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Wetland Resources Of Eastern South Dakota, Rex R. Johnson, Kenneth F. Higgins

Natural Resource Management Faculty Books

The mere mention of the word "wetland" in coffee shops and other gathering places on the prairies today brings out emotions and opinions that run the gamut from saving them all to draining them all. To some people, what we do with wetlands has been, and still is, a personal choice, a matter of exercising individual rights on private property. To others, wetlands are community resources that provide values that touch all of society. They contend that what is done to and about wetlands is a community decision regardless of ownership. Herein lies the controversy we have experienced over wetlands …

Metropolitan Growth And The Local Role In Surface Water Resource Protection In The Lake Erie Basin, Wendy A. Kellogg

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Local governments can play an important role in protecting surface water resources through their compliance with federal and state regulations and through their own land use planning and management practices. Despite 30 years of water quality initiatives in the Lake Erie basin, nonpoint source runoff from urban and urbanizing lands remains a problem. Loss of riparian corridor integrity is increasing as urban areas in the Lake Erie basin experience areal growth. The use and management of land, predominantly a local responsibility, directly affects surface water resources. The role that local governments play in protecting surface water resources was studied in …

Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata) Restoration In Altered Sage Grouse (Centrocercus Urophasianus) Habitat Of The Yakima Training Center In Central Washington, Margaret Ann Pounds

All Master's Theses

The restoration of sagebrush at the Yakima Training Center was studied because it was determined that military training was altering the condition of sage grouse habitat, potentially having a negative impact on the sage grouse population of the installation. The management of sage grouse and its habitat on YTC are a priority for the U.S. Army. The objectives of this study were to identify the issues relevant to sage grouse and the restoration of its habitat on the training facility, to investigate sagebrush restoration techniques, and to make management recommendations based upon this study. Results of this study indicate that …

Ventilation Rates For Carassius Auratus During Changes In Dissolved Oxygen, Collin Nolan

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This experiment was designed to determine whether dissolved oxygen concentrations would influence the ventilation rate of goldfish, Carassius auratus. Ventilation rate can be determined by counting opercular movements. Opercular movements of the same five goldfish were counted at three different levels of dissolved oxygen to determine whether there were differences in ventilation rates. Average ventilation rates were established for each of the three levels of dissolved oxygen and compared statistically. There were significant differences in the ventilation rates averages at each of the three levels. Carassius auratus will exhibit changes in ventilation rates when dissolved oxygen levels change.

Evaluation Of Constructed Wetlands For The Waste Management Of A Large Scale Swine Production Unit, Robert Sutton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The effectiveness of using constructed wetlands to remove unwanted nutrients, increase dissolved oxygen while at the same time decreasing the biological oxygen demand, and to reduce the levels of the Fecal Coliform Bacteria from a swine operation was evaluated. The indicator of proper waste purification will be the result of testing for the following: ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, total phosphorus, total suspended solids, dissolved solids, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand, and Fecal Coliform Bacteria. The wetland was divided into nine connected cells that covered approximately 3.8 hectares. Material was loaded from an anaerobic holding lagoon on four separate occasions during …

The Use Of Bauxite Residue As A Soil Amendment In The Peel-Harvey Coastal Plain Catchment - Report On Results Of 1995 Environmental Monitoring Program, Mark Rivers

Natural resources published reports

This report was submitted in accordance with the recommendations of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) who have stated that a monitoring program shall be undertaken by Agriculture Western Australia within six months of the widespread use of bauxite residue as a soil amendment. Although this widespread use of bauxite residue has not yet formally commenced, pre-emptive monitoring has been undertaken in order to gain some understanding of the general environmental characteristics of the Peel-Harvey catchment and, in particular, the characteristics and quality of the water flowing through the catchment.

