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An Evaluation Of Mango (Mangifera Indica L.) Cultivars And Their Commercial Suitability For The Kimberley, P. R. Johnson, D. M. Robinson

Horticulture published reports

An evaluation of 74 mango cultivars was conducted from 1983 to 1995 in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) on Cockatoo sand. The aim to determine their suitability for commercial production and establish the basis for a mango industry in the Northern tropics of Western Australia. Measurements were made on yield, harvest times, flowering times, brix, fruit quality, growth rates and market acceptability. Results have indicated that cultivars, other than Kensington Pride, most commercially suitable in the ORIA are Banana for early cropping in mid September, Irwin for high regular yields and good market acceptability, Haden for excellent market acceptability, …

Managing Problems Caused By Urban Canada Geese, Allen L. Gosser, Michael R. Conover, Terry A. Messmer

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, January/February 1997

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

Contents:

Economic, Environmental and Sociological Effects of Whole-farm Production Systems in Eastern Nebraska: Classifying Producers/Production Systems

SARE Producer Grants Due May 1

RR Soybeans: Delaying the Inevitable?

New Sustainable Agriculture Information Retrieval Service on the Internet

Integrated Farm Update: Windbreaks Increase Pepper Yields

Southern Region Meets to Discuss Sustainable Agriculture Education

Study Associates Nitrate in Drinking Water with Greater Cancer Risk

Restoration Of An Urban Salt Marsh: An Interdisciplinary Approach, David G. Casagrande

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Oil Pollution On Juvenile And Adult Rabbitfish (Siganus Canaliculatus), Mohammed Abdul Rahim Hassan Al Zarouni

Theses

The possible toxic effect of crude oil and dispersant on the reproduction and performance of common marine fish in the United Arab Emirates coasts were investigated. Adult female and juvenile rabbitfish (Siganus canaliculatus) were exposed to different concentration of Sharjah light crude oil (0, 4, 6 ml crude oil/l) in the presence or absence of 0.3 mI/l Nalfleet dispersant (Maxi-Clean 2) dissolved in sea water. Juvenile fish were exposed to treatments for 3, 6, 9 or 15 days and adult female were treated for 18 days. At the end of each experimental period histopathological changes in the skin, gills, liver …

Prairie Legacies - Mammals, Russell A. Benedict, Patricia W. Freeman, Hugh H. Genoways

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Few North American ecosystems have been as dramatically altered by humans as the prairies of the Great Plains. Occupying the immense interior of North America, these deceiving grassland oceans hid their complexity and diversity from many early travelers who saw this area merely as an obstacle to overcome in their westward journeys. But for the careful observer, prairies hold a tremendous quantity of life, arranged in a diverse mosaic of patches ranging in scale from minute anthills to the vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills or Kansas Flint Hills. Not only is a given ridgetop subdivided into a number of areas …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, November/December 1996

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

Contents:

Nebraska IMPACT Project Update

North Central Region Evaluates Sustainable Agriculture Training

Annual Meetings in Nebraska to Showcase Innovative Strategies for Successful Farming

Integrated Farm Update: To Graze or Not to Graze?

USDA Announces Policy Directive Committing Agency to Sustainable Ag

Transformation of Land Grant Universities

Food Circles: A Bioregional Approach

Fund for Rural America

Ag Production and Nutrition Conference

Richard Olson Named Presidential Fellow

Reductive Dehalogenation Of Chlorinated Aromatic And Aliphatic Hydrocarbons Under Anaerobic Conditions, Monica Turner Togna

Dissertations

The process of reductive dehalogenation involves the removal of a halogen substituent from a molecule with the concurrent addition of electrons to the molecule, resulting in a more reduced and often less toxic product. Anaerobic bacteria have the potential to utilize hazardous chlorinated aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons as electron acceptors in metabolic reductive dehalogenation processes.

In experiments performed with chlorinated aromatic compounds a highly enriched anaerobic culture stoichiometrically converted 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) to 4-monochlorophenol. Dehalogenation occurred only in alkaline media (pH 8-9) at concentrations of 2,4,6-TCP up to 1 mM. Data indicated that the dehalogenating organism did not fit into any …

The Probe, Issue 170 – October 1996

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Bird Strike! Potential Solutions, by James E. Forbes, Chairman, Bird Strike Committee—USA and Past President, NADCA
Recent Retirements: Ed Knittle, Don Mott, Steve Palmateer, Dick Wetzel, Paul Woronecki
Our Editorial Assistant Moves: Pamela J. Tinnin, who has served as Editorial Assistant for The PROBE since 1990, has recently moved from California to Kansas.
Video and Publication Review: Fur Institute of Canada's educational materials on the fur trade. (continuation)
"Live Trapping" - ADC Internet News
Translocation of Fox Squirrels: Looking at Individual and Population Effects, by Craig E. Ten Brink, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and Sciences, Texas A&M University

Fisheries Research Report No 107 - Chemical Composition Of Yabbies (Cherax Albidus Clark 1936) From Western Australian Farm Dams, Kevin A. Francesconi, Noel M. Morrissy

Fisheries Research Reports

Proximate analyses, amino acid and fatty acid profiles, mineral composition and heavy metal and pesticide residues have been determined for tail muscle from Cherax albidus Clark 1936 (the yabby), sampled from Western Australian farm dams. The proximate analysis values for water, protein, ash, carbohydrate and energy content and the amino acid and fatty acid profiles of yabby tail muscle were similar to those reported for other decapods. Fat levels were low and, hence, cholesterol was very low in tail meat. Organochlorine pesticides were undetectable and heavy metal residues were well below maximum permitted concentrations for human consumption.

