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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 49, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe US Soil Conservation Service released in 1994 the 1992 National Resources Inventory (NRI). The NRI provides the most comprehensive and statistically reliable database of the conditions and trends of the country's...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 49, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe 1992 National Resources Inventory (NRI) was released in Jul. 1994 by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). It provides a new and comprehensive database of the temporal and spatial record of the country's natural...
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From:Alces (Vol. 47) Peer-ReviewedPatrick D. Karns, 73, son of the late Patrick and Ruby Karns, of Salem, Oregon died on 27 December, 2009. He attended Northwestern College and Michigan State earning a B.S., worked early on as a wildlife biologist for...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 13, Issue 16)The Soil Conservation Service's (SCS) Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) system allows states that rely on snow for their water supply to estimate future levels of water supply. The data is particularly useful for Department of...
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From:Conservation and Society (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Bryan. Curran, Terry. Sunderland, Fiona. Maisels, John. Oates, Stella. Asaha, Michael. Balinga, Louis. Defo, Andrew. Dunn, Paul. Telfer, Leonard. Usongo, Karin. Loebenstein, Philipp. Roth An ongoing debate...
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From:Nature (Vol. 517, Issue 7534) Peer-ReviewedThe rates at which humans consume multiple resources such as food and wood peaked at roughly the same time, around 2006. This means that resources could be simultaneously depleted, so achieving sustainability might be...
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From:Northern Review (Issue 38) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article explores the profound transitions that are currently impacting northern British Columbia, a sparsely-populated, resource-rich region located in the province of British Columbia in western Canada....
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNatural resources are central to peacebuilding. International actors authorize United Nations' sanctions to disrupt the trade in resources that fuel conflict. In the aftermath of conflict, international actors intervene...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the most significant international policy responses that seek to address the resource trap and spur development in resource-rich, but fragile states. It applies a regime theoretical framework to...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 164, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThroughout the Midwestern U.S., grassland birds have been declining faster than any other group of birds, with the main cause for these declines being the extensive loss of native prairies. During the last 25 y,...
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From:Conservation and Society (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Kenneth. MacDonald Biodiversity conservation, in practice, is defined through the institutionalised association of individuals, organisations, institutions, bodies of knowledge, and interests. Events like the...
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From:Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEstonia is situated on the southern buried slope of the Baltic Shield where the sedimentary bedrock (sedimentary cover) overlies the Precambrian crystalline basement. The bedrock ranges in thickness from 100 m near the...
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From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSeveral decades ago in the Mexican state of Chiapas and in neighboring Guatemala, geologists discovered deeply buried rock strata of the type that formed oil deposits millions of years ago. Since then, the search has...
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From:Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science (Vol. 77, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTennessee exotic pest plant council. REVIEW COMMITTEE: BRIAN BOWEN, KRIS JOHNSON, SCOTT FRANKLIN, GEOFF CALL, AND MICHELE WEBBER ABSTRACT--The Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council has produced this list of invasive...
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From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe anthropogenic nature of Andean ecosystems is discussed in the framework of tree-line dynamics in selected sites in Ecuador. Indicators of human impact are evidence of the need for a scientific understanding of...
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From:Alces (Vol. 38) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: Early policy decisions affecting moose (Alces alces) management in Ontario were based on data that were not reliable, but were the only basis available for policy development. As data collection increased in...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 50, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedUnique facility provides a host of benefits for fish and wildlife pros and others Katy Fitzgerald and Tracy Fifarek stare at their "plugger," trying to figure out how to make the darn thing work properly. A...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWith the arrival of the new millennium comes consensus among a broad spectrum of scholars that the scope and magnitude of environmental problems threaten the sustainability of Earth's life-support systems (e.g.,...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 10, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe increasing demand for products made from natural sources have made many companies turn to biodiversity prospecting. The list continues to grow longer as more groups, including pharmaceutical companies, plant breeders...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 41, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMajor environmental decisions are made in the absence of any quantitative measure of the ecological risks involved. Environmental impact reports will be abandoned in favor of ecological risk assessments, once the problem...