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2007 Perspective on the Past & Future of the Conservation Reserve Program
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2007 Perspective on the Past & Future of the Conservation Reserve Program

4-page publication offering a perspective on the Conservation Reserve program, including administrative issues that must be resolved for the 2007 Farm Bill....

Adjusting to Climate Change:  Adaptation and Mitigation Stretegies
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Adjusting to Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation Stretegies

This publication defines and describes mitigation and adaptation strategies used to adjust to climate changes on Earth. It compares the two types of strategies and describes their effects on cities, agriculture, and h...

Agriculture's Effect on Environmental Quality: Key Management Issues
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Agriculture's Effect on Environmental Quality: Key Management Issues

This publication describes some important environmental concerns and offers management alternatives.

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Appreciating Reptiles and Amphibians in Nature
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Appreciating Reptiles and Amphibians in Nature

This 20-page publication will help amateur herpetologists and nature enthusiasts better enjoy the diversity of the amphibians and reptiles that call Indiana home, in a manner that maintains them for future generations. T...

Aquaculture Family Coloring Book
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Aquaculture Family Coloring Book

This print-your-own coloring book provides a fun and active way for children and adults to learn about the many kinds of aquatic animals raised on farms for aquaculture. Each spread highlights one species, pairing a beau...

Atrazine Use & Weed Management Strategies to Protect Surface Water Quality
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Atrazine Use & Weed Management Strategies to Protect Surface Water Quality

This publication discusses the importance of atrazine products to Indiana farmers, and best management practices (BMPs) for achieving weed control and reducing off-site movement into surface water....

Before you sign: 7 tips for entering carbon markets
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Before you sign: 7 tips for entering carbon markets

Should your farm entity participate in a carbon market? In this publication, a Purdue University educator advises that farm managers should get answers to seven questions before signing up. ...

Beginner's Guide to Grant Writing Participant Manual
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Beginner's Guide to Grant Writing Participant Manual

Designed with novices in mind, the Beginner's Guide to Grant Writing manual -- a companion to the Beginner's Guide to Grant Writing workshop--demystifies the grant-writing process from planning through implementation. Ta...

Benefits of Connecting with Nature
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Benefits of Connecting with Nature

This Nature of Teaching lesson plan teaches students the relationship between outdoor experiences and mental health.

Do you remember when you were a child, and your parent/caretaker used to say, "Go outside and...

Birds and Residential Window Strikes: Tips for Prevention
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Birds and Residential Window Strikes: Tips for Prevention

Collisions with man-made structures are one of the primary causes of bird mortality. In fact, up to a billion birds are killed each year in the United States due to window strikes. Approximately 50% of the time, these...

Breeding Birds and Forest Management: the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment and the Central Hardwoods Region
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Breeding Birds and Forest Management: the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment and the Central Hardwoods Region

The focus of forest science is increasingly shifting to the management of forests as complex systems rather than as simple agricultural landscapes—with a much greater appreciation for the interactive ecosystem proc...

Brownfields: A Rural Community Problem
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Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture
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Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Challenges and Opportunities for Agriculture

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are of increasing concern because of their potential role in promoting rapid and undesirable change in climate. Agriculture ironically serves as both a source and a sink for this increase in GHGs....

Climate Change and Human Health
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Climate Change and Human Health

This publication describes the general effects of changing climate on human health, covering both positive and negative effects. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.

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Climate Change: Are you preparing for it?
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Climate Change: Are you preparing for it?

This publication provides an overview of how changing climate conditions will affect Indiana and the Midwest and offers sensible strategies for coping with these changes. Understanding past and future environmental chang...

Climate Change: Communication strategies to support local planning
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Climate Change: Communication strategies to support local planning

Despite strong evidence that climate change is happening, many people do not realize the urgency with which we need to act, nor do they fully understand the types of impacts facing their communities. This publication pro...

Climate Tools
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Climate Tools

This publication defines and describes the tools used to understand past climate and to predict climate in the future. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.

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Climate Variability and Climate Change
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Climate Variability and Climate Change

Weather is to climate as a page is to a book. A few days of weather do not give the entire story of climate, just as a single page does not tell the entire story from a book. This publication briefly describes the di...

Control of Canada Thistle in CRP and Other Noncrop Acreage
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Control of Canada Thistle in CRP and Other Noncrop Acreage

This publication helps land managers effectively deal with Canada thistle problems in conservation plantings....

Designing Hardwood Tree Plantings for Wildlife
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Designing Hardwood Tree Plantings for Wildlife

This publication focuses on planting hardwood trees that are valuable to wildlife. The publication covers the variety, size and location of trees and shrubs to plant. Also included is a chart with selected tree and shrub...

Engaging in Climate Outreach
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Engaging in Climate Outreach

Climate change is a global problem that will take a global effort to solve. "Global" means all of us contribute to the best of our ability and all change our lifestyles to reduce our impact on climate change. But is t...

