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The Use Of Detergent Spraying In Bird Control, Richard N. Smith

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Four years ago we started out with the premise that we could cause morta¬lity in blackbirds with detergents. The first system used was a stand pipe where wetting agents mixed with water were pumped to aerial sprayers. Birds were then driven through the spray curtain. During two years of operation with three or four tests few successes were encountered, for it was difficult to get birds to go through a curtain of spray in any numbers. At the same time people in the research division were using large airplanes in making applications and they were having some success using airplanes …

The Dickcissel: A Problem In Ripening Grains In Latin America, Jerome F. Besser, John W. De Grazio, Kenneth H. Larsen

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Bird damage to crops in Latin America--from Mexico to Venezuela and Colom¬bia-is chiefly caused by fringillids, icterids, and psittids (De Grazio and Besser, 1970). Damage to grains such as rice and grain sorghum by various fringillids-sometimes re¬ferred to as "chisguas" by local landowners-is especially troublesome. The fringillid most often implicated in major problems is the dickcissel (Spiza americana).

Dickcissels are not known to cause serious damage problems within their breed¬ing range, which is chiefly the prairies and hay meadows of the central United States. In August, small postbreeding flocks congregate, and by September and October these coalesce into much larger …

The Chemical Senses Of Birds, Morley R. Kare

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Birds are not concerned with the odors of their immediate environment. To a chicken, a starling or a cowbird, the odors of its environment are of little or no con-sequence. I am not saying that birds do not have the apparatus for olfaction, nor am I saying that no bird can smell. The kiwi of New Zealand is almost totally blind and does sniff. They do have "nostrils" on the tip of the bill. However, they are an unusual exception. If we place highly odoriferous material under one of two food choices and present them to domestic chickens or starlings, …

Problems In Developing New Chemicals For Bird Control, Edward W. Schafer Jr., Joseph L. Guarino

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In the last decade, we have all seen the increasing concern about environmental pollution and have become aware of the long-term hazards of chemicals to man and other animals. Recently this concern and awareness have intensified and have resulted in much more stringent regulations governing the application of chemicals for bird control as well as for other purposes. Although most regulations have come from the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife have also scrutinized and tightened their policies, and as information concerning chemical effects on …

Industry Consideration And Approach, John R. Beck

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Many people are quite concerned and interested in the development of new avicides and in the continuation of existing ones. I think there are certain directions that the public at large expects industry and government to go in regards to control operations, pollution, and so forth. One of the things I think we need to concern our¬selves with is the fact that several biologically-oriented control mechanisms in control programs have been overlooked, sometimes intentionally. In the future, reg¬istration and regulatory groups are going to show more interest and a more amenable attitude toward biologically-oriented control programs, mechanism, and materials. Certainly …

State Registration And Licensing Regulations: A New Program (Ohio), James Steckel

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

We enacted a bill in Ohio this year, Senate Bill 445, that has to do with the application of pesticides. It is a very wide bill as you would normally look at it with most of the meat going to come from the regulations that are presently being written into it. In other words, the framework was developed and accepted by the two houses in our state legislature and empowered the Director of Agriculture to establish the regulations or the so-called teeth to this bill. The governor signed the bill in June and it became effective in September. The committees …

Use Of Aircraft For Bird Control, Vernon A. Vick

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Things have changed considerably during the past several years in the aerial applicating business as in most other industries. For a long time farmers have been searching for a way to control blackbirds in their corn fields. As long as fifteen years ago a group of farmers in Sandusky County asked us to apply lime to their fields in the hope that this would frighten birds from their fields. In Belle Glade, Florida, several farmers pooled their resources and hired a small cub-type airplane to fly all day long over their sweet corn fields to frighten away black birds. This …

The Role Of Bird Management In Fire Protection, David E. Schneider, Michael W. Fall

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Two years ago, Mike Fall and I showed you some ideas we had regarding mod¬ern architecture and bird problems. This year we've switched to considering bird hazards in older frame dwellings and on buildings where a fire hazard may be ap¬parent. During a class project some time ago, I was examining a nest of house sparrows and discovered that these birds incorporated cellulose cigarette filters into their nests. Filters were stripped of their paper wrapping and were apparently used by the sparrows as a substitute for or a supplement to fluffy air-born seeds and seed mat¬erials. The incidence of the …

