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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. 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
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
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
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