It represents the second annual report submitted to the EPA describing …

Diversity Of Arkansas Water Resources Research, Kenneth F. Steele

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

In order to understand, protect, and manage our water resources effectively knowledge is required from many diverse areas of science, engineering, economics, and sociology. These proceedings of the conference on the Diversity of Arkansas Water Resources Research reflect this need and demonstrate how researchers in the state are responding to water issues and problems in Arkansas. The papers in these proceedings are representative of the research in Arkansas, but are only a sample of the work being conducted by universities and government agencies in Arkansas. We are grateful that Arkansas has the expertise available to provide the information necessary to …

Review Of Planting The Future: Developing An Agriculture That Sustains Land And Community Edited By Elizabeth A. R. Bird, Gordon L. Bultena, And John C. Gardner, Charles A. Francis

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

Why should you care about agriculture? Planting the Future provides an eloquent description of the current state of this' most basic human endeavor so critical to survival. Based on a series of surveys and on-farm studies in the North Central and Western states, the book recognizes the bounty of our conventional agricultural industry. More importantly for the future, it details a series of critical problems in the environment, the distribution of economic benefits, and the social dislocation resulting from the consolidation of lands and heavy reliance on fossil fuels. Today's productivity and cheap food in the market have hidden expenses …

Bulletin 4329 - Environmental Hazards Of Farming In Western Australia, Greg Hamilton, Ian Foster, Philip M. Goulding

Bulletins 4000 -

This Bulletin is one of a series on crop establishment practices which minimise soil disturbance and improve stubble retention. In partnership with primary producers, Agriculture Western Australia 1s focussed on improved and profitable farming which conserves or improves the quality of the State's soil resources.

Agricultural land in Western Australia is naturally fragile and susceptible to degradation. Salinity and wind erosion are the most visible and significant forms of degradation, but all forms are present over large areas of agricultural land (House of Representatives Enquiry into Land Degradation in Western Australia, 1988).

The fragility of Western Australia's soils has been …

The Real Cost Of Beef: A Monetary Assessment Of The Environmental Degradation Caused By Beef Production, Carolyn Babcock

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The environmental degradation caused by beef production is severe. The current literature assesses the ecological damage, but falls short of assigning a per pound dollar amount to reflect the real cost of beef. In the United States, most of the environmental focus has been centered around the use of public lands for grazing and the grazing fee the government considers appropriate. The fee covers the maintenance of the grazing program, which includes maintenance of the actual land. This paper will concentrate on beef-related environmental degradation and select specific damage for monetary valuation.

Wildlife As Natural Enemies Of Crop Pests, Ron J. Johnson, James R. Brandle, Natalie Sunderman, Rebecca Fitzmaurice, Nancy A. Beecher, Ronald M. Case, Mary Dix, Linda J. Young, Mark O. Harrell, Robert J. Wright, Laurie Hodges

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

One asset of wildlife to landowners is the potential but understudied role of birds and other species as endemic natural enemies of crop pests. Enhancing such natural enemies as part of sustainable agricultural systems offers promise for maintaining agricultural competitiveness while providing wildlife habitat in intensively farmed areas. The University of Nebraska has established an agroforestry research team to address interdisciplinary questions and outreach associated with this topic. Included are studies of bird, mammal, and insect use of woody and herbaceous corridors and adjacent cropfields in east-central Nebraska. Uncultivated areas needed to sustain natural enemies of crop pests also provide …

Distance Education: Reaching The Masses, Thomas G. Barnes, Kim R. Gray

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

There are a variety of different distance learning technologies available to Extension educators including the use of compressed video on fiber optics, television courses, and satellite conferences and university courses. In this presentation we describe the use of satellite for presenting an introductory wildlife conservation course to advanced placement high school students in the commonwealth of Kentucky. The course was designed after the on-campus course: FOR 101: Introduction To Wildlife Conservation, and was offered for 3 semester hours of college credit. The course was developed as a cooperative venture by the University of Kentucky and The Kentucky Educational Television Station …

Expectations And Future Opportunities For Fish And Wildlife Extension Programs, Jack H. Berryman

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

The charge to the panel was really in the form of a question: What do customers and cooperators expect and what are the future opportunities for fish and wildlife extension programs?

It's a pretty risky subject. Each state is different; each has different problems and opportunities. And, most of the practitioners—those who know most about it— are here in this audience.

Pete Petoskey and Jim Miller have already presented some historical background and a perspective for the future. And, the fact of these workshops and a glance at the program is clear evidence of the progress being made. The professionalism, …

Balancing Split Appointments: A View From The Trenches, Margaret Brittingham

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

The following comments primarily address the extension/research split but many of them are also applicable to the extension/teaching split.

