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Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 10, November 1970

Water Current Newsletter

NWRRI Director Named Executive Secretary of Universities Council on Water Resources
1971 Summer Institutes Planned
Research and Development Sources Sought
NWRRI Proposals Submitted
FWQA Booklet on Fish Mortalities
Urban Wastewater Renovation Through Agriculture
Control of Oil Pollution
Environmental Education Bill to White House
Title II Awards for FY 1971
Case Studies in Water Resources Systems Analysis
National Environmental Pollution Conference
UCOWR Annual Meeting Held in Virginia
Reorganizational Plans for Environmental Programs
National Water Commission Studies
Research Review
New Publications Received by the Institute - November

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xlix. The Occurrence Of Diphyllobothrium Latum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidae) In Alaska, With Notes On Other Species, Robert L. Rausch, D. K. Hilliard

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Cestodes representing six species of the genus Diphyllobothrium Cobbold, 1858, were collected from naturally infected terrestrial mammals in Alaska during the period 1949-1970. Additional specimens were reared in experimentally infected animals. Of the species identified, viz., D. latum (Linnaeus, 1758), D. dendriticum (Nitzsch, 1824), D. lanceolatum (Krabbe, 1865), D. ursi Rausch, 1954, D. dalliae Rausch, 1956, and D. alascense Rausch and Williamson, 1958, all but D. alascense were obtained from man after treatment with quinacrine. D. latum occurred most commonly in humans; D. ursi is reported for the first time from this host, and D. lanceolatum in humans was represented …

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 9, October 1970

Water Current Newsletter

Water Resource Projects Will Be Scrutinized
Mann Appointed to National Water Commission Staff
Klein Resigns
National Irrigation Symposium
Water Pollution and Water Quality
Closed Industrial Wastewater Systems
47 Rivers as Potential Wild or Scenic Streams
Community Water Supply Study Revealed
Office of Saline Water Annual Report
New Federal Legislation on Municipal Water Supplies
Underground Injection of Wastewaters
New Guidelines Will Place Greater Emphasis on Alternatives
Environmental Quality Education Bill Passed
Wastes Linger in Long Island Ground Water
Research Review
Interdisciplinary Water Resources Seminar
New Publications Received by the Institute

Ornitrol: Recent Developments, M. R. Woulfe

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

This talk today will be on recent developments with Ornitrol. All the recent developments have been with blackbirds and grackles; and, unfortunately, the man who has done the most recent work is sitting right here, so I can't steal his data very well!

We have done some work since I spoke to you last on some of the pharmacol¬ogy of SC-12937--which is an axocholesterol the active ingredient of Ornitrol. One of these developments is the determination of the half-life of SC-12937, which is 28 days. This is the reason, we feel, for its prolonged activity in birds. It is stored …

The Relationship Of Bird Habitats To Disease Producing Fungi, Robert Weeks

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Two fungi, Cryptococcous neoformans and Histoplasma capsulatum, which are pathogenic to some animals and humans, are found in association with the habitats of birds. This association will be discussed by a review of Cryptococcosis and C. neoformans in association with pigeons and their habitats, reviewing histoplasmosis and relating the experience of the Soil Ecology Unit Mycoses Section in Kansas City with H. capsulatum associated with blackbird and starling roosts during the past nine months of this year.

A Municipal Bird Control Project, James Steckel

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The subject I was asked to talk about this morning is Municipal Bird Control. Our organization was asked approximately a year ago by a rather high level income urban municipality lying adjacent to Columbus, Ohio, a bedroom community so to speak, to come into their area to do a commercial bird control project. The problem species was pigeons. The community was having a blight. Real estate sales in the town had dropped off as a result of the pigeon problem. The taxpayers were getting together and had been harassing the council for about six months to do something about the …

Outlook For Ornitrol, M. R. Woulfe

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

My comments at this point will concern the application and uses of Ornitrol. My comments are aimed at people who are engaged in actual control work, people in public health departments and PCO's.

