An evaluation of the utilization of remote sensing in resource and environmental management of the Chesapeake Bay region

A nine-month study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the NASA Wallops Chesapeake Bay Ecological Program in remote sensing. The study consisted of a follow-up investigation and information analysis of actual cases in which remote sensing was utilized by management and research personnel in the Chesapeake Bay region. The study concludes that the NASA Wallops Chesapeake Bay Ecological Program is effective, both in terms of costs and performance

Extending The Grazing Season Through The Use Of Cover Crops

The use of cover crops in integrated crop-livestock systems is not a novel approach but has increased in popularity over the last few years due to the renewed interest in soil conservation, nutrient cycling, and water conservation. Moreover, cool-season annual forages have the ability to extend the grazing season, reduce the need for stored or bought supplemental feedstuffs, and as a result, lower winter-feeding costs. Small grain cover crops, legumes, forbes, and annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) vary in their growth distribution and can be planted alone in monocultures or planted in mixtures to take advantage of the individual growth patterns. The Southeast alone accounts for 12% of the total farmland in the United States and has major cash crops of cotton, peanuts, soybeans and corn in addition to warm-season perennial pastures that can be overseeded with cover crops. Opportunity exists for beef and row crop producers to diversify their operations and take advantage of the growing season of cover crops

Coverage of Australia by CNN World Report and US Television Network News

This content analysis contrasts CNN World Report and US television network news stories regarding Australia, using the CNN World Report Index and the Vanderbilt Television News (US networks) Archive and Index, both from 1987 to 1996. Significant differences emerged in the Australia topics chosen for presentation in these different news environments. US network stories typically were breaking news voice-overs of sports, disasters, animals, national politics, and crime. The two had similar percentages of soft news, but CNN World Report had significantly more background reporter packages on health, culture, economics, education, science, the military, and the environment

Co-Use of Compatible Private Easements by Cable Television Franchisees Under the 1984 Cable Act: Federal Refinement of an Established Right

Before the Cable Act became law, a number of obstacles had retarded cable television\u27s growth and development. One such obstacle involved private landowners, especially real estate developers and landlords. By the 1980s, many developers were attempting to physically exclude franchised cable television disseminators from their developments so that the resulting captive audience could be served, on an exclusive basis, by the developer or someone with whom the developer had contracted. These exclusionary practices represented a serious problem, since it is estimated that half of all new residential construction in the United States is now in the form of planned or multiple-dwelling unit (MDU) type developments. By 1984, some state decisions had applied standard principles of easement law to largely solve the problems created by attempts to exclude franchised cable television firms from residential developments. These state easement cases hold that, if a landowner has granted an easement across private property which is compatible with the uses to which cable television would put the easement, the easement holder can subsequently apportion the easement and allow cable television to co-use the easement, without landowner consent. In California, such easement cases were first discussed and applied in Salvaty v. Falcon Cable Television