A SURVEY OF THE WOODY PLANTS OF A SELECTED AREA IN OSAGE TOWNSHIP ALLEN COUNTY KANSAS

This paper contains the results of studies of the woody plants of a selected area in Osage township, Allen county, Kansas, during the spring, summer, and fall of 1934 and spring of 1935. The area is two miles long and approximately three hundred yards wide, located in the northeastern part of Allen county about three miles east of Mildred, Kansas. In making this survey the writer has attempted to identify and classify the woody plants, namely the trees, shrubs, and vines

Wekiva Basin onsite sewage treatment and disposal system study

Existing onsite systems and aquifer vulnerability in the Wekiva Basin. Recommendations from the Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs, Division of Environmental Health, Florida Department of Health. (11 slides

Establishing Carex scopluorum seedlings to restore the vegetation of Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, USA

2018 Summer.Includes bibliographical references.Wet meadows are critically altered and at-risk ecosystems globally and in the Sierra Nevada of California. The low vegetation cover created by legacy disturbances is a restoration priority due to the importance of organic-rich soils for future plant establishment, carbon storage, and water retention. Wet meadows are characterized by seasonally saturated fine-textured mineral soils with significantly more organic matter than surrounding areas, shallow groundwater (< 1 m), and vegetation dominated by herbaceous plant species. This research focused on the establishment requirements of seedlings of the native sedge Carex scopulorum in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, USA. I provide critical information on biomass contribution of a key wet meadow species that could also be used in other restoration efforts in similarly degraded subalpine meadows. We tested the suitability of this species for use in future restoration work and assessed the growth of C. scopulorum seedlings in a fully factorial experiment with small mammal herbivore exclosures and planting density treatments. Seedlings were planted in June 2016 and survival was high, approximately 98%, living through the summer of 2016 and 71% surviving through the end of the 2017 summer. After two seasons of growth, planted seedlings more than doubled in area (horizontal tiller spread) and nearly doubled their longest leaf lengths. Total C. scopulorum seedling biomass increased more than six-fold from the delivered seedlings in 2016 to end of the 2017 growing season. Carex scopulorum seedlings had greater mean biomass, 703.44 g/m2 ± 246.54, than all other species in our study plots and had more than twice the belowground biomass per unit area of other herbaceous species sampled. In addition, planted C. scopulorum seedlings allocated a greater portion of their biomass below-ground (higher mean ratio) than all herbaceous species (all comparisons p = <0.05) other than Carex subnigricans (p = 0.051). Our results indicate that C. scopulorum is an appropriate species for restoration in Tuolumne Meadows where increasing biomass inputs to the system is a priority and could be a valuable tool for revegetation and restoration of other degraded meadows in the Sierra Nevada

Development of a bedrest muscle stress apparatus

In attempting further to define the deleterious effects of spaceflight on the human body, measurement systems and techniques were devised to determine the loss of skeletal muscle strength and tone as a result of spaceflight exposure. In order to determine how the muscle degradation process progresses with time during nonuse, a system for measuring muscle stress during bedrest was developed. The Bedrest Muscle Stress Apparatus is configured to slip snugly over the foot board of a standard hospital bed. Data collected with this device correlated well with pre- and post-bedrest data collected with the original skeletal muscle stress apparatus

Investigating the Relationship Between Community Arts Engagements and College Students' Sense of Community

This study builds upon Astin?s (2012) Input-Environment-Output conceptual framework to determine the relationship between college students (inputs), their frequency of participation in arts engagements (environment), and their sense of community (outputs), as measured by McMillan, Peterson, and Speers? (2008) Brief Sense of Community Scale. A survey was administered to 403 college students from one mid-sized public research university in the upper Midwest region in early spring 2020. Results indicated the most frequently attended arts engagements for college students were festivals and concerts, and the least frequently reported were galas or art receptions and creative workshops. Findings also indicated a relationship exists between frequency of arts engagements and sense of community, with higher levels of arts engagements associated with higher levels of sense of community. Implications of these results for universities, community arts partners, and college students are discussed