Who Are Our Clientele?, Robert D. Brown

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

The title of this session asks us to address what our clientele want, but I think we first need to address a more basic issue—who are our clientele, or at least who might they be in the future? We've given this a lot of thought in Texas in the past year or so, as we find that we have one of the most rapidly growing and changing states in the nation. In my position as department head in Texas, it is imperative that I be aware of those changes, and that I provide leadership as to how our extension program …

Public Issues Education In Natural Resources: Speaking As A Professional, Dave Cleaves, Paul Adams

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

One certainty these days is that public policy will continue to shape the future of forestry. We foresters seem to take what's served up, wishing we had more influence on the ingredients and how they are prepared. We need to assert more leadership in providing forestry knowledge to citizens and decision-makers. However, information delivery is not enough; we need to be involved in the process of policy as well as its content. Technical information and good science will not prevail on their own. We don't have to push a particular option to be effective. We can use our skills and …

Development Of A Forestry, Fish, And Wildlife Center, W. Daniel Edge, Edward Jensen, Nancy Boriack

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Public concerns for stewardship and conservation of biological diversity have caused a reduction in the timber supply in the Pacific Northwest on federal lands. This reduction in the availability of federal timber has resulted in an intensification of management activities on private forest lands. The reduced timber supply has also increased timber prices to the point that many nonindustrial private woodland owners, who previously were not interested in selling timber, have entered the market. This intensification of management activities on the private forest base has resulted in additional increased concerns for fish and wildlife species. Reliable and readily accessible information …

Fee-Fishing: Introduction And Marketing, Michael P. Masser

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Essential ingredients for a successful fee-fishing operation include: location, knowledge of clientele, facility design, providing services, advertising, and management of the fish. A fee-fishing operation is a business, a recreational people-oriented business, and not just a method to market fish.

Professional Society, State Agency, And Extension Partnerships Needed For Formal Continuing Education Of Wildlife Professionals, Brian K. Miller

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

While professionals readily desire continuing education programs to sharpen and update their skills, distractions, demanding schedules, lack of employer support, and expense often create barriers for regular continuing education attendance. Many professions such as accountants, pharmacists, and lawyers have a formal certification criteria which requires post-graduate testing to obtain certification and then participation in continuing education to maintain certification. The prestige of becoming a CPA, a licensed engineer, or a member of the bar carries an assurance of a certain level of competence and often translates into higher salaries for those who have achieved it. Therefore, there is a motivation …

Finding Your Song, John Munn

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Planet Earth is a magnificent mix of things that make "living" possible. Delicate mixtures of chemicals, minerals, gases, and waters bathe us. Earth is just the right distance from our sun to provide the energy, driving all the systems—necessary for life—as we know it. Some refer to this as the Great Balance of Life.

How well are these systems balanced, and what would it take for the Planet to lose its ability to create and sustain Life?

We are all aware of the long list of environmental problems facing us. We are also aware of the scientific uncertainties that make …

A Tax Incentive To Encourage Wildlife Management: The Texas Example, Charles W. Ramsey

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

A need for external incentives for private landowners to manage their lands for wildlife was identified and has been discussed for many years. As early as 1930, the Committee on Game Policy (Leopold Committee) stressed that incentives for private landowners were crucial to achieving public objectives in wildlife management on private land. Various forms of subsidies, regulations, and taxes have been proposed, tried, modified, perpetuated, or discarded. Incentives or disincentives commonly were directed to specific practices which impact wildlife.

Wildlife in Texas are dependent upon private lands for their existence. Over 90% of the land is privately owned and managed …

Interdisciplinary And Multidisciplinary Public Education By Combining Consensus-Based Planning And Environmental Analysis, Sherman Swanson, Robert Wilson

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

In extension, we educate people to improve their lives. In natural resources extension, we educate people to improve life. Resolving issues often does this. In natural resources extension we also resolve issues to educate people.
As educators we steer clear of some issues to avoid the hazards. We may refrain from choosing sides. When we choose sides, we often tarnish the perceived objectivity of our University. Yet issues provide the need for knowledge, the teachable moments, and the set and focus that translates knowledge exposure into learning. When issues involve common resources, shared or conflicting interests, complications from complex or …

Habitat Management Planning: Blending Commercial Forest Management And The Protection Of Forest Ecosystems, Including Their Wildlife Communities, James A. Rochelle

