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Air Quality Improvement. Tax Credits. Dec 1997

Air Quality Improvement. Tax Credits.

Initiatives

AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT. TAX CREDITS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles, buses, and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn and garden equipment; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study of air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Establishes local transportation funds as trust funds. Summary of estimate by …

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Changing Definitions And Off-Loading Responsibility In Alberta's Post-Secondary System, Robert J. Barnetson Dec 1997

Changing Definitions And Off-Loading Responsibility In Alberta's Post-Secondary System, Robert J. Barnetson

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The introduction of a performance-based funding mechanism by Alberta's provincial government alters the public definition of "educational quality" and fully shifts the responsibility for declining educational quality from the provincial government onto institutions. This article outlines the process by which the provincial government has compelled institutions to accept this redefinition and transfer despite the substantial loss of institutional autonomy it entails. The implications of this change are explored and possible reasons are suggested.

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Front Matter And Contents Dec 1997

Front Matter And Contents

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

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Double-Crested Cormorants In The Midwest: Symposium Summary, Francesca J. Cuthbert Dec 1997

Double-Crested Cormorants In The Midwest: Symposium Summary, Francesca J. Cuthbert

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest


Populations of double-crested cormorants (DCCO’s, Phalacrocorax auritus) have increased dramatically in North America during the past 2 decades (1978–98), especially in the Great Lakes region and Southeastern United States. Concern about the impact, real or imagined, of DCCO’s on economics and ecosystem health has risen in parallel to the increase in cormorant numbers.

A daylong symposium on this subject was opened by Stephen Lewis and D. V. (Chip) Weseloh, who introduced the audience to the general problems associated with cormorants in the Midwest. The moderators identified the following symposium objectives: (1) to provide current information on the status and …

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Air-Emissions. Tax Credits. Dec 1997

Air-Emissions. Tax Credits.

Initiatives

AIR-EMISSIONS. TAX CREDITS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles, buses, and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn and garden equipment; pumps and generators; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study for air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Requires Board to adopt regulations. Summary of estimate by Legislative …

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Applications Of Monitoring For Producers, Roy Roath Dec 1997

Applications Of Monitoring For Producers, Roy Roath

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The context in which rangeland livestock enterprises operate is changing in the United States. Economic pressures, markets, agency policies, and greater environmental awareness are challenging range livestock operators to mange their operations mare effectively and to respond to meet the challenges of the question "Are you a good steward of the land?" being posed by friend and foe, alike. This debate on land management practices is increasing. Much of this discussion is focusing on conflicts between the multiple uses of the resource. This affects the western livestock industry in a major way because the industry will be judged on its …

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Calving Difficulty, Robert G. Mortimer Dec 1997

Calving Difficulty, Robert G. Mortimer

Range Beef Cow Symposium

The recognition of abnormal calving (dystocia) comes FIRST from a basic understanding of normal calving. From this understanding, the establishment of guidelines for observation of cattle and for intervention will reduce calf losses. In Colorado, as part of a pilot program of the National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS), two-thirds of the costs of disease losses were associated with death loss. From a subset of 73 of the 86 NAHMS herds in studied in 1986- 87 in 24,396 births, 4.5% of the calves were lost. Of the 4.5% losses, 34% were attributed to dystocia related losses. In addition, losses attributed …

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Empowering People, Burke Teichert Dec 1997

Empowering People, Burke Teichert

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Empowerment is a function of systems, attitudes and access. A ranching system is a grouping of subsystems which includes biological, climatic, business, financial and managerial processes. The system may be structured to enable and encourage or to impede empowerment of the team members. Access to ideas, research, training, tools, mentoring, modeling, etc. is vital to high level empowering. If the system is right, then the attitudes of the people involved will determine how much empowerment will take place.

