HARNEY COUNTY HISTORY PROJECT
AV-Oral History #469
Interviewee: Eileen O'Keeffe McVicker
Interviewer: Karen Nitz
Subject: Homesteading on the South End of Steens Mountain
Date: October 16, 2008
Place: Chester & Helen Felt Recording Room, Harney County Library, Burns, Oregon
Honey bee colony losses are a major concern in the USA and across the globe. Long-term data on losses
are critical for putting yearly losses in context. US colony loss surveys have been conducted yearly since the winter
of 2006–2007. Here, we report the results from the eighth annual survey...
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2013–2014 annual
colony losses in the USA
Kathleen V. LEE1, Nathalie STEINHAUER2, Karen RENNICH2
Birds both promote and prosper from forest restoration. The ecosystem functions birds perform can increase the pace of
forest regeneration and, correspondingly, increase the available habitat for birds and other forest-dependent species. The
aim of this study was to learn how tropical forest restoration treatments interact with landscape tree cover...
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J. Leighton Reid1*¤, Chase D. Mendenhall2, J. Abel Rosales3, Rakan A. Zahawi3, Karen D. Holl1
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Climate and terrestrial vegetation have had mutual feedbacks for nearly five hundred million years, yet both are now departing from recent historical norms, with uncertain implications for forest ecosystems. This dissertation outlines the current and potential future climate responses of lichen and bryophyte communities in the United States as part...
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Robert J. Smith for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Botany and Plant Pathology
presented on May 1
Siletzia is a basaltic Paleocene and Eocene
large igneous province in coastal Oregon,
Washington, and southern Vancouver Island
that was accreted to North America in the
early Eocene. New U-Pb magmatic, detrital
zircon, and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages constrained by
detailed field mapping, global nannoplankton
zones, and magnetic polarities allow correlation
of...
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Ray Wells1, David Bukry1, Richard Friedman2, Doug Pyle3, Robert Duncan4, Peter Haeussler5, and Joe
We hypothesized that changes in southeastern Bering Sea foraging conditions for black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
have caused shifts in habitat use with direct implications for population trends. To test this, we compared at-sea
distribution, breeding performance, and nutritional stress of kittiwakes in three years (2008–2010) at two sites in the...
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*, Rachael A. Orben2, Robert M. Suryan3, David B. Irons4, Daniel D. Roby5,
Ann M. A. Harding6, Rebecca C
Renibacterium salmoninarum is the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease in both
wild and farmed salmonid species worldwide. The genome of this pathogen has
significant synteny to the ubiquitous, soil-dwelling Arthrobacter spp. though it is 1.9 Mb
smaller, suggesting that reductive evolution has occurred. Recently, our group finished
sequencing and...
During much of the Early and Middle Devonian, shallow normalmarine and peritidal sediments were deposited in northwestern ClarkCounty, Nevada. Lack of a standard stratigraphic nomenclature for thearea necessitates utilizing terminology from central Nevada andwestern Utah.The Sevy Dolomite represents Early Devonian deposition in a tidalflat environment. A Zlichovian transgression initiated deposition...
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, visited
the thesis area and provided helpful field observations.
Byron Cork and Karen Simons