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A land ethic: What will ag land value correction mean for conservation
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. March 27, 2015. What will ag land value correction mean for conservation. Of course, our landscapes are affected by the economics of land sales and land use. In recent years, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres in the central US fell by over 20% in many states- because it made more sense ($ $) to plant corn than to take the lower lease price offered by USDA for CRP land. The bottom line is that we ...
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A land ethic: September 2013
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. September 8, 2013. Children are NOT like flowers. Yesterday was a nice, warm Saturday in eastern Nebraska, and our family trekked out to a local orchard to pick raspberries and apples. By day's end, a pie featuring both fruits was in our tummies. This billboard was pro-life. It was bedazzled with images of flowers, and it read, "Too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers.". You'll see ...
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A land ethic: May 2014
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. May 29, 2014. I've had some interesting experiences with this exercise, especially when I used it in Namibia. Students ate the beans). I like this trend! Students work on their population sampling exercise, after living through. My lecture on maximum likelihood estimation. May 24, 2014. And, as we say.who can blame a landowner for trying to make the most of their investment? Then God said, 'Let Us make man ...
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A land ethic: December 2013
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. December 30, 2013. Banks, corporations, and the Nebraska landscape. A person can easily get down in the dumps about wildlife in the Great Plains in the face of seemingly uncontrollable economic forces. Been there, done that. Wrote about it several times: here. I talked about it here. Invited a renowned trial lawyer, David Domina. Important for wildlife biologists who care about private lands. And, Domin...
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A land ethic: Finding the photo to match the words
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. May 6, 2015. Finding the photo to match the words. Most readers of this blog realize that I do some poetic musings from time to time. And, I like to find imagery to match the words- but sometimes, it is just easier to let the words create their own images. A couple years ago, I wrote a piece called " Arriving at night. We came to this place. Down a road that seemed like. In the narrow glare of our high-beams.
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A land ethic: What is happening to yucca in the Sandhills?
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. July 16, 2014. What is happening to yucca in the Sandhills? It is possible that yucca is the only plant, other than "grass", recognized by most people as they drive through the Nebraska Sandhills. Yucca is the megaflora of the treeless plains. That's right- yucca is the bison of the prairie plant world! Yucca is pretty cool, too- it has a unique pollinator relationship with a moth. Photo by Larkin Powell.
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A land ethic: January 2015
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. January 22, 2015. Yuccas will bounce back. In a recent post. I mentioned a wide-spread illness of yucca (. Yucca in the north-central region of the Nebraska Sandhills. During the summer of 2014. A yellow condition of the leaves. Can be seen (photo by Larkin Powell). Many people wondered- are we going to lose our yucca? Scientists from the UNL Center reflected that the spread of this disease was unusually wi...
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A land ethic: February 2015
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. February 24, 2015. Dave Domina talks about future of farming. The School of Natural Resources at University of Nebraska-Lincoln was fortunate to host Mr. David Domina, a trial lawyer with Domina and Associates, as our seminar speaker on Friday, February, 20, 2015. He gave a powerful presentation about forces that he sees on our farm landscapes. In particular, he addresses the divide that I've mentioned.
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A land ethic: November 2013
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. November 30, 2013. How public is the Public Trust Doctrine? Biologists with Nebraska Game and Parks Commission take. Measurements from a male mallard duck captured in the. Nebraska Sandhills. Ballot initiatives take decision-making. On wildlife issues away from biologists who work with. Wildlife and habitat on a daily basis. Photo by Larkin Powell. Who does own wildlife in the US? The upshot is.as a cit...
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A land ethic: May 2015
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Life on the Great Plains. Ideas, perspectives, issues, and observations from a wildlife ecologist. May 6, 2015. Finding the photo to match the words. Most readers of this blog realize that I do some poetic musings from time to time. And, I like to find imagery to match the words- but sometimes, it is just easier to let the words create their own images. A couple years ago, I wrote a piece called " Arriving at night. We came to this place. Down a road that seemed like. In the narrow glare of our high-beams.
