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Ethics Primer For University Students Intending To Become Natural Resources Managers And Administrators, Richard J. Mcneil Jan 1998

Ethics Primer For University Students Intending To Become Natural Resources Managers And Administrators, Richard J. Mcneil

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Natural resources managers and administrators frequently face problems which have ethical dimensions. This paper is intended to help students learn how to become more comfortable and sophisticated with ethical aspects of their management studies, to learn to include ethical tool more in their decision making, and consequently to become better prepared to manage resources later placed in their care. Many of us realize that ethical questions are fundamental to our work. Most of us feel that we have an adequate understanding of and ability to distinguish between "right" and "wrong" behaviors. But we are unable to discuss ethical ideas fluently …

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Developing Computer Courseware For Forest Management, Marc E. Mcdill Jan 1998

Developing Computer Courseware For Forest Management, Marc E. Mcdill

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Computers are an important tool for managing forests, and they can be used to help teach forestry students about forest management. This paper describes a project to develop computer-based learning models that will be integrated in a comprehensive courseware package suitable for teaching an entire undergraduate forest management course. The forest management courseware will supplement a traditional textbook and take advantage of the things that can be done better with a computer-based approach. While the computer is not likely to rival the textbook in the areas of depth and portability, it can provide an interactive medium to relieve some of …

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Student Authoring, Editing And Electronic Publishing, Aaron N. Moen, Spencer R. Hall, Thomas N. Moen Jan 1998

Student Authoring, Editing And Electronic Publishing, Aaron N. Moen, Spencer R. Hall, Thomas N. Moen

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Millions of term papers have been written by college seniors who will be writing reports and publications as part of their professional responsibilities soon after graduation. While most term papers are graded and returned to student authors, a former student shared the observation that "nothing less than an 'A' is acceptable on the job." Writing assignments can be made more meaningful by giving student authors responsibility for their writing similar to those professionals have; their work will be edited, read and used by others. Student papers were first published on the Department's Cooperative Learning Center (CLC) local area network in …

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Kenya Model: Development And Implementation Of An Overseas Study Course On African Wildlife Ecology And Management, Kelly F. Millenbah, Henry Campa Iii, Scott R. Winterstein, Perez M. Olindo, Chiaki Nakamura Jan 1998

Kenya Model: Development And Implementation Of An Overseas Study Course On African Wildlife Ecology And Management, Kelly F. Millenbah, Henry Campa Iii, Scott R. Winterstein, Perez M. Olindo, Chiaki Nakamura

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

The brochure declares: "What better place to study a diversity of wildlife species and ecosystems than Kenya's spectacular National Parks and Conservation Areas?" Enticing! Exhilarating! A once in a life time experience! African Wildlife Ecology and Management in Kenya is an intensive two and a half week overseas study program offered by Michigan State University's (MSU) Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Through this hands-on experience, students apply wildlife management principles to issues in Kenya's National Parks and Conservation Areas. Planning and coordination of this course requires a year's worth of thoughtful preparation in order to provide students with a dynamic …

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Promoting The Scholarship Of Teaching: Results Of A Workshop On Enhancing Education In Wildlife Conservation, Mark R. Ryan, Henry Campa Jan 1998

Promoting The Scholarship Of Teaching: Results Of A Workshop On Enhancing Education In Wildlife Conservation, Mark R. Ryan, Henry Campa

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

We describe the justification, format, and assessment of a workshop "Enhancing Education in Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, Management: An Exchange of Ideas" facilitated at the Wildlife Society's Fourth Annual Conference. The workshop was designed to meet the professional development needs of college and university wildlife educators. Over 80 participants from academic and agency backgrounds attended a keynote address and breakout sessions to discuss pedagogical techniques and approaches to teaching specific wildlife course content. Breakout sessions on active learning in large classrooms, constructed controversies, and using writing in the classroom were identified by most participants as most important. The diverse backgrounds of …

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Utah State University's Academic Program In Wildlife Damage Management, Michael R. Conover, Jack Berryman Jan 1998

Utah State University's Academic Program In Wildlife Damage Management, Michael R. Conover, Jack Berryman

