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CNPSR Sends Letter to Director Bomar Expressing Concern about LBJ Management Actions | The Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
Lady Bird Johnson planned to be interred, the Texas White House complex, and the LBJ ranching complex. The Texas White House complex included the ranch house itself (where after the President's death ... the big Air Force One parked at the Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin. The ranching complex consisted of show barns and other structures necessary for the cattle operation, together with LBJ ...
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IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)/Features
A number of studies have revealed that the reproductive cycle of crocodilians is very complex and also the most advanced among all the reptiles. Crocodilians in the wild nest every ... ' hide. World trade numbered 80000 skins annually in 1993, with the majority coming from crocodile ranching in Zimbabwe (54%) and South Africa (15%). Commercial utilization is now widespread and many successful ...
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Biodiversity Article - What is Biodiversity, No of species, losses, why conserve.
Species with exceptionally complex life cycles If completion of a particular lifecycle requires several different elements to be ... allowed them to subsist off the land, are being displaced by activities such as cattle ranching, logging, hydroelectric power schemes, large scale farms and mining schemes. The question is, is ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Involved are a complex of factors including economics, overfishing, the quality of management, and ... , and those who fish for recreation? The problem becomes even more complex when the question is added of how stocks in a ... a very large yield of oysters is sustained by a system of "ranching" in large embayments. The tiny oysters, known as "spat," settle on ...
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WWF - Projects working for river environments
Gamba Protected Area The project aims to safeguard the Gamba Protected Area Complex's original and representative ecosystems and maintain biodiversity in harmony with sust... » Read ... Varzea project addresses the problem of unsustainable fisheries. Alongside logging and land clearing (for cattle ranching and agriculture), small ... » Read more 1 | 2 | 3 ... 7 | 8 | 9 | Older >> Page ...
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William S. Abruzzi-Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau Author
S. Abruzzi, Ph.D. CP-LUHNA Author: The social and ecological consequences of early cattle ranching in the Little Colorado River Basin, Arizona and Ecology and Mormon colonization in the ... The Social and Ecological Consequences of Early Cattle Ranching in Northeastern Arizona. Human Ecology 23:75-98 (1995) Ecological Theory and the Evolution of Complex Human Communities. Advances in Human Ecology 5 ...
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Grasslands for Tomorrow
Land once incompatible with row-crop agriculture -- but which provided a living to ranching families and habitat for prairie wildlife -- is being converted to row crops. Compared to ... all wetlands encompassed by the grassland easements to ensure the protection of the entire prairie complex. Grassland easements are bought with money donated to Ducks Unlimited, but the easements are ...
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Indigenous Ecotourism: Río Blanco, Ecuador: Section 1
However, colonists are increasingly threatening these indigenous systems with cattle ranching and monoculture, both adapted from practices in their homes in the highlands or coast ... (MacDonald et al. 1993:11). Driving this expansion into commercial agriculture was a complex of changes occurring locally, regionally and nationally. As described above, the population of ...
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Rainforest Biogeography
Similarities and differences. As a result of this complex history of climatic change and continental drift, the world's rainforests show many regional ... Brazilian policy away from large-scale clearance of rainforest, following the failure of transmigration and ranching projects to benefit the country's economy. On the western side of the Andes, ...
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EcoSpeakers Books - Sustainable Food, Fiber & Agriculture
... earthworm's astonishing realm, talks to oligochaetologists who have devoted their lives to unearthing the complex web of life beneath our feet, and observes the thousands of worms in her own ...
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