Creating a Northern Agriculture. II. Historical Perspectives in Alaskan Agriculture

Much can be learned about the present status of agriculture in Alaska from a review of the long and varied history of Alaskan agriculture. At some times, concerted public efforts have been directed to its development; at others, agriculture has suffered long periods of public neglect. At national levels, opinion has vacillated from limited optimism to abject negativism. However, correlations may be found among the public policy attitudes and agricultural development success

Creating a Northern Agriculture. IV. Reservation and Preservation of Agricultural Lands in Alaska

The reservation of agricultural lands is one of the most urgent, and least recognized, problems facing Alaskans today. While more than 17 million acres suitable for agricultural tillage have been identified, fewer than 20,000 acres, in widely scattered locations, are now being tilled and they are increasingly suffering the ravages of suburban, urban, and industrial encroachment. Most lands suitable for agricultural tillage in the future, and all lands suited to domestic livestock grazing, are now in public ownership and control; yet public land use plans do not include agricultural production1 as a consideration for the future in Alaska

The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate

The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate By Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson (WW Norton, New York and London, 2007 293 pages includes bibliography) The book is divided into chapters by state following the highway from east to west. It is lavishly illustrated with color images of stops on the journey from the early days to the present. Of course, the roadway in Adams County is today US Route 30 and passes through the borough of Abbotstown to the western end of the county near the Michaux State Forest. Adams County highlights include Hub Cap City in New Oxford and the famous Round Barn built by Aaron Sheely in 1914. Readers will enjoy the images and stories of the roadway so adeptly woven in the tight narrative by the authors. The Lincoln Highway they note, until the creation of the nation\u27s first limited assess highway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940 was the heart and soul of the nation. In Adams County it contributed much to the development of Gettysburg as a tourist destination. Wallis and Williamson make the reader rethink that next trip. Why be in a hurry? Stop and smell the roses. Some of the best part of American culture is still visible off the beaten path. Everyone who reads this work can\u27t help but enjoy it. [excerpt

Creating a Northern Agriculture. I. An Agricultural Development Perspective

Alaskans now face a time of decision with regard to agriculture. In the past, national and state bureaucracies have largely ignored agriculture. It has existed merely as a foreign intrusion into the northern ecosystem, with its scope and success pitifully limited. While rural areas have needed agriculture for subsistence, urban Alaska has had no such need, so it is easy for "natural status" environmental interests to hamper the genesis of an agricultural environment. The public must realize that a planned development based on a new perspective can prevent discordant effects on the Alaska wilderness

Creating a Northern Agriculture. V. An Agroeuthenics Approach to Development in Alaska.

Grateful acknowledgment is extended to Dr. A. L. Brundage, Chairman of the Publications Committee, for drawing the flow charts in this publication.The growing national concern for a better environment and more rewarding life-style is being reflected in the many proposals regarding Alaska's future. Particular attention has been directed to preserving wilderness, wildlife, and scenic values. Increasing attention is being directed to energy resource development. Continuing attention is being directed to fishery, forestry, and recreation resources. All incorporate concern for certain attributes of a more rewarding life-style. However, little attention is being directed to development concepts, or infrastructures, suited to Alaska's latent agricultural regions, and even less has been directed to the inter-relationships of rural-agricultural and urban-industrial developments

Creating a Northern Agriculture. III. Defining Parameters of Agricultural Potential in Alaska

Alaska's current land-use planning is characterized by a particular void in providing for future agricultural development. One reason for this void in planning has been a profound lack in identification of production possibilities in most areas of the state. While the report, ALASKA'S AGRICULTURAL POTENTIAL (4), generally identified some 16 million acres suitable for tillage, and millions of acres suitable for livestock grazing, it did not provide other than a cursory review of product types which might be grown in Alaska. Further, it did not identify probable locations where particular crops and livestock would be produced, nor possible scope and magnitude of such industry development

From Seers to Sen: The Meaning of Economic Development

inequality, poverty, employment, growth, neoclassicism, entitlement, famine

Invariant manifolds and the long-time asymptotics of the Navier-Stokes and vorticity equations on R^2

We construct finite-dimensional invariant manifolds in the phase space of the Navier-Stokes equation on R^2 and show that these manifolds control the long-time behavior of the solutions. This gives geometric insight into the existing results on the asymptotics of such solutions and also allows one to extend those results in a number of ways.Comment: 46 pages, 3 figure