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Preliminary Analysis Of The Management Situation, Land And Resource Management Plan Revision, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Natural Resources-Planning, Management, and Conservation

The Uinta Forest Plan (officially entitled Land and Resource Management Plan of the Uinta National Forest) is the document that establishes general management direction for lands administered by the Uinta National Forest. Using broad language, the Forest Plan determines the availability of land for resource management, predicts levels of resource use and outputs, and provides for a variety of resource management practices. The Uinta National Forest completed its current Forest Plan in October, 1984.

Final Environmental Impact Statement And Proposed Resource Management Plan For Public Lands Administered By The Bureau Of Land Management Newcastle Field Office, Newcastle, Wyoming, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Final Environmental Impact Statements (WY)

Enclosed is the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) for Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Newcastle Field Office. This document presents the Proposed RMP for managing the public lands and resources in the Newcastle area. The proposed RMP is a refinement of the preferred alternative presented in the draft EIS published in March 1998.

Record Of Decision Carbon Basin Coal Project, United States Department Of Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Record of Decisions (WY)

The Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Carbon Basin Coal Project was released to the public on January 8, 1999. This document considered and evaluated the impacts of issuing the proposed Elk Mountain/Saddleback Hills competitive coal lease (WYW139975) under the provisions of 43 CFR 3425.1, as a lease by application (LBA). The area proposed for mining is a mixture of private, state, and federal surface and coal estates. If the applicant, Ark Land Company, is the successful bidder, they propose to mine surface and underground federal coal reserves along with their privately-owned coal to make an efficient and economical …

Final Environmental Impact Statement Continental Divide/Wamsutter Ii Natural Gas Project, Sweetwater And Carbon Counties, Wyoming, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Final Environmental Impact Statements (WY)

This Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) assesses the environmental consequences of a proposed natural gas development project in eastern Sweetwater and southwestern Carbon Counties, Wyoming. This FEIS incorporates by reference most of the material presented in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Continental Divide/Wamsutter II Natural Gas Project and is designed to be used with the DEIS.

Final Carbon Basin Coal Project Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Final Environmental Impact Statements (WY)

The Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements (DEIS and FEIS) assess the environmental consequences of a proposed coal lease sale and subsequent mine development and operation in the Carbon Basin, 11 miles southeast of Hanna, Wyoming. This abbreviated FEIS revises and supplements the DEIS for the Carbon Basin Coal project (DES-98-32) and addresses comments and concerns expressed during the public comment period for the DEIS. The DEIS was made available to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the public on August 7, 1998, and a Notice of Availability was published in the Federal Register on the same date. One …

Evaluation Of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Sea-Ice Products, Kim Partington, Cheryl Bertoia

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Existing SSM/I algorithms are imperfect at mapping total and partial ice concentrations. This paper reviews recent findings based on comparisons of sea-ice products against other satellite data and U.S. National Ice Center (NIC) ice charts.

Baleen Whales: Conservation Issues And The Status Of The Most Endangered Populations, Phillip Clapham, Sharon Young, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Most species of baleen whales were subject to intensive overexploitation by commercial whaling in this and previous centuries, and many populations were reduced to small fractions of their original sizes. Here, we review the status of baleen whale stocks, with an emphasis on those that are known or thought to be critically endangered. Current data suggest that, of the various threats potentially affecting baleen whales, only entanglement in fishing gear and ship strikes may be significant at the population level, and then only in those populations which are already at critically low abundance. The impact of some problems (vessel harassment, …

Tws Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Newsletter:Spring 1999 - Volume 6(2)

TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Newsletter

Forward -- Scott Craven; 1999 Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Officers:; Contributors To This Issue; Wildlife Damage Management Around The World - Part 4; Wildlife Damage Management In Mexico; Next Edition Deadlines; Conditioned Food Avoidance For Predator Depredation Alert; Preliminary Program 6th Annual Conference * September 7-11, 1999; Tws 6th Annual Conference Working Group Sponsored Sessions; In Memory: William D. Fitzwater; Next Edition Deadlines; In Memoriam: Jack H. Berryman; A Wildlife Contraception Technical Review Committee; Call For Papers 19th Vertebrate Pest Conference; Application For Membership / The Wildlife Society

Under-Ice Diel Vertical Migrations Of Oncorhynchus Nerka And Their Zooplankton Prey, G. B. Steinhart, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

