A forest working plan for the Fort Riley Military Reservation

Citation: Hoffman, Emmett Vivian. Three characteristic women of Shakespeare. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1898.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: The Fort Riley Reservation, composing an area of about 32,000 Acres, is located in Central Kansas. The topography of the land makes it peculiarly well adapted for maneuvers of Cavalry and Field Artillery, the School of Application for these branches of the regular Army being located here. To assist in obscuring the movements of troops, it is proposed to establish belts of trees on the open ridges, particularly those on the North part of the Reserve. Brigadier General E. S. Godfrey, Post Commandant, who is in charge of the work, wishes also to place the woodland of the Reserve under conservative management for the production of fuel, and post and pole timber. The woodland is mostly on the bottom land, and covers about 850 Acres. This working plan provides for the beginning of forestry on the woodland, and for the formation of about fourteen (14) miles of screen -belts. The reservation includes two classes of soil formation - river bottom and upland. Approximately, one-third of the South part of the tract is bottom land, along the Kansas River, which forms part of the boundary of the Reserve. The soil is a fertile sandy loam, formed by alluvial deposits from the river. The sub-soil is coarse sand or gravel. The surface is nearly level, about twelve to sixteen feet above the water table. The greater part of the woodland is on this bottom land. The upland is separated from the river bottom by abrupt rocky slopes, capped with limestone. The surface is rolling or hilly, and is much broken by rocky ravines and gullies. The soil is a clay loam, varying in depth and fertility. The sub-soil is clay or rock. On the ridges, where screen-belts are wanted, no obstruction such as rocks are offered to plowing, and the soil is suitable for tree growth

United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin 1369

Provides instructions for bridge-grafting to save fruit trees that have been damaged by rodents or disease

The role of skin conductance level reactivity in the impact of children’s exposure to interparental conflict on their attention performance

Previous research suggests that undermining of attention performance might be one decisive underlying mechanism in the link between marital conflict and children's academic maladjustment, but little is known about specific risk patterns in this regard. This study examines, in an experimental approach, the role of children's history of interparental discord and skin conductance level reactivity (SCLR) as moderators in the link between analogue marital conflict exposure and children's attention. The attention performance of 57 children, aged 11 to 13 years, was assessed prior to and immediately after a 1-min video exposure to either (a) a couple conflict or (b) a neutral condition. SCLR was measured continuously throughout the stimulus presentation. Results indicated that children's family background of interparental conflict and their physiological reactivity moderated the influence of the experimental stimulus on children's short-term attention performance. Lower SCLR served as a protective factor in children from high-conflict homes exposed to the couple conflict. The current study advances the body of knowledge in this field by identifying risk patterns for the development of attention problems in children in relation to marital conflict exposure