Ornitrol is a chemosterilant--one of the first ones which has been registered for sale. It inhibits egg production apparently in most avians. We know it does this in pigeons, sparrows, grackles, blackbirds, and chickens. It is reasonable to assume that it will do this in many other species, and this generalized action is one of the reasons why it has got to be handled very carefully where …

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 …

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.

Agricultural Experiment Station News September 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTORS OFFICE
EXPERIMENT STATION WORKERS' CONFERENCE
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – September 1970

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 …

A Descriptive Analysis Of Instructional Design Programs, James G. Buterbaugh

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.

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

Bibliography Of Diseases And Parasites Of Marine Fish And Shellfish (With Emphasis On Commercially Important Species), Carl J. Sindermann

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

The literature on diseases and parasites of marine animals has been accumulating at an accelerating rate in recent decades, and at a seemingly geometrical rate in the past few years. Reviews of selected aspects of the subject have appeared (Cheng, 1967; Sindermann, 1966; Sindermann and Rosenfield, 1967). References listed in these papers include a significant, but still a small part, of the available literature. With the proliferation of journals in many languages throughout the world, a complete bibliography, even in a narrow area of research, is almost an impossibility. Then too, the daily appearance of new published information represents an …

Studies On The Helminth Fauna Of Alaska. Xlv. Schistotaenia Srivastavai N. Sp. (Cestoda: Amabiliidae) From The Red-Necked Grebe, Podiceps Grisegena (Boddaert), Robert L. Rausch

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

The genus Schistotaenia Cohn, 1900, at present includes six species, all parasites of grebes (Podicipediformes). Among helminths found in a red-necked grebe, Podiceps grisegena (Boddaert), on October 18, 1966, at Anchorage, Alaska, were cestodes representing two species of Schistotaenia, of which one is described here as new. The host was an adult bird which evidently had been injured during migration.

This cestode is named in honor of Dr. H. D. Srivastava, in recognition of his significant contributions to helminthological research.

Agricultural Experiment Station News June 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
COLLEGE OF HOME ECONOMICS
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – June 1970
STATION AND RESEARCH BULLETINS PRINTED

Positive And Negative Prejudice: Interactions Of Prejudice With Race And Social Desirability, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Two studies were conducted in order to investigate positive prejudice toward Negroes. By defining positive prejudice as favoritism toward Negro stimulus persons over white stimulus persons of identical personality descriptions, it was possible to compare patterns of Negro bias on a variety of measures. The results of Study I indicated that positive Negro prejudice was more likely when stimulus persons at the positive personality level were compared. The results of Study II indicated that dogmatism and rigidity and attitudes associated with authoritarian ism are negatively related to positive prejudice. Dimensions of formality of relationships and antisubordination of Negroes were useful …

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 …

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 5, May 1970

Water Current Newsletter

Proposal Deadlines for Research Projects
Mr. Eugene Eaton Visits Nebraska Institute
Eutrophication Publication Available
Symposium on Man-Made Lakes
National Science Foundation Provides Grant for Students
Department of the Interior to Sponsor Conference on Environmental Pollution
President Signs Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970
Possible Reclamation of Wastewater for Denver?
Water Quality Administration Seeks Studies on Cost of Preventing Pollution
New Pollution Control Proposed by Secretary Hickel
High-Priority Problem Areas
Research Review
New Publications Received by the Institute

Agricultural Experiment Station News April 1970

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTORS OFFICE
THE NEW SOUTH CENTRAL STATION
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GENERAL NOTES
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBUCATIONS - April 1970

Water Resources News, Volume 2, No. 4, April 1970

Water Current Newsletter

Increased Funds for State Water Resources Institute?
Bureau of Reclamation Seeks Research and Development
Bureau of Reclamation Opens Facilities to the National Scientific Community
International Field Year for the Great Lakes to Get Underway
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Grant to High School Students
President's Task Force on Rural Development Advocates More Support of Water Programs
Water Pollution Control Bill
Possible Increase in Water Supply for the Western States
General Accounting Office Comments on Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Student-Run Environmental Research Program Supported by NSF
Committee on Water Resources Long-Range Research Plan
15th Annual Midwest Ground-Water Conference
Research Review …

