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Reining In The Horse Racing Industry: A Proposal For Federal Regulation Of Steroid Use In Racehorses, Jennifer M. Jabroski

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Administrative Law In Regulating "Mad Cow Disease" As Explained In Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, Llc V. Department Of Agriculture, Courtney E. Ross

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: William B. Robertson, Jr., 1924-2000, Florida Field Naturalist

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Government-Sponsored Chaplains And Crisis: Walking The Fine Line In Disaster Response And Daily Life, 35 Hastings Const. L.Q. 505 (2008), Mary Jean Dolan

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

National Park Service Cd Workbook For Planning, And Specifications For Ecological Restoration, Wendell Hassell, Nancy Dunckle, David Steensen, Sarah Wynn

United States National Park Service: Publications

This is an introduction to a new restoration workbook. It is a guide for writing specifications for ecological restoration in the National Park Service (NPS).The NPS has unique policies, guidelines, and procedures that govern ecological restoration of parklands. The policy guidance in this restoration workbook is taken from those management documents. Standards and specifications must be modified frequently.

The purpose of this workbook is to assist NPS staff in planning, designing, writing scopes of services and construction specifications for ecological restoration. It is based on engineering standards and specifications, and past experiences from actual park projects.

Many NPS restoration projects …

Restoring Burned Area Fire Regimes At Zion National Park, Kelly Fuhrmann

United States National Park Service: Publications

The Kolob Fire is the largest wildfire in Zion National Park’s recorded history (10,516 acres in Zion and 17,632 acres total; Figure 1). In June 2006, this human-caused fire altered the landscape in Zion on a scale that was unprecedented (Figure 2). A major concern of the fire’s impact was the loss of native vegetation and its replacement by non-native invasive species. After the burned area emergency rehabilitation (BAER) assessment was completed, a focused effort by park staff was initiated to implement recommended BAER actions. In late October and early November 2006, an aerial herbicide and seed treatment using PLATEAU …

Managing To Give Nature A Chance, Jerry M. Mitchell

United States National Park Service: Publications

My task is to speak to managing to give nature a chance. The debate: to manage resources, or to leave nature alone. Philosophical debate? Maybe. For my agency (the National Park Service) this debate may strike at our deepest beliefs, our corporate creed, our organizational religion, per se.

If you see Jerry Frielich’s position as saying, “Don’t mess with Mother Nature,” or, as a puritan cleric might say, “Thou shalt not sin,” then I will take the posture of the fire-andbrimstone preacher. “But you have sinned. The earth is a mess, humans, and you are responsible. Look at all that …

Citizen Science: A Best Practices Manual And How It Can Be Applied, Susan Sachs, Paul E. Super, Michelle Prysby

United States National Park Service: Publications

These examples are all forms of “citizen science” happening at environmental education centers, National Park research learning centers, nature centers, and other non-formal education institutions. Citizen science is a research and education tool that involves everyday people in real and meaningful forms of science, including biological inventory, long-term monitoring, and investigative research. All of these examples demonstrate ways that these institutions are using citizen science as a tool for furthering their missions of educating the public about the environment, teaching people about the process of science, and connecting people to the natural world. They also demonstrate ways that citizens are …

Drawing A Line In The Tundra: Conservationists And The Mount Mckinley Park Road, Frank Norris

United States National Park Service: Publications

Today, Denali National Park and Preserve is one of the largest units in the national park system. The entire unit encompasses about 6.1 million acres, of which a little over threequarters (4.7 million acres) are national park, with the remainder being a national preserve, where sport hunting is allowed. About 425,000 people visited Denali in 2006. Most of them arrived at the park’s eastern entrance and boarded either a tour bus or shuttle bus and headed down the park road in search of one of the “big five” wildlife species that inhabit the area (mountain sheep, caribou, grizzly bear, moose, …

Beyond Hunting: Increasing Options For Effective Wildlife Management In The National Park System, Margaret A. Wild, Therese Johnson, Michael Mayer, Gary Johnston

