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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"early settlers"”.
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The Life and Times of Medieval Drifters: The Social and Environmental Significance of Driftwood in the Medieval Icelandic Culture and Identity, 9th - 13th Centuries
… depleted for agricultural land, leaving the early settlers with limited options for a wood resource. Following this, the naturally occurring driftwood on Iceland's arctic beaches became a viable source and an integral part of Icelandic culture, seen in early place names, laws, cultural …
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Scribe rule
… ancient technique of timber framing used by the early settlers of the region. The characters of the collection are connected by their experiences during the 1960s and 1970s in the small town of Galt. During this time of rapid social change, they struggle to understand themselves and others, and …
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Fall Food Habits of the Merriams' Wild Turkey in Western South Dakota
… also directly decimated because of bunting by early settlers. Edminister (1954) estimated present Wild turkey range to be approximately 1 per cent of the historic range. In the past few decades, wild turkey population have increased to the point where the species has begun to assume a prominent …
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Salmon & Steelhead Hatcheries: Conservation or Condemnation?
… the greatest gifts the Northwest has to offer. Early settlers of the West Coast witnessed seemingly infinite salmon abundance. But as time passed and humans increasingly exploited both salmon and their ecosystems, they found out just how finite salmon really were. Instead of a cure for the …
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Salmon & Steelhead Hatcheries: Conservation or Condemnation?
… the greatest gifts the Northwest has to offer. Early settlers of the West Coast witnessed seemingly infinite salmon abundance. But as time passed and humans increasingly exploited both salmon and their ecosystems, they found out just how finite salmon really were. Instead of a cure for the …
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Property, Identity and Place in Seventeenth-Century New England
… agricultural usage. This patterning reveals how early settlers perceived their world, and how they secured traditional English customs and patterns onto this uncultivated landscape. The final two chapters will examine challenges to this system, from within New England and across the Atlantic. …
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A Chemical and Morphological Study of Grindelia Squarrosa (Pursh) Dunal
… the grass in a closely cropped pasture may be nearly exterminated during a single season. A pasture may seem to be entirely freed from Grindelia for several rainy years when one season of drought will cause it to develop a thick stand. It yields to cultivation readily, attaining the height of …
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Stewart Island township : a landscape appraisal : [dissertation] presented in partial fulfilment of the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College, University of Canterbury
… largely be attributed to the attitudes of the early settlers who combined the philosophy of freedom for the individual, seen in the variety of ornamental treatments of individual properties, with a hankering for nineteenth century Britain, shown in the lack of respect for the inherent values of …
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Certain aspects of pioneer life as presented in the modern novel
… worthwhile. In this sense the Puritans and other early settlers were pioneers of the truest type. They were willing to leave home and friends in order to found a new and better home for themselves and their children.</p> <p>The explorer and gold seeker were necessary for the complete settlement of …
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Sheep farming Tongariro District, 1855-1918 : Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Parks and Recreation at Lincoln University College, Canterbury
… the region prior to the arrival of the European settlers. As the early settlers had two critical problems of access and competition from the various introduced wild animals; a chapter describes each of these problems. The sheep-farming operations fall into five fairly clearly defined periods and …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… the bitter memories of the late 19th and early 20th century British colonial conquest and land dispossession of people in Kibaale are still reflected in the narratives of the early settlers; the government-sponsored and selfmotivated massive resettlement of people from mainly Western …
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Design against nature : flooding, water supply, and public space in Los Angeles
… have resulted in today's mega-region. While many early settlers were attracted by the city's famous sunshine, the surging population exceeded locally-available water supplies early on. Los Angeles responded by building a vast system of aqueducts to appropriate waters from across the West. At the …
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Double happiness : bicultural men - identity and learning : a study of Australian-Chinese men born in the 20th century
Chinese were early settlers in Australia but little has been written of Australian-Chinese men now living in the twenty-first century, some of whom can trace their lineage, in the Australian context, across centuries. The focus here on this demographic was because of personal involvement with the …
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An epic of water and power : a history of the Modesto Irrigation District
… foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. By the early settlers this area was called Paradise Valley.<sup>2</sup> A town of Paradise existed for a few years, having been laid out by a Mr. Jon Mitchell about 1867-68<sup>3</sup> It gave up and moved a few miles east into the new town of Modesto soon …
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White discourse in post-independence Zimbabwean literature
… assert its control. The 'space' available to the early settlers' discourse for appropriation, however, has been removed and, in the reduced space available to white discourse, one continued area of possible control is that of conservation.
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Familial hypercholesterolaemia - the Cape Town experience
… ascertain whether it could discriminate between early and late onset of heart disease in middle-aged subjects with familial hypercholesterolaemia. Patient management and response to treatment was analysed in the context of gender, lifestyle, ethnic origin, lipid profile and genotype. Familial …
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Carry-Over Effects in Complex Life Cycles: Linking Larval Food Supply with Juvenile Recruitment Success in Sea Stars
… assemblages by considering links between early life stages. When experiences in the pre-metamorphic life stages impact post-metamorphic life stages, this is known as carry-over effects. Because carry-over effects impact fitness of individuals, they could determine which individuals are …
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The General Board of Education in Western Australia 1847-1871: Its establishment and performance
… Education ("the Board"), which was formed by the early pioneers, was established in 1847; •How and why the Board was terminated in 1871. To properly explain these issues it has been necessary to research the general conditions faced by the early settlers in Western Australia. Chapters one and two …