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Of Manatees, Mangroves, And The Mississippi River: Is There An Estuarine Signature For The Gulf Of Mexico?, R. Eugene Turner

Faculty Publications

Important parameters of estuarine variability include morphology, flushing times, nutrient loading rates, and wetland: water ratios. This variability both reflects and disguises underlying relationships between the physics and biology of estuaries, which this comparative analysis seeks to reveal, using the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) estuaries as a starting point. A question used to focus this analysis is: are the GOM estuaries unique? The GOM receives the Mississippi River, a uniquely large, world-class river, which dominates the freshwater and nutrient inflows to the GOM continental shelf, whose margins include 35 major estuarine systems. These GOM estuaries have 28% and 41% of …

Aprd2001, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From April 2001 Robert Kelly Archive.

Aprb2001, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From April 2001 Robert Kelly Archive.

Protectionism Or Environmental Activism? The Wto As A Means Of Reconciling The Conflict Between Global Free Trade And The Environment, Katie A. Lane

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Norms And National Security: The Wto As A Catalyst For Inquiry, Ryan Goodman

Chicago Journal of International Law

In this brief essay, I argue that, in principle, the United States' position involves a wholly legitimate definition of "security interests" and that the US stance, rather than representing a retreat from international legal norms, reflects and contributes to them. In making this claim, I rely on the legal and social history following World War II that has integrated into the concept of security interests a concern for human rights conditions in other countries. Based on this history, I submit that the US invocation of the particular defense-that another state's severe mistreatment of its citizens threatens US security interests-accords with …

Raced Histories, Mother Friendships, And The Power Of Care: Conversations With Women In Project Head Start, Lucie E. White

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article seeks to disrupt the polarized debate about care that is taking shape among feminist scholars. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with low-income wo- men in a South Central Los Angeles Head Start program, White sets forth a conception of care that is grounded in historical practices within African American communities for confronting race and gender violence, affirming each person's dignity and potential, and promoting social justice.

Unraveling Privilege: Workers' Children And The Hidden Cost Of Paid Childcare, Mary Romero

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this Article, Romero argues that individual solutions to the problem of childcare in the United States results in hidden costs of paid reproductive labor that is transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies. Without a nationally funded childcare program that provides services for all families, regardless of economic means or citizenship status, employers are unwilling to pay a living wage and benefits to workers. Socially appropriate mothering prescribed by childcare experts, advocates child-centered, emotionally demanding, labor-intensive, and financially draining methods. The substitute mothering that is currently purchased by hiring domestics and nannies transfers the more physical …

2001 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Return Of The Standard Of Civilization, David P. Fidler

Chicago Journal of International Law

My argument proceeds in four parts. First, I look at the old SOC and the role it played in international law in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This embarrassing piece of international legal history has been forgotten or has remained obscure to many students of international law in the second half of the 20th century. The SOC is, however, a critical protagonist in the universal expansion of international law as part of the development of Westphalian civilization. Second, I explore the evidence that the SOC has returned to shape international law today. The evidence comes in many forms, but …

Nebraska Blueprint - Spring 2001

Nebraska Blueprint (Student Publication)

Table of Contents:

From the Editor
Students uncover the secrets of the Magic Kingdom
Student Life on the Sixth Floor
Celebrating National Engineers Week at PKI
NSBE lights its torch at UNL
Undergraduates benefit from conducting research
Postcard from Paris
Out of the starting blocks

Playing God: An Essay On Law, Philosophy, And American Capital Punishment, Samuel J. Levine

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Limitations On Assumption And Assignment Of Executory Contracts By Applicable Law, Theresa J. Radwan Pulley

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Research And Accountability: The Need For Uniform Regulation Of International Pharmaceutical Drug Testing, Dawn Joyce Miller

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Forage News [2001-04], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Sign Up Now for 2001 Spring Kentucky Grazing School
• Clover Selection Guidelines
• Alfalfa Seedings up in 2000
• Roundup Ready Alfalfa-A Progress Report
• Distance Cattle Travel to Water Affects Pasture Utilization Rate
• Hybrid Alfalfa Promoted in Popular Press
• Disk vs. Sicklebar Mowers
• Controlled Grazing
• Upcoming Events

Is Use Of The V-Chip In The Public Schools An Exercise Of Government-Sponsored Censorship?, Jenean M. Klein

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Compound Drc-1339 Concentrate-Livestock, Nest, And Fodder Depredations (Epa Reg. No. 56228-29)

