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Lake Mead National Recreation Area Monitoring And Evaluation Of Sensitive Wildlife: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2009, Margaret N. Rees

Wildlife Monitoring

Project 1. Relict Leopard Frog Monitoring, Management, and Research

• All milestones and deliverables are on schedule
• Fall surveys at all sites have been completed
• Mark-recapture surveys scheduled for fall were completed
• Short-term habitat improvements at two sites were conducted
• RLFCT meeting was hosted
• Draft annual report was written and presented at the RLFCT meeting

Project 2. Bald Eagle Winter Monitoring and Evaluation

• All milestones and deliverables are on schedule
• An annual project review presentation was given to Clark County
• A draft final report was written and submitted to Clark County
• All data for this project was transferred to the County …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 25, 2009, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 25, 2009, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Targeted Reform Of Commercialized Intercollegiate Athletics, Matt Mitten, Jim Musselman, Bruce Burton

Matt Mitten

This article observes that American society’s passion for intercollegiate sports competition is an extremely powerful, naturally evolved cultural force. The marketplace responds to cultural forces, and the commercialization of college sports directly reflects the marketplace realities of our society. For example, colleges and universities rationally utilize their intercollegiate athletic programs, particularly NCAA Division 1 FBS football and basketball, as a means to achieve a wide range of legitimate objectives of higher education. Thus, the authors advocate that university athletic department revenues should continue to be exempt from federal taxation, specifically the unrelated business income tax (UBIT), despite the increasingly commercialized …

State V. Oakley, Deadbeat Dads, And American Poverty, David R. Papke

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.

State V. Branigh Clerk's Record V. 3 Dckt. 36427

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Somali Piracy-Underlying Causes And New Challenges To International Law And World Order, Ademun Ademun-Odeke

Ademun Ademun-Odeke

No abstract provided.

Maine Campus December 7th 2009, Maine Campus Staff

Maine Campus Archives

No abstract provided.

The Bison, December 4, 2009

The Bison

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, December 3, 2009

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Mustang Daily, December 2, 2009

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

The Bg News December 2, 2009, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper December 2, 2009. Volume 100 - Issue 66

"Sex, Magic And Murder" -- A Selection From Travels With Tooy: History, Memory, And The African American Imagination, Richard Price

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Lawyer - Winter 2009, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

• Justice Doesn’t Retire: Sandra Day O'Connor Headlines National Conference Exploring Judicial Independence
• Study by the Midnight Sun: Study in Alaska Program Provides Unique view of State's Legal System
• Where his Heart is: Sean Parnell is Law School's First Governor
• On the Hill: Graduates Share Top-Secret Work and Friendship

Cloned Meat, Voluntary Food Labeling, And Organic Oreos, Donna M. Byrne

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “In December 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had reviewed all the available evidence and was poised to approve meat and milk from cloned animals and their progeny. I remember telling one of my colleagues, a patent law professor, who should be as comfortable with technology as anyone, about this development, and his response was, “Yuck. I’m not eating it!” To which of course I replied, “Humph. You won’t know the difference.” Meat or milk from a clone or its descendant is virtually identical to meat or milk from a non-clone, said the FDA, as …

The Effectiveness Of Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) Within Civil Society, Dyann Brown

International Studies Masters

As the number of NGOs increase, there is concern that their quantity could dilute the cachet of the NGO status- sought by non-profits-- and overburden the United Nations' selection and follow-up review process now conducted every four years. Does the current UN evaluation method used to confer NGO status and conduct review convey an NGO's effectiveness? This paper supports the view that the current evaluation by the UN does not convey effectiveness and needs revamping. Without more timely and rigorous UN evaluations or revised checks and balances, NGOs may suffer the fate of "no confidence" of their supporters, beneficiaries and …

Fire History And Current Stand Structure Analysis Of A Midwestern Black Oak Sand Savanna, Cody Douglas Considine

Theses

Management and restoration of black oak dominated sand savannas often rely on historic vegetative descriptions (settler accounts, surveyor notes, aerial photographs). It is commonly assumed that fire alone maintains savanna structure and composition, however little information is known about the specific fire frequency needed to maintain these systems. The objective of this study was to quantify and correlate characteristics of stand structure with fire history of the Kankakee Sands savannas in northeastern Illinois. Fire history chronologies were determined through dendrochronological methods from 289 dated fire scars identified on 58 black oak (Quercus velutina) trees located throughout four wooded sites. Tree …

Economic Foundations Of The Law Of The Sea, Alan O. Sykes, Eric A. Posner

Coase-Sandor Working Paper Series in Law and Economics

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has a plausible economic logic. Jurisdiction over portions of the ocean is assigned to states which can regulate them most cheaply and value them the most. These jurisdictional rights are subject to limits that reflect the interests of other states in navigation and other uses of the seas. For the vast areas of the ocean that no state can regulate, the Convention provides for an open access regime subject to simple rules, mostly self-enforcing, to limit conflict over resources.

