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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"ranch"”.
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Texas Ranch
… form and the landscape that it inhabits - a ranch in central Texas. I began with a program of a house, stable, horse riding arena, ranch hand living, and various other service buildings. I decided to organize the buildings along a linear spine down a gradual hillside on the property. The …
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Philmont Scout Ranch : National Boy Scout Reservation, Leadership Training Area, Working Ranch
This thesis is devoted to the understanding and importance of the scouting movement with·emphasis on the redevelopment of its national scout reservation, Philmont, near Cimarron, New Mexico. In this document sufficient data will be established for the design and development of all these structures …
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How Organizational Communication Shaped the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement
… show how organizations involved with the Hearst Ranch Conservation Easement negotiations might have used the feedback loop characteristic of two-way Symmetrical communication theory to reach consensus on the Hearst Ranch Conservation Agreement.</p> <p>Conservation easements are complex situations …
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Modifying Succession: A History of Vegetation Alliances on Swanton Pacific Ranch
… historical research into Swanton Pacific Ranch in the County of Santa Cruz, an interdisciplinary facility for education and research managed by Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. The study seeks to determine whether there have been discernable changes in …
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Studies on urinary incontinence and "wet belly" in ranch mink (Mustela vision)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Poultry Science, 1967
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Una Legua Cuadrada: Exploring the History of Swanton Pacific Ranch and Environs
<p>Swanton Pacific Ranch is an educational and research facility owned by the Cal Poly Corporation and managed by the Cal Poly State University (Cal Poly) College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Located about 180 miles north of campus and just 14 miles north of Santa Cruz, …
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Nevada Ranch Women: A Study in the Management of Isolation (Stress, Coping, Rural)
… of living among women living on cattle ranches in central Nevada. The study has two aspects. First, it is an ethnography of women's roles, values and important social, economic and cultural institutions surrounding women in ranching. Women's perceptions and involvement are further …
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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: Rural Civic Ethos from the Rhapsodes to Water Rights
The general definition of ethos as moral character, as an indication of acute or contextual morality, treats the appeal as an individual endeavor, as a strategy that applies solely to or is constructed solely by an individual rhetor. That individualistic understanding is a modern interpretation …
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Supporting Equine-Assisted Therapy: A Grant Proposal Writing Project for Healing Hands Youth Ranch
<p>Nancy Tompkins' Master of Arts in Professional Writing capstone uses grant proposal writing as a practical application of her Rhetoric and Composition concentrated degree.</p> <p>Grant proposal writing is essentially practical persuasion in practice because it requires that the writer convince …
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Interpreting American Indian Cultural Heritage: Visitor's Educational Experience at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site
… Indian heritage is interpreted at Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site in Colorado Springs, CO. Attention was given to the distinctive ways this space acts as an educational institution that displays and interprets Colorado's cultural heritage through object-centered learning and participatory …
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Comparison of Two Potential Streamgage Locations on Scott Creek at Swanton Pacific Ranch, California
<p>Two locations on Scott Creek, located 12 miles north of Santa Cruz California, are being considered for the installation of a streamgage to measure discharge. Each location offers unique considerations and challenges in gage construction and discharge measurement capabilities. A detailed flood …
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Characteristics of Collegiate Ranch/Stock Horse Teams and Team Member Perceptions of Benefits of Participation
… was to describe characteristics of collegiate ranch horse teams and team member’s perceived benefits from participation. A lack of research and literature on this category of competition, that is rapidly growing in popularity, is the problem that this study was designed to solve. In recent …
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Factors Affecting Variability in the Distribution of Elephants at Nazinga Game Ranch (Burkina Faso, West Africa)
… africana) population parameters in Nazinga Game Ranch, Burkina Faso. Remote sensing and GIS technology were used, as well, to relate the species distribution to environmental and anthropogenic variables, which were Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, elevation, stream density, poaching …
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Behavioral Study of the Red Lechwe antelope (Kobus leche leche) on Double D ranch, Bastrop County, Texas
… (Kobus leche leche) was conducted at Double D Ranch, Bastrop County, Texas between July 1997 and August 1998. Habitat use, as well as the major behaviors, feeding, resting, and mating, of lechwe introduced in Texas were compared to that described for lechwe in Africa. Open grassland is the …
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The Village of River Ranch: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of a Traditional Neighborhood Development in Lafayette, Louisiana
… planning projects. The Village of River Ranch in Lafayette, Louisiana is the site of my research. Utilization of multiple research methods (survey, interviews, naturalistic observations) offered opportunities for triangulation and the ability to produce a more comprehensive analysis.
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Evaluation of Bison (Bison Bison) Ecology at the Olson’s Bison Conservation Ranches, Pine River Ranch, Manitoba, Canada
… misconception, the Olson’s Conservation Bison Ranches manages for conservation by following the “Bison Conservation Management: Guidelines for Herd Managers” (Lammers et al. 2013). The basis of our research was to evaluate the efficacy of this manual for managing bison in private herds from a …
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Channel Migration and Bank Erosion of the Clark Fork River at Grant-Kohrs Ranch N.H.S., Western Montana
… stretch of the Clark Fork River near Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. Aerial photographs of the reach from 2001, 2004 and 2007 were analyzed using ArcGIS 9.2. Areas of erosion and areas of deposition were calculated for the main meander bends, and results show that these areas are …
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