

Bats, Veda Depaepe, Terry A. Messmer, Michael R. Conover

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Overview Of Techniques For Reducing Bird Predation At Aquaculture Facilities, Kimberly S. Curtis, William C. Pitt, Michael R. Conover

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Desert Plants Of Utah, Berniece A. Andersen

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

County, Colorado, Prowers County, Colorado Watershed Plan And Environmental Assessment, Bent Soil Conservation District, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Environmental Assessments (NV)

No abstract provided.

Decision Record And Finding Of No Significant Impact For Sodium Leasing In The Green River Basin Of Southwestern Wyoming, United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Record of Decisions (WY)

The BLM is charged with leasing federal mineral resources. BLM is proposing to hold a sodium lease sale of seven tracts incorporating a total of 9,893.91 acres as shown on Map 1. Federal sodium leases are issued based upon a system of closed competitive bids. The highest bidder may receive the lease provided the bid meets or exceeds fair market value. Leases have a 20-year primary term with discretionary 10-year renewal periods thereafter. A federal sodium lease is not automatically renewed but may be renewed upon the lessee's timely request for renewal. All leases adjudicated for renewal are reviewed and …

Final Environmental Impact Statement, Grass Creek Planning Area Resource Management Plan, Volume 1 Of 2, United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Final Environmental Impact Statements (WY)

This final environmental impact statement (EIS) describes the proposed Grass Creek Resource Management Plan (RMP) and its environmental consequences. This proposed plan is for the future management of public lands in a portion of the Bighorn Basin Resource Area of the Worland District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The planning area comprises approximately 968,000 acres of BLM-administered public land surface and 1,171,000 acres of BLM-administered federal mineral estate. (BLM-administered public land surface is referred to as "public land" in this document.)

Collections Summary For Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.

Environmental Assessment Amendment To Grand Mesa National Forest Travel Management Plan Revision 100 Mile Proposal, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The purpose of this Environmental Assessment (EA) is to describe the environmental effects of a proposal to evaluate reopening approximately 100 miles of the 299 miles of nonsystem routes which were closed to motorized use by the Decision Notice on the Grand Mesa National Forest Travel Management Plan Revision dated December 12, 1994.

Environmental Assessment For 36 Livestock Grazing Allotments On The Shoshone National Forest, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Shoshone National Forest proposes to issue Term Grazing Permits that will authorize the grazing of livestock on 36 grazing allotments located within the Forest. Permits will be issued for a period of up to 10 years. Part 3 (Special Terms and Conditions) of each permit would contain site specific livestock and rangeland management requirements designed to mitigate existing resource conflicts and implement Forest Plan standards and guidelines specific to each allotment.

Enron Burly Development Well No. 58-18d Finding Of No Significant Impact And Decision Record, United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Record of Decisions (WY)

The proposed well, Burly 58-18D, is located on private surface on a steep slope above fogarty Creek and within view of identified crucial elk winter range. The Burly project is located west of Mobil's office on the Calpet Highway between Big Piney and LaBarge, Wyoming.

Inventory For Endangered, Threatened, And Rare Plant And Animal Species Within The Floodplain Corridor Of The Middle Loup River Basin, Nebraska Natural Heritage Program

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: White Papers, Conference Presentations, and Manuscripts

In April 1996 the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC) entered into agreement with the U. S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to conduct inventory work for endangered, threatened, and rare plant and animal species within the floodplain corridor of the Middle Loup River basin in Nebraska. This district includes the Farwell and Sargent Irrigation Districts. The impetus for such inventory work is the renewal of current water services contracts between BOR and irrigation districts that will expire in 1988. BOR has stated the need to balance the interests of the irrigation districts and their clients, with …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, January/February 1996

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletter (1993–2000)

Contents:

1996 Sustainable Ag Training Workshops

Applications for Sare Producer Grants Due May 1

Bender Answers Questions on January Telecast

Nebraska Environmental Trust Proposals Due April 10

Intern Program Begins Second Year

Agroforestry Center Expands Programs

Strategies and Ideas in Sustainable Agriculture

NSAS Annual Meeting Will Focus on Rural Communities

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre Newsletter, Volume 4-2, Winter 1996

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Involvement in Mexico New Diagnostic Tools Hook Lake Wood Bison Recovery Project Progress Report - July 1996 Conjunctivitis in cormorants - Prince Edward IslandTularemia in snowshoe hares - Nova Scotia Seasonal mortality of terns continues in Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick Belugas from the St. Lawrence Estuary Secondary Tyzzar's Disease in a Racoon infected with Canine Distemper Diazinon poisoning in Geese Newcastle disease in cormorants Herpesvirus in owls Predator Attacks Botulism - 1996 Winter Mortality In Peace River Region Ungulates Diazinon poisoning of American wigeon

Effects Of Red Imported Fire Ants On Northern Bobwhite Chicks, William M. Giuliano, Craig R. Allen, R. Scott Lutz, Stephen Demarais

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Populations of red imported fire ants (RIFA; Solenopsis invtcta) have spread rapidly throughout the southeastern United States. RIFA, directly or indirectly, negatively affect many wildlife species, and northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) appear to be particularly susceptible. We examined the effect of exposure to different numbers of RIFA for 15 and 60 seconds on body mass and survival of captive northern bobwhite chicks. Compared to unexposed birds, survival of chicks was reduced with exposure to as few as 50 RIFA for 60 seconds, or 200 RIFA for 15 seconds, and body mass was lower in chicks exposed to …

Bulletin No 4315 - Western Australian Agricultural & Fishery Exports At A Glance...1995/96, Graeme Robertson Dr, P. P. Rogers

Bulletins 4000 -

Second edition (revised and updated) January 1997.

Western Australia's economic growth and high productivity is based on a well established export-oriented economy that relies heavily on primary production.

Our abundant and diverse range of agricultural and fish products is supported by highly innovative and dynamic primary industries. These are backed by modern financial and physical infrastructure.

Western Australia's agricultural industries and fisheries have an international reputation for a professional approach to business and a proven track record in producing and supplying food and fibre products of consistently high quality. Clean air, unpolluted oceans and waterways, and abundant quality farmland are …

Simulated Growth And Production Of Endangered Snake River Sockeye Salmon: Assessing Management Strategies For The Nursery Lakes, Chris Luecke, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Phaedra E. Budy, H. P. Gross

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

We examined the potential of employing a series of lake management strategies to enhance production of endangered Snake River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in its historical nursery lakes in central Idaho. We used a combination of limnological sampling, experimentation, and simulation modeling to assess effects of lake fertilization and kokanee reduction on growth and survival of juvenile sockeye salmon. Juvenile sockeye salmon from a broodstock of this endangered species are being introduced into the lakes from 1995 to 1998. Results of our analyses indicated that several lakes were suitable for receiving broodstock progeny. Field experimentation and simulation modeling indicated that …