Integrated Water Law: Local To International, Margaret J. Vick

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Dissertations

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART I: WATER ALLOCATION: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL

CHAPTER 1: LOCAL WATER LAW

CHAPTER TWO: INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW

COMPARISON OF RESTATEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL FACTORS FOR REASONABLE USE

CHAPTER 3: THE VERMEJO RIVER

CHAPTER 4 WATER LAWS: ENTITLEMENTS, RIGHTS, DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES

CONCLUSION TO PART I

PART II: NEGOTIATING WATERCOURSE ENTITLEMENTS

CHAPTER FIVE: WATERCOURSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE DIFFERENT

CHAPTER SIX: THE ROLE OF LAW

An Entity Sui Generis In The Wto: Taiwan's Wto Membership And Its Trade Law Regime, Han-Wei Liu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

As one of the founding members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Taiwan (the Republic of China or ROC) - the 17th largest economy, was granted accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 after its observer status of eleven years. Taiwan, classified by most commentators as an "unrecognized state" or an "entity sui generis", has been excluded from most of the major international organizations. Taiwan's accession to the WTO, therefore, is considered to be an important breakthrough in diplomacy for the past decades. Notwithstanding its WTO membership, the Taiwanese Government has employed numerous trade …

Utah Boat Ownership And Boat Owner Management Preferences: Twelve Years Of Data, William Spain, Douglas Reiter, Steven W. Burr

All Current Publications

In 2006, researchers at Utah State University’s Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (IORT) conducted a telephone survey of a random sample of 397 registered boat owners in the state of Utah.

Home Range Characteristics Of The Male Eastern Wild Turkey In West Virginia, Steven E. Rauch

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

Extensive research has been conducted on the eastern wild turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) in West Virginia, but research on male wild turkey home range characteristics is lacking. To address this, I proposed to quantify home range shape by the use of eccentricity (E: circle is E = 1) and to estimate the least-squares cross validation fixed-kernel 95% and 50% utilization distribution (UD) annual and 95% UD seasonal home range as well as minimum convex polygon (MCP) home range estimate of male wild turkey on 2 study areas in West Virginia. I estimated the home range size of adult and …

Population Ecology, Residents' Attitudes, Hunter Success, Economic Impact, Modeling Management Options And Retention Time Of Telazol Of West Virginia Black Bears, Christopher W. Ryan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

The West Virginia Black Bear Research Project (WVBBRP) was initiated in 1972 to investigate population parameters, growth rates, home ranges, and habitat uses of a declining American black bear (Ursus americanus ) population. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) continued to monitor the black bear population and increased monitoring efforts and sample sizes in the 1990's as the black bear population increased in size and expanded its range. As part of the WVBBRP, we investigated black bear population ecology. Our objectives were to estimate reproductive rates, estimate survival and cause-specific mortality rates, examine effects of special hunting seasons …

Midnight Deregulation, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

Research has revealed a significant increase in regulatory activity in the last quarter of the final year of U.S. presidential administrations, with a great deal of regulatory activity occurring in the period between the election and the inauguration of the new president. Despite the expressed intent to minimize midnight regulation, the volume of regulatory activity at the end of the administration of George W. Bush spiked in a magnitude similar to that of other recent transitions. There was, however a difference. While the end of the administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton exhibited the issuance of new regulations that …

Neo-Orthodoxy In Academic Freedom, J. Peter Byrne

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This review essay analyzes two recent books that advance neo-orthodox theories of academic freedom: Matthew Finkin and Robert Post, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom, and Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time. Both books develop principles articulated in the American Association of University Professors 1915 Declaration, which emphasize the role of faculty in advancing knowledge and the need to insulate professional evaluation of academic work from lay, political interference. This review essay defends the return to protection of the scholarly search for truth as the touchstone of academic freedom, offers critiques of the authors’ …

Outdoor Recreation Participation And Availability Across Utah’S Seven Planning Districts, Douglas Reiter, Steven Burr

All Current Publications

In order to be eligible to receive matching grant funding for outdoor recreation improvements and development from the federal government through the Land and Water Conservation Fund, each state is required to produce a State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) every five years.

Cross-Strait Agreements: 1990-2009, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook Of International Law And Affairs, Vol. 27, Pasha L. Hsieh

Pasha L. HSIEH

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, November 30, 2009

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Participation And Model-Building: Lessons Learned From The Bukittinggi Workshop, Jerome K. Vanclay, Mandy Haggith, Carol J. Pierce Colfer

Professor Jerome K Vanclay

FLORES (the Forest Land Oriented Resource Envisioning System) was initially constructed by 50 people during a multidisciplinary workshop in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, in 1999. It proved that a model of a complex system could be constructed in a participatory way by a diverse team; that it could be done with a graphically-based package such as Simile; and that the resulting model could remain reasonably accessible to all participants, and could run on an ordinary notebook computer. Many useful insights can be gained through building such a model, and subsequent experience has demonstrated that modelling in this way can foster continuing interdisciplinary …

Multi-Agent Simulation Of Alternative Scenarios Of Collaborative Forest Management, Herry Purnomo, Yurdi Yasmi, Ravi Prabhu, Linda Yuliani, Hari Priyadi, Jerome K. Vanclay

Professor Jerome K Vanclay

International calls for sustainable development advocate that forest management should be carried out in a multi-stakeholder environment. The importance of community participation is acknowledged in theIndonesian Act No. 41 on Forestry (1999). However, it is not clear how to achieve this in areas already allocated to a concession holder. Current regulations offer little flexibility for concessionaires to develop site-specific management, or to involve local communities in forest management. The research reported here examines the application of simulation techniques to explore scenarios of sustainable forest management addressing those limitations. Several scenarios have been developed using multi-agent simulation to examine social and …

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2009-11-20, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the Wooster Voice was published on November 20 of 2009, and it is eight pages long. The local law enforcements have been noticing an increase in illegal drug abuse around Wooster and all of Ohio. Over winter break Lowry Center will be receiving a small facelift in which a new coffee show/convenience store will be built. Three hockey field goals were damaged on the evening of November 14, two of the three are not able to be fixed. Madelyn Halstead writes on the unhealthiness of the food sold at Mom's on page three. The article that heads …