...while some invasive species are not a problem, most are. A few species that are attacking the forests are the, Asian Long-Haired Beetle, Emerald Ash Borer, and Mountain Pine Beetle. The Asian Long-Haired Beetle (ALB) is currently found in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, California, and Ohio. ALB is native to eastern China, Japan and Korea. The species was accidentally introduced into the United States, being first discovered in New York in 1996. Adult ALB can be seen from late spring to fall depending on the climate. The predominant reproductive cycle is one year, with winter most commonly in the larval state. Females chew “oviposition sites” in the bark of trees to lay eggs in. One beetle can lie anywhere from 35 to 90 eggs. Larvae hatch within 10-15 days and tunnel under tree bark and bore into healthy trees, they feed on living tree tissue during spring. After emerging, adult beetles feed on the exterior of trees for 2-3 days and then mate. Adult beetle are active only during summer and early fall, then they perish, living a one-year life cycle. ALB spread by natural means, such as flying. Since adult beetles, and larvae both feed on trees, they cause them to become hollow, and the tree eventually dies. The beetle also has the potential to damage industries such as, lumber, maple syrup, nursery, commercial fruit, and tourism, which accumulates to over $41 billion in losses. At this time, the only way tress infected with ALB are being dealt with is that...
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...Introduction The gopher, also known as the Prairie Dog is one of the world’s pests. This small mammal has destroyed crops in a lot of counties. It feed on any grain or leaf plant it can eat. As a result people have trapped and shot these creature for many year. Size Gophers are a small, rabbit sized, mammal. They burrow their dens, or holes, in the soft dirt. The most common place to find them is in North Americas grass lands. They typically take to the fields where they can find food easily. Gophers usually travel and live in colonies, much like ants. And they only come out in the daylight. (Geographic, 1996-2014) (Gehmon) The Burrow Their burrows, or dens, is an extensive system of tunnels and chambers marked by mounds of dirt at the...
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...Region 1 or the Ilocos Region is composed of four provinces and a city—Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, and Dagupan City. Majority of the population verbalizes Ilocano, the third most astronomically immense verbalized language in the Philippines, albeit a consequential number additionally verbalize Pangasinense. The region has a coast and hilly ranges that are prone to typhoon in the wet months, but devastatingly sultry during the dry season. This is the backdrop of Ilocano food. It’s salty due to the proximity to the sea. There is even an entire province denominated after asin (salt) in Pangasinan. Fish is preserved by drying, and of course, reduced into a paste or sauce by fermentation. Vegetables are hardy and can weather the rains or extreme heat. Thus, you have dishes like pinakbet or dinengdeng—locally sourced vegetable, flavored with fish paste. Love basking on the sand? The coast provides a colorful array of it from the greyest of grey to the white beaches of Pagudpud. There’s even one beach that is just pristine pebble. Many of these beaches cater to tourists, like the surfing areas of San Juan in La Amalgamation. But take a while to get disoriented, and you’ll still find obnubilated gems in minute towns. Architectural masterpieces? There are three UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ilocos Sur alone. For the artist in you, take your time to learn the tedious process of weaving abel. During the colonial area, abel was so famous, it virtually...
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...LIST OF ACRONYMS: AKRSP Aga Khan Rural Support Program VOs Village Organizations WOs Women organizations NAC Northern Areas and Chitral SOs Social Organizations MACP Mountain Area Conservancy Project CIDA Canadian Institutional Development Agency NRM Natural Resource Management FMU Field Management Unit AKDN Aga Khan Development Network VBIs Village Based Institutions VBOs Village Based Organizations PM Program Manager RPMs Regional Program Managers GaD Gender and Development MIES Mountain Infrastructure and Engineering Service EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Aga Khan Rural Support Programs is a private and non-government organization established by Aga Khan Foundation. In its 29 year of operation continues to be an effective instrument to improve the quality of life through income generation, skill development and technical training of the communities in Northern Areas and Chitral, and the welfare of families in these communities. This has resulted from its interventions in productive investment, productive-support investments, such as access road, training and financial and technical services. A key element has been institutional development at the village level: Village Organizations (VOs) and Women Organizations (WOs): which has provided the framework to organize the energies of community...
