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Biological Assessment For Maintenance Of Bank Stabilization Structures Missouri National Recreation River Gavins Point Dam To Ponca State Park, Nebraska

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

The location of the proposed maintenance construction project discussed in this document is located between Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Ponca, Nebraska, at specific locations as listed in the accompanying plans and specifications.

The proposed construction consists only of maintaining those structures that can reasonably be repaired to alleviate erosion problems for the purpose of maintaining the structural integrity of the existing structures. Any structure that is beyond repair would not be reconstructed, since it would no longer qualify as maintenance. There are nine existing projects within the Missouri National Recreation River (MNRR) segment of the Missouri River. Each …

Dietary Comparisons Of Adult Male Common Grackles, Red-Winged Blackbirds, And Yellow-Headed Blackbirds In North Central North Dakota, H. Jeffrey Homan, George M. Linz, William J. Bleier, Robert B. Carlson

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We compared the esophageal contents of adult male common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula), red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus),and yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) collected in north central North Dakota from July through October 1989. Temporal variation in the diets of all species was related to food availabilities, which were heavily influenced by crop phenology. Depending on species, mean percent dry weight of sunflower achenes during August increased 2-6 times over July. Yellow-headed blackbirds migrated from north central North Dakota by early September, but substantial numbers of common grackles and red-winged blackbirds remained until mid-October. Sunflower was an …

Extension And Education Materials For Sustainable Agriculture, Volume 2, James W. King, Charles A. Francis

CARI Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Extension and Education Materials for Sustainable Agriculture

Curricula in Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction to Curricula in Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy 493/593 Course Outline

Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomy 493/AG*SAT

Principles and Practices of Sustainable Agriculture

Agricultural Ecosystems

Agricultural Ecology

Agroecology

Agricultural Ecology and Sustainability

Alternative Agriculture Curriculum

Sustainable Agriculture (B.S.)

Environment and World Food Production

Issues (Advanced) in Sustainable Agriculture

Crops, Soil, and Civilization, Agronomy 440

Master of Science in Sustainable Systems

Agricultural Ecology

National Curriculum for Sustainable Agriculture

Reshaping Undergraduate and Graduate Education to Include a Whole Systems Emphasis

Sustainable Agriculture Education: A Panel

Impact of Sustainable Agriculture Programs on United.States …

The Sower, Fall 1993

The Sower (CASNR Alumni Newsletter)

Contents:

CASNR alumni honored at annual reunion
ASAP begins second year
Diversity and change
From the Dean’s Desk
Alumni Notes
More on the Dairy Store
What have you been up to since graduation?
New CASNR student ambassadors named
Beth Franz retires

Proceedings Of The 6th International Grouse Symposium, David Jenkins

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Papers: Populations and habitats of snowshoe hares, Ruffed and Spruce Grouse in the southern boreal pine forest of Ontario • Populations of Capercaillie and Hazel Grouse in large natural and logged forests in northern Russia, 1950-1992 • Extrinsic factors influencing the population dynamics of Red Grouse • Hazel Grouse in the Bohemian Forest - results of a 20-year study • Studies of grouse in China • Seasonal movements by Hazel Grouse in south-central Sweden • Ecological and behavioural constraints on monogamy in the Willow Ptarmigan • Spatial distribution and habitat preference of male Capercaillie in the Pechora-Illych Nature Reserve in …

Epa's Map Of Radon Zones, Nebraska, Sharon W. White, Lisa Ratcliff, Kirk Maconaughey, R. Thomas Peake, Dave Rowson, Steve Page, Linda C. S. Gundersen, R. Randall Schumann, James K. Otton, Doug Owen, Russell Dubiel, Kendell Dickinson, Sandra L. Szarzi

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Sections 307 and 309 of the 1988 Indoor Radon Abatement Act (IRAA) direct EPA to identify areas of the United States that have the potential to produce elevated levels of radon. EPA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Association of, American State Geologists (AASG) have worked closely over the past several years to produce a series of maps and documents which address these directives. The EPA Map of Radon Zones is a compilation of that work and fulfills the requirements of sections 307 and 309 of IRAA. The Map of Radon Zones identifies, on a county-by-county basis, areas of …

