The ecology of wolverines in southcentral Alaska

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1985A study of wolverine (Gulo gulo) ecology was conducted within the upper Susitna Basin in south central Alaska between May 1980 and April 1982. The study was initiated in an attempt to identify potential impacts of hydroelectric development on the wolverine populations. Twelve wolverines (10 males) were fitted with radio transmitters and relocated 153 times. The mean winter and summer home ranges for adult males were 353 km2 and 385 km2, respectively. Adult male home ranges were primarily mutually exclusive, having an average overlap of 4.2% between neighbors. On an annual basis, wolverines appeared to select spruce cover types; this selection was strongest during the winter. The most important foods to wolverines were carrion of ungulates (winter) and ground squirrels (summer). The wolverine population in the Susitna Basin during the study period was not heavily exploited by man and was secure

MiRTLE (Mixed-Reality Teaching and Learning Environment): from prototype to production and implementation

This position paper focuses on our efforts to implement and evaluate a Mixed Reality Teaching and Learning Environment (MiRTLE) in higher education institutions and other organisations, our current technical research to streamline and improve the utility of the system, and potential pedagogical developments for MiRTLE in the future

DISCUSSION: AN EVALUATION OF THE 1981 FARM PROGRAM FOR CROPS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE 1985 FARM BILL

Agricultural and Food Policy,

CAUSES OF RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

This paper investigates the sources of growth in agricultural value-added (GDP) and rural household incomes using a sample of developing countries. The main factors are: (i) providing macroeconomic and political stability; (ii) institutions establishing property rights and incentives; (iii) access to competitive input markets and remunerative output markets; and (iv) adoption of productivity-enhancing technology, and (v) real income growth in the non-agricultural economy. The evidence indicates a surprisingly large role of the fifth of these.Community/Rural/Urban Development,

THE EFFECTS OF RECESSION ON THE RURAL-FARM ECONOMY

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

COMMENTS ON EMERGING AGRICULTURAL POLICIES OF THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION

Agricultural and Food Policy,

DEVELOPING COLLABORATION IN RURAL POLICY: LESSONS FROM A STATE RURAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

Community/Rural/Urban Development,

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in the United States and Canada

Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,