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Conservation Subdivision: Post-construction Phase—Policy Directions and the Importance of Assessing Stakeholder Opinions

open access: yesEDIS, 2015
Simply designating open space in a development is not enough to provide long-term protection for a variety of wildlife. New policies need to be developed that encourage developers of conservation developments to adopt long-term management practices that
Daniel Feinberg, Mark Hostetler
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Conservation Subdivision: Post-Construction Phase—Creating Signs to Educate Residents

open access: yesEDIS, 2016
Installing educational signs is one way to increase awareness and participation in conservation activities. This 6-page fact sheet explains how to create educational signs and install them in residential neighborhoods as a way to inform residents about ...
Mark Hosteller
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A numerical investigation exploring the potential role of porous fencing in reducing firebrand impingement on homes

open access: yesFrontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2022
Firebrand impingement is a leading cause of home ignitions from wildland fire. The use of porous fencing has recently been proposed as a potential method for mitigating firebrand impingement on homes.
Loren Atwood, Natalie Wagenbrenner
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Fractional BV spaces and first applications to scalar conservation laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of this paper is to obtain new fine properties of entropy solutions of nonlinear scalar conservation laws. For this purpose, we study some "fractional $BV$ spaces" denoted $BV^s$, for $0 < s \leq 1$, introduced by Love and Young in 1937.
Bourdarias, Christian   +2 more
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Development of scenarios for land cover, population density, impervious cover, and conservation in New Hampshire, 2010–2100 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Future changes in ecosystem services will depend heavily on changes in land cover and land use, which, in turn, are shaped by human activities. Given the challenges of predicting long-term changes in human behaviors and activities, scenarios provide a ...
Grimm, Curt D.   +5 more
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Optimization of the composition of crop collections for ex situ conservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Many crop genetic resources collections have been established without a clearly defined conservation goal or mandate, which has resulted in collections of considerable size, unbalanced composition and high levels of duplication.
Engels, J.M.M.   +3 more
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A bioregional classification of the continental shelf of northeastern North America for conservation analysis and planning based on representation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Understanding how well National Marine Sanctuaries and other marine protected areas represent the diversity of species present within and among the biogeographic regions where they occur is essential for assessing their conservation value and ...
Auster, Peter J., Cook, Rosamonde R.
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Growing Greener Initiative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Using funds from this grant, the City of Dover Open Lands Committee worked in conjunction with the Planning Department and Conservation Commission to plan, promote and present a series of workshops.
City of Dover, NH
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Newmarket Open Space Conservation Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Open spaces – forests, fields, wetlands, floodplains, salt marshes, rivers and streams – are integral to our community. These lands and waters that thread through our neighborhoods are a scenic reminder of our history, when people made their living by ...
Snyder, Ellen
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The Land Conservation Plan for Maine’s Piscataqua Region Watersheds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Piscataqua River/Great Bay estuary is a shared coastal embayment that forms the southernmost boundary between the states of Maine and New Hampshire.
Czapiga, Jason   +6 more
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