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Dealing With Hostility And Depression In Lds Women, Evelyn Thatcher

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at a meeting of the Southern California Chapter of AMCAP at Long Beach, December 1, 1979.

From The Kansas Plains To The Kentucky Hills, Walter R. Wullschleger

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The News Letters and Bulletin reached me today. I am delighted to have these fine periodicals. I had no idea that your find society was in existence.

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The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Water Use In Agriculture Now And For The Future, B. Gardner Delworth

Faculty Publications

Water is the primary limiting factor in agriculture in the United States and the world. The western states have gained importance in agricultural production only through extensive use of irrigation from surface and groundwater sources. With the increase in population, these water supplies are facing new pressures for reallocation. Accurate scientific information concerning water availability, behavior, management, and value is essential in optimizing water allocation on farms, in agriculture, and among agriculture and the various other uses. This report is an overview of the physical, institutional, economic, and sociological aspects of the water issue from the standpoint of agriculture. It …

Index [And Table Of Contents] To Volume 39

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

The Meaning Of "Rare" And "Endangered" In The Evolution Of Western Shrubs, Howard C. Stutz

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

In the evolutionary process, species continually come and go. Consequently, all species on earth today were, at one time, "rare and endangered" while in their infancy, and most will become "rare and endangered" once more as they are replaced. Therefore, decisions relative to protecting rare and endangered species are largely meaningless if based on numbers alone. They must include information about their biology and evolutionary history. Lists of endangered forms currently being prepared apparently include only those which are (1) scarce (rare and of restricted distribution), (2) named, and (3) sponsored. Their biological, economic, and academic values may be more …

Strategies For The Preservation Of Rare Animals, Clayton M. White

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

Strategies used to enhance or help restore rare and endangered animal species are reviewed. No new strategies are presented, but rather a review of various levels at which programs can be initiated are indicated. Nearly 93 percent of the recognized endangered animals are vertebrates. Programs to help restore vertebrates can be aimed at either the habitat or the organism level. Habitat restoration or preservation is the more difficult to achieve and, accordingly, most strategies are aimed at the organism. Species, populations, or communities are ecosystems can be treated, but most often each requires a separate approach. Among organisms the species …

The Law And Its Economic Impact, Donald A. Spencer

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

There is no adequate inventory of population size and distribution of most of the world's animal and plant species and lower taxa. Furthermore, populations are rarely static and continue to change in response to both natural and man-made factors. Thus clearance today for public works or industrial projects can be reversed tomorrow as new information becomes available. Lacking assurance that a project can be completed without new endangered species surfacing places an untenable constraint on the commitment of dollars for new long-term programs.
As a consequence of the absence of data, studies to determine occupied range, population levels, and habitat …

Endangered Species: Costs And Benefits, Edwin P. Pister

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

Biologists are often placed in the difficult position of defending a threatened habitat or animal with vague reasoning and faulty logic, simply because they have no better rationale at their immediate disposal. This places them at a distinct disadvantage and literally at the mercy of resource exploiters and their easily assignable dollar values. Although the initial dollar cost of delaying precluding "developing" may be significant, the long-term benefits of saving the biological entities which might otherwise be destroyed are likewise great and are measurable in concrete terms which society is only now beginning to appreciate. Case histories are presented, a …

Program For New Observatory Facility For Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Byu Department Of Physics And Astronomy

BYU West Mountain Observatory Project

No abstract provided.

Fritz Marti - The Course Of A Busy Life

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Born January 1, 1894, Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland

Public Elementary School Winterthur, 1900-1906

Municipal Gymnasium Bern, 1906-1913, graduated with maximal honors

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Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Happenstance Or Providence, Or How I Found All My Jobs, Fritz Marti

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

A man's life is shaped by decisions often not his own. Even before my conception it was decided what I was to be, and the date of my birth, too, was decisive.