The Conservation Reserve Program: Habitat For Grassland Birds, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael D. Schwartz

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has effected major changes to the landscape, especially in the northern Great Plains. Breeding birds have responded dramatically to habitat changes by colonizing CRP fields, often in large numbers. The vegetation in most CRP fields consists of introduced grasses and legumes, along with a variety of weedy species. This paper describes the bird populations found during three years of surveys on more than 300 CRP fields in western Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana. We relate densities of selected species to geographic location, annual effects, conservation practice adopted, and vegetation features.

The Value On An Interdisciplinary Environmental Awareness: An Introduction, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This special issue of Great Plains Research brings together important and innovative environmentally-related research being conducted in what might be considered an "ecoregion," the Great Plains. Investigators from seven different disciplines explore topics that span the Great Plains from the southern border of Texas to the Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta and Manitoba. Their methods vary from highly focused experimental designs to broad-based policy analysis.

A review of the research topics covered in this issue might suggest they are as varied as the geographic locations, disciplinary affiliations, and methodological approaches of the researchers. In one sense, they are, but the …

Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America'swestern Past. William Cronon,, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Environmental studies is a growing field that brings new knowledge almost every day and certainly with every press's new listings. Many Western social scientists are attracted to it as a means of explicating the past, present, and future of North America. It is not new to Western historians. James C. Malin and Walter Prescott Webb were two pathfinders in studies of the environment over five to seven decades ago, but ecological impacts on human actions were somewhat forgotten by historians in the interim. During the past fifteen years environmental history has become a staple in studies of the American West. …

The Sower, Spring 1993

The Sower (CASNR Alumni Newsletter)

Contents:

From the Dean’s Desk: Start to Finish Describes it All
The Prez Sez
Budget reductions have impact on academics
Alumni Notes
What have you been up to since graduation?
College Of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources Alumni Association (CASNRAA) Awards Program
News notes
Campus notes

Wpa News 39 (1993), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1993), number 39

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Asymmetric Trends Of Daily Maximum And Minimum Temperature, Thomas R. Karl, Philip D. Jones, Richard W. Knight, George Kukla, Neil Plummer, Vyacheslav Razuvayev, Kevin P. Gallo, Janette Lindseay, Robert J. Charlson, Thomas C. Peterson

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures for over 50% (10%) of the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere landmass, accounting for 37% of the global landmass, indicate that the rise of the minimum temperature has occurred at a rate three times that of the maximum temperature during the period 1951-90 (0.84°C versus 0.28°C). The decrease of the diumal temperature range is approximately equal to the increase of mean temperature. The asymmetry is detectable in all seasons and in most of the regions studied.

Field Manual For The Identification Of Selected North American Freshwater Fish By Fillets And Scales, David W. Oates, Lisa M. Krings, Karen L. Ditz

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

This manual is designed for use in the field to help conservation officers identify fish that have been filleted or skinned. Many North American freshwater gamefish and those caught by commercial fishermen are included. Our goal was to collect six fish of each species for measurement purposes. Several states and provinces including Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., Wisconsin and Wyoming furnished samples. Fish may vary from location to location; these differences were not corrected for in this manual.

For identification of fish, we will first examine fillets. Fish …

The Sower, Winter 1993

The Sower (CASNR Alumni Newsletter)

Contents:

Today's vision - tomorrow's reality
Alum awards to three
The Prez Sez
In memoriam
Alumni Notes
New college majors provide opportunities

Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The essays in this innovative and significant book look at the effects of European occupation on the people and the environment of semiarid regions on several continents. It is the book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach that makes it particularly original and provocative. Included are the lands of the indigenous people of the North American Plains, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs of what was once the USSR, the Maasai of Kenya, several groups in South Africa, Alaskan, and Lapp (Saami) people. Contributors are from anthropology, economics, English, law, history, religion, Native American studies, and environmental studies and they are John W. …