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...tourism industry growth has been a major contributor to increased economic activity in the whole world. Also, it has created jobs for youth and different background people in all communities and as mentioned before, it's the dominant economic activity in some countries. (1) Tourism and services in Lebanon is a growing and promising industry. The Lebanese economy is a services economy, where services account for 75% of Lebanon's GDP which was USD 40.1 billion in 2011, whereas industry accounts for 20%, and agriculture around 5%. (2) Tourism and services form 21.1% of the economic activity in Lebanon that provides 318,000 job opportunity which contribute to 20.3% of jobs in 2015. (3) Lebanon is very well known for its nature where mountains almost touches the sea and has 225 km coastline. It's the only country that has the winter ski sport in the Middle East, plus there're 300 sunny days during the year, and in the ancient times Lebanon was covered by large forests of Cedar trees, the national emblem of the country which used to cover 13.4% of the Lebanese land area. On the other hand, Lebanon's history is big, it goes back to thousands of years ago, where tourists can visit the old cities that includes Byblos the oldest city in the world that dates back to 5000 BC. (4) Due to this background of Lebanon...
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...conflicts with humans. I examined human-leopard conflicts in and near Ayubia National Park, Pakistan, to provide management recommendations for the conservation of leopards. Persecution of leopards by humans has been on the rise primarily due to depredation on livestock and risk to human lives. Since 1989, 16 humans have either been killed or injured in and around Ayubia National Park while leopards faced 44 human-caused mortalities during the same period. I examined the management strategy adopted by NWFP Wildlife Department for leopard conservation, identify gaps, and suggest possible management actions to mitigate the conflicts. For this purpose, I reviewed the management of carnivores including mountain lions, wolves, and grizzly bears to learn from management successes and failures in North America. Based on my review, I make the following recommendations to improve leopard management in and near Ayubia. First, to minimize human-leopard conflicts, educational and information...
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...Chapter INTRODUCTION 1.1 Livelihood of the majority of the population of the Jammu & Kashmir State revolves around the agriculture and allied sectors. These sectors constitute the mainstay of the State’s economy and contribute nearly 50 per cent to GSDP. Over 70 per cent of the population, of more than 1.25 crores depends, directly or indirectly, on agriculture and its allied sectors. The diversification in the physiographic features and agro-climatic variation at macro- and micro-level, involving cold arid, temperate, intermediate and sub-tropical zones, within a small geographical area of 2.22 lakh sq. km indicates the inherent agricultural potential of the State. The net sown area (NSA) of 7.35 lakh ha (2009-10) is 35 per cent of the reported area as against the national average of 46 per cent. About 70 per cent of the net sown area is under the food crops. The average size of holding is very small (0.545 ha/holding) as compared to 1.66 ha at the national level with more than 93% of owners of these farm holdings subsisting on agriculture and allied activities. 1.2 Over the years, agriculturists and farmers have adopted several area- specific and time-specific cultivation practices to meet the requirement of their staple food crops. Rice, maize, wheat, pulses, fodder, oilseeds, potato and barley are the main crops of the State. There is currently a shift towards cultivating lowvolume high-value cash crops, such as, flowers, vegetables, quality seeds, aromatic & medicinal plants...
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...------------------------------------------------- too many cooks spoil the broth ------------------------------------------------- It means that if too many people try to do the same thing, they end up ruining it. If you have too many cooks trying to cook one broth or soup, they get in each other's way and end up adding the wrong things. It means that a simple thing like a broth (or a movie script) is better when it doesn't have many authors contributing to it. If more than one cook handles one pot of soup the ingredients like salt, for example, may be doubled or tripled (according to how many cooks handle the pot) thus spoiling it. Too many people trying to do the same thing together are likely to ruin the job. if too many people are involved in something it often gets too complicated. if its used it means that some people need to back off When too many people take charge on a task, it might end up ruining the whole thing. Rosalind is a fictional character and the romantic female lead in the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare. She is the daughter of the exiled Duke Senior and niece to his usurping brother Duke Frederick. Her father is banished from the kingdom which breaks her heart. She then meets Orlando and falls in love with him. After angering her uncle, she leaves his court for exile in the Forest of Arden. There, she lives disguised as a shepherd named Ganymede with her sweet and devoted cousin, Celia, disguised as his sister, Aliena and...