End Matter, Vol. 39 No. 3

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Response Of Reptile Populations To Different Land Management Practices On The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Site, Timothy D. Reynolds

Great Basin Naturalist

Populations of reptiles were examined in grazed and ungrazed habitats dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) or by crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cirstatum) on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Site in southeastern Idaho. The sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus) and the short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglassi) were the only species of reptiles encountered in sufficient numbers to permit statistical analysis. Both of these species preferred sagebrush habitats to areas dominated by crested wheatgrass. The sagebrush lizard was most abundant in the native, ungrazed, sagebrush habitat, and the short-horned lizard was most plentiful in the sheep-grazed …

Food Habits Of Burrowing Owls In Southeastern Idaho, R. L. Gleason, T. H. Craig

Great Basin Naturalist

Food habits of a population of the Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Butte County, were studied. The 421 pellets examined yielded 2,436 prey items of at least 22 prey species. Invertebrates, largely insects, constituted 91 percent of the total prey items, but only 29 percent of the total biomass; mammals constituted 8 percent of the prey items, but 68 percent of the biomass. The prey were mostly nocturnal species; diurnal species were poorly represented.

The Steamboat Maid Of Iowa: Mormon Mistress Of The Mississippi, Donald L. Enders

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Publications, Eugene Wu, D. E. Perushek, Toshiyuki Aoki

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Memories Of My Father, Margot Ammann Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Father's childhood was spent in Feuerthalen, a small town in Canton Zurich, Switzerland. The beautiful city of Schaffhausen lies on the right bank of the Rhine and the town of Feuerthalen on the left, just above the magnificient Rhine Falls. The sharp turn of the Rhine makes a partial island of this district, so bridges form an important part of communication for the inhabitants.

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Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way To Great Bridges, Urs C. Widmer, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In 1904, O. H. Ammann, aged 25, freshly graduated civil engineer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, went to the United States encouraged by his former teacher in hydraulics, Professor Karl Emil Hilgard, who had himself worked as bridge engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway. More than anything else the young engineer wanted to widen his horizon and to gain some experience to follow-up his sound professional training, which he owed in part to Professor Wilhelm Ritter and to three years in the field in Switzerland and Germany. To his surprise he was immediately employed by Joseph …

Introduction, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

By accident, or evolution if you will, rather than by design, this issue of the SAHS Newsletter has become a special number devoted entirely to the great Swiss-American bridge builder Othmar H. Ammann who was born one hundred years ago in Feuerthalen, Canton Zurich. Sincere thanks are due to Mr. Urs Widmer, mayor of Winterthur, whose special interest in Ammann led to the production of most of the materials used in this Newsletter, and to Dr. Margot Ammann Durrer whose personal reminiscences add a delightful human touch to the story.

Bibliography: Publications By And About O. H. Ammann

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

A collection of publications by and about Othmar Ammann.

Computer-Assisted Instruction: Trends And Issues In Language Teaching, Frank Otto

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

On The Sound Shape Of Language, Linda R. Waugh

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

No abstract provided.

Wilson Law: A Sidelight On The Expositor Incident, Steven G. Barnett

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Joseph Smith And Legal Process: In The Wake Of The Steamboat Nauvoo, Dallin H. Oaks, Joseph I. Bentley

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Baseball: The Origins And Development Of The Game To 1903, Jeffrey Lawrence Haven

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to narrate a history of baseball from its origins to the merger of the National and American Leagues in 1903. The author endeavored to produce a work that was interesting to sports enthusiasts and informative to researchers. He also attempted to relate the significance of the development of the institution of baseball to nineteenth-century American society.

Based on accepted historical research and writing procedures, a study was completed which exposed the true birth of the game, the expansion and development of the sport from amateur clubs to professional teams, the growth of professionalism under …

Homing By A Pygmy Rabbit, Jeffrey S. Green, Jerran T. Flinders

Great Basin Naturalist

A juvenile female pygmy rabbit (Sylvilagus idahoensis) escaped from a holding pen and was recaptured 211 days later 200 m from its original capture site and 2.5 km from the pen facility.

Vegetational Response To Three Environmental Gradients In The Salt Playa Near Goshen, Utah County, Utah, Michael G. Skougard, Jack D. Brotherson

Great Basin Naturalist

The plant communities and individual plant species in and around a salt playa near Goshen, Utah County, Utah, were studied in relation to gradients for soluble salts, soil moisture, and pH. Forty-eight stands were sampled. Frequency data were taken for all plant species. Soil samples were collected from each site and analyzed to establish the environmental gradients.

Results indicate that the vegetational types respond differentially to the three gradients and can be segregated on the basis of one or more of the gradients. The total soluble salts gradient was found to be the most influential of the three sampled. Correlation …