United States National Park Service: Publications

The National Park Service (NPS) goal is to maintain natural processes (NPS Management Policies 2006, 4.4.2: “Whenever possible, natural processes will be relied upon to maintain native plant and animal species and influence natural fluctuations in populations of these species”). As mentioned, animal populations can be expected to fluctuate under natural conditions. Some would argue that animal overabundance in parks is just part of this natural fluctuation, and this may be the case in some situations. However, if a system is disturbed, flux may be greater—for example, when predators are removed and populations of prey are released from …

A Comparison Of Wildlife Management In Mid-Size Parks In South Africa And The United States, Daniel S. Licht, Rob Slotow, Joshua Millspaugh

United States National Park Service: Publications

In many parts of the world, national parks are the last remaining wild areas and the best hope for conserving native wildlife and natural processes. This is true in the United States and in South Africa, where both countries are viewed as leaders in wildlife conservation. However, both countries face similar threats and issues when attempting to conserve native grassland wildlife, especially large fauna. For example, many native grassland ungulates historically traveled great distances in response to changing environmental conditions, yet landscape fragmentation and societal concerns (e.g., impacts on cropland) now prevent largescale movements. Hence, parks in both countries often …

Grizzly Bear Density In Glacier National Park, Montana, Katherine C. Kendall, Jeffrey Stetz, David A. Roon, Lisette P. Waits, John Boulanger, David Paetkau

United States National Park Service: Publications

We present the first rigorous estimate of grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) population density and distribution in and around Glacier National Park (GNP), Montana, USA. We used genetic analysis to identify individual bears from hair samples collected via 2 concurrent sampling methods: 1) systematically distributed, baited, barbed-wire hair traps and 2) unbaited bear rub trees found along trails. We used Huggins closed mixture models in Program MARK to estimate total population size and developed a method to account for heterogeneity caused by unequal access to rub trees. We corrected our estimate for lack of geographic closure using a new …

Multiple Data Sources Improve Dna-Based Mark–Recapture Population Estimates Of Grizzly Bears, John Boulanger, Katherine C. Kendall, Jeffrey B. Stetz, David A. Roon, Lisette P. Waits, David Paetkau

United States National Park Service: Publications

A fundamental challenge to estimating population size with mark–recapture methods is heterogeneous capture probabilities and subsequent bias of population estimates. Confronting this problem usually requires substantial sampling effort that can be difficult to achieve for some species, such as carnivores. We developed a methodology that uses two data sources to deal with heterogeneity and applied this to DNA mark–recapture data from grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). We improved population estimates by incorporating additional DNA ‘‘captures’’ of grizzly bears obtained by collecting hair from unbaited bear rub trees concurrently with baited, grid-based, hair snag sampling. We consider a Lincoln-Petersen estimator …

Heritage Matters- January/February 2008, Brian D. Joyner

United States National Park Service: Publications

This Issue:

Paha Sapa: Ancestral Homeland of the Lakota

Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credits Help Rehabilitate Jackie Robinson Ballpark

Documenting the Pine Nut Harvest at Nellis Air Force Base

National Register Nominations

Celebrating Diversity: Arlington and Jamestown at 400

Rising Out of the Ashes: The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Continues Despite Devastating Fire

Colorado’s Lincoln Hills Resort and Historic Winks Lodge

Historic Resource Study: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Gail Evans-Hatch

United States National Park Service: Publications

As steward of many of the United States' most important cultural and natural resources, the National Park Service (NPS) is required to create background documents along with specific plans aimed at managing and protecting these resources for the enjoyment of present and future generations. An important aspect of managing cultural landscapes requires knowing the past of those landscapes. A historic resource study (HRS) project involves researching and presenting the history of a park. A HRS also attempts to identify and evaluate the importance of all cultural resources within that park. Researching and presenting the broader historical context of a park …

(2008) The Higher Power Of Lucky (2006) By Susan Patron, Peter Shea

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

Ten-year-old Lucky lost her mother in a freak accident; her father is missing, and she is being cared for by her father’s former girlfriend in a tiny town at the edge of the Mojave desert. That could be the set-up for a story of loss and poverty. But this girl lives up to her name: she takes scraps of information, chance experiences, and overheard theories as resources for imagining the world and plotting her way forward. She learns how things work from the desert animals and insects, with the help of her hero, Charles Darwin. She learns survival and a …

Volume 18, No. 4

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Bruning, Barbara and Barbara Weber. “Philosophizing with Children in Germany: People, Projects and Pursuits.” 6­-9.