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

DRC-1339 is an avicide registered by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's (APHIS) Wildlife Services (WS) program for the control of blackbirds, starlings, pigeons, crows, ravens, magpies, and gulls. Only certified applicators working for WS, or persons under their direct supervision, can apply this avicide. APHIS/WS has five DRC-1339 products registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use for bird problems that cannot be resolved by other commercially available products. The Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate- Livestock, Nest, and Fodder Depredations registration (1 339-COR) provides for the use of egg or meat baits to control damage to livestock, wildlife …

Egg Oil: An Avian Population Control Tool

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's Wildlife Services (WS) program uses many methods to manage populations of gulls, waterfowl, and other birds in areas where they create problems. Methods include trapping and relocation, surgical sterilization, mechanical scare devices, repellents, and hunting. However, these methods, and others that reduce or prevent eggs from hatching-such as shaking, freezing, addling, nest destruction, and egg removal-are labor intensive and may not be effective in operational programs.

The application of various oils (of mineral and vegetable origin) to eggs during the nesting season to prevent hatching is less labor intensive. In addition, this method …

Faculty, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

• Searching out The Mystery of Courage
• Un-blurring the borders between judicial and policy debate
• Professorships honor distinguished faculty

Treading The Thin Blue Line: Military Special-Operations Trained Police Swat Teams And The Constitution, Karan R. Singh

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The increasing use of SWAT teams and paramilitary force by local law enforcement has been the focus of a growing concern regarding the heavy-handed exercise of police power. Critics question the constitutionality of joint-training between the military and civilian police, as well as the Fourth Amendment considerations raised by SWAT tactics. This Note examines the history, mission, and continuing need for police SWAT teams, addressing the constitutional issues raised concerning training and tactics. It explains how SWAT joint-training with the military is authorized by federal law and concludes that SWAT tactics are constitutionally acceptable in a majority of situations. Though …

Managing Bison To Restore Biodiversity, Joe C. Truett, Michael Phillips, Kyran Kunkel, Russell Miller

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

Prior to their demise in the late 1800s, bison coexisted with and helped sustain a diverse and spectacular assemblage of animals and plant communities on the Great Plains. Bison, in concert with fire, exerted strong control on the structure of the vegetation by grazing, trampling, and wallowing. The changes in the vegetation induced changes in many animal populations. These impacts, coupled with the bison's role as the major converter of grass to meat, so greatly affected other species that some have called bison a "keystone" species in the Great Plains ecosystem. The black-tailed prairie dog, dependent on bison grazing over …

Nutrient Composition Of Grass- And Grain-Finished Bison, Martin Marchello

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

The North American buffalo (Bison bison) has survived near extinction to become a commodity (meat, hides, and hair) in a consumer-driven market. Since this is a growth industry, primarily young bulls are slaughtered for meat, while most females are used to build the herd. Bison meat is highly palatable, and previous research showed that grain-finished bison meat is low in fat and high in protein. However, bison may be grain- or grass-finished. In this study we found few differences in nutrient content of the meat between grain- or grass-finished bison. Grass-finished animals had a little more moisture (75.9 …

Carbon And Nitrogen Isotopes In Archeological Bison Remains As Indicators Of Paleoenvironmental Change In Southern Alberta, Jeremy J. Leyden, Gerald Oetelaar

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

Between 1995 and 1997, archeological excavations in northwest Calgary, Alberta, uncovered cultural materials from several occupations dating back 8,500 years. Samples of bison bone recovered at the sites were chemically prepared and analyzed for isotopic ratios. Using the resultant carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios, we reconstructed the diet of bison from four different cultural occupations spanning the last 8,500 years. Based on current and established models of bison subsistence behavior, this dietary information was used to infer large-scale environmental changes during this time interval in our study area. The inferred changes in vegetation and climate were compared with paleoenvironmental reconstructions …

Review Of The Destruction Of The Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 By Andrew C. Isenberg, William A. Dobak

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The transformation of the Great Plains through the introduction of new plants and animals and the restriction or near-eradication of native species is one of the great environmental events of the past two hundred years. In The Destruction of the Bison, Andrew C. Isenberg describes the nineteenth-century decline and near-extinction of one species and early twentieth-century attempts to regenerate and reintroduce it to its former habitat. Isenberg deals with cultural, ecological, and economic factors, stressing the "volatile" nature of the Plains and declaring that "the destruction of the bison was not merely the result of human agency, but the …

