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Coyotes, Jeffrey S. Green

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

In body form and size, the coyote (Canis latrans) resembles a small collie dog, with erect pointed ears, slender muzzle, and a bushy tail. Coyotes are predominantly brownish gray in color with a light gray to cream-colored belly. Color varies greatly, however, from nearly black to red or nearly white in some individuals and local populations. Most have dark or black guard hairs over their back and tail. Coyote-dog and coyote-wolf hybrids exist in some areas and may vary greatly from typical coyotes in size, color, and appearance. Coyotes often include many items in their diet. Rabbits top the list …

Nebline, September 1994

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

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Human Resources

4-H & Youth

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Community & Leadership Development

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Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

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Weed Awareness

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, September/October 1994

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

Contents:

New UNL Center for Grassland Studies

BioNet Bulletin Board

New NSAS Director and New Extension Director

What Happens to Pesticides in Soil and Water?

In the Seminar Spotlight

Paul Thompson

Joel Salatin

Symposium to Focus on Future of Great Plains

Farm Bill Focus of midwest Governors' Conference

Ag Waste Database

Sustainable Development Framework for the Great Plains

USDA Drafting National Organic Standards

Environmental Reserve Proposed

Sustainable Ag Directors Workshop on February

EPA and USDA Agreement on Pest Management

Congress Approves Funding for Sustainable Ag and Related Programs

President Clinton's Sustainable Development Awards

Futuristic Symposium at ASA Meetings

Grizzly/Brown Bears, Charles Jonkel

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

Grizzly/brown bears (Ursus arctos) of the world include numerous subspecies in Asia, Europe, and North America. The interior grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis) is generally smaller than the coastal (Ursus arctos gyas) or island (Ursus arctos middendorffi) subspecies of North American brown bear, and it has the classic “grizzled” hair tips. Brown bears in general are very large and heavily built. Wherever brown bears live, their size is influenced by their subspecies status, food supply, and length of the feeding season. Bone growth continues throughthe sixth year, so subadult nutrition often dictates their …

Nebline, August 1994

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1994 Lancaster County Fair Edition

Ard News August 1994

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

COMMENTS FROM THE DEAN
WIDAMAN TRUST DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE ASSISTANT AWARD
HARDIN DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP FOR 1994-1995
CALL FOR PROPOSALS - SARE
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
DR. DAVID STANLEY •SAMUELSON SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE
TRAVEL TO REGIONAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEETINGS
PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE COMMODITY BOARDS JULY 1, 1994 – JUNE 30, 1995
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED JUNE AND JULY, 1994
FY199S CSRS BUDGET PROJECTION
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (IRB) GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Diet And Disease On The Plain: Diabetes Among The Omaha, Lisa Hug

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

Non-insulin dependent diabetes is a rising health concern among the Omaha Tribe. The problem has developed from negligible levels in the 1960s to a significant health threat today. As of 1992, 35% of the Omaha Tribe adult population residing on the reservation had been diagnosed with the condition. and the actual proportion of people with the condition is probably much higher. The age of onset of the disease is decreasing so that people as young as 10 years of age are diabetics. The increase in diabetes is at least partly due to changes in diet practices that include the emergence …

Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 2, August 1994

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

Contents:

Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Annual Index

The Politics Of Retribalization: The Northern Ponca Case, Beth Ritter

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

The recently restored Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has faced considerable challenges to the expression of their tribalism throughout the contact period. As a small. prairie-plains tribe the Ponca have endured the ravages of epidemic disease. land cessions. dispossession and removal. assimilation and finally in 1962. the outright termination of their status as a federally recognized tribe. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska has been granted the opportunity to attempt retribalization with the 1990 Congressional restoration of their recognized status. The historical circumstances which have contributed to the assaults on their political and cultural identity will be explored within the larger framework …

Review Of Battlefields And Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle To Protect Ancestral Graves In The United States By Roger C. Echo-Hawk And Walter R. Echo-Hawk, Larry J. Zimmerman

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

Pawnee efforts during the late 1980s to have the remains of their ancestors returned for reburial drew international attention. Their eventual victory set many legal and ethical precedents for proper treatment of American Indian human remains. Battlefields and Burial Grounds tells the Pawnee story, but in the broader context of the national reburial issue. It is a story of dominant society science versus indigenous beliefs and rights.

The collection and study of Indian remains grew hand in hand with colonialism and the development of American archaeology. Even though there is more than adequate evidence that some of the first collectors …

Will The House Win: Does Sovereignty Rule In Indian Casinos?, Beth M. Wilkins, Beth R. Ritter

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

The historical conflict of interest between states and American Indian nations has encompassed jurisdictional disputes ranging from land rights, water rights. and taxation to civil and criminal issues. Many of these political. legal and economic disputes currently center on Indian gaming on reservations within state boundaries. The tribes have been put in the position. yet again. of fighting to define and articulate the exercise of their perceived sovereignty rights vis-a-vis the rights of the states. The federal role, as designated trustee of the tribes, has been and continues to be. an ambiguous. dynamic one. This paper explores the history, current …