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Wildlife damage management is the buffer between wild animals and people. This field attempts to enhance human-wildlife relations by resolving conflicts between humans and wildlife and increasing the positive values of wildlife. In 1990, Utah State University realized that its students’ education in this area was lacking and created an academic program in wildlife damage management with the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services. Two years later, USU’s program expanded and became the Jack H. Berryman Institute for Wildlife Damage Management which is part of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and …

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Interstate Educational Programs: Are We Ready?, Weldon S. Sleight Jan 1998

Interstate Educational Programs: Are We Ready?, Weldon S. Sleight

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

During the past 15 years, Utah State University and other institutions have vigorously investigated the possibility of sharing educational resources across state lines. This concept, while very important to higher education's future, has not been fully realized. The most obvious barriers have been lack of financial resources and working models. This paper outlines models and procedures that could benefit institutions in the development of cooperative degrees.

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Commensal Rodents: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, B. C. West Jan 1998

Commensal Rodents: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, B. C. West

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

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Challis Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management Jan 1998

Challis Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Resource Management Plans (ID)

The Challis Proposed Resource Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS) describes the Bureau of Land Management's proposed plan for managing approximately 792,567 acres of public lands administered by the BLM within the Challis Resource Area. The PRMP/FEIS is based on the Preferred Alternative (Alternative 2) described in the Challis Draft RMP/EIS (BLM, May 1996), as modified in response to public and tribal comments and internal BLM recommendations. It describes changes from and corrections to the Challis Draft RMP/EIS, updates the discussion of the affected environment, provides an analysis of environmental consequences for the Proposed RMP, and records public comments and …

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Record Of Decision And Finding Of No Significant Impact For The Shirley Mountain Planning Review Travel Management, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management Jan 1998

Record Of Decision And Finding Of No Significant Impact For The Shirley Mountain Planning Review Travel Management, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Record of Decisions (WY)

The planning review was conducted to analyze and weigh the affects of retaining or changing the Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) designation for the BLM-administered public lands within the Shirley Mountain Planning Review Area. The proposed decision considers comments received during public scoping and the 45-day comment period for the Shirley Mountain Planning Review Travel Management Environmental Assessment (EA).

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Bighorn National Forest Draft Noxious Weed Management Environmental Assessment, United States Forest Service Jan 1998

Bighorn National Forest Draft Noxious Weed Management Environmental Assessment, United States Forest Service

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

The Forest Service proposes to implement a management plan to control noxious weeds on the Bighorn National Forest. This management plan would be in accordance with general direction in the Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) to treat noxious farm weeds (Bighorn National Forest LRMP, III-45) to improve range conditions and manage undersirable plant species. Five additional Federal Laws also address this action: 1. The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA, P.L. 93-378). 2. The Public Rangeland Improvement Act of 1978. 3. The Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 Section 2(b)(2) and Section 2 of (P.L. …

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Clow Point Winter Recreation Parking Area Environmental Assessment, United States Forest Service Jan 1998

Clow Point Winter Recreation Parking Area Environmental Assessment, United States Forest Service

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Payette National Forest proposes to authorize the construction, maintenance, and operation of a two-acre winter recreation parking site just below the Goose Creek overlook (Clow Point) along the Goose Lake Road (FDR #257).

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The Role Of Anadromous Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) In The Nutrient Loading And Productivity Of The Sawtooth Valley Lakes, Idaho, H. P. Gross, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Chris Luecke Jan 1998

The Role Of Anadromous Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) In The Nutrient Loading And Productivity Of The Sawtooth Valley Lakes, Idaho, H. P. Gross, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Chris Luecke

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

We constructed a simulation model for Redfish Lake, Idaho, using water budget and nutrient loading measurements, to predict the dependence of lake production on nutrients from the watershed, precipitation, lake fertilization, and marine-derived nutrients from sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka, which historically have reared in the lake. We also used the model to simulate different management scenarios to help restore the endangered Snake River sockeye salmon. The model and other empirical evidence indicated that even before hydropower dams were present in the migration corridor, marine-derived nutrients were not of major importance to lake production, contributing only about 3% of the annual …

