47 research outputs found
Resource Management Thrusts and Opportunities: National Parks and Wildlife Refuges
Well, it\u27s been an interesting year. Somehow, it got to be very convenient for some folks to misconstrue what the Secretary had said. Some of those folks just seemed determined to make James Watt a household name-and they succeeded. And those same folks succeeded, too, in increasing the membership roles of a few of the environmental groups. But I don\u27t think they succeeded very well in listening to and understanding what the Secretary said a year ago .... So, as succinctly and plainly as possible, I will spell out again that the goals of this Administration weren\u27t designed to create the perfect agenda for environmentalism, nor for development interests for that matter. The goals weren\u27t pipe-dream perfection stuff for anybody ... but common sense management, balanced economic growth geared to benefit the entire country ... through orderly phased development and resource use based on wise, scientific wildlife, fishery and resources management. And I\u27m happy to say we\u27ve stuck to that original goal-no matter how others have tried to bungle it or misinterpret it-and I\u27m delighted to report we\u27ve made some pretty important achievements in the last year
The natural resources of Bolinas Lagoon: their status and future
This publication is an integral part of the Department's high-priority inventory and assessment of coastal marshland and tideflat resources. It is intended as a guide for citizens, planners, administrators, and all others interested in the use and development of coastal lands and waters.
Although the resources and problems of Bolinas Lagoon have probably been the subject of more biological and physical investigations than any small estuarine area of the California coast, many of the pertinent reports and information are not readily available to the public.
Consequently, it is one purpose of this report to summarize the lagoon's history, ecological attractions, educational values and the problems facing its continued existence. At the same time, it should provide concerned citizens with a knowledge of the sources of additional and more specific information.
Publication of this report is consistent with the obligation of the Department of Fish and Game to do everything in its power to protect and maintain the State's fish and wildlife resources. Therefore, its purpose transcends local issues on pollution and development, and the Department is, in fact, submitting a report to the people on the status and future of part of its inheritance and the dowry of coming generations.
The report is the third of a scheduled series. It follows similar releases on Upper Newport Bay (Orange County) and Goleta Slough (Santa Barbara county) in March and June of 1970. Documentation of the resources of other critical areas is in progress. There will be future reports of this nature on Elkhorn Slough, Morro Bay, Tomales Bay, Humboldt Bay, and highly threatened marshlands in southern California. (137 pp.
The natural resources of Humboldt Bay
In spite of its past abuses by man, Humboldt Bay is one of the few coastal estuaries remaining in California that has not been rendered largely unsuitable for wildlife by commercial development, dredging, filling or pollution. Its importance is emphasized considering that about 65 percent of the State's original estuarine tidelands have already been destroyed. The people have demonstrated their concern for our dwindling natural resources. If we are to preserve what remains it will be necessary for the people to exercise the wisest possible use of these resources.
Because of the importance of coastal wetlands to the fish and wildlife of California, the Department of Fish and Game has initiated a high priority statewide inventory of these wetlands. This publication is an integral part of that program. It is intended as a guide for citizens, planners,
administrators and all others interested in the use and development of coastal lands and waters.
The Department has been charged with the responsibility of protecting and maintaining the fish and wildlife resources of the State. This publication is directed towards meeting
this responsibility by outlining the specific resources and recreational aspects of Humboldt Bay, elucidating problems,
and recommending courses of action for future development.
Preservation of the Humboldt Bay resources is much more than a local issue. What is done or not done here can have statewide, national and international implications. It also must be recognized that there is an obligation to future generations. Decisions made today will affect all those
who follow in our footsteps. (200pp.
The natural resources of Elkhorn Slough: their present and future use
This report summarizes the history of the slough, ecological attractions, educational value, and problems facing its continued existence. Appended references provide the
interested and concerned citizen with sources of more specific information.
As a result of the initial survey of estuarine areas of California
(California Department of Fish and Game, 1969), the critical status of the coastal marshes became obvious. This report on Elkhorn Slough is part of the high priority inventory and assessment of coastal wetlands by the Department of Fish and Game, and it is intended as a guide for citizens, planners, administrators, and all others interested in the use and development of coastal lands and waters. As such, this report transcends local issues on pollution and development and, in fact, documents the status and future of natural resources that should be a part of the inheritance of following generations.
This publication is one of a scheduled series. It follows similar documents on Upper Newport Bay (orange county), Goleta Slough (Santa Barbara County) and the Bolinas Lagoon (Marin county). (Document has 126 pages
Neutrino Spectroscopy of the Early Phase of Nearby Supernovae
Neutrinos emitted during stellar core collapse up to their trapping phase
carry information about the stage from which the Supernova explosion process
initiates. The dominant emission mechanism is by electron capture on
free protons and f-p shell nuclei and the spectrum of these neutrinos is a
function of the ambient physical conditions within the core as well as the
nuclear equation of state. The number of collapse phase which can be
detected by Super-Kamioka and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory from a Supernova
within 1 kpc, and their generic energy spectra are given.Comment: 9 pages of text and tables plus 2 pages of figures. Accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. on 11th Jul., 1997. Please e-mail Comments
etc. to [email protected]
Massive stars as thermonuclear reactors and their explosions following core collapse
Nuclear reactions transform atomic nuclei inside stars. This is the process
of stellar nucleosynthesis. The basic concepts of determining nuclear reaction
rates inside stars are reviewed. How stars manage to burn their fuel so slowly
most of the time are also considered. Stellar thermonuclear reactions involving
protons in hydrostatic burning are discussed first. Then I discuss triple alpha
reactions in the helium burning stage. Carbon and oxygen survive in red giant
stars because of the nuclear structure of oxygen and neon. Further nuclear
burning of carbon, neon, oxygen and silicon in quiescent conditions are
discussed next. In the subsequent core-collapse phase, neutronization due to
electron capture from the top of the Fermi sea in a degenerate core takes
place. The expected signal of neutrinos from a nearby supernova is calculated.
The supernova often explodes inside a dense circumstellar medium, which is
established due to the progenitor star losing its outermost envelope in a
stellar wind or mass transfer in a binary system. The nature of the
circumstellar medium and the ejecta of the supernova and their dynamics are
revealed by observations in the optical, IR, radio, and X-ray bands, and I
discuss some of these observations and their interpretations.Comment: To be published in " Principles and Perspectives in Cosmochemistry"
Lecture Notes on Kodai School on Synthesis of Elements in Stars; ed. by Aruna
Goswami & Eswar Reddy, Springer Verlag, 2009. Contains 21 figure
Benzil fluorescence and phosphorescence emissions: a pertinent probe for the kinematic behaviour and microheterogeneity of supercritical CO2
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TFN-442NX70-4/1/6cf7b64b08fb1d9b37e33a23b914653