Voles, John M. O’Brien

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

Voles, also called meadow mice or field mice, belong to the genus Microtus. Voles are compact rodents with stocky bodies, short legs, and short tails. Their eyes are small and their ears partially hidden. Their underfur is generally dense and covered with thicker, longer guard hairs. They usually are brown or gray, though many color variations exist. There are 23 vole species in the United States. This chapter provides range maps, descriptions, and habitat characteristics for seven species that are widespread or cause significant economic damage. Tentative identification of a particular animal may be made using this information. For positive …

Norway Rats, Robert M. Timm

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) is a stocky burrowing rodent, unintentionally introduced into North America by settlers who arrived on ships from Europe. Also called the brown rat, house rat, barn rat, sewer rat, gray rat, or wharf rat, it is a slightly larger animal than the roof rat (Fig. 2). Adult Norway rats weigh an average of 1 pound (454 g). Their fur is coarse and usually brownish or reddish gray above and whitish gray on the belly. Blackish individuals occur in some locations.

Among the diseases rats may transmit to humans or livestock are murine typhus, …

Roof Rats, Rex E. Marsh

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

Rattus rattus is commonly known as the roof rat, black rat, and ship rat. Roof rats were common on early sailing ships and apparently arrived in North America by that route. This rat has a long history as a carrier of plague. Roof rats range along the lower half of the East Coast and throughout the Gulf States upward into Arkansas. They also exist all along the Pacific Coast and are found on the Hawaiian Islands.

Frightening: Ultrasonic devices have not been proven to provide rat control. Lights and other sounds are of limited value. Visual devices such as model …

Nebline, July 1994

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Effect Of Baculovirus Penaei On Growth And Survival Of Experimentally Infected Postlarvae Of The Pacific White Shrimp, Penaeus Vannamei, Kenneth C. Stuck, Robin M. Overstreet

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

In a series of experiments conducted to investigate age and size-dependent effects of the baculovirus BP on postlarvae of the Pacific white shrimp, Penaeus vannamei, six groups of specific pathogen-free shrimp of different ages (mysis 2–3 through PL 25) were exposed to the virus and cultured for 15 to 21 days. All BP-exposed groups of early postlarvae (PL 9 or younger) became heavily infected within 2–5 days of initial exposure to the virus, and some of those groups experienced high mortalities compared to the noninfected controls. Postlarvae that survived the infection had highly variable and significantly reduced growth, as …

Agricultural Research Division 108th Annual Report 1994

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

It is a pleasure to provide the 108th Annual Report of the UNL Agricultural Research Division (ARD). This report contains lists of current faculty, visiting scientists and research associates; active research projects; refereed journal articles, books, and book chapters published; theses and dissertations written; germplasm/cultivars released; and awards received by faculty. Also included are brief descriptions of accomplishments from selected research projects and the financial report for the period July 1, 1993, to June 30, 1994. This report was compiled in compliance with the intent of the law of the State of Nebraska that established the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station …

Differential Resource Consumption Obviates A Potential Flight–Fecundity Trade-Off In The Sand Cricket (Gryllus Firmus), S. Mole, Anthony J. Zera

Anthony Zera Publications

1. The physiological basis of life-history trade-offs is poorly understood. A useful system in which the underlying physiological mechanisms can be studied is wing polymorphism in insects.
2. The sand cricket, Gryllus firmus (Orthoptera, Gryllidae), exists in natural populations as either a fully-winged (LW), flight-capable morph or as a short-winged (SW) morph that cannot fly.
3. We characterized the morphs with respect to physiological features that influence a potential trade-off between flight capability and fecundity. We measured nutritional indices, flight muscle development and ovarian development in the LW and SW morphs.
4. In adults, ovarian growth occurred after the completion …

Cropwatch No. 94-11, June 17, 1994, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Jointed goatgrass ........................ 76

Com borer worksheet ................. 77

Preharvest herbicides ....... .......... 78

Winter wheat update .................. 78

Weed tour .................................. 78

Potato leafhoppers ........ ............. 79

Correction .................................. 79

Nebraska weather data ............... 80

Crop water use ........................... 81

Weather update.......................... 81

Kansas insect report. ....... ........... 82

Kansas disease report. ............. ... 82

Ard News June 1994

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
COMMENTS FROM THE DEAN
UNL RANKING FOR TOTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES
NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES IN 1993
ANNUAL RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT FORM AD-421
ARDC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION BUILDING INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION CELEBRATION
SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS
FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OBLIGATIONS BY AGENCY
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - FY 1994
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR FEDERAL GRANTS
TRENDS IN PH.D.S AWARDED IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED APRIL AND MAY, 1994
NEW OR REVISED PROJECTS
ARD ADVISORY COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS
SMALL BUSINESS AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM

Nebline, June 1994

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Effecting Change By The Use Of Consultative Coaching With The Primary Caregivers Of Language Delayed Preschoolers, Sari Jeanne Giles

