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Geographical Elements Affecting Quaintness In Tourist Town Developments-Topography And Transportation, Deborah A. Fitzwater-Dewey

The Geographical Bulletin

An understanding of recreation geography is an important factor, now and in the future, as we strive to make the best decisions to serve the public. Although the roots of recreational geography extend into the 1920s in the United States,l there are few American articles devoted to the subject. Literature pertaining to the field is mainly from British, European, and Canadian sources. How transportation, topography, and planning affect tourist destination patterns is of utmost importance to recreation geographers. Prior studies 1-13 have not reached agreement on what methods may be used for determining the effects of transportation or topography on …

Distribution And Property Value Impacts Displayed By Adult Foster Care Facilities: Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mary Beth Moss

The Geographical Bulletin

The establishment of Adult Foster Care Facilities (AFC's) in residential areas is seen by many people as a Locally Unwanted Land Use (LULU).' Adult Foster Care is needed throughout the nation yet these structural uses often meet with community opposition. In addition to concerns about personal safety, a frequent basis for community opposition to location of a group home in a middle class neighborhood is the fear that property values will plummet, either due to deterioration of the neighborhood or the reluctance of buyers to purchase a dwelling near the facility.2 Such community opposition may be the most evident deterent …

Volume 28-1 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 28-1 Complete Issue

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

News From The Chapters 1984-85, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1984-85

The South Dakota State Geography Convention: A Unique Educational Opportunity And Event, Edward Patrick Hogan

The Geographical Bulletin

The South Dakota State Geography (SDSU) Convention, held annually at South Dakota State University in Brookings, is indeed a unique educational opportunity and event. The faculty of the Department of Geography at SDSU believe that the convention makes major contributions to the discipline, the state of South Dakota and community of Brookings, the university, and particularly to the Department of Geography and its students. This student planned and conducted convention affords students an outstanding educational opportunity. The convention has evolved over a period of fifteen years and continues to grow and change as the program adapts to new opportunities and …

An Automated World Climate Tutorial, Ray Lougeay, Tomas Miller

The Geographical Bulletin

Students and teachers of Physical Geography and Climatology often find that a great deal of repetitive practice is required for one to develop the skill to identify a given climate type when presented with monthly temperature and precipitation data (e.g., Fig. 1). Ideally, when observing standard climatic data, the student will have acquired some ability to locate a station in its proper hemisphere and locate it in a reasonably logical location. To do this one must be able to translate the temperature and precipitation data into an understanding of annual regimes of heat energy and moisture surplus, or deficit. A …

Nuclear Waste And North Carolina, C. Phillip Webb

The Geographical Bulletin

As the number of new oil fields and the further development of existing ones continues to decline, more and more attention is being given to other sources of energy such as coal, solar, hydroelectric, and nuclear power plants. Of the alternate energy sources listed above, the potentially most dangerous is probably nuclear energy. The danger comes from the waste products produced by generating electricity and the nuclear fuel cycle. During the nuclear fuel cycle-where uranium is enriched for use in nuclear generators-many waste by-products are generated, but the most radioactive occur at the end of the cycle. Nuclear waste, ranging …

Goldrush Migrations And Goldfield Populations In The American West 1848-1880, Rand E. Rohe

The Geographical Bulletin

The discovery of placer gold initiated some of the most spectacular migrations ever to occur in the American West. The discovery of gold in California in 1848, of course, touched off the first of the western mining rushes. More importantly, its backwash led to the development of the rest of the mountain West. From California, the mining frontier moved eastward and subsequently enveloped most of the West. The background of the discovery of gold in California needs but cursory attention here. On January 24, 1848, in the course of constructing a sawmill on the American River, James Marshall noticed flecks …

Urban Beavers At The Crossroads: How Ecological Knowledge, Sociodemographic, And Spatial Context Shape Public Perception And Coexistence Preferences, Matthew Guziejka

Dissertations and Theses

Urban beavers demonstrate synurbization by adapting to urban environments, offering ecological benefits such as biodiversity enhancement and flood mitigation, while also occasionally conflicting with infrastructure. This study examines how ecological knowledge, sociodemographics, and spatial context influence public perceptions and management preferences for urban beavers in the Tualatin River watershed, Oregon.

