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Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * November 2006, Volume 60, No. 10

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

• North American Bird Species Shown to be Susceptible to Avian Influenza

• Longleaf pine restoration gets huge boost from Conservation Reserve Program

• Controversy still stalking elk feedgrounds in Wyoming

• Predator/prey workshop to be held at North American Conference

• New book gets rave notice

• With dove vote, Michiganders shoot science-based wildlife management in the foot

• Geothermal energy issue still boiling at the Valles Caldera National Preserve

• 72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference registration

• Northeast states get positively proactive on State Wildlife Actions Plans

• Nominations sought for 2007 northern bobwhite …

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * October 2006, Volume 60, No. 10

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

• Hunting/conservation organizations line up to urge expanded use of Coop Units

• Suspected culprit identified in CWD transmission

• Prairie Grouse Management Plan making progress

• Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act is reauthorized

• Worth reading: The Final Frontiersman

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * September 2006, Volume 60, No. 9

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

Related meeting and function requests being accepted for 72nd North American Conference

Waterfowl gain reprieve from plan to expand oil and gas development in Alaska

Matt Dunfee to join WMI

Antis take a shot at the mourning dove hunting season in Michigan

McGraw Wildlife Foundation extends the Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow program

New CRP initiative in Prairie Pothole Region bodes well for ducks

Oil shale potential in the West rises once again

Workshop on aquatic nuisance species slated for North American Conference

Exhibiting at the 72nd North American Conference

U.S. citizens strongly back hunting and fishing

Worth reading: House …

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * August 2006, Volume 60, No. 8

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

New report reveals problems with Bison Range agreement

WMI's Distinguished Service Award gets distinguished namesake

Wyoming and feds still growling over wolf management

New twist in reauthorization of Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act

Worth reading: Marley & Me

Major Land Resource Areas Of Montana, Natural Resources Conservation Service

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Major Land Resource Areas 32, Northern Intermountain Desertic Basins 43A, Northern Rocky Mountains 43B, Central Rocky Mountains 44A, Northern Rocky Mountain Valleys 44B, Central Rocky Mountain Valleys 46, Northern Rocky Mountain Foothills 52, Brown Glaciated Plains 53A, Northern Dark Brown Glaciated Plains 54, Soft Shale Plains 58A, Northern Rolling Plains, Northern Part 58B, Northern Rolling Plains, Southern Part 58C, Northern Rolling Plains, Northeastern Part 58D, Northern Rolling Plains, Eastern Part 60A, Pierre Shale Plains and Badlands 60B, Pierre Shale Plains and Badlands, Northern Part

Blanding’S Turtle (Emydoidea Blandingii): A Technical Conservation Assessment, Justin D. Congdon, Douglas A. Keinath

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) are secure in Nebraska, and they range from being vulnerable to threatened, or endangered throughout most of the rest of their distribution. In Region 2, they have not been reported from Kansas, they are extremely rare in South Dakota, and they occupy wetlands in the northern half of Nebraska. The largest population known within the range of Blanding’s turtles is at Valentine National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska.

The core habitat of Blanding’s turtles has an aquatic component that consists of a permanent wetland and a suite of other, usually smaller and more temporary, wetlands such …

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * July 2006, Volume 60, No. 7

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

New refuge policies finally make it across the finish line

USDA creates NRCS Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center

NRCS assists woodcock restoration in the Northeast

More on 72nd Conference Special Sessions

Global warming is culprit in western forest fires?