Water Current, Volume 23, September 1991

Water Current Newsletter

Water Leadership in Nebraska: Vacuum or Variety?
News to Use
From the Director: Water Sciences Education Advancing at UNL
The Framework Study: A 20-Year Retrospective
Nebraska and Its Water
Sheffield Receives Recognition for 20 Irrigation Tours

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 23, No. 3. September 1991

The Prairie Naturalist

Paul B. Kannowski, Editor

Nikki R. Seabloom, Assistant Editor

Douglas H. Johnson, Book Review Editor

CONTENTS

ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR OF MOUNTAIN PLOVER CHICKS ▪ T A. Sordahl

USING AERIAL MARKING FOR ASSESSING POPULATION DYNAMICS OF LATE SUMMER ROOSTING RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS ▪ C. M. Linz, C. E. Knittle, J. L. Cummings, J. E. Davis, Jr. , D. L. Otis, and D. L. Bergman

DISPERSAL OF THE MEADOW JUMPING MOUSE IN NORTHERN KANSAS ▪ J. R. Choate, D. W. Moore, and J. K. Frey

DIET, HOME RANGE, MOVEMENTS, AND ACTIVITY PERIODS OF SWIFT FOX IN NEBRASKA ▪ T D. Hines and R. M. …

The Sower, Summer 1991

The Sower (CASNR Alumni Newsletter)

Contents:

The new image begins
Remodeling completed
The Prez Sez
Letters
Looking back. . .
News notes
Coming events
In Memoriam
Alumni Notes
A Semester at a time...
Carlson collects whatever
College Of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources Alumni Association (CASNRAA) Awards Program
It's a what ... ?

Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, By Paul A. Olson, Adolph M. Greenberg

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is based on the premise that solutions to the problems experienced by many resource management programs currently underway in the semiarid regions of the world can be found in indigenous systems of resource use. Developing out of a 1986 interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies, the book has contributors from agricultural development, anthropology, economics, English, environmental studies, history, law, native studies, and philosophy. Given the magnitude of the human and environmental problems in semiarid lands, a book intended to provide an indigenous counterpoint, as it were, to present use of those areas would not …

Review Of Agricultural Bioethics: Implications Of Agricultural Biotechnology, Steven M. Gendel, A. David Kline, D. Michael Warren, And Faye Yates, Eds., Vernon W. Ruttan

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is largely the product of a series of faculty discussions and a symposium held at Iowa State University in 1987. It represents a comprehensive treatment of the safety and regulatory issues, economic prospects, social considerations, and ethical dilemmas emerging from advances in molecular biology and agricultural biotechnology. Major attention is focused on bovine growth hormone bGH). The book is the most useful introduction to these issues available under one cover. It is also a book of highly uneven quality. The papers range from advocacy journalism to carefully reasoned argument and rigorous sifting of evidence. I particularly recommend the …

Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This study identifies the spatial variability of the hydroclimatology of the Great Plains. Spatial associations of monthly midtropospheric circulation anomalies, total precipitation, and mean stream discharge are identified using an unrotated principal component analysis. Three hydroclimatic associations, representing synoptic circulation features and associated precipitation and stream discharge patterns, identify specific circulation anomalies and corresponding spatial pattems of surface hydrology in the northern, central, and southern Great Plains. Results indicate that nearly 47% of the hydrologic (precipitation and stream discharge) variability during summer is attributed to synoptic-scale midtropospheric circulation anomalies, with sub-synoptic convectional processes accounting for approximately 42% of the hydrologic …

United Conservation Alliance, Laurence R. Jahn

Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference: 5th (1991)

We gather here and reflect on successes in wildlife conservation, restoration, and management; and make plans for more beneficial actions. Significant achievements have been madein public education and wildlife management, as shown by increases in some wildlife populations. But a continuing pressing challenge involves responding to some wildlife population declines, as well as wildlife damage and nuisance situations, as the human population increases and dominates the landscape.