Bosses and managers don't empower people. They enable and facilitate, but people at all levels of reporting are responsible for their own …

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 9, 1997, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 1997

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 9, 1997, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Reproductive Toxicology: Pine Needles And Plant Estrogens, R. E. Short, S. L. Kronberg, E. E. Grings, J. P. Rosazza, S. P. Ford Dec 1997

Reproductive Toxicology: Pine Needles And Plant Estrogens, R. E. Short, S. L. Kronberg, E. E. Grings, J. P. Rosazza, S. P. Ford

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Reproductive rate or efficiency, the number of live offspring produced from a herd of a specified number each year, is the main determinate of biological and economic efficiency of a beef cattle enterprise. Reproduction is a complex and continuous process that starts before birth and continues through puberty and a series of endocrine and behavioral events that include estrous cycles, breeding, conception, gestation, parturition, and lactation. The culmination of reproduction is live offspring produced for sale or for reentering the herd as replacements. Whenever any of these events are interfered with, reproductive rate and economic efficiency will decrease. In most …

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Fink Beef Genetics, Galen Fink Dec 1997

Fink Beef Genetics, Galen Fink

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Started in 1977 as a purebred Angus program based totally upon artificial insemination (AI), Fink Beef Genetics has been dedicated to breeding predictable performance for beef producers. It is a family-owned business that I operate with my wife Lori and our daughter Megan.

Recognizing the Angus breed for its maternal strength, we built our program by stacking generations of proven sires and great Angus cow families. The direct influence of landmark sires such as AAR New Trend and Emulation N Bar 5522 headline their foundation. The most important tool used in building our herd has been high accuracy EPDs of …

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Innovative Marketing And Angus America, Douglas Hoff Dec 1997

Innovative Marketing And Angus America, Douglas Hoff

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Marketing sounds easy, right? All that you have to do is sell when the market is high and buy when it's low. The problem is that only God could accomplish this! Even if we had the time to do the research required to make these predictions they're still, at best, only educated guesses. How does a cow/calf producer market in an innovative manner when he only has the option to go to a sale barn, an order buyer, or a feedlot with his years' work, just to get the same average price?

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 05/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 1997

Education Policy Analysis Archives 05/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Changing definitions and off-loading responsibility in Alberta's post-secondary system / Robert J. Barnetson.

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December 9, 1997, Faculty Senate Dec 1997

December 9, 1997, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 1997

The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1997

No abstract provided.

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The Problems Of Being Successful: Managing Interactions Between Humans And Double-Crested Cormorants, Douglas Siegel-Causey Dec 1997

The Problems Of Being Successful: Managing Interactions Between Humans And Double-Crested Cormorants, Douglas Siegel-Causey

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

The natural history, behavior, and ecology of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) predispose this species for conflict with human sport and commercial fisheries. Cormorants breed early in life, have large broods, are efficient predators even in marginal conditions, seem to be able to adjust colony sizes quickly in response to local conditions, and have limited requirements for feeding and nesting habitats. A survey of the past history of successes and failures in managing cormorants reveals that economic impact is greatest with aquaculture and least in sport fisheries. Research during the past 5 years suggests that some control methods like …

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Double-Crested Cormorant Impacts On Sport Fish: Literature Review, Agency Survey, And Strategies, John L. Trapp, Stephen J. Lewis, Diane M. Pence Dec 1997

Double-Crested Cormorant Impacts On Sport Fish: Literature Review, Agency Survey, And Strategies, John L. Trapp, Stephen J. Lewis, Diane M. Pence

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

In response to concerns expressed by anglers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted an extensive review of published studies done throughout the United States and Canada on the impacts of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) on sport-fish populations in open waters. The literature review indicated that fish species valued by sport and commercial anglers make up a very small proportion of the cormorants’ diet and that these birds have a minor effect on fish populations compared to the effects of sport and commercial fishing, natural predation, and other mortality factors. The Service sent a questionnaire to State agencies, …

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Strategies To Reduce Double-Crested Cormorant Depredation At Aquaculture Facilities In Mississippi, David S. Reinhold, Charles A. (Bo) Sloan Dec 1997

Strategies To Reduce Double-Crested Cormorant Depredation At Aquaculture Facilities In Mississippi, David S. Reinhold, Charles A. (Bo) Sloan

