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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Working Landscapes"”.
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Social and ecological dimensions of non-native grass management in working landscapes
Many grasslands are working landscapes, defined as environments where economic productivity has the potential to coexist with other ecosystem services, including biodiversity. However, biodi-versity in working grasslands is threatened by the dominance of non-native grasses used as cattle forage. …
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Wildflowers in Working Landscapes: Establishment Methods and Impacts on Pollinators and Cattle
… to provide pollinator habitat in agricultural landscapes, focusing on the establishment of native wildflower plots in cattle pastures over two experiments. The first study investigates wildflower set-aside plots established in pastures at a farm in western Virginia, finding that plots sown with …
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Stewarding emotional places: Effects of place and emotion on pro-environmental behaviors in working landscapes
… of agroecosystems in the context of working landscapes in the Midwestern United States. In the first study, I conducted a systematic review to examine the role of emotions of pride and guilt in predicting pro-environmental behavior. Through a meta-analysis I found that across 35 …
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Influence Of Landscape Spatial Patterns And Land Use Planning On Grassland Bird Habitat Occupancy In Chester County, Pennsylvania
… underway to slow land conversion and conserve working landscapes. Because Chester County has maintained its working landscapes despite development pressures, the county provides an opportunity to examine the effects of land use change and agricultural preservation on grassland bird occurrence. …
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Choreographing Sediment
… the boundaries that have been erected between working landscapes and the public realm, and seeks to create a landscape that establishes a new sense of place prepared to mark the future of the new working urban waterfront; one where industrial operations generate new ecological substrates, and …
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Testing the effects of social pressures through signaling, shaming, & communication to reduce pollution
… pollution while still retaining productive working landscapes. In this research, we use laboratory experiments with university students to test impacts of social pressures and communication on individual decisions that generate water pollution. We test the impact of these treatments with and …
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An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States
… space, wildlife habitat). The majority of these working landscapes are privately owned and are situated on the wettest and most productive lands in the West, but ranchers often require access to public grazing lands to feed their cattle. Ranchers face narrow profit margins, and many are rich in …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… In line with the project’s goal to maintain the working landscapes of the Blackfoot Valley and rural lifestyle through a “community-driven” process, the partnership has proposed to set aside 5,600 areas of these former timberlands to create the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA), an …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… the possibilities for restoration on private and working lands. I also make use of literature in environmental ethics geared toward defining �good restoration,� as well as my own experience as California-born writer and veteran weekend weed-puller, stranded for a lonely summer in the shadow of …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… In line with the project’s goal to maintain the working landscapes of the Blackfoot Valley and rural lifestyle through a “community-driven” process, the partnership has proposed to set aside 5,600 areas of these former timberlands to create the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA), an …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… the possibilities for restoration on private and working lands. I also make use of literature in environmental ethics geared toward defining �good restoration,� as well as my own experience as California-born writer and veteran weekend weed-puller, stranded for a lonely summer in the shadow of …
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Conserving Pollinators: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Evaluating the Ecological, Economic and Cultural Value of Native Bees in Mid-Atlantic Sustainable Agriculture
… and maintaining pollinator-friendly habitats on working landscapes, particularly private agricultural lands. Recommendations from the National Research Council's report, Status of Pollinators in North America, include informing the agricultural community about ways to manage pollinators and …
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Realizing sustainability : implementing a vision in Burlington, Vermont
… village centers surrounded by breathtaking working landscapes that Vermonters cherish and visitors flock to. Burlington, Vermont recognizes that sprawl is degrading the natural landscape. As part of a promulgated vision of sustainability in municipal plans, Burlington accepts their role as a …
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Native Forb Establishment in Tall Fescue-dominated Cattle Pastures
… to support pollinator conservation on working landscapes by increasing floral resources, but gaps remain in the consistent establishment of native forbs in intensively managed agricultural areas. We evaluated factors that influence native forb establishment during seed-based enrichment …
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Conservation Behavior Outcomes and Drivers of Participation in a Conservation Research Program on Private Lands
… conservation research program, Virginia Working Landscapes (VWL), between 2010 and 2020. We found that landowners perceived their participation in VWL influenced their conservation behaviors across multiple categories; yet, land stewardship behaviors were more commonly positively …
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Farm ponds of the eastern Great Plains: Key challenges and opportunities for conserving amphibians in these novel ecosystems
Farm ponds are numerous in the agricultural landscapes of the Eastern Great Plains of the United States. These ponds are constructed to support a variety of functions, including erosion control, cattle grazing, and recreational fishing, but their role in supporting native biodiversity, including …
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Floristics, Conservation, and Restoration of Virginia's Piedmont Grasslands
The native grasslands of Southeastern North America contain higher native plant diver- sity than the prairies of the Great Plains, but they have lost 90-99% of their historic range through disruption of their natural disturbance regimes and conversion to agricultural lands. To inform the …
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Crafting Cannabinoid Capitalism: Health, Sustainability, and Regeneration in the United States
… complexities and complicities of studying working landscapes in a settler colonial “frontier ecology.” Chapter Two unpacks the shifting and embodied subjectivities of both farmers and workers as they reconfigure themselves in service of licensed production, highlighting sociocultural …
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'It Should've Never Been Broke Out': Understanding Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in Southwest Kansas and Southeast Colorado
… Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in working within the program structure. I used open coding to identify common themes and quotes to capture producers' and field staff's points of view. I identified several frames through which producers think about CRP and themes related to how CRP …