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

The purpose of a Habitat Management Plan is to use the best available science, within an adaptive framework, to provide habitat for a wide variety of native forest wildlife species while profitably managing private land for wood production. This process is currently under development by Weyerhaeuser Company in Washington State. The process starts with a Watershed Analysis conducted under the forest practices laws of the state. In this analysis, technical experts of the appropriate disciplines identify the causal mechanisms behind those processes (mass wasting, surface erosion, temperature regulation, etc.) which are related to fish habitat and water quality. With knowledge …

Sustainable Channel Catfish Farming: Low Management Production Through Modified Stocking And Feeding Practices, William A. Wurts, Forrest Wynne

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Sustainability has become the recent "buzz-word" in aquaculture and agriculture. As Claude Boyd indicated in San Diego (Aquaculture '95), aquaculture is not truly sustainable because aquaculture relies on external feed, chemical, and energy inputs. The United States Farm Bill of 1990 more narrowly defined the key components of sustainability as: maintaining profitability, supplying food and fiber needs, using non-renewable resources efficiently, enhancing renewable resources, and improving the quality of life in rural areas.

Development And Management Of Fishing Leases, Billy Higginbotham, Greg Clary

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

The popularity of developing sportfish leases is increasing rapidly in the South, much as development of hunting leases has done over the past three decades. This trend is occurring because an increasing number of: (1) landowners realize that their ponds and reservoirs are valuable resources capable of generating additional profits and (2) anglers desire a level of exclusivity not normally available on public waters. A sound economic evaluation of sportfish leasing opportunities is essential if landowners are to identify their most profitable alternatives. Net present value analysis is recommended as one method for evaluating compared profitability of selected investment and …

A Strategy To Reclaim Wetlands And Balance Biomass Lost To The Cooling Process Of A Nuclear Power Generating Station, Roger R. Locandro

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Restoration of 20,000 acres of historic wetlands and contiguous upland boundaries is part of a grand-scale estuary enhancement and recovery program, implemented in New Jersey and Delaware by the Public Service Energy and Gas Company (PSE&G). The project is providing a very positive and refreshing signal from the energy industry that wetlands stewardship and cooperation are alive and well.

Wet And Wild: Why Landowners Restore Wetlands, Jim Pease

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

In the past 10 years, many natural resource agencies and conservation organizations have been involved in wetland restoration. In Iowa alone, between the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP), the Emergency WRP (EWRP), and the Private Lands Program of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, over 60,000 acres of palustrine and riparian wetlands have been restored, mostly on private land. This has dramatically reversed 150 years of decline in wetland acres. Other states have similar stories. What motivates landowners to participate in such programs? We undertook an 18-state survey to try to answer the question.

A phone survey of 305 participants in these …

Importance Of Youth-A Challenge, Holly Davis

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

As I was looking through your program for the next few days, I noticed that several of the workshops had to do with the future—Perspectives on Natural Resources Extension for the 21st Century, A Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Programs, Extension Technologies for the 21st Century, and on and on. But it is our youth with whom we should focus. It's the young generations now that are going to be doctors, pilots of major airlines, presidents, UN Peacekeepers, but most important of all—keepers of our planet earth. Our future is going to be built …

Panel—What Are Cooperators' And Customers' Expectations Of Extension Wildlife And Fisheries Programs, And What Are The Future Opportunities? Perspectives From Usda-Aphis-Animal Damage Control, Bobby R. Acord

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

I am pleased that you have asked me to be part of this panel. The ADC program depends a great deal on Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Programs, and your success is very important to us. Thus, I am delighted to have the opportunity to discuss ADC's expectations and share our thoughts about the future. I should also point out that we in ADC are honored that you view us as a customer. Based on our experience, if you don't have a customer service focus, there is no future to worry about.

Fisheries And Wildlife Habitat Incentive Programs In Missouri: Partnerships In Land Stewardship, Robert A. Pierce Ii

Triennial National Wildlife and Fisheries Extension Specialists Conference: 8th (1996)

Fish and wildlife resources are highly valued by Missourians. Over 70% of Missouri residents annually participate in fisheries and wildlife activities. However, the future of fisheries and wildlife conservation depends to a large extent on the land-use decisions made by landowners, as approximately 93% of the state is under private ownership. These landowners have different motivations, circumstances, and land ownership objectives which govern their management decisions.

Educational programs which enable landowners to make informed decisions regarding the conservation of fish and wildlife are critical to land stewardship and resource sustainability. Although idealistic concepts, "stewardship" implies "care and responsible management" of …