An Overview of Salmonid Fisheries Planning by State Agencies in the United States

Fisheries ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Born ◽  
G. Simeon Stairs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Agencies

scholarly journals Successful Wildlife Conservation Requires Good Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily F. Pomeranz ◽  
Darragh Hare ◽  
Daniel J. Decker ◽  
Ann B. Forstchen ◽  
Cynthia A. Jacobson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The U.S

Public wildlife management in the United States is transforming as agencies seek relevancy to broader constituencies. State agencies in the United States, while tasked with conserving wildlife for all beneficiaries of the wildlife trust, have tended to manage for a limited range of benefits in part due to a narrow funding model heavily dependent on hunting, fishing, and trapping license buyers. To best meet the needs, interests, and concerns of a broader suite of beneficiaries, agencies will need to reconsider how priorities for management are set. This presents an opportunity for conservation program design and evaluation to be elevated in importance. We argue that success in wildlife conservation in the U.S. requires assessment of both decision-making processes and management results in relation to four questions: conservation of what, under what authority, for what purposes, and for whom?

Blindness Statistics (Part 2): Blindness Registers in the United States

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 570-572
Author(s):  
Vito Desantis ◽  
Jerome D. Schein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired

State commissions for the blind and visually impaired have long been associated with the use of registers to determine the size and characteristics of the blind populations of their states (Goldstein, 1973). In recent years, some states have abandoned their registers; others have reduced their investments in them. It is also true that some states have never established them. A recent accounting of the number of states that have registers has not been published, though the information is of interest to those concerned with statistics on the blind and visually impaired population. Accordingly, we sought to determine how many states now maintain registers and also to gather information about those that do. This paper presents the results of a state-by-state survey of state agencies serving blind and visually impaired individuals.

Risk communications and its importance in disaster management

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Patrick Gill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Protective Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Danger Zone ◽  
Risk Communications

During the onslaught of hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast of the United States in August 2005, local emergency planning officials, state agencies, and federal entities came together to impress upon those still left in the danger zone to evacuate. Unfortunately, more than 100,000 people remained in the danger area because of various reasons. In this piece, the author will examine Protective Action Recommendations, proper and poor risk communications, and the need for emergency management officials to keep the pulse of those that they serve.

Watershed or bank-to-bank? Scales of governance and the geographic definition of Great Lakes Areas of Concern

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862094389
Author(s):  
Ryan Holifield ◽  
Kathleen C Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Local Stakeholder ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
International Border

Much recent scholarship has addressed the rise of the watershed as the preferred scale for the governance of water quality. Although the watershed remains widely perceived as an ideal, “natural” scale of freshwater governance, arguments for the merits of alternative scales and multi-scalar approaches are gaining prominence. The Great Lakes Areas of Concern program, managed jointly by the United States and Canada, represents an important case in which the watershed has not prevailed as the default local scale of governance, at least in the 31 Areas of Concern located in the United States or straddling the international border. Based on a review of documents and analysis of a survey and interviews with key actors from local Areas of Concern, we find considerable variation among U.S. states in the designation of Areas of Concern as watersheds and partial watersheds, bank-to-bank watercourse segments, or hybrids of both. This variation depends not only on the differing biophysical conditions at Areas of Concern but also on differences in the latitude that state agencies gave to local stakeholder groups when the geographical extent of each Areas of Concern was designated and negotiated. In several cases, questions about the appropriate scale of the Areas of Concern led to controversy, with implications for subsequent remediation. We contend that understanding the uneven embrace of the watershed as a scale of water governance requires attending not only to specific governance objectives but also to variations in the relationships between local and subnational scales in governance programs.

Learning Through Internships: A Refugee Resettlement Program

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Barbara Browne
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Health Care Program ◽  
Pros And Cons

Training and researching outside the United States can be very rewarding and an opportunity to work internationally can be exciting. Realistically, however, many students of applied anthropology do not have the freedom to live outside the United States. Therefore, they must look for employment closer to home which can be just as satisfying, both professionally and personally. This paper will briefly discuss my work as an intern for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Region IV, located. in Atlanta, Georgia, and my subsequent employment with the Refugee Health Care Program for the State of Georgia. Pros and cons of both interning and working for federal and state agencies will be examined.

