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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"Southwestern Virginia"”.
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Cyberbullying in Middle Schools in Southwestern Virginia
… in middle schools across Region VII in southwest Virginia. Cyberbullying policies and strategies used to address Cyberbullying were examined. The experiences of middle school principals with Cyberbullying incidents were explored. The aim of this study was to address the following three research …
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Ecosystematic studies on roadside vegetation in southwestern Virginia
… roadside sites throughout seven counties in Southwestern Virginia were investigated with respect to life form, dispersal type and floristics. A floristic checklist of 247 species, 182 genera and 57 families was compiled. Dispersal mechanism and life form were determined for each species. A …
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Macroinvertebrate communities inhabiting surface mine wetlands of southwestern Virginia
Wetland acreage in Southwest Virginia has increased because of formation of wetlands on relic surface mine benches. Prior to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (PL 95-87) once mining operations were completed the sites were abandoned. These areas presented novel landscapes in …
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Wildflower establishment on landfills in central and southwestern Virginia
Municipal solid waste landfills are convenient means of disposing of society's waste; once closed, they become a liability to the community due to attributes which contribute to soil and water contamination. Regulations state that adequate vegetation be used to maintain the integrity of the soil …
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Community gradients in the Martinsburg formation (Ordovician), southwestern Virginia
… of the Martinsburg Formation (Ordovician) in southwestern Virginia offer an excellent opportunity to test the applicability of gradient analysis in a paleoecological setting. A broad spectrum of environments, from nearshore to open-marine, elastic to carbonate-dominated facies, provide both …
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Predicting forest cover types in Southwestern Virginia using topographic information
… site factors and existing forest communities in southwestern Virginia. A pair of dichotomous keys was produced that "predicted" the forest type most likely to occur in an area based on topography. Maps of predicted forest types, using the Trayis (1982) and SAF (1980) vegetation classification …
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Small mammal use of abandoned surface mines in southwestern Virginia
… on 12 abandoned contour surface mines in southwestern Virginia during the summer of 1976 to determine relationships between small mammal diversity and abundance and select vegetation and site factors. Eleven species of mammals were captured during four, six-night trapping periods. …
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Modeling winter habitat for white-tailed deer in southwestern Virginia
… study areas on the Jefferson National Forest, southwestern Virginia. Habitat data were collected on the same transects in July-September, 1985. Additional habitat information was measured from aerial photographs and USDA Forest Service compartment maps. These data were used to develop eleven …
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Relation of Pulaski and Seven Springs faults in southwestern Virginia
… Retreat area of Smyth and Wythe counties, Virginia, contains the “missing link” to the long assumed, but heretofore unproven, continuation of the Pulaski fault trace southwestward around the structurally complex Marion dome area. The Seven Springs fault of Cooper (1936) has long been …
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Reproduction, Survival, and Denning Ecology of Black Bears in Southwestern Virginia
Thirty-four (6 M, 28 F) of 93 black bears (<i>Ursus americanus</i>) captured during summers 1995 and 1996 were equipped with radio-collars. The mean age of male and females captured was 2.5 (<u>n</u> = 63; 2 males not aged) and 4.4 (<u>n</u> = 28) years, respectively. The mean date of females in …
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Utilization of natural nest sites by Eastern Bluebirds in southwestern Virginia
… nest sites in the vicinity of Blacksburg, Virginia, during 1976 and 1977. Forty-seven natural nest sites, 37 in fencepost cavities and ten in tree cavities were discovered by driving roads in rural areas, scanning fencerows and utility wires with binoculars, and by searching fencerows on …
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Petrology and diagenesis of the lower Mississippian Price Formation, southwestern Virginia
The primary objective of this study of four cores from the Lower Mississippian Price Formation was to determine the dominant controls on diagenesis and porosity as the Price sandstones are potential reservoirs for coalbed methane. Facies analyses of the cores, in combination with outcrop data from …
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Correlation of the Eggleston formation and related beds in southwestern Virginia
In the Middle Ordovician strata of southwestern Virginia, a distinctive succession of yellow-drab and gray mudstones, shales, and limestones occurs between the overlying Martinsburg formation and the underlying red Moccasin formation. For many years, part of this succession was classified with the …
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Isolation and lactose metabolism of Streptococcus lactis variety tardus from southwestern Virginia
… cultures in raw milk samples from five areas of southwestern Virginia. Three of the sampled areas contained a population of S. lactis var. tardus that composed 61.5, 90.0 and 95.2 per cent of the total lactic streptococci population. Identification of the S. lactis var. tardus cultures was …
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A study of the folklore of a mountainous section in Southwestern Virginia
… unprejudiced manner the cultural pattern of the Virginia southwest, into which has been woven so many and varied threads constituting the warp and the woof of a distinct heritage; in the belief that no people can be thoroughly understood apart from a knowledge of their peculiar ideologies. A …
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Population ecology of Pinus pungens in pine-oak forests of southwestern Virginia
… forests on Brush Mountain, Montgomery County, Virginia. The objective of this study was to examine the age structure and recruitment dynamics of <i>P. pungens</i>, a fire-adapted conifer, and to determine whether <i>P. pungens</i> populations would persist in the absence of fire. The age …
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Habitat preferences of the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus, in southwestern Virginia
… Sceloporus undulatus, was investigated in southwestern Virginia. Habitat features were measured at 158 lizard-centered plots and at paired random plots. Landscape-level variables, southerly aspect and mixed forest type, distinguished lizard-centered from random sites. Hatchlings were …
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