B822: The Economic Benefits of Late-Season Black Fly Control

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) contracted with the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maine to study the economic benefits of black fly control. The DEP requested that the study focus on the benefits of late-season black fly control. This decision was based on the belief that any control program for black flies would be initially directed toward the late-season varieties since they primarily exist along the Penobscot River between the towns of Millinocket and Howland. The purpose of this report is to present the results of a study to measure the economic benefits of late-season black fly control. The study objectives were to (I) determine the attitudes of residents toward early- and late-season black flies and other pests in the study area; (2) Measure the economic benefits of late-season black fly control that would accrue to residents of the study area; and (3) determine the factors that influence the magnitude of the economic benefits of late-season black fly control.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_bulletin/1052/thumbnail.jp

Nature’s nations: the shared conservation history of Canada and the USA

Historians often study the history of conservation within the confines of national borders, concentrating on the bureaucratic and political manifestations of policy within individual governments. Even studies of the popular expression of conservationist ideas are generally limited to the national or sub-national (province, state, etc.) scale. This paper suggests that conservationist discourse, policy and practice in Canada and the USA were the products of a significant cross-border movement of ideas and initiatives derived from common European sources. In addition, the historical development of common approaches to conservation in North America suggests, contrary to common assumptions, that Canada did not always lag behind the USA in terms of policy innovation. The basic tenets of conservation (i.e. state control over resource, class-based disdain for subsistence hunters and utilitarian approaches to resource management) have instead developed at similar time periods and along parallel ideological paths in Canada and the USA

Benefits of Effective Reading Strategies for Elementary School Students

Reading is important in the elementary school level. Students are told to practice reading, and that this is essential to their learning since their first day in Kindergarten. There are many different kinds of effective reading strategies that teachers use. This capstone examines the various different kinds of effective reading strategies and how they benefit elementary school students. Through use of literature review, survey questionnaires, and interview with teachers in the Monterey Bay area, the results indicate which reading strategies work best and benefit most for elementary school students

Red pine and the white-pine weevil

Master of ScienceForestryUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115494/1/39015003275503.pd

Lt. Andrew Drew

Lieutenant Andrew Drew looking through binoculars.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms1_photographs/2355/thumbnail.jp