We used stationary hydroacoustics and measures of environmental conditions (water temperature, dissolved oxygen, light levels, and zooplankton) to determine what factors, foraging or predation risk, influenced diel vertical migrations of Oncorhynchus nerka during winter in three high-mountain lakes. The Sawtooth Valley lakes are deep, oligotrophic, glacial lakes located in central Idaho, U.S.A., and historically contained populations of anadromous O. nerka. In general, low light intensities limited foraging opportunities of O. nerka under ice, especially at night. In Stanley Lake, O. nerka underwent diel vertical migrations to exploit available light to feed. Oncorhynchus nerka occupied shallow water at night, where there …

The Rehabilitation Of The Tampa Bay Estuary, Florida, Usa, As An Example Of Successful Integrated Coastal Management, R. R. Lewis, P. A. Clark, W. K. Fehring, H. S. Greening, R. O. Johansson, R. T. Paul

Reports

The first suggestion that controls on eutrophication and dredging impacts were needed came in 1969. The federal Water Pollution Control Administration recommended a water quality management plan and waste abatement program to control odour and other pollution symptoms in Hillsborough Bay, and a master plan for dredging and filling the bay.

Salinity Action Plan : Wetland Vegetation Monitoring, 1998/1999, R. Gurner, G. Ogden, R. H. Froend

Research outputs pre 2011

This report represents the vegetation component of a project designed to provide on-going monitoring of wetland salinity and biological resources in wetlands of the agricultural zone of south-west Western Australia. Maintenance of wetland biological diversity in the agricultural zone is one of the major objectives of the Salinity Action Plan. Due to their low position in the landscape, wetlands are the habitat most affected by salinisation...

What Does Smart Growth Mean For Housing?, Karen A. Danielsen, Robert E. Lang, William Fulton

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Research

Barely noticed amid the returns from the 1998 midterm elections was a quiet revolution that goes to the heart of how and where Americans live. While most news accounts focused on the high-profile candidate elections, voters across the nation-in Democratic and Republican areas alike-approved more than 160 state and local ballot measures intended to preserve open space and limit urban sprawl.

The coalition forming around the idea of limiting sprawl includes environmentalists, farmers, big-city mayors, and some developers. But perhaps most important, the so-called "smart growth" movement also includes many suburban voters who are fed up with growth. For example, …

Inventory Of The Central Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecoregion Of Kansas And Nebraska, Hillary Loring, Mike Bullerman, Kelly Kindscher

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

An inventory of potential high quality mixed-grass prairie ranches and large properties within the Central Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecoregion of Kansas and Nebraska was conducted in the spring and summer of 1999. Emphasis during the inventory was placed on identification of relatively intact landscapes. Significant ranches within those untilled landscapes were visited. An interview of the owners or managers of those properties was coupled with a survey of the vegetation. Assessments of quality were based on species composition, continuity of ground cover, observations of livestock impact, and viability of the community types present.

The objectives of this study were to:

1) …

Microlevel Climate Change Due To Changes In Surface Features In The Ganges Delta, M. M. Adel

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The Ganges had been the world's 8th largest river in terms of the volume of water discharge of 490 km3/yr to the ocean 4 prior to 1975. Since that time, over a period of two decades, India has reduced the Ganges discharge through Bangladesh to 40% from its original annual average discharge of 1,932+7-223 m3 /s by diverting water for irrigation in her upper states. The , resulting consequences have been disastrous due to the depletion of the surface water resources. One of the devastating consequences has been the generation of extreme climate. The summertime maximum temperature has risen to …

Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, Drs. Tuler and Webler evaluate the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.

The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (Epa) : Its Structure, Functions And Performance 1971-1996, Vincent Cusack

Theses : Honours

This study examines the effectiveness of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), from its inception in 1971 to 1996. While environmental concerns have risen considerably in recent times, environmental awareness can be traced back to early historical beginnings. Yet, despite this initial awareness it took some time before environmental problems permeated the public consciousness, to occupy the political agenda. However, in the early 1970s, governments throughout the First World responded to research and heightened awareness of environmental concerns, with specific legislation to protect the environment. A common feature of the legislation, was the provision for a main administrative body …

Social And Economic Data For Regional And Natural Resource Management In Western Australia's South West Catchment : Results Of The 2006 Landholder Survey, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia, South West Catchments Council (W.A.), Michael Hanslip, Australia. Bureau Of Rural Sciences.