What Can We Learn From Past Reform Efforts, R. Max Peterson

The National Forest Management Act in a Changing Society, 1976-1996: How Well Has It Worked in the Past 20 Years?: Will It Work in the 21st Century? (September 16-18)

7 pages.

Contains footnotes and references.

Writing The Regulations: Using Scientists To Link Law And Policy, Arthur W. Cooper

The National Forest Management Act in a Changing Society, 1976-1996: How Well Has It Worked in the Past 20 Years?: Will It Work in the 21st Century? (September 16-18)

11 pages.

Contains references.

Sharing Common Ground On Western Rangelands: Proceedings Of A Livestock/Big Game Symposium, Keith E. Evans, Intermountain Research Station, Usdsa Forest Service, U.S. Department Of Commerce, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

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

This proceedings includes 37 papers and posters presented at the "Sharing Common Ground" symposium. The information represents the progress made in livestock/big game management since the 1991 symposium with the theme of "Seeking Common Ground." The broad range of topics includes the rangeland resource, the science of livestock/big game interactions, the human dimension, and the success stories from the seeking common ground partnership demonstration projects.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, September/October 1996

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

Contents:

Restoring Productivity, Profit, and Ecological Integrity in Chile

Specialty Food Products Field Day a Success

Glickman Lauds Farmers' Markets for Consumers and Farmers

Windbreaks Help Pepper Production

Integrated Farm Update: Visitor Comments

Minigrants Awarded for Sustainable Ag Education

Satellite Programs on 1996 Farm Bill

Number of Nation's Large Farms Increases

Call for Papers on Ogallala Aquifer

Managing Pastures For Long-Term Prosperity, Hugh Pringle, Jenny Riches

Natural resources published reports

A Workshop held by the Sandstone Land Conservation District Committee

Lake Mason Station

April 1994

A workshop hosted by Sandstone Land Conservation District Committee (LCDC) was held at Lake Mason station on 28 April 1994. This workshop was based on two previous workshops hosted by the Kalgoorlie and north-eastern Goldfields LCDCs in May 1991 (Pringle et al. 1992). The success of the earlier workshops prompted the rangeland survey team in association with the Sandstone LCDC and the Kalgoorlie District Office of Agriculture Western Australia to initiate the project.

The aims were to provide a summary of local wisdom regarding pasture …

Increasing Plant Water Use To Reduce Salinity : Proceedings Of A Seminar Held At The Esperance Civic Centre 31 July 1996, R J. Short, Greening Western Australia, Soil And Water Conservation Association Of Australia. Western Australian Branch

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, July/August 1996

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

Contents:

Sharing Leadership in Sustainable Ag Education

What Is Community Supported Agriculture?

Organic Food Sales Climb

Why Shop at Farmers Markets?

Reminder: Specialty Food Products Field Day

Congress Passes Food Quality Protection Act

Integrated Farm Update - Composting: the Process and Economics

Funding Opportunities: SARE and NRI

Upcoming Integrated System Planning WorkshopsCall for Papers on Wind Erosion

Plan for a New Sustainable Farm Publication

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Volume 4-1, June 1996

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

New Sponsors in 1996
New Agreements with Parks Canada
Wildlife Disease Surveillance Workshop in British Columbia
Surveillance of Wildlife Diseases
Giant Liver Fluke in Banff National Park, Alberta
Lungworm (Crenosoma vulpis) infection in wild canids on Prince Edward Island
Fatal infection with Elaphostrongylus rangiferi in Newfoundland caribou
Cnemidocoptic Mange in a Red-Winged Black Bird
Tumours in Fish from Quebec Rivers
Fatal trematode infection in migrating tundra swans
Overwintering mortality in Greater Scaup on the Niagara River
Strychnine Poisoning in a Gray Wolf
A mortality event in Northern Fulmars in the Pacific Northwest
Spongiform Encephalopathy in a Farmed Elk
Botulism at …

Plenary Session—Welcome And Opening Remarks, Edward J. Depuit

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

I vastly appreciate the opportunity of being with you all today to help launch what, I am certain, will prove an extraordinary workshop. I bring you specific greetings and words of welcome from colleagues in eastern Washington and elsewhere in the interior Pacific Northwest and particularly from the organization that John Munn and I work for, the College of Agriculture and Home Economics and Cooperative Extension, Washington State University. We are delighted indeed to have this meeting in our corner of the world this year.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, May/June 1996

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

Contents:

New CSAS Web Page

Field Day On Specialty Crops

Windbreak Evaluation Software

Integrated Farm Update: Cover Crop Research

Teaching Sustainability at a Distance

President's Task Force Says U.S. Ag Must Be Sustainable

Exchange Program for Organic Farmers

Agroforestry for Farms, Ranches, and Communities

Windbreaks for Corn?

