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The Captive Animal Activity Tracking System: A Systematic Method for the Continuous Evaluation of Captive Animal Welfare.

Description: Optimal animal welfare has been a long-term goal for captive animal institutions. To measure welfare a definition and identification of elements that make up welfare need to be established. Further, a method to measure welfare's elements that can be implemented into staff's daily routine is necessary to establish baseline levels and track changes in welfare. The goal of the proposed captive animal activity tracking system is to allow for the measurement of each element of welfare quickly, while… more
Date: December 2009
Creator: Kalafut, Kathryn Lynn
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Social barriers to pathogen transmission in wild animal populations

Description: Diseases and pathogens are receiving increasing recognition as sources of mortality in animal populations. Immune system strength is clearly important in fending off pathogen attack. Physical barriers to pathogen entry are also important. Various individual behaviors are efficacious in reducing contact with diseases and pests. This paper focuses on a fourth mode of defense: social barriers to transmission. Various social behaviors have pathogen transmission consequences. Selective pressures on … more
Date: March 1, 1995
Creator: Loehle, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small mammal study of Sandia Canyon, 1994 and 1995

Description: A wide range of plant and wildlife species utilize water discharged from facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The purpose of this study was to gather baseline data of small mammal populations and compare small mammal characteristics within three areas of Sandia Canyon, which receives outfall effluents from multiple sources. Three small mammal trapping webs were placed in the upper portion of Sandia Canyon, the first two were centered in a cattail-dominated marsh with a ponderosa… more
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Bennett, K. & Biggs, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wildlife Management Plan for the Oak Ridge Reservation

Description: This document outlines a plan for management of the wildlife resources on the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge Reservation. Management includes wildlife population control through hunting, trapping, removal, and habitat manipulation; wildlife damage control; restoration of wildlife species; preservation, management, and enhancement of wildlife habitats; coordination of wildlife studies and characterization of areas; and law enforcement. Wildlife resources are divided into several catego… more
Date: October 1, 2007
Creator: Giffen, Neil R.; Evans, James W. & Parr, Patricia D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary assessment of the ecological risks to wide-ranging wildlife species on the Oak Ridge Reservation. 1996 update

Description: More than approximately 50 years of operations, storage, and disposal of wastes generated by the three facilities on the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) (the Oak Ridge K-25 Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant) has resulted in a mosaic of uncontaminated property and lands that are contaminated to varying degrees. This contaminated property includes source areas and the terrestrial and aquatic habitats down gradient from these source areas. Although the integrator OUs ge… more
Date: September 1, 1996
Creator: Sample, B.E.; Hinzman, R.L.; Jackson, B.L. & Baron, L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuisance Wildlife Education and Prevention Plan for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Description: This document outlines a plan for management of nuisance wildlife at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Nuisance wildlife management includes wildlife population control through hunting, trapping, removal, and habitat manipulation; wildlife damage control; and law enforcement. This plan covers the following subjects: (1) roles and responsibilities of individuals, groups, and agencies; (2) the general protocol for reducing nuisance wildlife problems; and (3) species-specific methodologies… more
Date: May 1, 2007
Creator: Giffen, Neil R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comments on transect methodology

Description: One of the outcomes of the recent spate of attention to environmental problems is the realization that we do not have suitable methods to census non-game species. Since marking is expensive and time-consuming, investigators have tended to look for methods that involve only visual techniques. One of the leading candidates thus becomes the line transect method. The purpose here is to briefly describe some of the available transect methods, and to comment on some aspects that may be of particular … more
Date: February 1, 1980
Creator: Eberhardt, L. L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Northeast Oregon Wildlife Mitigation Project : Final Environmental Assessment.