All other publications

This report presents a summary of the key findings from a mailed survey to 2,000 landholders in the South West Region of Western Australia in 2006. The survey gathered information on the key social and economic factors affecting landholder decision-making about the adoption of practices expected to improve the management of natural resources in the region. The response rate for the survey was 69.4%.

The South West Catchment Council, Western Australian Department of Agriculture and Food and the Bureau of Rural Sciences were key project partners. Funding was from a mix of national, state and regional programmes, including the Natural …

A Woman's Field Is Made At Night: Gendered Land Rights And Norms In Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Gendered social norms and institutions are important determinants of agricultural activities in southwestern Burkina Faso. This paper argues that gendered land tenure, in particular, has effects on equity and efficiency. The usual view of women as holders of secondary, or indirect, rights to land must be supplemented by a more nuanced understanding of tenure. Women's rights are in fact considerably more complex than the simple right to fields from their husbands. First, women's rights to property obtained from men may be coupled with other rights and obligations. In many ethnic groups, women have share rights to the harvest of their …

Evaluating Oral Histories For Restoration Ecology, Margaret Robertson

Theses : Honours

Significant ecological restoration is required in the agricultural regions of south-western Australia. Environmental history, including local knowledge based on long-term observation of the biophysical environment, can help guide this process. Scientists already use local anecdotal information because other information sources are absent or too recent, yet they are often skeptical of its veracity. This study focused on whether environmental oral histories can be evaluated for factual accuracy and their capacity to be useful in the restoration process. Some of the complexities associated with linking environmental histories with restoration ecology, and the role played by oral histories in establishing the link …

Sub-Lethal Effects Of Hypoxia/Hypercapnia On Callinectes Sapidus In The York River Estuary, Virginia, Sandra R. Hypes

Theses and Dissertations

This research examined effects of hypoxic environments on blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus in an estuarine environment. Hypoxic conditions were treated as a multiple stressor involving low dissolved oxygen (D.O.), increased carbon dioxide (hypercapnia), and low pH concurrently. The objectives were to: 1) identify hypoxiahypercapnia by monitoring D.O. and pH as an indicator of hypercapnia in shallow regions of the York River, 2) measure blue crab abundance, and 3) describe blue crab responses to hypoxiahypercapnia via field work at Taskinas Creek and lab measurements of respiration. Ambient D.O. and pH were positively correlated in the Taskinas Creek and York River sites …

Effect Of The Environmental Parameters On The Distribution Of Foraminifera In The Coastal Area Of Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E., Naama Obaid Saif Al-Kaabi

Theses

Twenty samples of sea water and twenty samples of sediment were collected from the off shore area of Ras AI-Khaimah to find out the relationships between environmental parameters, abundance of foraminifera, and ratio of living to dead foraminifera.

Analysis of sea water for the environmental parameters includs, temperature, salinity and nutrient salts (nitrate, nitrite, silicate, phosphate and amonia). Organic mattar, and total carbonate were measured in the bottom sediments. Grain size analysis of the bottom sediments was done using seiving method. The foraminiferal species were picked, counted and photographed using the SEM. The ratio of dead to living forams was …

Impact Of Snowfall On The Utah Preventive Aerial Hunting Program, Kimberly K . Wagner, Michael R. Conover

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Aerial hunting is one of the tools used by wildlife managers to reduce predation by coyotes (Canis latrans) on livestock and wildlife (Guthery and Beasom 1977, Sterner and Schumake 1978, Stout 1982. Smith et al. 1986). In research conducted by Wagner and Conover (1999), areas with preventive aerial hunting had fewer confirmed and estimated lamb losses to coyote predation and required significantly fewer hours of additional corrective predation management than areas without aerial hunting. Aerial hunting is perceived to be especially valuable for large areas and areas with rough terrain and limited access (United States Department of the …

Effective Of Preventive Coyote Hunting On Sheep Losses To Coyote Predation, Kimberly Wagner, Michael Conover

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Aerial hunting is commonly used by agriculture agencies in the Intermountain West to reduce coyote (Canis latrans) predation on domestic sheep. We assessed the effect of aerial hunting of coyotes on sheep losses to coyotes, and the need for corrective predation management (hours of work, device nights) on the same pastures when sheep arrived for the subsequent summer grazing season (3-6 months after aerial hunting). Comparisons were made between paired pastures with (treated) and without (untreated) winter aerial hunting from helicopters. Average (x ± SE) pasture size was 45.2 ± 14.1 km² (n = 21) for treated …

