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1981

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Direct Impact Of Forest Harvesting In Northeastern Minnesota, Philip L. Friest Jan 1981

Direct Impact Of Forest Harvesting In Northeastern Minnesota, Philip L. Friest

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Direct impact of harvesting operations is examined as one segment in a survey of interrelationships between elements of the primary forest products industry in northeastern Minnesota, an area known popularly as the Arrowhead Region. This study follows classifications used in collection of data for 1977 from seven Minnesota counties. Information is based largely on responses from companies involved. An Input-Output model was employed in the study for assessing expenditures by loggers for wage payments, purchase of timber stumpage, vehicles and equipment operation, financial services, and employee benefits (FICA, etc.). Comparisons of relative proportions of expenditures by loggers within the study …

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The Politics Of Pollution, Another Fallout Of Acid Rain, Cynthia L. Anderson Jan 1981

The Politics Of Pollution, Another Fallout Of Acid Rain, Cynthia L. Anderson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The threat of acid rain is a side effect of the switch to coal as a major fuel for producing energy in the United States. Despite the existence of technology to reduce the pollutants that cause acid rain, the emissions of sulfur and nitric oxides are likely to increase because among several factors of political resistance to regulatory controls. The politics of pollution pit energy production and economic growth against environmental quality. Developing a regulatory policy is further complicated by the difficulty of isolating specific environmental effects attributable to acid rain apart from natural causes within the ecosystem. The question …

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Duck Hunting In Mississippi River Pools: A Geographer's Assessment, Mark Schroeder Jan 1981

Duck Hunting In Mississippi River Pools: A Geographer's Assessment, Mark Schroeder

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Terrain, ducks, and hunters combine to provide an environment of land, water, and air space above that constitutes a great waterfowl hunting region along the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Black River and Wisconsin River and touching boundaries of three states -Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. The marshes of the floodplain have provided excellent waterfowl habitat, particularly since the 1930's when development of river navigation channels created pools of relatively consistent water level and land conditions. Many types of ducks, with canvasbacks especially numerous, utilize the region during annual migrations. Major highways offer access to the region for hunters, …

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Education As A Strategy In Foreign Policy Of The United States, Ghulam M. Haniff Jan 1981

Education As A Strategy In Foreign Policy Of The United States, Ghulam M. Haniff

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The role of international education as an element in the foreign policy strategy of the United States is examined from the end of World War II until the late sixties. It is hypothesized that education was used as a convenient device during the period of the Cold War for conducting international relations when the battle for men's minds was being fought by the superpowers. Data presented indicates that with the intensification of the Cold War, a greater interest was expressed in international educational projects. As an instrument of the United States foreign policy, education was conceived as a convenient format …

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Soil Quality And Agricultural Zoning: An Examination Of Conflicts, Darrell Napton Jan 1981

Soil Quality And Agricultural Zoning: An Examination Of Conflicts, Darrell Napton

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The most common method used by local governments, to prevent conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses is zoning. An identification of high quality soils may be the most crucial stage in the development of agricultural zoning ordinances. Common soil quality classifications are not adequate in this identification, largely because they do not take local conditions into account. When soil information is used to design zoning ordinances that can withstand litigation, several additional legal criteria must be fulfilled. Four Minnesota county zoning ordinances were examined to determine if soil quality was used as a zoning criterion. Only one of the counties …

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Consistent Forecasting For The 1980'S In State Iron Industry Development, Raymond L. Raab, Richard W. Lichty Jan 1981

Consistent Forecasting For The 1980'S In State Iron Industry Development, Raymond L. Raab, Richard W. Lichty

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A large-scale model, SIMLAB, was used to project the iron ore industry through the decade of the 1980's for the state of Minnesota. This forecast shows that past trends in the industry are unlikely to continue through 1990, although output is seen to increase slightly during this period. Future studies will deal with different development scenarios to estimate the impacts of alternate future assumptions from this baseline trend analysis.

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Property Tax Equity: A Study Of Bemidji, Minnesota, L. E. Johnson, Robert D. Ley Jan 1981

Property Tax Equity: A Study Of Bemidji, Minnesota, L. E. Johnson, Robert D. Ley

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The paper seeks to evaluate the equity of property tax assessments in a rural northern Minnesota area. Criteria of both vertical and horizontal equity were examined in terms of the ability to pay and benefits measures of the intra-decile relationships. In addition, other variables affecting intra-decile horizontal equity such as age and lakeshore location were considered. The data upon which the results were based were drawn from random sampling of 1000 households in the R-31 school district at Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota. The sample represented 20 percent of all such households. A total of 216 households responded to a questionnaire …

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Stress In The Work Place, Rose K. Rhea Jan 1981

Stress In The Work Place, Rose K. Rhea

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A study was undertaken in an attempt to get answers to current questions on the impact of stress in the work place as perceived by company management and employees at different levels, but emphasizing views of persons in supervisory positions. Information was gathered in questionnaires submitted to 150 companies selected at random from telephone directories of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The survey was administered by college students majoring in business and drew 128 respondents representing a cross-section of occupations from 100 business concerns of varying size. When asked which factors contributed to stress, the preponderant response was "heavy work …

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