Soil Surveys and Archaeology

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance T. Holliday
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soil Survey ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Soil Maps ◽  
National Cooperative ◽  
Local Agencies ◽  
Soil Surveys

Soil survey and mapping is one of the most fundamental and best-known applications of pedology. The preparation of soil maps began in the 19th century (Yaalon, 1997), but systematic county-based soil surveys began in the 20th century in the United States (Simonson, 1987, p. 3). The production of soil maps based on systematic soil surveys has been one of the primary driving forces in pedologic research in both academic and governmental settings in the United States and worldwide through much of the 20th century (Simonson, 1987, 1997; Yaalon and Berkowicz, 1997). For example, soil survey and mapping has been a primary function of the USDA since 1899 (Simonson, 1987, p. 3; Soil Survey Division Staff, 1993, p. 11). Soil maps have been prepared for a variety of uses at scales ranging from a few hectares to those of continental and global magnitude. Published soil surveys contain a wealth of data on landscapes as well as soils, but are generally an underused (and likely misunderstood) resource in geoarchaeology, probably because of their agricultural and land-use orientation. This chapter presents a discussion of what soil surveys are (and are not) and potential as well as realized applications in archaeology. Much of the discussion focuses on the county soil surveys published by the USDA because they are so widely available, although applications of other kinds and scales of soil maps that have been applied in archaeology or that have archaeological applications also are discussed. Many countries in the world have national soil surveys whose primary mission is the mapping and inventorying of the nation’s soil resource. In the United States, soil survey is a cooperative venture of federal agencies, state agencies (including the Agricultural Experiment Stations), and local agencies, coordinated by the National Cooperative Soil Survey (Soil Survey Division Staff, 1993, p. 11). The principal federal agency involved in soil survey is the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS; formerly the Soil Conservation Service, SCS) of the USDA. The mapping of soils by the NRCS/USDA is probably the agency’s best-known activity. Its many published county soil surveys are its most widely known and widely used product.

Innovating Corrections Across the Pond

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Kellie R. Wasko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Department Of Corrections ◽  
Colorado Department ◽  
The Way

The Vera Institute of Justice, funded by the Prison Law Office, facilitated a project whose aim was to coordinate discussions between American and European policymakers about successful corrections policies and practices in the respective countries. The Colorado Department of Corrections was honored to be one of 3 state correctional teams to participate in this project. The teams spent 3 days in Germany and 3 days in the Netherlands in which much time was spent collaborating with Corrections officials to determine the practices of the respective countries and discussing best practice efforts. The significant differences in cultures affect not only the way the offenders are managed, but also the crimes that are committed in European countries. These variables were fascinating to the American Correctional counterparts as we explored the means by which European offenders are sentenced, managed during incarceration and reintegrated into their communities. The various American state agencies came back with innovative strategies to evolve the management of offenders in the United States – even to the point of challenging century old philosophies of imprisonment.

National Stamp-Tax Laws and State Instrumentalities

1935 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alden L. Powell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Government ◽  
Early History ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Tax Laws ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

The rule that the national government may not burden the governmental agencies of the states by taxation is generally familiar to students of constitutional law. An interesting phase of the development of this doctrine is found in judicial and administrative rulings on the immunity of state agencies under the national stamp-tax laws.The Early History of the Stamp Tax as Applied to State Judicial Documents. Stamps had been used as a means of securing revenue for nearly two centuries when such a method of taxation was suggested for the United States in 1797. The stamp tax originated in Holland in 1624, when, during a time of “dire necessity,” the States-General offered a reward to anyone who would invent a new kind of tax, and someone proposed “the requiring of stamps on documents and writings having a legal operation or forming necessary steps in suits in the law courts.” In 1694, England adopted this method of raising revenue. Congress first resorted to the stamp tax on legal instruments in acts of 1797 and 1813.

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