Environmental Hypermedia Programs, Vol. II
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Environmental Hypermedia Programs, Vol. II

It features 11 programs, several of which are available only on CD-ROM: Chemical Contamination in Fish Update; Environmental Planning for Small Communities (TRILOGY); Environmental Assessment Case Study (ALASKA); Envi...

Environmental Planning in Community Plans
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Environmental Planning in Community Plans

To guide decisions about development, quality of life and public safety, communities create comprehensive plans, parks and recreation plans, multi-hazard mitigation plans, and sub-area plans. Such plans include opportuni...

Fish Kills in Indiana--Their Causes and Prevention
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Fish Kills in Indiana--Their Causes and Prevention

This publication examines the causes of fish kills and what can be done to prevent them. ...

Food Waste and Natural Resources Lesson Plans
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Food Waste and Natural Resources Lesson Plans

This unit highlights the resources required to produce food and the food wasted along each step of the food production system. It contains two lessons: Producers, Consumers, and Natural Resources; and Food Waste from ...

Forest Ecosystem Management in the Central Hardwood Region
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Forest Ecosystem Management in the Central Hardwood Region

This publication is specific to the Central Hardwood Region and discusses ecosystem management and how it places a stronger emphasis on larger spatial scales than past management approaches. The primary objectives of ...

Forest Management for Reptiles and Amphibians: A Technical Guide for the Midwest
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Forest Management for Reptiles and Amphibians: A Technical Guide for the Midwest

This 24-page publication describes the response of amphibians and reptiles to a variety of forest management practices in the Midwest, and offers general management strategies to minimize negative effects of harvests on ...

Forests and Our Environment
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Forests and Our Environment

This publication provides information regarding many benefits that we enjoy from our forests. Did you know that trees reduce air temperature, improve air quality, produce oxygen, and suppress loud sounds. These are a ...

Frost Seeding to Establish Wildlife Food Plots and Native Grass and Forb Plantings
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Frost Seeding to Establish Wildlife Food Plots and Native Grass and Forb Plantings

Frost seeding or broadcasting seed on the ground during the dormant season is an effective method to establish native grass and forb plantings for wildlife as well as food plot plantings like clover. This video will p...

Hellbenders Rock!
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Hellbenders Rock!

This Nature of Teaching lesson plan teaches students about the endangered eastern hellbender and the importance of conserving it. The hellbender is North America's largest salamander, growing up to 2 feet long. It is ...

Human Activity and the Greenhouse Effect
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Human Activity and the Greenhouse Effect

Every day we generate greenhouse gases through interaction with factories, agriculture, and cars. Our activities produce four major greenhouse gases. This publication briefly describes those gasses and evidence of the...

Implementing Site-Specific Management: Liquid Manure Application
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Implementing Site-Specific Management: Liquid Manure Application

The value of manure in crop production is directly related to how it is managed. There is now the ability to document the amount of manure applied, where and when it was applied, and to avoid application in areas that mi...

Importance of Hardwood Tree Planting
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Importance of Hardwood Tree Planting

The Importance of Hardwood Tree Plantings publication provides a brief overview of several key societal and environmental attributes that hardwood plantations provide, for example, timber production, wildlife habitat, fo...

Indian Creek Watershed Project: Key Takeaways for Success
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Indian Creek Watershed Project: Key Takeaways for Success

The Indian Creek watershed project focused on improving water quality in a small agricultural watershed in central Illinois. The project encouraged local landowners to voluntarily adopt conservation practices and systems...

Indiana Amphibian and Reptile ID Package (4 softcover books)
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Indiana Amphibian and Reptile ID Package (4 softcover books)

This group of four books covers major species of amphibians and reptiles found in Indiana. For each species, the book includes full-color photos, a physical description, a list of similar species, and a description of...

Indiana's Urban Woodlots
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Indiana's Urban Woodlots

Woodlots are dynamic, vital ecosystems in the urban and suburban landscapes of the Midwest. People own these small wooded lots in urbanized areas for a variety of reasons: timber production, firewood production, recreati...

Invasive Plant Series - Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima
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Invasive Plant Series - Tree of Heaven, Ailanthus altissima

Tree-of-heaven is a serious threat as an invasive species in many habitats or untended areas. It can reach 80 feet or more, its growth rate outpaces most native tree species, and wind scatters seeds that female trees pro...

Invasive Plant Species Fact Sheets: Poison Hemlock
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Invasive Plant Species Fact Sheets: Poison Hemlock

This threepage fact sheet in the Invasive Plant Series provides information on identifying and controlling this poisonous weed. The publication, produced in partnership with the Southern Indiana Cooperative Weed Manageme...

Invasive plants: impact on environment and people
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Invasive plants: impact on environment and people

This Nature of Teaching lesson teaches students about the significant environmental and economic losses that can be caused by the introduction of invasive plant species. It includes a game that can be played in class,...

