GATORNOMICS: PROFITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF ALLIGATORS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

The American alligator is no longer an endangered species. Alligator farms and ranches are regulated by government agencies, which provide economic incentives to ensure sustainable use. The collection of eggs laid in the wild and the subsequent release of juveniles back into the wild foster a synergy between wild and captive populations, implying that successful regulation must keep producers profitable. Specific policies are assessed in terms of profitability and sustainable use.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

107th Congress

A variety of animal agriculture issues, including prices, the impact of consolidation in the meat production/packing industry, trade, and the environmental impacts of large feedlots, continue to generate interest in Congress. This issue brief discusses these issues, as well as the 2002 farm bill, which contains several provisions affecting animal agriculture, including protections for contract growers, disaster assistance, country-of-origin labeling, and increased funding for conservation purposes

Engaging youth in post-disaster research: Lessons learned from a creative methods approach

Children and youth often demonstrate resilience and capacity in the face of disasters. Yet, they are typically not given the opportunities to engage in youth-driven research and lack access to official channels through which to contribute their perspectives to policy and practice during the recovery process. To begin to fill this void in research and action, this multi-site research project engaged youth from disaster-affected communities in Canada and the United States. This article presents a flexible youth-centric workshop methodology that uses participatory and arts-based methods to elicit and explore youth’s disaster and recovery experiences. The opportunities and challenges associated with initiating and maintaining partnerships, reciprocity and youth-adult power differentials using arts-based methods, and sustaining engagement in post-disaster settings, are discussed. Ultimately, this work contributes to further understanding of the methods being used to conduct research for, with, and about youth.Keywords: youth, disaster recovery, engagement, resilience, arts-based methods, participatory researc

Temporality in Designed Landscapes: the theory and its practice in works of some major landscape designers 1945-2005

This study analyses temporality in designed landscapes. The meaning of temporality is explored, taking us beyond common conceptualisations of time. Temporality, invariably poorly understood in a landscape context, and previously acknowledged as being important, but with only limited explicit discourse, is examined through the lens of a fresh theoretical articulation of temporality pertaining to designed landscapes. A phenomenological approach becomes imperative; and is employed in probing the work, through writing, of several eminent landscape designers between 1945 and 2005. These designers’ works are analysed through the texts, and with support from images of the works, for characteristics of temporality. Textual material offered a broad range of verbal articulation of these characteristics. Some designed landscapes are described with explicit verbalisation of their temporal qualities: others require analysis to discover their temporal qualities from text that is only mildly suggestive. The heterochronous characteristics of temporality expressed in these designers’ works are named and ordered within five themes: tempo, process, duration, imagination and layers. Theoretical understanding of temporality builds with identification of its applications in designed landscapes

Energy Costs and Agriculture

U.S. agriculture is not an especially energy-intensive industry, but energy does account for about 6% of farm production costs. Additionally, farming is a highly mechanized industry and requires timely energy supplies at particular stages of the production cycle in order to achieve optimum yields. A substantial part of energy use by agriculture is indirect —embodied in the chemicals applied and machinery used on farms

107th Congress

A variety of animal agriculture issues, including prices, the impact of consolidation in the meat production/packing industry, trade, and the environmental impacts of large feedlots, continue to generate interest in Congress. This issue brief discusses these issues, as well as the 2002 farm bill, which contains several provisions affecting animal agriculture, including protections for contract growers, disaster assistance, country-of-origin labeling, and increased funding for conservation purposes

Mycena pseudopicta (J.E. Lange) Kühner, a rare graminicolous species growing on Poaceae

Mycena pseudopicta (J .E. Lange) Kühner, una rara especie graminícola creciendo sobre Poaceae. Mycena pseudopicta, una rara especie de la sección Cinerellae Singer ex Maas Geest., encontrada en España, se describe e ilustra macro y microscópicamente. Esta especie se caracteriza por sus láminas muy decurrentes, por sus queilocistidios con largas y abundantes diverticulaciones y por su hábitat sobre gramíneas en descomposición.Mycena pseudopicta (J .E. Lange) Kühner, a rare graminicolous species growing on Poaceae. Mycena pseudopicta, a rare species from section Cinerellae Singer ex Maas Geest., ocurring in Spain, is described and illustrated macro- and microscopically. It is characterized by its strongly decurrent gills, its cheilocystidia with fairly long and coarse excrescences and its graminicolous habitat