Bird Damage To Sunflowers, Dalton E. Gandy

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Most of you are wondering why the National Cottonseed Products Association, which is the trade organization that I am a staff agronomist for, and have been for twenty-five years, is looking at sunflowers. I hasten to remind you that we are in a changing time and that we must adjust to those changing times. We were a one crop system in the South raising cotton only. It was our trade association that began to look for new oil seed crops as another crop to process and another crop for our farmers to grow. We brought soybeans to the South. We …

Fifth Bird Control Seminar Proceedings: Contents, William B. Jackson

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
September 15-17, 1970 Sponsored by the Department of Biology Bowling Green State University
with the assistance of Division of Wildlife Services United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Pest Control Association Elizabeth, New Jersey
Dr. William B. Jackson, Conference Chairman
David L. Rintamaa, Conference Assistant
David L. Rintamaa and William B. Jackson, Editors

Another Perspective On Bird Management, John M. Anderson

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

At an earlier research seminar, Dr. John Seubert observed that available evi¬dence indicated the red-winged blackbird was going to be with us for some time, and perhaps we'd better learn to "live with it." Whereupon a representative of the com growers said if Dr. Seubert really believed that, he'd better look for a new job. I sincerely hope this attitude is not too widespread among corn producers and market¬ers; because if it is, we can expect a lot of pressure designed to force scientists to abandon their search for a safe method of reducing redwing damage. "Risk now, find out …

Registration Patterns For Avicides, James O. Lee

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Federal legislation relating to pesticide use in the United States dates back to 1910 with passage of the Federal Insecticide Act. This consumer protection from sub¬standard or fraudulent products was considered sufficient for the next 37 years.

In 1947, Congress passed the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The FIFRA superseded the earlier legislation and was designed as a regulatory measure. Under the Act any product considered an "economic poison" must be reg¬istered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture before it may be marketed in inter¬state commerce.

The FIFRA defines an economic poison as any substance or mixture of sub¬stances …

Bird Management At Airports, Edward R. Ladd

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

In New England, and along the stretch of coastline which starts just south of Canada and goes down through New Jersey, we have half a dozen major or what we call international airports. All but two have bird problems. Most of these airports were built on submarginal land, but what was perhaps some of the best wildlife habitat in the country. So, the birds were there first. When these airports were built, airlines were flying propeller-type aircraft. This type was slow and sluggish compared to the jet aircraft of today. Even though aircraft speeds have increased, the birds still are …

Bird Hazards To Aircraft, Victor E. F. Solmon

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

When I spoke to the third Bird Control Seminar in 1966 on "Ecological Control of Bird Hazards to Aircraft", I reviewed what we had accomplished up to that time. I spoke about the extent of the problem, the bird species involved and the methods we used to make the airports less attractive to birds that created hazards to aircraft.

I wish to discuss today our accomplishments since 1966. I have presented a number of papers on the topic including one with Dr. W. W. H. Gunn, in 1967 at a meeting in the United Kingdom, and others in the United …

Selling Bird Control, Jerry Keown

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The remarks that I have prepared deal with direct contacts selling pest and bird control programs. I am going to limit my remarks to what I feel are the more important aspects of selling Bird Control. I think it is safe to say that one of the most difficult aspects of selling for most sales personnel is prospecting, that is, finding accounts to call on. Our sales personnel have to more or less come up with their own leads. They have to find out who to contact once they get there. I have found that the best prospect most of …

Registered Participants: Fifth Bird Control Seminar (1970)

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Names and addresses of 97 participants.