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

This study examined the effect of a speech-language pathologist using consultative coaching with the primary caregivers (PCG) of two expressive language delayed preschool children. The coaching was designed to improve the PCG’s use of specific communication behaviors and strategies to facilitate growth in the child’s communicative behaviors. Specifically, the consultative coaching encouraged the PCG to (1) follow the child’s lead (2) use self and parallel talk (3) expand on the child’s verbal productions and (4) use open-ended questions. Two dyads, made up of expressive language delayed preschool children and their primary caregivers, were the subjects in single subject multiple-baseline designs. …

Food Restriction Effects On The Body Composition Of Free-Living Ground Squirrels, Spermophilus Belding, Gwendolyn C. Bachman

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

I conducted afield experiment to examine the use of body fat as an energy re- serve by juvenile female Belding's ground squirrels, Spermophilus beldingi, prior to hibernation. Squirrels were divided into two groups: the squirrels in one group had their foraging times restricted by being placed in a cage forpart of each day for four consecutive days (deprived group), and the squirrels in the other group foraged ad lib. (ad lib. group). The deprived group foraged in its normal habitat morning and evening but had access only to water and lettuce while captive. Total body electrical conductivity (TOBEC), an …

Nebline, May 1994

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Effect Of Culture Conditions, Donor Age, And Injection Site On In Vitro Development Of Dna Microinjected Porcine Zygotes, M A. Hajdu, J W. Knight, R S. Cansecot, R L. Krisher, William H. Velander, R E. Pearson, F C. Gwazdauskas

Papers in Biotechnology

A series of experiments evaluated development of porcine zygotes microinjected with DNA in three culture media and two incubation temperatures, from postpubertal and prepubertal donors, and between zygotes injected with DNA into the pronucleus and the cytoplasm. Zygotes recovered from 36 postpubertal gilts in Exp. 1 were injected and cultured in modified NCSU-23, modified NCSU-37, and CZB media at 37°C or 39°C for 7 d. In Exp. 2, zygotes were collected from postpubertal or prepubertal gilts, microinjected with DNA, and cultured in modified NCSU-23. In Exp. 3 superovulated prepubertal gilts had DNA injected into the cytoplasm or pronucleus of zygotes. …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, May/June 1994

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

Contents:

Kellogg Grant to Promote Integrated Farming Systems in Nebraska

New USDA Environmental Quality Control

Aquaculture Network on Internet

New Trend: Boutique Microfarms?

Database of State Alternative Ag Laws

Organic Farmers List Top Research Priorities

Cosponsorship Funds Available

Wes Jackson and Paul Ehrlich Highlight Great Plains Grasslands Symposium

Seeking Site on Sustainable Farm for Wheat Research

Madden Speaks on Sustainable Agriculture

Law Professor Comments on Industrialization of U.S. Agriculture

Congressional Sustainable Ag Working Group

More Info on Gopher

National Forest Stewardship Conference

U.S. Agrochemical Companies Lead 1993 Sales Growth

Proposal For Center For Grassland Studies, Ron Case, Dick Clark, Charles A. Francis, Tony Joern, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Lowell E. Moser, Bob Shearman, Ken Vogel, Steven S. Waller

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Its my pleasure, on behalf of the Grassland Studies Task Force, to forward a proposal for a Center for Grassland Studies for your consideration. The Task Force is extremely pleased with the overwhelming support from a broad base of input. The Task Force has made a major effort through internal and external listening sessions to insure that there was support and in doing so develop a coalition of partners across the University of Nebraska System, state colleges, community colleges, industry, state and federal agencies, public groups, private non-profit organizations and other educational institutions in the region.

Nebraska has a rich …

Cropwatch No. 94-5, April 22, 1994, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Preplant 2,4-D, Banvel .................... 34

Wheat diseases .................... 35

Protective gloves .................... 35

Herbicide drift .................... 35

Conserving moisture .................... 36

New acetochlor labels .................... 36

Treat thistles .................... 37

Worker Protection Standard .................... 37

Kansas weather, crops .................... 38

Growing degree days .................... 38

Soil temperatures .................... 38

Cropwatch No. 94-4, April 15, 1994, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Further tests needed before chloride recommended for wheat............1

Soybean seed treatment recommended............1

Field record book helps producers meet federal criteria............2

Effects of tillage on pests subtle............3

Use bait stations for wireworms............6

Growing degree days predict winter wheat growth............7

Weed control essential to successful no-till............8

Treatment options for triazine-resistant kochia............9

EPUs provide for extension specialist............10

Ovarian Follicular Development In Prepubertal Heifers Is Influenced By Level Of Dietary Energy Intake, E. G. M. Bergfeld, F. N. Kojima, Andrea S. Cupp, M. E. Wehrman, K. E. Peters, M. Garcia-Winder, J. E. Kinder

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Objectives were twofold: 1 ) to determine the chronology of development of dominant ovarian follicles during the peripubertal period in heifers and 2) to determine whether feeding a diet with low energy content that delays onset of puberty alters chronology of dominant ovarian follicular development in peripubertal heifers. Ten heifers of composite breeding ( 1/4 Angus, 1/4 Hereford, 1/4 Red Poll, 1/4 Pinzgauer) were randomly assigned, at 8 mo of age, to receive a diet designed to produce 0.9 (n = 5) or 0.3 (n = 5) kg body weight gain per day for the duration of the experiment. To …