Daniel, Marie­France. “Learning to Philosophize: Positive Impacts and Conditions for Implementation, A Synthesis of 10 Years of Research (1995­-2005).” 36­-48.

Dobashi, Takara & Eva Marsal. “Replication of a Philosophical Experiment Based on the Riddle of the Sphinx: A Comparison of the Anthropological Concepts of Japanese and German Primary School Children.” 10-­18.

Marsal, Eva. “Didactic Implementation of Ekkehard Martens’ Five Finger Model.” 19­22.

Martens, Ekkehard. “Can Animals Think? The Five Most Important Methods of Philosophizing with Children.” 32-­35.

Shea, Peter. “Thinking in Stories: Review of Richard …

“Rats And Weeds And Lizards—Oh My!” Eradication Of Rattus Rattus And Control Of Invasive Exotic Plants On Buck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, D. W. Clark, Z. Hillis-Starr, C. Furqueron

United States National Park Service: Publications

Once introduced to an island, non-native rodents can cause considerable damage to the native flora and fauna, including the endangerment of endemic species (Campbell 1989; Witmer et al. 1998). As a result, there have been numerous efforts in recent years to eradicate introduced rats (Rattus spp.) and house mice (Mus musculus) from islands around the world (e.g., Buckle and Fenn 1992; Howald et al. 1999; Billing and Harden 2000; Key and Hudson 2000). Problems caused by introduced roof rats (Rattus rattus) at Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, have been documented …

Pathos, Winter 2008, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Laura Pieroni

Issue 5

John Kirk Townsend: Collector Of Audubon's Western Birds And Mammals, By Barbara And Richard Mearns, George A. Jobanek

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

John Kirk Townsend: Collector Of Audubon's Western Birds And Mammals, By Robert Righter, Rich Levad, Coen Dexter, And Kim Potter, Ted Floyd

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

Extirpation Of The Willow Flycatcher From Yosemite National Park, Rodney B. Siegel, Robert L. Wilkerson, David F. Desante

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

Bird Voices Of Northern California: An Audio Guide To Bird Identification, By Ron Levalley And David Fix, Steve N. G. Howell

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

First Records Of The Brown Creeper Breeding Along The Middle Rio Grande, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David L. Hawksworth, Deborah M. Finch

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

Breeding Behavior And Dispersal Of Radio-Marked California Clapper Rails, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, John Y. Takekawa, Tobias Rohmer, Kenneth Navarre

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

Great Gray Owls Nesting In Fresno County, California, David E. Quady

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

An Apparent Hybrid Black × Eastern Phoebe From Colorado, Tony Leukering, David J. Krueper, Elaine Coley

Western Birds

No abstract provided.

36_1_Masthead.Pdf, Marine Ornithology

Marine Ornithology

No abstract provided.

Reproduction And Immune Homeostasis In A Long-Lived Seabird, The Nazca Booby (Sula Granti), Victor Apanius, Mark A. Westbrock, David J. Anderson

Ornithological Monographs

The evolution of longevity requires that the marginal investment in selfmaintenance at the expense of reproductive effort is favored by realizing a longer reproductive lifespan. This can occur when extrinsic mortality factors (weather, predators, etc.) are less important than intrinsic mortality factors, such as the physiological cost of reproduction. Long-lived pelagic seabirds have low annual reproductive output and prolonged offspring growth periods that are thought to have evolved to accommodate marine resource variability. The life-history theory of senescence predicts that these same taxa should minimize per diem reproductive costs and shift effects of resource variability to the offspring. To address …

36_2_Masthead.Pdf, Marine Ornithology

Marine Ornithology

No abstract provided.