Ecological restoration of rangelands using wild-collected seeds can be challenging due to low seed quality, inconvenient anatomy, and poor plant establishment. In North America, the half-shrub winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata) is a valuable protein-rich forage for wildlife livestock. Seeds this species are contained in one-seeded fruits enclosed four fluffy, silky bracts. While removed from ...

Introduction . Using air-filled foam to contain and liquidate the flaming combustion of liquefied natural gas spills is one most optimal methods preventing escalation emergencies. However, amount data available today insufficient standardize basic parameters injection. The purpose this research project justify application identify following objectives are be attained towards end: assessment fir...

A series of photo-oxidation smog chamber experiments were performed to investigate the primary emissions and secondary aerosol formation from two different log wood burners and a residential pellet burner under different burning conditions: starting and flaming phase. Emissions were sampled from the chimney and injected into the smog chamber leading to primary organic aerosol (POA) concentratio...

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Biologists are nearly unanimous in their belief that humanity is in the process of extirpating a significant portion of the earth's species. The ways in which we are doing so reflect the magnitude and scale of human enterprise. Everything from highway construction to cattle ranching to leaky bait buckets has been implicated in the demise or endangerment of particular species. According to Wilso...

Rodenticides are commonly used for control of roof rats, Norway rats and house mice (known as commensal rodents) in and around poultry facilities as one component of an integrated pest management program. Most commercial baits are registered for rats and mice, although level of susceptibility to the toxicants, as well as the attractiveness and palatability of the bait formulation varies between...

Development of predictive formulae or qualitative statements about the probable outcome of control campaigns entails knowledge of bait quality and distribution, behavior, vagaries of weather at the time of the control campaign, and other factors which govern the probability that the target animals w i l l accept bait. This paper collates experience in recognizing, estimating and using some of t...