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...O JOS GE BUS H ING CR E 400 BELT LINE RD TRA L SP R MIDWAY RD PRESIDE NT GEO R 400 531 PRESTON RD COWBOY S LAVO N DR FARMERS BRANCH MARSH LN 451 EN 463 RT FO NT MO 400 400 BELT LINE RD SHILOH LAKE LEWISVILLE DOWNTOWN CARROLLTON STATION BELT LINE RD 036, 183, 205, 333, 347, 350, 361, 362, 400, 463, 488, 534, 536 333 333 350 488 36 400 EK 534 ARAPAHO RD EX P ADDISON TRANSIT CENTER ARAPAHO CENTER STATION 360, 361, 362, 372, 551, DART ON-CALL RE MA ST N 36 400 ADDISON 346 PARKWOOD 372 UR NP IK E N AA M AN SC HO O L CENTER T CEOWN NT ER 551 400 BELT LINE RD 513 HO RS ES HO E 566 400 T CEOWN NT ER INW RD OOD 488 183 SPRING VALLEY SH ER MA 401 O DE RO MAHAM LEY RANCH VAL VALWOOD HILLCREST RD VALWOOD PKWY DIPLOMAT LUNA MACARTHUR COIT RD HUTTON MONTFORT PLANO RD JUPITER RD WALTON AUDELIA BENT BRANCH JOSEY PARK CENTRAL 509 US75 N AL EXPWY . U.S-75 N. CENTR COMMUNICATIONS IH-35E STEMMONS FRWY. PARKWOOD SKIL LM AN EXECUTIVE IEW ALMA NTR SHADY TRAIL ARBOR PRESTON RD BELT LINE STATION 500, 509, 510 BELT LINE RD EY V MEADOW CREEK HIDDEN RIDGE WICKE INWOOD RD WEBB CHAPEL 75 N WALNUT HILL JUPITER RD PLEASANT RUN SH -12 COMMUNICATIONS BLUEBONNET CH EL LE DALLAS N. TOLLWAY PRESTON RD. SHILOH FV ...
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...Zidian Lyu 998054799 GEL 001, SECTION 04 Seventh Draft The Problems and Solutions for Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Introduction The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (SSRD) is formed at the confluence of the south-flowing Sacramento River and the north-flowing San Joaquin River (Fig.1). The estuary encompasses 1,600 square miles, drains over 40 percent of the State of California, and provides habitat and stop-over ground to numerous species of fish and wildlife. (Association of California Water Agencies, 2014) Because of its special geographical position, about two-thirds of salmon that migrate into California pass through the Delta, as do nearly half the migrating waterfowl and shorebirds (Association of California Water Agencies, 2014). Besides, due to the world's largest man-made plumbing job, the estuary provides 7.2 million acre-feet of water a year for export, irrigates 4.5 million acres of farmland, and provides drinking water for 20 million Californians (Association of California Water Agencies, 2014). For these reasons, the SSRD becomes the most important estuary on the west coast. Climate change and man-made modifications to the delta have resulted in many environmental and ecological problems. Problems such as agricultural irrigation, urban water usage, land use and control can threaten citizens’ lives and prosperity. Solutions to mitigate this ecological disaster mainly focus on the divisions between environmental and economic interest. To achieve...
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...CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.1 INTRODUCTION Tomato (cycospersicum esculentum) is one the most popular and widely grown vegetable in the world. The precise centre of origin and domestication of the presented cultivated tomato is uncertain purse glove (1968) point to the central and South America precisely at per Ecuadeor area as the region of origin. This view is not different from that of Anyanwu A.C, (1979who also considered tomato as being indigenous to Izeu and Ecuador in South America from where it spread out to other parts of the world. Tindal H.D 1983 investigated that the cultivated tomato originated in the slope of the Andes mountain of South America. The spread of tomato to other parts was more by deliberate introduction then by accidental natural spread. The spinerals are credited with introducing the crop to Europe in very early times (Purselohe, 1968). Ogieuo Erebor (1998) identified 1596 as the precise date of introduction of the crop to Britain the probable date of the spread of tomato to most tropical countries is in the nineteenth century, a period which Tindal H.D. (1983) accept. The spread in Africa is traced to minigrant tredous missionaries and agricultural officers. The botany of tomato; it belongs to family of solanacease genus cycopersicum species esculentum. The varieties of tomato are divided into two, the processing and the solid type. Other varieties and cultivar include cherry tomato uar cevasiforme, poor tomato uar periform, potato...
