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Responses of Raptorial Birds to Low Level Military Jets and Sonic Booms: Results of the 1980-1981 Joint U.S. Air Force-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Study

Summary: For this study, we gathered several kinds of data to determine the likely effects of low level jets and sonic booms on nesting Peregrine Falcons and other raptors. We directly observed responses to worst case stimulus loads: responses to extremely frequent and extremely nearby jet aircraft were often minimal, seldom significant and never associated with reproductive failure. Likewise, re
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D. H. Ellis

Synthesis and Evaluation of Avian Population and Habitat Data for West Virginia

No abstract available.
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S.H. Anderson, C.S. Robbins, J.R. Partelow

Synthesis and Evaluation of Avian Populations and Habitat Data for Alabama

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S.H. Anderson, C.S. Robbins, J.R. Partelow

Synthesis and Evaluation of Avian Populations and Habitat Data for Pennsylvania

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S.H. Anderson, C.S. Robbins, J.R. Partelow, J.S. Weske

Inhibition of ammonia and nitrite toxicity to channel catfish

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J.R. Tomasso, B.A. Simco, K. B. Davis

Fungal diseases of fishes: Book 6

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G.A. Neish, G.C. Hughes

Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 2, 1879-1904 : A history of geology in relation to the development of public-land, federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United

In the traditional view of the Survey's first 25 years, which are the subject of much of this volume, John Wesley Powell, with his broad view of science and advanced ideas of land and water in the West, is the heroic figure. Clarence King is dismissed as brilliant but with a limited view of science as mining geology, and Charles D. Walcott is regarded primarily as a brilliant paleontologist chosen
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Mary C. Rabbitt

Whooping crane recovery plan

This plan has been prepared under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and subsequent amendments. The Plan is designed to provide decision makers with an orderly set of events which, if carried out to a successful completion, will result in changing the status of the species from the endangered to the threatened level. It must be recognized that this Plan has been prepared 40 years
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David L. Olsen, David R. Blankenship, Harold D. Irby, Ray C. Erickson, Ross Lock, Roderick C. Drewien, Lawrence S. Smith