ONB survey

Worth reading: Of Mice and Mountain Lions: The Adventures of a Wildlife Biologist

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * June 2006, Volume 60, No. 6

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

WMI value substantially increased by a Ruble

72nd Conference Special Sessions announced and prospective presenters invited

Thinking Like a Manager—A new WMI book

A louder, clearer come-back call for bobwhites

Nominations open for WMI's Touchstone and Presidents awards

Mapping the Platte River management plan

New publication reports on effectiveness of Farm Bill conservation programs

Recovering black-footed ferrets may get the shaft

Worth reading: The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine

On The Spatial Nature Of The Groundwater Pumping Externality, Nicholas Brozovic, David L. Sunding, David Zilberman

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Most existing economic analyses of optimal groundwater management use single-cell aquifer models, which assume that an aquifer responds uniformly and instantly to ground- water pumping. This paper demonstrates how spatially explicit aquifer response equations from the water resources engineering literature may be embedded in a general economic framework. Calibration of our theoretical model to published economic studies of spe- cific aquifers demonstrates that, by averaging basin drawdown across the entire resource, existing studies generally understate the magnitude of the groundwater pumping external- ity relative to spatially explicit models. For the aquifers studied, the drawdown predicted by single- cell models may …

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * May 2006, Volume 60, No. 5

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

Contents:

Maine towns to take responsibility for their conservation future

There is such a thing as too many elk in Rocky Mountain National Park

Gunnison sage-grouse dodges listing

Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units look to the Senate for help

Report calls for immediate, shared conservation actions across greater sage-grouse range

Worth reading

Invasive Species Definition Clarification And Guidance, Invasive Species Advisory Committee

National Invasive Species Council

Summary

Invasive species are those that are not native to the ecosystem under consideration and that cause or are likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human, animal, or plant health. Plant and animal species under domestication or cultivation and under human control are not invasive species. Furthermore for policy purposes, to be considered invasive, the negative impacts caused by a non-native species will be deemed to outweigh the beneficial effects it provides. Finally, a non-native species might be considered invasive in one region but not in another. Whether or not a species is considered an invasive …

Wmi Outdoor News Bulletin * April 2006, Volume 60, No. 4

Wildlife Management Institute Outdoor News Bulletin

New BLM office building to cut off critical pronghorn migration route

Three receive high honors

IP sale of almost 5.7 million acres is sign of the times

"Split estate" at issue across the West

Initiative becomes fish-or-cut-bait action plan

Worth Reading: Being Caribou

Effects Of Aphid (Homoptera) Abundance And Surrounding Vegetation On The Encounter Rate Of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) And Nabidae (Hemiptera) In Alfalfa., James R. Brandle

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Convective Line With Leading Stratiform Precipitation From Bamex, Brandom Storm, Matthew D. Parker, David P. Jorgensen

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

On 31 May 2003, a front-fed convective line with leading stratiform precipitation (FFLS) was observed during the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment (BAMEX). The high-resolution BAMEX measurements provided one of the first opportunities to thoroughly observe the characteristics of an FFLS system. The 31 May system had an overturning updraft during its early stages, and produced leading stratiform precipitation. As the system matured, a jump updraft developed and the system began to produce trailing stratiform precipitation. It appears that this transition was facilitated by a local decrease in the low-level line-perpendicular vertical wind shear over time, as well …

Severe Convective Wind Environments, Evan L. Kuchera, Matthew D. Parker

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Nontornadic thunderstorm winds from long-lived, widespread convective windstorms can have a tremendous impact on human lives and property. To examine environments that support damaging wind producing convection, sounding parameters from Rapid Update Cycle model analyses (at 3-hourly intervals) from 2003 were compared with 7055 reports of damaging winds and 377 081 occurrences of lightning. Ground- relative wind velocity was the most effective at discriminating between damaging and nondamaging wind convective environments. Steep surface-based lapse rates (a traditional damaging wind parameter) gener- ally did not discriminate between damaging and nondamaging wind convective environments. Other pa- rameters, such as convective available potential …

Trend Identification In Twentieth-Century U.S. Snowfall: The Challenges, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Michael A. Palecki, Kenneth G. Hubbard, David A. Robinson, Kelly T. Redmond, David R. Easterling

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

There is an increasing interest in examining long-term trends in measures of snow climatology. An examination of the U.S. daily snowfall records for 1900–2004 revealed numerous apparent inconsistencies. For example, long-term snowfall trends among neighboring lake-effect stations differ greatly from insignificant to +100% century -1.