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...Environmental Health Impact Assessment., Evaluation of a Ten-Step Model Rainer Fehr "Environmental impact assessment" denotes the attempt to predict and assess the impact of development projects on the environment. A component dealing specifically with human health is often called an "environmental health impact assessment." It is widely held that such impact assessment offers unique opportunities for the protection and promotion of human health. The following components were identified as key elements of an integrated environmental health impact assessment model: project analysis, analysis of status quo (including regional analysis, population analysis, and background situation), prediction of impact (including prognosis of future pollution and prognosis of health impact), assessment of impact, recommendations, communication of results, and evaluation of the overall procedure. The concept was applied to a project of extending a waste disposal facility and to a city bypass highway project. Currently, the coverage of human health aspects in environmental impact assessment still tends to be incomplete, and public health departments often do not participate. Environmental health impact assessment as a tool for health protection and promotion is underutilized. It would be useful to achieve consensus on a comprehensive generic concept. An international initiative to improve the situation seems worth some consideration. (Epidemiology 1999;10:618625) Keywords:...
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...Section 17
Agriculture
This section presents statistics on farms
and farm operators; land use; farm
income, expenditures, and debt; farm
output, productivity, and marketings;
foreign trade in agricultural products;
specific crops; and livestock, poultry, and
their products.
The principal sources are the reports
issued by the National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS) and the
Economic Research Service (ERS) of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The information from the 2007 Census of
Agriculture is available in printed form in
the Volume 1, Geographic Area Series; in
electronic format on CD-ROM; and on the
Internet at
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...Climate Information 2007 Index Temperature conversion chart ................................................................ 4 Average Temperature Conditions........................................................... 4 UAE Vegetables Growing Calendar ........................................................ 5 Measurement and Conversions ............................................................... 8 Winds in UAE ....................................................................................................17 Greenhouse Introduction ..........................................................................22 Vegetables A to Z ...........................................................................................23 Nursery management in vegetable crops By: Rajinder Kumar Dhall and J.S. Hundal.......................................................................................................25 Raised Bed Gardening .................................................................................26 Hydroponic production ...............................................................................29 Shade Tolerant Vegetables (and Fruits)............................................39 A veggie for all seasons..............................................................................40 Cool Season Vegetables .............................................................................40 Hot Season Vegetables ..........................................
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...27th Feb 2006 Working your way through the traffic, Solving mazes like a maverick You come to work every day, Sometimes at nights you also stay. All along you battle it out, Sometimes you type, sometimes you shout, But a battle it is for everyday, Promising, to never go away. Welcome to the first edition of OYE! It has been a long cherished dream of OASIS members to have a platform where members can express, share and enjoy their literary skills. OYE! is the first step towards realizing that dream. Bringing out this magazine has been a long, eventful and a very fulfilling journey for the entire team of OYE!. It was not an easy ride. Hurdles were encountered and conquered with hard work and dedication of the OYE! Editorial Team Members, without neglecting their professional responsibilities. The OYE! Team would like to thank all the people who have contributed in realizing this magazine. Special thanks to the authors of all the articles that were submitted. We hope you will continue to patronize OYE! .Credits are due to many people for their special effort… • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dr: Mruthyunjaya Kori for reviewing and approving our magazine. Seema Vijay Singh and the HR Team for helping us with all the HR as well as legal issues. Kannan K and all the OASIS committee members for their help and support Ganesh.D for naming the magazine as OYE!, leading this effort and maintaining the focus of the team. Siddharth Das for naming and introducing dUZZO , the official mascot...
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