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Development of mitigation alternatives: a process

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A.H. Farmer

Habitat analysis methodology as applied to plains riparian habitats

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Mel Schamberger, C. Short

The PHABSIM system for instream flow studies

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Robert T. Milhous

Regional evaluation of wildlife habitat quality using rapid assessment methodologies

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D.A. Asherin, H.L. Short, J. E. Roelle

Proceedings of the symposium on mitigating developmental impacts on fish and wildlife

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Gerry C. Horak

Evaluation wetlands as wildlife habitat

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A.H. Farmer, C. Short, M. Schamberger

Energy mining impacts and wildlife management: which way to turn

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S.G. Martin, Jim T. Terrell, J.J. Skinner, R. T. Moore, R.G. Streeter

Canada geese of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: family relationships, behavior and productivity

Geese described are non-migratory, free-flying Todd's Canada geese (Branta canadensis interior). The genealogy of 261 of these geese was traced by archival research and three years of field observations. Nest locations and densities, preferences for various types of artificial nest structures, clutch sizes, hatching success, brood survival to flight stage, and food habits were recorded. Resu
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L.H. Rummel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Development of behavior in the golden eagle

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David H. Ellis
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Illustrated field guide for the classification of sea lamprey attack marks on Great Lakes lake trout

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Everett Louis King, Thomas A. Edsall
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 1, Before 1879 : A history of public lands, federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States

This volume, the first of a four-volume study, is concerned with events in the United States before the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey, during the years in which geology evolved as a science and began to influence economic development and national policy. Subsequent volumes continue the story but focus on the Survey and its role in the events and developments of later years. The metho
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Mary C. Rabbitt
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Science Synthesis, Analysis and Research Program, USGS Library, Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS) Program

Monitoring fish and wildlife for environmental pollutants

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Thomas J. O'Shea, Bob Hines, J. Larry Ludke
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center