Internal inconsistencies in the snow records, such as a lack of upward trends in maximum seasonal snow depth at stations with large upward trends in snowfall, point to inhomogeneities. Nationwide, the frequency of daily observations with a 10:1 snowfall-to-liquid-equivalent ratio declined from 30% in the 1930s to a current value of around 10%, a change …

A Hybrid, Markov Chain-Based Model For Daily Streamflow Generation At Multiple Catchment Sites, Jozsef Szilagyi, Gabor Balint, Andras Csik

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Assessing Stream-Aquifer Interactions Through Inverse Modeling Of Flow Routing, Jozsef Szilagyi, Marc B. Parlange, Gabor Balint

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Discussion Of "Estimation Of The Water Balance Using Observed Soil Water In The Nebraska Sandhills" By V. Sridhar And K.G. Hubbard, Jozsef Szilagyi

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Simulation Of The Superimposition Of Floods In The Upper Tisza Region, In "Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management", Jozsef Szilagyi, Gabor Balint, Andras Csik, Balazs Gauzer, Margit Horoszne Gulyas

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance And Top Management Fraud In Listed Companies: An Empirical Analysis Based On Chinese Cases, H. Zhou, J. Li, T. Liu

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Comment On "Using Numerical Modelling To Evaluate The Capillary Fringe Groundwater Ridging Hypothesis Of Streamflow Generation" By H. L. Cloke, M. G. Anderson, J. J. Mcdonnell, And J. P. Renaud, Jozsef Szilagyi

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Presettlement Vegetation And Fire Regimes With Current Patterns In Oak Woodlands And Shrublands Of Sw Oregon, Patricia S. Muir Dr., Paul Hosten Dr.

JFSP Research Project Reports

Fuel reduction efforts on BLM lands in southwestern Oregon are motivated by the need to reduce fire hazard and restore and rehabilitate ecosystems. Successful ecosystem restoration depends, in part, on understanding the target: what ecosystem model is considered natural and healthy for a given area? Oak (Quercus garryana) woodlands and shrublands are two of the most characteristic ecosystems in interior valleys of southwest Oregon, and extensive acreages within these systems are treated annually for fuel reduction. However, these are also two of the least understood ecosystems in the region. We know little about their presettlement attributes, responses to disturbance, or …

Optimal Management Of Groundwater Over Space And Time, Nicholas Brozovic, David L. Sunding, David Zilberman

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

For nearly half a century, groundwater has been portrayed in the economic literature as a typical common property resource. Numerous studies of groundwater extraction have analyzed the externalities imposed by users on each other. A large body of work offers clear prescriptions in the form of optimal policy instruments, and a similarly large body of work advocates the needlessness of any centralized intervention. Yet existing theoretical models of groundwater extraction implicitly make two strong assumptions about the underlying behavior of the resource. First, the spatial distribution of resource users is assumed to be irrelevant. Second, path-independence of the resource is …

An Internet Based Portal For Fire Science And Management In The Southern Region

JFSP Research Project Reports

Task 1 – Organize a technical advisory team and host an initial workshop to explore methods for integrating FRAMES, TTRS, and ESFS websites.

Task 2 – Identify and acquire data, tools, and publications from funded JFSP and NFP projects working with the JFSP and NFP project databases and principal investigators. Also, when possible identify and acquire data and tools used and created by others in the wildland fire community including state agencies, educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations.

Task 3 – Develop and post online FGDC metadata records for all datasets from funded JFSP and NFP projects as well as key …

Impacts Of Irrigation On 20th Century Temperature In The Northern Great Plains, Rezaul Mahmood

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Geoprofile Metadata, Exposure Of Instruments, And Measurement Bias In Climatic Record Revisited, Rezaul Mahmood

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.