S ince Leonard F.C. Wendt, MD opened the doors of the first diabetes camp in Michigan in 1925, the concept of specialized residential and day camps for children with diabetes has become widespread throughout the U.S. and many other parts of the world. It is estimated that worldwide camps serve 15,000 –20,000 campers with diabetes each summer (1). The mission of camps specialized for children an...

This article draws on three separate research and monitoring studies to describe 20-year trends in the number and condition of campsites in the backcountry of Grand Canyon National Park. Results are used to assess the effectiveness of a complex and innovative management program, adopted in 1983, that sought to concentrate use on designated campsites in popular places and disperse camping in mor...

in order to determine the control of breeding sources of culex larvae in sewage wells by the larvicide abate, some studies were performed in the summer and autumn of 1972. in general, it was noticed in these studies that:1. the wells chosen as a control (5 wells) were active throughout the study periods and adult mosquitoes were captured plentifully. 2 in 4 sewage wells which were controlled by...

Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that susceptible to weather climate change. Camping—in addition the relationships camping shares with weather— remains understudied despite subsectors’ salient economic impact high participation rate. The observable effects non-meteorological/climatological (e.g., pandemic) also a topic has received limited attention. Accordingly, we in...

Waters derived from remote 'wilderness' locations have been assumed to be largely free of bacterial contamination and thus such, near-pristine, protected catchments, unused for agriculture, have been first in the multiple line of protection (pristine catchment-long storage-treatment-disinfection) employed by the water industry. This assumption is challenged by a bacterial survey of the waters d...