In response to concerns about excessive stand densities and high-severity wildfires, land
managers in the western United States are carrying out extensive programs of fuel reduction
thinning. How will these sudden reductions in canopy cover and associated changes in
habitat affect native and exotic herbaceous vegetation and canopy species regeneration?...
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Hibbs, Klaus Puettmarin, and especially Bruce McCune for his
instruction and guidance with statistical
This study describes the surface configuration of
Goodhue County and attempts to determine the origin of that
configuration. The research has a descriptive portion--an
objective examination of land surface configuration and the
composition and distribution of rock material underlying
that surface, and a theoretical portion--a speculative
examination of the factors...
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Matt Walton,
Director, John Splettstoesser, Howard Hobbs, Bruce Olson,
Bruce Bloomgren, and Betty
Plans for farm buildings should efficiently explaininformation about their construction. User understandingand actual use made of plans has received little study.The format used for plans should enhance their wider useand greater satisfaction by individuals concerned withconstructed buildings.This study addressed two research questions: (1) Isthere a relationship among typical formats used...
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, employment of
unity in the total presentation and the ,,overriding
principle of simplicity (Nelson, 1978
Many educators are currently revising their curricula
to include critical thinking. However, there are factors
which apparently allow some students to become better
critical thinkers than others. Such factors are the concern
of two mentors of this researcher: Ron Manuto and Lloyd
Crisp. Both the Manuto and Crisp (1987) and...
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dogmatism and
gender.
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An Additional Factor
Richard Bruce Modjeski's (1982) work suggests that
there
The oldest rocks of the Sturgill Peak area are herein named the
grassy slope phyllites, and are of Permian (?) age. They are
divided into a phyllitic member, consisting of complexly folded and
highly sheared phyllites and phyllitic cherts, and a limestone member,
containing sheared limestone, silicified limestone, and chert....
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), Fankhauser (1969), Slater (1969), King (1971), and
Bruce (1971).
Purposes of the Study
The purposes of the
Local property-owning residents maintain high levels of interest
and awareness regarding a neighboring natural resource complex.
Factors, however, such as proximity, personal interests, use patterns
and economic considerations cause local inhabitants to have an
inaccurate perception of the natural resource complex. The nature
of local resident perception can be analyzed...