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) depredation throughout the Southeastern United States has been on the increase over the past 20 years. The increase in depredation coincides with the growth of the aquaculture industry and an expansion of double-crested cormorant wintering populations throughout the Southeast. The U.S. Department of Agriculture–Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service–Wildlife Services plays a major role in reducing double-crested cormorant damage. Nonlethal harassment on farms, dispersal from night roosts, and lethal control have reduced double-crested cormorant depredation at aquaculture farms in Mississippi. However, the efficiency and compatibility of current methods of reducing double-crested cormorant depredation must …

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Review Of The Population Status And Management Of Double-Crested Cormorants In Ontario, C. Korfanty, W.G. Miyasaki, J.L. Harcus Dec 1997

Review Of The Population Status And Management Of Double-Crested Cormorants In Ontario, C. Korfanty, W.G. Miyasaki, J.L. Harcus

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

We prepared this review of the status and management of double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in Ontario, with management options, in response to concerns expressed about possible negative impacts of large numbers of the birds on fish stocks, and vulnerable, threatened and endangered species. Double-crested cormorants are native to Ontario and were first recorded breeding on Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario in the late 1700’s. The birds spread eastward to colonize all of the Great Lakes by the 1930’s. A decline in cormorant populations on the Great Lakes from the 1950’s to the 1970’s has been attributed …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 88, No. 24 (Dec. 9, 1997), The New Hampshire Dec 1997

The New Hampshire, Vol. 88, No. 24 (Dec. 9, 1997), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire.

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The Bg News December 9, 1997, Bowling Green State University Dec 1997

The Bg News December 9, 1997, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 9, 1997. Volume 80-Issue 70.

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Illinois State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Materials, December 09, 1997, Board Of Trustees Dec 1997

Illinois State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Materials, December 09, 1997, Board Of Trustees

Illinois State University Board of Trustees (1995-2013)

Minutes, reports, and action items relating to the December 9, 1997 meeting of the Illinois State University Board of Trustees.

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The Daily Egyptian, December 08, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 1997

The Daily Egyptian, December 08, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1997

No abstract provided.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 022, Number 19, December 8, 1997, Grand Valley State University Dec 1997

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 022, Number 19, December 8, 1997, Grand Valley State University

1997-1998, Volume 22

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Spartan Daily, December 8, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 1997

Spartan Daily, December 8, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 109, Issue 67

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Vcu Voice (1997-12-08) Dec 1997

Vcu Voice (1997-12-08)

VCU Voice, 1988-1998

VCU Today, the University’s first official administrative organ, began as a somewhat irregular monthly publication but moved to a bi-weekly newspaper format in the 1980s. The newspaper changed its name to VCU Voice in 1988 and ten years later it appeared under the title UniverCity News. As it neared the end of its run as a physical newspaper, the publication became simply VCU News. These four publications were essentially the same periodical published under different titles by the Office of University Relations. VCU News appeared online for the first time in 2002.

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Current, December 08, 1997, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Dec 1997

Current, December 08, 1997, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (1990s)

No abstract provided.

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Columbia Chronicle (12/08/1997), Columbia College Chicago Dec 1997

Columbia Chronicle (12/08/1997), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from December 8, 1997 entitled The Chronicle of Columbia College Chicago. This issue is 16 pages and is listed as Volume XXXI, Number 11. Cover story: "Movie theaters open on South, West sides" Editor in Chief: Merma Ayi

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The Statesman, V. 41, I. 25, State University Of New York At Stony Brook Dec 1997

The Statesman, V. 41, I. 25, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 41, i. 25

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Timber Harvest Industry. Discharges And Releases Into Watercourses. Dec 1997

Timber Harvest Industry. Discharges And Releases Into Watercourses.

Initiatives

TIMBER HARVEST INDUSTRY. DISCHARGES AND RELEASES INTO WATERCOURSES. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Restricts discharge or release of material harmful to fish or water by industrial timber operators on commercial or federal timberland. Permits Attorney General, district attorneys, specified local government officers, or private persons to bring civil enforcement actions in court; remedies for violations include injunctions and fines. Places burden on defendants to prove compliance with applicable law. Imposes reporting duty upon designated government employees and registered foresters who become aware of violations; establishes criminal penalties for nondisclosure. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on …

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