Four Wisconsin Counties, Prairie and Forest

Clustering Wisconsin Counties for Analytical Comparisons

Executive Summary This applied research effort intends to provide a rigorous empirical foundation upon which to base groupings, or clusters, of Wisconsin counties for analytical comparisons. We ask a simple question in this paper: which regions (counties) in Wisconsin are homogeneous (hence comparable) given a set of economic and demographic variables? Using the statistical techniques of princi...

Poverty and Employment in Forest-Dependent Counties

One of the most controversial aspects of federal and state policies aimed at protecting old-growth ecosystems is the potential effect of job losses on local economic conditions. A fundamental question for historically forest-dependent areas is whether these policies will result in local economic stagnation and enduring pockets of poverty. This study uses monthly, multicounty time series data to...

Progress in reducing premature deaths in Wisconsin counties, 2000-2010.

BACKGROUND Measuring trends in a county's premature death rate is a straightforward method that can be used to assess a county's progress in improving the health of the population. METHODS Age-adjusted premature death rate data from Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health for persons less than 75 years of age were collected for the years 2000-2010. Overall 10-year percent change was calcul...

Ecology of Iowa Drosophila II. Lowland Forest and Sand Prairie

Forest leaves and four-cycles

In this article, we find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a 4-cycle system of Kn − E(F ) for any forest F of Kn. c © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 33: 161–166, 2000