The standard intro text for forestry is probably Avery and Burkhart's
Forest Measurements (McGraw-Hill)--it's the one I use in my Natural
Resources Inventory class but you might find "Sampling Techniques for
Forest Resource Inventory" by Shiver and Borders useful as well.
Tim Baker
Forestry and Na
I read not too long ago that the the publish or perish dogma (or more correctly
stated, grants or perish), has become increasingly intense at most universities
for tenure-track faculty. I recall some of my older colleagues at other
institutions talk about getting tenure without significant (or
Bill,
I think you hit the nail on the head in that it is a difficult problem
to address not only on the issue of control of numbers (who, what,
where, etc..) but also it's amazingly difficult even addressing the
issue of overpopulation. I think the latter occurs because even when
many ecologists
Not to put too fine a point on it, but human procreation seems to be the
problem moreso than individual carbon footprint.
I think the one ecological concept often overlooked is the idea that
there really aren't any wasted resources; everything is being used by
something. Each additional human u
Don't forget that with a Mac you can also partition it to run either Windows or
OS X and it usually runs Vista/Windows better than the PC's do. I just switched
to a MacBook Pro after 20+years of PCs and thus far I'm very happy with the
switch. I don't have the partition and I can still access mo
I haven't seen this suggestion yet (apologies if I missed it), so I'll
propose David Quammen's 'Song of the Dodo'. His writing is very
accessible and he is one of the better science writers for the general
public.
-Tim
-Original Message-
From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs
I'm working on a committee at our college to do program review of Gen. Ed.=
which includes writing a new mission statement for the program, program an=
d area SLO's, etc.. One of the things I've been pushing, and getting broad =
support for, is to include some understanding of ecology and environ
Our college skirts the liability issue by simply having the class start
at the meeting location. The lawyer's rationale is that if the college
isn't liable for students driving to class normally, they aren't when
the class meets someplace else either. But you cannot (in California)
formally make up
