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The Role of Rainfed Farm Ponds in Sustaining Agriculture and Soil Conservation in the Dry High Valley Region of Cochabamba, Bolivia: Design Considerations and Post Impoundment Analysis

Description: Lack of sufficient water for irrigation is a major problem in and around the valleys surrounding the town of Aiquile, Cochabamba Bolivia. In addition, much of the region is undergoing desertification compounded by drought, deforestation, bad traditional agricultural practices, over grazing and a "torrential" rainfall pattern leading to severe soil erosion and low agricultural production. Between 1992 and 1994, the author constructed a network of 24 small, mostly rainfed farm ponds to increase a… more
Date: August 1999
Creator: Kuiper, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Tractor trade]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an American mine manager in Bolivia being released from kidnapping in exchange for a tractor.
Date: 1971-05-12T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Bolivia and Irish]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Bolivia which is under near martial law as president Hugo Banzer claims a leftist conspiracy and is trying to overthrow his rightist military government. The reverend Ian Paisley who said that roman catholic guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army have killed and kidnapped west German industrialists.
Date: January 29, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Cambodia and Bolivia]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of military sources in Phnom Penh says that heavy shelling from Cambodian rebels has halted an advance by government troops and killed 8 soldiers. Also, the Bolivian government says that troops have rescued an army general from angry peasants.
Date: January 30, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A herd of alpacas walking through a city]

Description: Postcard of a large herd of alpacas walking through a city. The alpacas are walking on a dirt road, passing through buildings and a group of brown alpacas leads the herd. People are at a distance from the herd along with trees, other buildings, and the mountain.
Date: [1935..1943]
Creator: Oppenheim, Victor
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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