A voluntary survey of 176 participants from peri-urban areas assessed demographic characteristics, ecological knowledge, and attitudes toward management approaches. Spatial factors, such as proximity to watercourses and green spaces, were also analyzed. Logistic regression analyses were used to explore relationships between these factors and management preferences. Political orientation was significantly …

Accessible Bike Map Design: A Review And Critique Of Portland’S Bike Maps, Zachary Cheyney

Geography Masters Research Papers

Urban bike maps can serve as key tools for route planning and navigation for prospective cyclists, providing both general information (such as landmarks and natural features) and cycling specific information (such as bike lane infrastructure types and cycling amenities). Despite this, there is little professional guidance or academic research on best practices for bike map design. Potential guidance should consider the full range of potential cyclists, including disabled cyclists who have often been left out of cycling policy discussions. In this paper, I begin by discussing 3 case studies on participatory mapping methodologies with disabled participants in order to generate …

Designing Field Courses To Teach Few Concepts Effectively, Eunice L. Blavascunas

National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education (NC-FEW)

How do students learn complex systems FEW concepts in field courses? An overview of field-course practices in the Yakima Valley of Washington State.

Volume 29-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 29-2 Complete Issue

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

News From The Chapters 1986-1987, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

During the fall the Gamma Delta Chapter held a series of seminars on topics of controversial nature, such as the causes of glaciation and the extinction of the dinosaurs. The fall picnic was a well-attended success as was the Christmas banquet. During the spring term, the chapter is running a seminar on the Great Plains and is co-sponsoring, with Biology's Tri Beta and Geology's SGE, the visit of Carnegie Museum's Leonard Krishtalka, a paleontologist. The annual spring picnic is held in early May.

Geographic Variations In Resale Housing Values Within A Metropolitan Area: An Example From Suburban Phoenix, Arizona, Diane Whalley, William J. Lowell-Britt

The Geographical Bulletin

The average cost of single family resale housing displays geographic variation at many scales. Regional variations in the cost of housing are used in the compilation of cost-of-living indices, (Follain and Malpezzi, 1980) and have been well documented (inter alia Butler, 1980; Ozanne and Thibodeau, 1983; Blackley et aI, 1986). Geographic patterns of housing values within a metropolitan area are not as sensitive to the conditions affecting the national market, but are the result of a series of local influences (Bednarz and Wilson, 1982). It is the purpose of this paper to identify the nature of local variations in the …

Variation In Grassland Biomass: A Spatial And Temporal Perspective, Stephen J. Walsh

The Geographical Bulletin

During a sampling period extending from May 07 through August 13, 1985, plant biomass, soil temperature, soil moisture, and other selected biophysical variables were collected on a weekly basis at 12 sample sites distributed along a 200 km east-west trending transect in west-central Oklahoma. Correlation coefficients showed temporal and spatial relationships between dry mean biomass and the relative location of sample sites along the transect, Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate location of each sample site, sample site elevation, and sample week (-0.43, +0.43, -0.54, and +0.42, respectively). A multiple regression analysis showed that 84.5 percent of the variation in plant biomass …

United States Mid Tropospheric Flow Patterns: A Monthly Climatology Based On Transect Difference Analysis, Brent R. Skeeter

The Geographical Bulletin

A simple technique exists for documenting the strength and orientation of mean monthly mid-tropospheric flow. The technique involves finding the differences in the 500-mb heights between stations along selected north-south and east-west transects. Each difference is a measure of the pressure gradient along the transect. Differences along northsouth transects give a measure of the strength of the west to east flow between the two sites. Differences between the east and west sites give an indication of the strength of the meridional (i.e., northerly or southerly) flow component between these particular sites. By using multiple transects, the monthly flow characteristics across …

Climatic Implications Of A Tree-Ring Record Of Ground Heave, Ram River Area, N.W.T. Canada, David R. Butler

The Geographical Bulletin

Soil movements by ground heave and subsidence have affected areas of the North American Arctic for thousands of years (1). Zoltai (2) reconstructed the history of ground heave on hummocky permafrost terrain for the period 18101972 A.D. in the Inuvik and Norman Wells (Northwest Territories) areas, using compression-wood growth patterns in annual rings of conifers affected by heaving. His data revealed above-average levels of activity for the period 1847 to 1943, and low levels of activity since the mid-1940s. He suggested that the high levels of activity were related to higher than normal fall temperatures and precipitation; i.e., activity related …

Editor's Comments, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

I wish to extend my thanks to the officers of The Geographical Bulletin for selecting me as its new editor. Professor James W. Gallagher was one of my former geography teachers and the first editor of The Bulletin. Professor Robert "Rocky" Ward, your retiring editor and I have been colleagues at Eastern Michigan University since 1969. Rocky has held the editorship since 1979. Under his guidance The Bulletin was expanded to two issues per year.