Frontmatter And Contents

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

PROCEEDINGS: FOURTH VERTEBRATE PEST CCONFERENCE held at El Rancho Hotel, West Sacramento, California, March 3, 4 and 5, 1970. Edited By Richard H. Dana, Conference Chairman. Sponsored by the California Vertebrate Pest Committee

Opening Remarks - Fourth Vertebrate Pest Conference, Richard H. Dana

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

I am pleased to welcome you to the Fourth Vertebrate Pest Conference. This is our second Sacramento meeting. The first was in 1962 - eight years ago. It was an historic occasion. It was the first conference devoted exclusively to vertebrate pests. This conference is sponsored by the California Vertebrate Pest Committee comprised of representatives from the California Department of Agriculture, the University of California at Davis, Department of Animal Physiology and the Agricultural Extension Service; the U. S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Division of Wildlife Services and of Wildlife Research, the California Departments of Public Health, Fish …

Keynote Address --- "The Year Of Ecology", Robert I. Cushing

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

It seems to me that there are at least two things we should be concerned about. First, I believe there is a real possibility that the environmental quality bandwagon will get to playing so loud and to rolling so fast that there can be some unfavorable consequences in food production and processing-—the job I work at and that some of you work at. Second, I believe there are signs that we could lose our balance—-that we could be making decisions on emotional instead of rational grounds. Reason seems to be in danger from an epidemic of emotion. And we need …

Outlook For Rodenticides And Avicides Registration, James O. Lee

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

The history of pesticide regulations is presented. Major emphasis is on federal regulations. The evaluation of avicides and rodenticides is discussed and related to regu¬lations. Currently registered avicides and rodenticides are described along with a listing of efficacy criteria requirements. The future of registration of avicides and rodenticides is projected.

The Pharmacology Of Rodenticides, S. A. Peoples

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

The compounds used as rodenticides are tremendously varied in their chemical structure and mechanism of action. With a few exceptions, these agents are generally poisonous to all animals, including man, and a great deal of study has been directed to their toxicity in animals other than rodents. However, the development of new compounds as Norbormide and certain antifertility drugs which are highly selective in their action may justify the hope that the ideal rodenticide free of secondary toxic hazards will soon be available. Until this happy announcement is made, a review of the pharmacology of the older compounds is in …

Notes On The Ecology Of Sewer Rats In St. Louis, Kyle R. Barbehenn

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

The awareness, if not the magnitude, of problems caused by sewer rats has increased in the United States in recent years. Thus, current concern with the more general problem of urban rats is leading many city agencies to incorporate plans for controlling sewer rats in budgets that are already severely strained. The most effective programs for controlling pests are those based on an intimate knowledge of the interactions between the target species and its environment. Some basic studies of sewer rat ecology were begun in St. Louis, Missouri, in February, 1969. Since the initial results have provided information that should …

The Role Of The Coyote In An Infection Of Man And Animals, I. K. M. Liu

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

As part of epidemiological studies on hydatid disease in the central valley of California, a survey was made of seven counties of possible infections with Echinococcus granulosus in the coyote (Canis latrans). Of 173 animals examined, seven 4.O per cent) were found infected, six of them from Tehama County.

Current Status Of Plague And Plague Control In The United States, Jack D. Poland, Allan M. Barnes

Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 4th (1970)

During the first quarter of the 20th century massive rat-borne plague epidemics occurred in port cities of the United States in conjunction with the last world-wide pandemic which originated in China in 1893. By 1950, plague was found to be firmly established in wild rodent populations in states west of the 100th meridian. Presumably because of improved sanitation coupled with retreat of the world-wide pandemic there have been no human cases in this country associated with urban rats since 1924. However, sporadic cases, fewer than 10 per year, are reported as due to contact with wild rodents, lagomorphs, rural rats, …