Description: Development of the hydropower system in the Columbia River Basin has had far-reaching effects on many species of wildlife. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is responsible for mitigating the loss of wildlife habitat caused by the Federal portion of this system, as allocated to the purpose of power production. BPA needs to mitigate for loss of wildlife habitat in the Snake River Subbasin.
Date: August 1996
Creator: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mitigation action plan sale of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills) Kern County, California

Description: Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 (NPR-1, also called {open_quotes}Elk Hills{close_quotes}), a Federally-owned oil and gas production field in Kern County, California, was created by an Executive Order issued by President Taft on September 2, 1912. He signed another Executive Order on December 13, 1912, to establish Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 2 (NPR-2), located immediately south of NPR-1 and containing portions of the town of Taft, California. NPR-1 was not developed until the 1973-74 oil embargo … more
Date: January 1, 1998
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Efficacy of rock doves at the Hanford site, Washington, as radiological indicators

Description: Site faithfulness and general movement patterns of five rock dove (Columba livia) flocks were estimated in order to evaluate their efficacy as radiological indicators on the Hanford Site. Of 367 individually marked birds, 311 were resighted or recaptured at least once during onsite and offsite monitoring. Average site faithfulness for all flocks from resightings was 87.1% and was not significantly different than a hypothesized 90% site faithful distribution. Average site faithfulness from poole… more
Date: February 1, 1996
Creator: Houser, M.R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarterly environmental radiological survey summary. Fourth quarter, 1995 100, 200, 300, and 600 Areas

Description: This report provides a summary of the radiological surveys performed in support of the operational environmental monitoring program at the Hanford Site. The Fourth Quarter 1995 survey results and the status of actions required from current and past reports are described.
Date: January 1, 1996
Creator: McKinney, S.M. & Markes, B.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Management of wildlife causing damage at Argonne National Laboratory-East, DuPage County, Illinois

Description: The DOE, after an independent review, has adopted an Environmental Assessment (EA) prepared by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) which evaluates use of an Integrated Wildlife Damage Management approach at Argonne National Laboratory-East (ANL-E) in DuPage County, Illinois (April 1995). In 1994, the USDA issued a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that covers nationwide animal damage control activities. The EA for Management of Wildlife Causing Damage at ANL-E tiers off this… more
Date: April 1, 1995
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A checklist of plant and animal species at Los Alamos National Laboratory and surrounding areas

Description: Past and current members of the Biology Team (BT) of the Ecology Group have completed biological assessments (BAs) for all of the land that comprises Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Within these assessments are lists of plant and animal species with the potential to exist on LANL lands and the surrounding areas. To compile these lists, BT members examined earlier published and unpublished reports, surveys, and data bases that pertained to the biota of this area or to areas that are simil… more
Date: February 1, 1998
Creator: Hinojosa, H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Training Center Fort Irwin expansion area aquatic resources survey

Description: Biologists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) were requested by personnel from Fort Irwin to conduct a biological reconnaissance of the Avawatz Mountains northeast of Fort Irwin, an area for proposed expansion of the Fort. Surveys of vegetation, small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and aquatic resources were conducted during 1995 to characterize the populations and habitats present with emphasis on determining the presence of any species of special concern. This report pre… more
Date: February 1, 1996
Creator: Cushing, C. E. & Mueller, R. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Estimation of Potential Population Level Effects of Contaminants on Wildlife

Description: The objective of this project is to provide DOE with improved methods to assess risks from contaminants to wildlife populations. The current approach for wildlife risk assessment consists of comparison of contaminant exposure estimates for individual animals to literature-derived toxicity test endpoints. These test endpoints are assumed to estimate thresholds for population-level effects. Moreover, species sensitivities to contaminants is one of several criteria to be considered when selecting … more
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Loar, J.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological assessments for the low energy demonstration accelerator, 1996 and 1997

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to build, install, and operate a Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LMA) in Technical Area 53 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LEDA will demonstrate the accelerator technology necessary to produce tritium, but is not designed to produce tritium at LANL. USFWS reviewers of the Biological Assessment prepared for LEDA insisted that the main drainage be monitored to measure and document changes to vegetation, soils, wildlife, and habitats due to … more
Date: December 31, 1998
Creator: Cross, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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