As you well know, management successes involve imagination and dedication of people, such as those gathered here. Your efforts play an important role in helping to manage wildlife, and provide associated outdoor recreational …

The Sower, Summer 1990

The Sower (CASNR Alumni Newsletter)

Contents:

Project scholar
Campus notes
The Prez Says
Vet Education Center official
Alum Notes
Where credit is due... ... depends on you!
Chance hurls 1930 grad into rice breeding

Water Current, Volume 22, April 1990

Water Current Newsletter

Environmental Studies Part of Geography Department, Jeanne Kay
Twentieth Annual Earth Day Observed April 22
NATO Advanced Research Workshop to be Held at UNL in September
First Irrigation Day Held February 22
Just Give Us a Call for Water Seminar Proceedings
Festival Highlights Importance of Nebraska's Groundwater
Prevention Key to Pollution
Assessment Atlas Now Available
Water Conference Council Awards
Agency Cooperation Urged at Water Conference
90s Exciting Times in Water Resources
Nebraska Counties Included in High Plains Irrigation Research
Mid-Nebraska Water Quality Demo Project Combines State and Federal Agencies to Research Irrigation Efficiency
Irrigation Bolsters Nebraska's Economy
First Nebraska Instream …

The Human Element In Wildlife Damage Situations, Ron J. Johnson

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 14th (1990)

The field of prevention and control of wildlife damage is changing and evolving along with clientele needs, pressures from user and non-user groups, and other factors. A theoretical overview of the field may offer an action model regarding changing trends and potential responses. I propose that three things happen every time a wildlife damage problem occurs: 1) A human activity, desire, or need is interfered with, 2) the experience fosters an opinion about a wild animal - usually negative, and 3) a decision is made to tolerate the situation or to control it. If control is selected, availability and effectiveness …

The Enigma Of Drought: Management And Policy Issues For The 1990s, Donald A. Wilhite

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

Drought affects more people than any other hazard, in both developed and developing countries, yet few governments have taken steps to prepare for it. This situation stems partly from the complex nature of drought, which affects various sectors of society in different ways, and partly from an inability or unwillingness of governments to accept drought as a normal part of climate, not as an extreme random event. Scientific and policy communities have become increasingly concerned about the inability of governments to respond to drought in an effective and timely manner, and some have called for improved drought planning and management. …

Identification Of Solubility-Controlling Solid Phases In A Large Fly Ash Field Lysimeter, Jonathan S. Fruchter, Dhanpat Rai, John M. Zachara

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Samples of pore fluids and leachates were obtained from a large fly ash field lysimeter in central Pennsylvania. The fly ash in the lysimeter was usually only partially saturated, and only 0.3 pore volumes of water leached through the lysimeter during the 3-year study period. The samples were analyzed for major and trace inorganic anions and cations. The resulting analyses were modeled by using an equilibrium speciation/solubility code to test the hypothesis that the solubilities of at least some species in the fly ash leachate were controlled by solid phases. Potential solubility-controlling solids were identified for Al, Ba, Ca, Cr, …

The Prairie Naturalist Volume 21, No.4 December 1989

The Prairie Naturalist

SMALL MAMMALS IN TALL-GRASS PRAIRIE: PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH GRAZING AND BURNING ▪ E. K. Clark, D. W. Kaufman, E. J. Finck, and G. A. Kaufman

BURROW DISTRIBUTION OF THIRTEEN-LINED GROUND SQUIRRELS IN RELATION TO TREE CANOPIES ▪ J. L. Koprowski 185

SPRING AND SUMMER PREY REMAINS COLLECTED FROM MALE MINK DENS IN SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA ▪ . T. W. Arnold and E. K. Fritzell

BREEDING CANVASBACKS: A TEST OF A HABITAT MODEL ▪ D. H. Johnson, M. C. Hammond, T. L. McDonald, C. L. Nustad, and M. D. Schwartz

A CHECKLIST OF THE ANTS OF OKLAHOMA ▪ G. C. Wheeler and …

The Probe, Issue 90 - February 1989

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association
FEBRUARY 1989
The Innocence of Deer
Euthanizing Cats
Personnel
Letters to Ye Ed
Squirrels & Gopher Bites
Animal Rights Movement
Animals Used in Science and Research

Proceedings Of The Eleventh North American Prairie Conference: Cover

Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conferences

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