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Sensitivity of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's stream network temperature model

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J. M. Bartholow

Integrated wetland management: concepts and opportunities

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M. K. Laubhan, L. H. Fredrickson

What is a traditional use?

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Berton Lee Lamb

Preliminary results of a helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey of the Oak Ridge Reservation, Tennessee for environmental and geologic site characterization

The 35,252 -acre Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR), in the western portion of the Appalachian Valley and Ridge province in Tennessee, has been a nuclear production and development facility for 50 years. Contaminants in the many waste sites on the ORR include heavy radioactive isotopes as well as many organic and inorganic compounds. The locations, geometry, and contents of many of these waste sites are
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W.E. Doll, Jonathan E. Nyquist, V.F. Labson, L. Pellerin

National Geodata Policy Forum: present and emerging U.S. policies governing the development, evolution, and use of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure: summary report

The first National Geo-Data Policy Forum was held on May 10-12, 1993, in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. The objective of the National Geo-Data Policy Forum was to examine policies related to the evolution and use of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). A second goal was to identify issues concerning spatial data technology and its use by all citizens. Policy makers from the public and priva
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U.S. Geological Survey Federal Geographic Data Committee

Managing reservoir storage for instream slow

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T. J. Waddle

Carbohydrate utilization and its impact on some metabolic and histological parameters in white sturgeon

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S. S. O. Hung, K. Fynn-Aikins
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Understanding coupled climatic, hydrological, and ecosystem responses to global climate change in the Colorado Rockies biogeographical area

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T. J. Stohlgren, Jill Baron, Timothy G.F. Kittel

Paradigms for managing carnivores: The case of the sea otter

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J. A. Estes, G. B. Rathbun, G. R. VanBlaricom

Instream flows according to the ASCE model water code

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G. W. Sherk, Berton L. Lamb

Landfill mapping using multi-disciplinary geophysical techniques at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO

This paper describes a multi-disciplinary geophysical survey conducted over a landfill on the U.S. Air Force Academy grounds near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The landfill is known to contain waste generated during the construction of the Academy and reportedly contains buried steel drums. The purpose of the geophysical surveys was to determine the subsurface distribution of buried metallic objects
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Robert Horton, John W. Busby, Michael H. Powers, Ronald N. Knoshaug

Normal years in wetland delineation

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Gregor T. Auble, E. W. Bokman