State and federal aid payments to local governments have grown explosively over the last fifteen years. One reason for this growth is that the donor governments can alter a local government's budget choices through grants. Grants have not remedied social problems, however, because the local governments' responses to grants were...
The relationship between population and residential property taxes
is not well understood. This study is an attempt to discern the relationship.
The basic questions examined are: How does population affect tax
bills? What are the short-run and long-run relationships between population and taxes? What reasons lie behind the answers to...
Microbial populations associated with the major substrates of the
canopy of a 70 m old-growth Douglas fir were studied to determine
potential activities. Seasonal samples from bark, foliage, epiphytic
moss, lichens, and litter accumulations were collected to i) obtain
population data, ii) to isolate the major groups of microorganisms
present,...
Clastic sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group on Saltspring Island, British Columbia are Late Cretaceous in age, overlie a deformed and intruded Paleozoic basement complex, and consist of
eight formations. These eight formations, from oldest to youngest, are the Comox, Haslam, Extension-Protection, Cedar District, De Courcy, Northumberland, Geoffrey, and Spray...
The rotating flighted cylinder (RFC) was investigated
as a potential wastewater treatment deVice. A RFC is a
rigid tube with a helically-wound fin attached to the interior
surface and operates by flowing wastewater through
the tube as it rotates.
An 8-inch and 24-inch
diameter RFC was tested for
solids-liquid
separation,...
A rural watershed containing a protected forest area in the north
and a small rural community in the south was monitored for numbers of
fecal indicator bacteria as well as the incidence and origin of the
enteric pathogen Salmonella. Isolation of Salmonella only occurred
once in the protected watershed, while...
Ozone, present in the earth's atmosphere, filters incident solar
ultraviolet radiation such that only a portion of the total ultraviolet
spectrum emitted by the sun reaches the planet's surface.
Violation of the integrity of this filter could mean an alteration in
the solar ultraviolet radiation penetrating the atmosphere. Atmospheric
increases...