Redwood National Park is comprised of large areas of overstocked stands resulting from harvest of the old-growth stands in the late 1940s to the 1970s. The Holter Ridge Thinning Study was initiated in 1978 to address this problem and examine the effects that thinning to varying spacing would have on forest development. Densities following thinning in 1979 ranged from 150 to 790 stems/acre with ...

P. Sengupta,1,2 C. D. Batista,1 R. D. McDonald,2 S. Cox,2 J. Singleton,2 L. Huang,3 T. P. Papageorgiou,3 O. Ignatchik,3 T. Herrmannsdörfer,3 J. L. Manson,4 J. A. Schlueter,5 K. A. Funk,5 and J. Wosnitza3 1Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 2MPA-NHMFL, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 3Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dres...

This paper provides a description of the methodologies and processes used for the creation of a decision/support model for land acquisition decisions on a cooperative open space project between the City of Bakersfield and other local agencies. The model uses a cost/benefit approach using components of habitat ranking, developed through an independently prepared evaluation, and estimated per acr...

Case Studies Analysis of the experience of land parcels partially taken for high­ way right-of-way ordinarily involves investigation of individual takings — the case study approach. For example, Figure 1 shows what happened from a period before the highway went through a property until a part of the remainder is sold. When this happens, when any part of the remainder is sold, it becomes possibl...

Long-term streamflow data are vital for analysis of hydrological droughts. Using an artificial neural network (ANN) model and nine tree-ring indices, this study reconstructed the annual streamflow of the Sacramento River for the period from 1560 to 1871. Using the reconstructed streamflow data, the copula method was used for bivariate drought analysis, deriving a hydrological drought return per...

Expansion of commercial vegetable production in Kentucky prompted the updating of the 1998 commercial vegetable budget estimates for Kentucky’s major commercial vegetables in 2000. Updates continued throughout subsequent seasons. These estimated returns to land, labor, and management sought to convey a conservative profitability estimate for comparative purposes among existing and potential com...

A wave of Haitian immigration into Brazil began in February 2010 through three northern border states: Acre, Rondônia, and Amazonas. Focusing on the state of Amazonas, the article uses an ethnographic approach to explore the social networks involved in this immigrant issue and examines how Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) responded to the demands placed by this unexpected contingent of new...

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In 2010, Colorado growers harvested 59,200 acres of potatoes with production valued at $293 million (USDA-NASS, 2011b). Additionally, Colorado was ranked 4 nationally in summer potato yields, 5 in fall yields, and had an estimated average of 390 cwt. per acre (USDA-NASS, 2011a). In the San Luis Valley of Southwestern Colorado alone, where the bulk of the state’s potatoes have historically been ...