Bison: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Great Plains, An Introduction, Kenneth J. Winkle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Throughout history, bison have exerted a fundamental influence on life and culture on the Great Plains, as both an ever-present reality and an enduring symbol. When planning the Center for Great Plains Studies' Interdisciplinary Symposium for the spring of 2000, Charlene Porsild, now with the Montana Historical Society, and I wanted to choose a topic with relevance that spanned the millennia, and so we selected the bison. Three years in planning, "Bison: The Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains" brought over five hundred people to discuss, debate, analyze, and celebrate the bison as perhaps the premier symbol of …

Title And Contents- Spring 2001

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 21/ Number 2 / Spring 2001

CONTENTS

BISON: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE GREAT PLAINS AN INTRODUCTION Kenneth Winkle

THE FIRST PHASE OF DESTRUCTION: KILLING THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BUFFALO, 1790-1840 Pekka Hamalainen

"THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT" AND BEYOND: PLAINS SIOUX ECONOMIC STRATEGIES IN THE EARLY RESERVATION PERIOD Jeffrey Ostler

"WHEN WE WERE FIRST PAID": THE BLACKFOOT TREATY, THE WESTERN TRIBES, AND THE CREATION OF THE COMMON HUNTING GROUND, 1855 William E. Farr

REVIEW ESSAY: THE GREAT PLATTE RIVER ROAD ARCHWAY MONUMENT Susan Wunder and John Wunder

BOOK REVIEWS

Andrew C. Isenberg The Destruction of …

"When We Were First Paid" The Blackfoot Treaty, The Western Tribes, And The Creation Of The Common Hunting Ground, 1855, William E. Farr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In mid-October of 1855, Blackfoot Treaty commissioner Isaac 1. Stevens, governor of Washington Territory and ex-officio its superintendent of Indian Affairs, and his co-commissioner Colonel Alfred Cumming, head of the Central Superintendency including Nebraska Territory, finally assembled the Blackfoot Peace Council just below the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers. The federal government through the Office of Indian Affairs by then had already pieced together a new reservation policy for the West. This "new order of things," largely designed by Commissioner of Indian Affairs George Manypenny, hoped to reduce white conflicts with Indians, to prevent, if possible, expensive military …

Review Of The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology And Animal Kinship By Howard L. Harrod, Christopher Vecsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Over the past several decades Howard Harrod-Oberlin Alumni Professor of Social Ethics and Sociology at Vanderbilt University- has published widely and well regarding the religious history of Great Plains Indians. His latest work examines what he calls "'sacred ecology' ... the sensibility, evident in North Plains cultures, that the world was constituted by powers that took the form of Persons. In hunting cultures, these Persons often appeared in animal form." A non-Indian (indeed, a non-hunter), Harrod has written his book because he thinks that these Native Americans have valuable insights for us all in "reimagining our relationships with the nonhuman …

The First Phase Of Destruction Killing The Southern Plains Buffalo, 1790-1840, Pekka Hamalainen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The eradication of the vast bison herds from the North American Great Plains is one of the oldest topics in western history and, recently, also one of the most popular. Drawing ideas and methodologies from ecology and zoology, historians have revealed in the 1990s an entirely new anatomy of the destruction. According to the new interpretation, the great slaughter of the 1870s merely delivered a clinching blow to herds that had already been weakened in a number of ways. Concentrating on the Southern Plains, Dan Flores has concluded that large-scale dying may have begun as early as 1840, when a …

"The Last Buffalo Hunt" And Beyond Plains Sioux Economic Strategies In The Early Reservation Period, Jeffrey Ostler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Sometime in late May 1882, several thousand bison appeared on the Great Sioux reservation about 100 miles west of the Standing Rock Indian agency (see Fig. O. According to James McLaughlin, the Standing Rock agent, the Indians knew "instinctively" that the buffalo had arrived, even though "it had been many years since the buffalo had sought the hunting-grounds of that part of the reservation." With this "rich store of succulent meat in sight," McLaughlin continued, "it was not possible that the Indians could be held in check." On 10 June, over 600 Standing Rock Lakota and Yanktonais left the agency. …

The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, Susan Wunder, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The summer of 2000 marked the grand opening of the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument just east of Kearney, Nebraska, on Interstate 80. Costing approximately $60 million the site features exhibits on the history of the American West in the first and only "museum" to straddle an interstate highway. At the 16 July grand opening, former Nebraska Governor Frank Morrison, a spry ninety-five years, reminisced before an audience of over six hundred, including both of Nebraska's US senators and its current governor, about having realized his dream of honoring the nation's westward movement.

Coverage of the event in the …