Likewise, within the framework of the Good Neighbor Authority, which empowers state forestry departments to help the Forest Service get more restoration work done on the ground in a more timely manner. Restoration usually takes two forms: thinning in overstocked and dying forests and the reintroduct...
The future of the Pisgah National Forest (and its neighbor the Nantahala) is being written now. The U.S. Forest Service is drafting a forest management plan to guide how it manages the forests for the next dozen or so years. At public meetings, the Forest Service has been hearing from ...
A landowner in SR, a geographically isolated community comprised of only six properties, explained: “When you live this rurally, you can’t really ignore your neighbor. Whether you like them or not, you got to be helpful and that’s how it is around here.” Access to external ...
Meanwhile, overhanging the visit are mounting tensions between Venezuela, the neighbor of Guyana and Suriname. Guyana and Venezuela have had a 120-year dispute over their boundary and now the matter is in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Two years ago Venezuela seized Guyanese ships and...
So, for example, a child under sixteen would lose his exemption if he works for a neighbor like Representative Rehberg or a “non-parental relative,” unless the relative assumes parental duties, even on a temporary basis.[59] At this point, DOL’s line drawing became arbitrary, as all ef...
Unfortunately that's all I can do. We must proceed to Prestno; your nearest neighbor, as you know, 1.8 lightyears distant. We'll stop here on the way home to Terra, but that's going to be three and a half more E-years at least. Can you stick it out?" "Yes," said the ...
We chose the eight-neighbor rule rather than the four-neighbor rule in the hypothesis that the eight-neighbor rule is closer to the real-world representation of neighbor influences [32]. The setting of edge width affects the recognition of core patches [81]. The previously small core patches ...
As shown in Figure 1, for entry vessels, there are generally two scenarios: if the vessel meets the entry conditions upon arrival at the port waters, VTS (Vessel Traffic Service) operators will direct it into the channel for berthing; if the vessel does not meet the entry conditions, it ...