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Adding Nutrients To Enhance The Growth Of Endangered Sockeye Salmon: Trophic Transfer In An Oligotrophic Lake, Phaedra E. Budy, Chris Luecke, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh Jan 1998

Adding Nutrients To Enhance The Growth Of Endangered Sockeye Salmon: Trophic Transfer In An Oligotrophic Lake, Phaedra E. Budy, Chris Luecke, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Snake River sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka, listed under U.S. law as endangered in 1991 in response to a decline in anadromous adult numbers, spend their first 1–2 years in Redfish Lake, Idaho, before migrating to the sea. To determine how nutrient enhancement might influence phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish production, we performed fertilization experiments in large enclosures in this oligotrophic lake using juvenile kokanee (lacustrine O. nerka) as analogues for endangered sockeye salmon. Fertilization of the metalimnion substantially increased chlorophyll a (150%), phytoplankton biovolume (75%), primary productivity (250%), and zooplankton biomass (200%), and moderately increased fish growth (12%) over our control …

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Dispersal Patterns Of Subadult And Adult Colorado Squawfish In The Upper Colorado River, D. B. Osmundson, Ronald J. Ryel, M. E. Tucker, D. B. Burdick, W. R. Elmblad, T. E. Chart Jan 1998

Dispersal Patterns Of Subadult And Adult Colorado Squawfish In The Upper Colorado River, D. B. Osmundson, Ronald J. Ryel, M. E. Tucker, D. B. Burdick, W. R. Elmblad, T. E. Chart

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Abstract.—We investigated distribution and dispersal patterns of subadult and adult Colorado squawfish Ptychocheilus lucius (recently renamed the Colorado pikeminnow) throughout their range in the upper Colorado River. Annual, river-wide, capture–recapture data were used to document movements during a 5-year period (1991–1995). Average total length of Colorado squawfish progressively increased upstream: juveniles and subadults occurred almost exclusively in the lowermost 105 km of the 298-km study area, whereas most adults were concentrated in the uppermost 98 km. This was most pronounced early in the study and less so later due to the effect of two or three strong year-classes that dispersed …

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Dixie Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Bureau Of Land Management Jan 1998

Dixie Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Bureau Of Land Management

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

This is the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (Proposed Plan) for the Dixie Resource Area. This document responds to public comments received on the Dixie Resource Area Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Plan). The Proposed Plan also corrects errors in the Draft Plan identified through the public comment process and internal BLM review. The Proposed Plan and associated analysis presents a refined and modified version of the Preferred Alternative and the accompanying impact analysis contained in the Draft Plan. This document is published in condensed form and should be used in conjunction …

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Challis Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume 2 (Of 2), United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management Jan 1998

Challis Resource Area Proposed Resource Management Plan And Final Environmental Impact Statement Volume 2 (Of 2), United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Resource Management Plans (ID)

The climate of the Challis Resource Area is influenced primarily by maritime air carried eastward on prevailing westerly winds. General climatic characteristics are abundant sunshine, low humidity, and high evaporation. The major precipitation source, particularly for winter storms, is the Northern Pacific Ocean. In the summer, however, most of the thunderstorm activity is caused by moisture-laden air originating from the south, off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

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General Catalog 1998-2000, Utah State University Jan 1998

General Catalog 1998-2000, Utah State University

University Catalogs

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration.

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Woodpeckers: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb Jan 1998

Woodpeckers: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Pocket Gophers: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb Jan 1998

Pocket Gophers: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Pocket gophers are medium-sized fossorial (burrowing) rodents, which have external fur-lined pouches located on the outside of their mouths. They use the pouches to carry food, hence the name "pocket" gopher. There are 35 species of pocket gophers in North and South America. Pocket gophers are sometimes confused with moles because of their similar burrowing activities. Moles, however, are smaller and lack cheek pouches.