Nightly And Seasonal Movements Of Boiga Irregularis On Guam, Mark Tobin, Robert Sugihara, Patricia Pochop, Michael Linnell

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis, BTS), inadvertently introduced to the island of Guam shortly after World War II, have had catastrophic effects on the native fauna of this U.S. territory. We used radio-telemetry to monitor daytime refugia and nightly movements of 60 BTS (30 during each of two seasonal periods) to determine the extent of nightly, weekly, and monthly movements. Eighty-three percent of subadult daytime sightings were in trees, compared to only 49% of adult daytime sightings. Most measures of movement did not vary with seasonal period, sex, or age class. BTS moved an average of 64 m …

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1998/99, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

NEWSLETTER Winter 1998-99 The Importance of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, CA INTRODUCTION his article focuses on Muir's first public lecture and its importance as one of several turning points in his evolution as a public figure. The venue was the Congregational Church in Sacramento on January 25, 1876. The lecture was the fifth in a series sponsored by the Sacramento Literary Institute. Muir approached this task with fear, began poorly and with apology, finally recalled his topic, enthralled the large audience with his discussion and illustration of the current and ancient glaciers …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 30, No.4 December 1998

The Prairie Naturalist

FISH COMMUNITY AND WATER QUALITY CHANGES IN THE BIG SIOUX RIVER ▪ D. Dieterman, and C. R. Berry, Jr.

EFFECTS OF PARASITOIDS AND COMPETITION ON CLUTCH SIZE OF A GALLING MIDGE ▪ D. J. Kinateder and S. J. Stein

RESPONSE OF BREEDING SEASON BLUE-WINGED TEAL TO DECOY TRAPPING ▪ P. R. Garrettson

COMPARISON OF POINT-COUNT AND WADE-FLUSH METHODS FOR COUNTING DUCKS ▪ G. M. Linz, C. P McMurl, H. J. Homan, and D. L. Bergman

Reviewers 1998

Author Index - Volume 30

Subject Index - Volume 30

Announcements

The Probe, Issue 195 – December 1998

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Rabies -- Mike Dwyer, NADCA Director, Great Lakes Region
Position Available: Wildlife Biologist, JFK Airport
NWCO Organization Forms in Calif.
Update on Idaho Wolf Damage
Wildlife Wins in UT, OH, MN, Loses in CA
Schmidt to be Appointed NADCA President
Rabies in Bats: The following article was authored by Kate Lewandowski and is reprinted with permission from "SCWDS Briefs," the quarterly newsletter of the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Bird-Strike Committee -USA Abstracts

CANADA GEESE AND SNOW GEESE – REASSESSING TRADITIONAL PARADIGMS FOR MANAGEMENT -- Robert Blohm, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Migratory Bird …

Factors Affecting The Movements Of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) In Lake Ogallala, Nebraska, Tadd M. Barrow

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

No abstract provided.

Studies On The Occurrence Of Fluoride In Some Food Samples, Taghreed Ali Abdullah Al-Habshi

Theses

In recent years, the amount of fluoride in biological samples, drinking water and in fluoride containing food or feedstuffs has generated considerable interest. Hence the determination of fluoride is becoming increasingly important due to its implications for environmental health. Fluoride is considered to be amongst the most phytotoxic of the more common pollutants. In response to that extensive research has been made to improve the determination of trace amounts of fluoride through developing different analytical methods. The application of these various analytical methods for fluoride ion determination in water and food samples has gained an enormous interest.

Chapter I of …

The Probe, Issue 194 – November 1998

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Managing Wolf Predation on Livestock in Idaho Since Reintroduction: Wildlife Services Program Perspective and Summary -- Layne R. Bangerter, District Supervisor, USD A, APHIS, Wildlife Services, Boise, Idaho; George E. Graves, Assistant State Director, USD A, APHIS, Wildlife Services, Boise, Idaho, and NADC A Northern Rocky Mountains Regional Director
California Votes on Trap Ban
Book Review: "Nuisance Animals: Backyard Pests to Free-Roaming Killers" By John Trout, Jr. Midwest Publishing, 1997. 192 pages softcover ($14.95)
Record Attendance at Bird Strike Committee-USA Meeting

Bird-Strike Committee -USA Abstracts
ADVICE TO FLIGHT CREWS CONCERNING THE WILDLIFE HAZARD TO AIRCRAFT -- Paul Eschenf elder, Air …