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 8, September 1970

Water Current Newsletter

Waste Water Reuse
Action on Mercury Pollution
Improving Waste Treatment
Westside Water Resources Study
Pollution Guide for Scout Leaders
Water Pollution Control Need $33-37 Billion
Cleaning Nation's Waterways
Under Water Power Plants
Wanted - Catalog of Products Which Are Potential Waters Polluters
FWQA Wastewater Technology Study
Proposal Deadlines
University of Illinois Annual Water Quality Conference
Research Review
New Publications Received by the Institute

Pesticide Residues In Channel Catfish From Nebraska, N. P. Stucky

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) were collected in all of the major watersheds in Nebraska during the summer of 1964. Individual fat samples and composite blood samples obtained from these fish were analyzed to determine the concentrations of residues of DDT and its metabolites (o,p'DDT, p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDD, and DDE) and dieldrin. A total of 178 fish, collected from 18 sites, were analyzed. As expected, the fat samples contained higher concentrations of the pesticides than did the blood samples. DDT residues were found in all fat samples, and average levels from 10 fish sampled at each site ranged from a …

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 7, August 1970

Water Current Newsletter

New Protection Agency Proposed
New Oceanic Group
Environmental Changes Beneficial
Myth Criticized
Dirty Rain Damages Building
Harvesting Algae
Mercury Pollution Spreading
Potomac River Sites for Desalting Tests
Water Pollution Control Rules
Price Increase to Improve Environment
Water Management Proposal
Research Review
New Publications Received by the Institute

The 1963-64 Lake Mead Survey, J. M. Lara, J. I. Sanders, Bureau Of Reclamation

Publications (WR)

The 1963-64 Lake Mead survey was run to compute the reservoir capacity. Results of the geodetic and hydrographic surveys and sediment sampling equipment are described. The geodetic survey showed Hoover Dam subsided an average of 118 mm since 1935. Sonic sounding, photogrammetry, and crosssectional profiling methods were used to run the hydrographic survey. Reservoir area and capacity tables were generated using an electronic computer. The present lake capacity is 29,755,000 acre-ft and the reservoir surface area is 162,700 acres at elevation 1229 ft. 2,720,000 acre-ft of sediments accumulated in the lake since 1935. A unit weight of 60 Ib/cu ft …

Hydrologic Inventory Of The Weber River Study Unit, Frank W. Haws, Roland W. Jeppson, A. Leon Huber

Reports

The 1963 Utah State Legislature authorized the Utah Water and Power Board (now the Utah Division of Water Resources) to develop a state water plan in order to give coordination and direction to the activities of all state and federal agencies concerned with Utah's water resources. To facilitate the development of this plan, a proposal was submitted through the State Planning Coordinator in the Governor's Office to the Urban Renewal Administration of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Funding was approved effective May 19, 1966, under the Urban Planning Assistance Program authorized by Section 701 of the Housing Act of …

A Preliminary Survey Of The Damariscotta River Estuary, Lincoln County, Maine, Maine Department Of Economic Development

Maine Collection

A Preliminary Survey of the Damariscotta River Estuary, Lincoln County, Maine

Part I - Hydrology; Part II - Sediments

"Prepared Under a Grant From the Maine Marine Stipend Program".

Maine Department of Economic Development - Division of Science, Technology & Mineral Resources, Augusta, Maine (July 1969 - June 1970).

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 2, No.2 June, 1970

The Prairie Naturalist

EDITORIAL: Ecocide on the Sheyenne? ▪ Paul B. Kannowski

NEW RECORDS OF VASCULAR PLANTS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert E. Stewart

SOME LOCAL NATIVE PLANT LOSSES AND SOME SAL V AGE ▪ O. A. Stevens

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Robert N. Randall

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN IN COMMUNITY PLANNING ▪ Cameron Man

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCIRPUS VALIDUS COMPLEX IN NORTH DAKOTA ▪ Richard L. Ward

Northern Pike Management In Pelican Lake, Cherry County, Richard Peckham

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

Pelican Lake is a 819 acre natural sandhill lake located on the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge in Cherry County. Like all sandhill lakes in this region the lake is relatively shallow having a maximum depth of only 7.5 feet.

Pelican is a light alkaline lake having a recorded pH range between 7.0 and 9.5. Total alkalinity values ranged from 185 to 360 ppm, in recent years.

