TB131: Tree Improvement in the Northeast: Interim Summary and Recommendations for Selected Species

This publication of the regional research project NE-27, Genetics and Improvement of Northeastern Trees, is intended to provide an overview of current knowledge regarding genetic variation and tree improvement practices for eleven common tree species in the Northeast. The authors have attempted to summarize the information that will be most useful to forest managers, administrators, and field foresters in this region. Our intent is to be informative, not exhaustive.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_techbulletin/1067/thumbnail.jp

From Natural Resources to Environment : Broadening Our Mission and Message

This important conference (the fourth in a series) addresses higher education in “natural resources.” Indeed, most participants are affiliated with programs, departments, schools, or colleges of natural resources and/or related professional terms such as conservation, forestry, wildlife biology, range science, and park management. By professional standards, these areas of study and practice are relatively young. However, the words we use to describe them (and ourselves) are a century or more old. Gifford Pinchot was America’s first professional forester, and he coined the word “conservation” early in his career (or so he writes in his book, Breaking New Ground). The Conservation Movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was founded on the principle that we need to “manage our natural resources more efficiently” through application of science and technology, and this idea was at the heart of emerging professions such as forestry, fish and game management, range science, and water resource development

Managing information technology (BI)

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Integrating Across Functional Areas with a Computer-Assisted Case

"The last decade has seen many universities striving to achieve three major goals in their undergraduate business programs: 1. the introduction of management science/operations research techniques which the students can apply to various decision settings; 2. the utilization of the computer as a significant tool in the decision- making process; and 3. the integration of various functional areas within the business school curriculum. Indiana University--Bloomington has made progress in achieving these goals through their integrative core program. In 1972, this program was enhanced by an Interesting teaching innovation--a computerassisted, integrative case-The Gulfways Equipment Company, Inc. In this case exercise, students must develop a one year operating plan for this firm troubled by financial difficulty. A description of the experience and the results of this experiment are the subject matter of this paper.