Rural America and the South have the highest percent of veterans with service-related disabilities

Veterans with service-related disabilities are concentrated in the American South and in rural places, this new fact sheet finds. Issued to commemorate Veterans Day (November 11), the report analyzes new data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u27s 2008 American Community Survey, which released service-related disability data for the first time

Young child poverty in 2009: rural poverty rate jumps to nearly 29 percent in second year of recession

The U.S. Census Bureau\u27s release of its American Community Survey data in September 2010 illustrated some expected changes in poverty rates in 2009, the second year of the Great Recession. For young children under age 6, living in poverty is especially difficult, given the long-term effects on health and education. Every region of the country except the West saw increases in rural young child poverty in 2009

Rural and Urban Children Have Lower Rates of Health Insurance Coverage and are More Often Covered by Public Plans

This Carsey brief looks at the geographic distribution of health insurance for children. Based on data from the 2008 American Community Survey, it includes such findings as one in ten children are still uninsured, insurance rates vary considerably by geographic area, and rural children are most likely to depend on public plans for their health care

Patient Satisfaction and Ultrasound Use During Pregnancy

Use, number, and frequency of ultrasounds women receive during pregnancy vary widely in practice. Current evidence suggests that women presenting with pregnancy complications benefit from additional ultrasounds, although excessive ultrasound use in low risk pregnancies may be unnecessary, costly and potentially harmful. However, evidence also finds that the use of ultrasound technology is associated with mothers’ feelings of security and satisfaction with care; health care organizations are incentivized to promote these feelings of patient satisfaction, especially when clinical risk is considered low. Here, we examine the impact of ultrasound use on satisfaction during pregnancy among women in the Northeast who have recently given birth through an online retrospective survey. Contrary to expectations, findings suggest that ultrasound use is not a significant driver of satisfaction with pregnancyrelated care. Efforts to enhance patient satisfaction during pregnancy using ultrasounds may increase resource use and cost, but do little to enhance patient experience overal

Texas Forestry Paper No. 23

Alternatives in southern wildlife-timber managementhttps://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/texas_forestry_papers/1011/thumbnail.jp

Texas Forestry Paper No. 9

Managing for quail and timber in longleaf pine forestshttps://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/texas_forestry_papers/1020/thumbnail.jp

Promoting Soft Mast for Wildlife in Intensively Managed Forests

The fruit of woody plants is important as food for wildlife (Martin et al. 1951, Lay 1965). The relation of fruit production to southern forest stand conditions has been explored in only a few studies. Fruit production is greater in forest clearings than in closed forest stands (Lay 1966, Elalls and Alcaniz 1968). In Georgia slash pine (Pinus elliottii) plantations, fruit yields of shrubs are greatest in 4-yeas-old stands, and soil disturbance in site preparation greatly reduces fruit yields (Johnson and Landers 1978). Total fruit production is greatest in 5-year-old bedded loblolly pine (P. taeda) plantations in Mississippi (Campo and Hurst 1980). Data are limited, however, on how fruit yields are affected by various site preparation treatments for planting pines arid by conditions in developing pine stands over a period of years. In this study, we compare fruit production after 4 site treatments on clear-cuts 3, 5, and 8 growing seasons after pine planting

Texas Forestry Paper No. 28

Plants following timber harvest: importance to songbirdshttps://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/texas_forestry_papers/1016/thumbnail.jp

Soil response to clearcutting and site preparation in East Texas

On an east Texas forest site, clearcutting and site preparation did not change the soil pH. Chopping and KG blading significantly reduced organic matter in the surface soil, while burning slightly increased it. Organic matter showed a positive and significant relationship to potassium, calcium and magnesium. All site treatments increased phosphorus and potassium, with the greatest increase on the burned plots. Calcium and magnesium contents also increased with burning but decreased with KG blading. Burning appeared better than the other treatments for maintaining or improving the soil nutrient regime. However, planted loblolly pine seedlings survived and grew best with mechanical treatments that controlled competing vegetation