Influence Of Prey Availability On Walleye (Stizostedion Vitreum), Mark T. Porath

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

No abstract provided.

A Test Of An Alternate Calibration Matrix For Niosh Method 7300, Robert T. Vitek

Community & Environmental Health Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if the analytical results (when determining cadmium, lead, and zinc concentrations) for air sample filters prepared and analyzed according to N:OSH Method 7300, differ significantly, from those obtained when the instrument is calibrated using EPA Method 200.7 acid matrix standards. The null hypothesis was that no statistically significant difference, measured at the 95% confidence level, would exist between results obtained from the two calibration standards. Careful standard and sample preparation, the use of an internal standard, and the application of working standard and working internal standard correction factors served to isolate the …

An Ecological History Of Tintic Valley, Juab County, Utah, Jeffrey A. Creque

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This work was a case study of historical ecological change in Tintic Valley, Juab County, Utah, an area historically impacted by mining and ranching activities common to much of the American West. The temporal framework for the study was approximately 120 years, the period of direct Euroamerican influence. In recognition of the ecological implications of cultural change, however, the impacts of prehistoric and protohistoric human activity on study area landscape patterns and processes were also explicitly addressed.

The study included a narrative description of historic land uses and ecological change in Tintic Valley, and examined the changes in landscape patterns …

Livestock As Seed Disseminators For Reseeding Degraded Rangelands: The Role Of Dung In Gap Formation And Plant Establishment, Brian S. Auman

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Livestock (cattle and sheep) were examined as seed disseminators for reseeding degraded Intermountain rangelands. "Hycrest" crested wheatgrass [Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult. X A. cristatum (L.) Gaert.] seed was fed to yearling Holstein steers and Suffolk ewes. Dung was collected from each animal type and deposited on plots of high and low densities of an annual [cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.)] and perennial [squirreltail (Sitanion hystrix Nutt.)] grass species. The experiment evaluated the ability of the dung to suppress the resident vegetation, and the recruitment and establishment of Hycrest seedlings emerging from the dung.

Sheep dung had …

Environmental Air Pollution Analysis In Selected Areas Of Abu Dhabi Emirate, Mahfoodh Abdulla Mohammed Darbool

Theses

There are little data available for environmental pollution, as well as air pollution and statistical information published in the United Arab Emirates. Especially, Abu Dhabi Emirate, has been the location of the UAE's most persistent and extreme levels of industrial oil waste and chemical smog and air pollutants which produces sulphur dioxide emission. In addition, has a high vehicle population, which produces carbon monoxide emission from the motor vehicle exhaust. The acute toxicity of carbon monoxide (CO) has long been recognized and well documented. The motor vehicle is by far the largest contributor to Co accounting for 55% of total …

Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons?, Allan Mazur

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

Dr. Mazur relates how protests by the political left against nuclear tests and by the political right against fluoridation set the stage for Silent Spring to move the public toward being concerned about latent risks.

Evaluating Bighorn Habitat: A Landscape Approach, William C. Dunn

United States Bureau of Land Management: Staff Publications

This technical note describes a method that incorporates a landscape approach with the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIs) to measure habitat and impacts for Rocky Mountain and desert bighorn sheep and to rank potential transplant sites. A landscape approach, in which habitat is viewed from a large-scale perspective as an assemblage of patches, is used because: (1) bighorn habitat is naturally patchy due to the affinity of bighorn for terrain that is both open and mountainous; (2) fragmentation (i.e., increased patchiness) often is the most severe consequence of human disturbance; and (3) the proximity and distribution of neighboring bighorn …

The Cumulative Impacts Of Management Decisions On Nitrogen Loading To The Rhode Island Salt Ponds, Laura M. Ernst

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

Calculations and measurements of nitrogen in groundwater, stream flow and atmospheric deposition were used to see if the cumulative impacts of management decisions over a fifteen year period of time resulted in measurable changes in nitrogen loading to six of the salt ponds on the south shore of Rhode Island. The changes in the source and transmission of nitrogen were tested by comparing calculated and measured nitrogen data from 1980 and 1995. The calculated method included a nitrogen budget based on land-use and literature values for nitrogen loss to groundwater. The second method compared concentrations of nitrogen in groundwater taken …

A Constructivist Study Of University Curricular Attributes And Faculty Leadership In Support Of Environmental Sustainability, Esther Jane Ross, Gary Mcmane

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Final Report To The Department Of Energy For Water Use, Productivity And Interactions Among Desert Plants, James R. Ehleringer

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.