Fire Ecology and Forestry

Students to Travel to Study, Save Endangered Turtles. BY MOLLY MORRIS — DECEMBER 20, 2009. Students under Gloria Zakers' tutelage at Montessori School & International Academy venture near and far – from the local mangrove lagoons and ...  

One day each year, a group of bird-watchers fans out across the region to write a chapter in Western Pennsylvania's history. The Christmas Bird Count, a gathering that attracts as many as 130 birders, began more than 50 years ago as a hobbyists' holiday.  

These computational models allow scientists to explore the mechanisms through which population and ecosystem ecology arises from how individuals interact with each other and their environment.  

Ankara. The European Union opens Monday official negotiations with Turkey on environmental problems, Turkish Huriet newspaper writes. Turkish newspaper defines the opening of the Ecology chapter as a new small step towards the accession to the EU ...  

  The Copenhagen summit has got leaders from across the world deliberating on climate change. But, the people are already fighting a battle in their own ways.   Do common people doing their bit for ecology have a greater impact than high profile summits?   Resident Editor, The Times of India, Chandigarh   P.S. You may also SMS or email your views. Mail us on mytimesmyvoice@timesgroup.com with `Climate' mentioned in the subject line. To SMS...  

Many collective human activities, including violence, have been shown to exhibit universal patterns1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The size distributions of casualties both in whole wars from 1816 to 1980 and terrorist attacks have separately been shown to follow approximate power-law distributions6, 7, 9, 10. ... (Read on Source)  

Ecology: from Greek oikos ‘house’ + -logy. Economics: from Greek oikos ‘house’ in the form oikonomika referring to household management. It is a monumental irony that these terms, with their entourage of cognitive and practical meanings in mortal combat for our present and future world, have grown from the same root. The most basic conflict of [...]  

Pope Benedict XVI released a letter for the World Day of Peace entitled “If You Want to Cultivate Peace protect creation” bore absurd titles as “Pope Goes Green”. The reports intimated that the Pope had somehow joined the fringe of the environmental movement.In fact, he called for a proper stewardship of the environment rooted in our obligations to - and solidarity with - one another. We have been given to one another as gifts. Creation has...  

Regarding Carolyn Guillot’s Nov. 19 letter (“Uncle Sam is out of control with cap and trade”), she’s terrified of cap and trade, probably the most effective program that actually reduces carbon dioxide emissions? Really? read more  

Fisheries Management and Ecology journal presents international papers that cover all aspects of the management, ecology and conservation of inland, estuarine and coastal fisheries including:• Fisheries policy, management, operational, conservation and ecological issues• Fisheries managers' and ecologists' need for information, techniques, tools and concepts• Integration of ecological studies with all aspects of fisheries management• Promoting...  

'...a bit of bad logic has been faithfully repeated by intellectuals seeking power: the belief, as sincere as it is silly, that if you have the right ideas, you are by definition smarter than the system you are trying to control. That's Weishaupt's Fallacy. -- Systems theory was a victim of the same fallacy. Very few of the newborn institutions in the systems movement were self-funding, most of them subsisted on government grants, and thus...  

Saginaw Valley State University has received a $18,620 planning grant from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust. SVSU will use the money to work with local community organizations and area schools to raise awareness and understanding of Great Lakes ecology, and...  

Two faculty members of the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture will be honored for outstanding achievement at the Stephen F. Austin State University Foundation's 21st annual Gala on Saturday at the Baker Pattillo Student Center. Dr. David Kulhavy, professor of forest entomology and landscape ecology, is the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, and Dr.  

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a not for profit non governmental organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources. KEI is focused on social justice, particularly for the most vulnerable populations, including low-income persons and marginalized groups. There are probably 5 billion people who live in the margins of the global economy, and an entire planet that depends...  

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment. It discusses major ideas and results in a manner accessible to all Yale College undergraduates. Recent advances have energized these fields with results that have implications well beyond their boundaries: ideas, mechanisms, and processes that should form part of the toolkit of all biologists and...