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The Yellowman Tapes, Barre Toelken Jan 1998

The Yellowman Tapes, Barre Toelken

English Faculty Publications

This article considers the final disposal of field-recorded tapes that are believed by the informant's family to embody certain dangers to researchers, to the natural world, and to themselves. Motives for keeping or destroying the tapes are discussed in the light of modern concerns such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Navajo worldview, scholarly interests, fieldwork ethics, and personal responsibilities of the fieldworker. I espouse the view that folklorists stand to learn more and do better work when scholarly decisions are guided by the culture we study, even when taking this course causes disruption in our academic …

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Selecting Linear-Score Distributions For Modeling Milk-Culture Results, H. G. Allore, David J. Wilson, H. N. Erb, P. A. Oltenacu Jan 1998

Selecting Linear-Score Distributions For Modeling Milk-Culture Results, H. G. Allore, David J. Wilson, H. N. Erb, P. A. Oltenacu

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science Faculty Publications

The data for this cross-sectional retrospective study are from surveys of 65 dairy-cattle herds in central New York, USA sampled between February, 1993 and March, 1995. The objective was to identify probability distributions of logarithmically transformed somatic-cell counts (linear score) for use in a simulation model of mastitis and milk quality. Probability density functions were estimated using maximum-likelihood estimators for the linear score of individual-cow composite milk samples culture negative and culture positive for the pathogens Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus non-agalactiae, Staphylococcus aureus, and coagulase-negative staphylococci for the complete dataset and by bulk-tank somatic-cell count group (< 500 000, ≥ 500 000 SCC/ml). Based on the rankings of three goodness-of-fit tests (Anderson-Darling, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and x2 …

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Endangered And Threatened Animals Of Utah, Terry A. Messmer, A Mcelrone, R. Drake Jan 1998

Endangered And Threatened Animals Of Utah, Terry A. Messmer, A Mcelrone, R. Drake

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Venomous Snakes: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb Jan 1998

Venomous Snakes: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Utah is home to 31 species of snakes. Of these, seven are venomous. The seven Utah venomous snakes are members of the Viperidae family and are commonly called pit vipers because of the pit located between their nostrils and eyes. (See Figure 1.) These Utah venomous snake species include: the sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes), speckled rattlesnake (C. mitchellii), mojave rattlesnake (C. scutulatus), western rattlesnake (C. viridis), Hopi rattlesnake (C.V. nuntius), midget-faded rattlesnake (C.V. concolor), and the Great Basin rattlesnake (C.V. lutosus).

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Nonvenomous Snakes: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb Jan 1998

Nonvenomous Snakes: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, G. W. Wiscomb

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Snakes are probably the most feared and misunderstood animals known. There are over 200 species of snakes in the U. S., most of which (about 170) are non-venomous. Utah is home to 31 species of snakes. Of these, 24 are non-venomous. Since these snakes are more abundant, chances are that when most Utahns encounter a snake it will be non-venomous. (See Figure 1.)

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Voles: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, B. C. West Jan 1998

Voles: Wildlife Damage Management Series, Terry A. Messmer, B. C. West

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Insights, Fall, 1997, Utah State University Dec 1997

Insights, Fall, 1997, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

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Using Compost In Utah Turf Applications, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig, Bruce Miller, James Barnhill Nov 1997

Using Compost In Utah Turf Applications, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig, Bruce Miller, James Barnhill

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

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Using Compost In Utah Gardens, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig, Bruce Miller, James Barnhill Nov 1997

Using Compost In Utah Gardens, Kitt Farrell-Poe, Rich Koenig, Bruce Miller, James Barnhill

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

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Development Of An Integrated Canada Goose Management Program In Virginia, Martin Lowney, Phil Eggborn, Gary Costanzo, Don Patterson Oct 1997

Development Of An Integrated Canada Goose Management Program In Virginia, Martin Lowney, Phil Eggborn, Gary Costanzo, Don Patterson

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

Wildlife managers in the State of Virginia developed an integrated Canada goose (Branta canadensis) damage management program in 1996 to address increasing damage caused by resident (non-migratory) Canada geese, primarily in urban/suburban areas. The previous Canada goose damage management program relied primarily on harassment and relocation. The integrated program was made available to citizens, homeowner associations, businesses, organizations, city and county governments, and state and federal agencies in 1997. The Integrated Canada Goose Management Program was developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia Department of …

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