Submergent vegetation is common and includes the following:.. sago pondweed, coontail, curleyleaf pondweed, floating leaf pondweed and milfoil. Emergents consist of hardstem bulrush, reed grass (Phragmites) , arrowhead and cattail. Hardstem bulrush is scattered …

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 6, June-July 1970

Water Current Newsletter

OWRR Title II Proposals Invited
Studies of Brine Water Disposal
Sediment Pollution from Road Building to be Controlled
Graduate Studies in Water Resources
University of Nebraska Water Resources Planning and Management Program Approved
Research Needed on Oil Pollution Source Identification
Third Outdoor Recreation Research Catalog Announced
Cost Study Shows Need for Increased Municipal Spending for Water Pollution Control
National Conference on Environmental Pollution
Canadian Water Sales May Become Reality
$344,000 Contract Awarded Gillette Research by FWQA to Develop Phosphate-Free Detergents
Meeting "Challenge of the Environment" is Corps of Engineers' Greatest Challenge
Sand Hills is Test Ground This Summer
NWRRI Annual …

Record In Rock: A Handbook Of The Invertebrate Fossils Of Nebraska, Roger K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Table of Contents:

Introduction
What Are Fossils? How Do They Form?
Fossilization
How Are Fossiliferous Rocks Formed?
What is Paleontology?
What Can Fossils Tell Us?
Fossils and Geologic Time
Fossils as Environmental Indicators
Fossils and Conservation
How Are Fossils Named?
Where Are Fossils Found?
Collecting Courtesy
Tools for Collecting Fossils
Tips on Collecting Fossils
Safety Rules
Quarry Safety
Safety Don'ts to Remember
Preparation of Specimens
A Bit of Advice
General Characteristics of Nebraska's Important Fossils
Phylum Protozoa (Single-Celled Animals)
The Living Protozoan
Fossil Protozoans from Nebraska
Phylum Porifera (Pore Bearers or Sponges)
The Living Sponge
Fossil Sponges from Nebraska
Phylum …

Planning Aspects Of Pollution Control, Donald T. Cannell

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

Pollution control and abatement has become a national social goal but improvement impeded by lack of adequate resource allocation. The uncertainties of technology, financing, nature, politics, law and institutionalism must be evaluated by corporate and government planners to find long-run solutions. The evaluation of the sensitivity of planning recommendations to the uncertainty involved in this multi-variate problem, along with national economic shifts caused by alternative abatement funding programs is critical in formulating the “best” plan to ensure success of the national program.

Ua3/3/1 Memo Re: Environmental Commission, David Porter

WKU Administration Documents

Memo from Associated Student Government vice president David Porter to WKU faculty members regarding ASC Bill No. 3 Environmental Commission. The bill is attached.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 49, No. 46, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU Campus Newspaper Reporting Campus, Athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky News. This issue contains articles:

• Sutherland, David. Regents Okay Plans for Married Housing
• Dr. J.P. Cornette to Deliver Spring Commencement
• Two Comic Operas Billed to Begin Thursday Night
• Dr. Hubert Marshall to Speak on Campus Tuesday
• Star Performers to Bow Out – Kathy Walters, Bill Nelson
• Kappa Delta Seeks Okay for House
• Western Coed to Represent State in Miss USA Contest – Joanna Smith
• International Club to Elect Officers
• Wendell Ford to Speak Here Tomorrow
• Late Start Better Than None at All – Married Student Housing
• Lack of Money Forces …

Thermal Requirements To Protect Aquatic Life, Clarence M. Tarzwell

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Water temperatures affect aquatic organisms in a number of ways, both directly and indirectly. Some of the latter effects are quite subtle. High temperatures can have direct lethal effects but sublethal levels operating over long periods can be just as harmful through delayed lethal effects and the production of nonlethal stresses which eventually result in changes in the population, reduced growth or reproduction, and the lowering of resistance to parasites, dis ease, and competitors. Temperature, in combination with certain other factors such as day length, influences re producing processes. High water temperatures may stimulate or retard migration, spawning, feeding, and …