Investing in Indiana Woodlands
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Investing in Indiana Woodlands

This 10-page publication provides information for any family considering the purchase of a woodland, or any owner considering whether or not to dispose of one. It deals with the practical realities of real estate owners...

Japanese Chaff Flower
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Japanese Chaff Flower

This four-page fact sheet in the Invasive Plant Series provides information on identifying and controlling this troublesome perennial herb. The publication, produced in partnership with the Southern Indiana Cooperative W...

Management Tips for Spring Manure Applications
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Management Tips for Spring Manure Applications

As plans for planting and getting into fields accelerate in spring, preparing ahead for manure application will help to streamline the process, insure proper nutrient application rates to support anticipated crop yields,...

Managing White-tailed Deer Impacts on Indiana Woodlands
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Managing White-tailed Deer Impacts on Indiana Woodlands

White-tailed deer are an integral piece of Indiana's forest ecosystems. When in balance with the ecosystem, deer can enhance the health of the forest. This publication highlights the various tools available to woodland o...

Managing Yard Waste: Clippings and Composting
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Managing Yard Waste: Clippings and Composting

Discusses how gardeners can help address the growing landfill problem by reducing yard waste (leaving grass clippings on lawns) and by recycling yard waste through composting. Explains the ingredients of compost and ho...

Managing Your Woods for White-Tailed Deer
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Managing Your Woods for White-Tailed Deer

Many woodland landowners are interested in improving their properties for one of Indiana's most abundant game animals, white-tailed deer. This publication outlines different options landowners have to enhance white-taile...

Mile-a-minute Vine
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Mile-a-minute Vine

This four-page fact sheet in the Invasive Plant Series provides information on identifying and controlling this fast-growing vine within the buckwheat family. The publication, produced in partnership with Southern Indian...

Monitoring White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands
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Monitoring White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands

Wherever deer exist, they will be impacting the ecosystem through browsing. But at what level is that impact considered harmful? Many ecologists consider deer impact harmful when deer begin to reduce plant diversity in a...

More than just a puddle: Understanding the pond ecosystem for better management
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More than just a puddle: Understanding the pond ecosystem for better management

Ponds and small lakes are complex ecosystems. This publication discusses the living and non-living components of ponds, as well as interactions between these components. Landowners can use this information to better info...

Nature of Teaching Unit 6:  Take-a-Hike
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Nature of Teaching Unit 6: Take-a-Hike

This unit provides introductory lesson plans that allow students to explore nature and understand the health benefits of being outside. Activities encompass 2 of the 3 signature programs of The Nature of Teaching (Wil...

Pesticides and Ecological Risk Assessment
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Pesticides and Ecological Risk Assessment

This publication provides background information on the process of risk assessment and the role it plays in pesticide registration. It is intended to foster a better understanding of ecological risk assessment procedures...

Pesticides and Environmental Site Assessments
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Pesticides and Environmental Site Assessments

Environmental assessments are now performed routinely at commercial pesticide and fertilizer application businesses, farms, golf courses, lawn care companies, pest control firms and other businesses. The purpose of this ...

Pesticides and Spill Management
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Pesticides and Spill Management

Discusses what to do when there is a pesticide spill. Tells who you must call and who you may need to call. Gives phone numbers for these people. Provides a list of emergency people and gives room to put their phone nu...

Phosphorus Removal Structures
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Phosphorus Removal Structures

Phosphorus removal structures are a new best management practice for reducing surface water eutrophication by filtering dissolved phosphorus (DP) before it reaches a water body. This document briefly describes how, why, ...

Promote Conservation Through an Effective Campaign
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Promote Conservation Through an Effective Campaign

Using two previously developed campaigns as examples, this publication walks you through four steps to help you create an effective campaign to change people's behavior. One campaign takes a comprehensiv...

Ranavirus: Emerging Threat to Amphibians
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Ranavirus: Emerging Threat to Amphibians

Amphibians are integral to our ecosystem as predators, as a food resource, and as ecological indicators for water pollution and habitat quality. And currently, amphibians face increasing disease challenges, especially f...

Salamanders of Indiana book
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Salamanders of Indiana book

Salamanders of Indiana provides the reader with a 94-page, glossy, full-color guide to the salamanders found in the Hoosier state. The photographs help the reader identify all 22 species. The soft-cover b...

Small Community Wastewater Cluster Systems
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Small Community Wastewater Cluster Systems

This publication focuses on alternative methods of handling wastewater for small communities and small groups of homes. It examines pretreatment and soil absorption rather that conventional large-diameter gravity sewers...

Snakes and Lizards of Indiana
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Snakes and Lizards of Indiana

Snakes and Lizards of Indiana is a 100-page book that provides information on the identification, ecology and behavior of the 36 species of snakes and lizards that inhabit the state. Color photos and range maps accomp...

Soundscape Recorder (Android App)
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Soundscape Recorder (Android App)

Soundscape ecology is a new field of research that investigates how sound in the environment can be used to assess ecosystem health and human connection to nature and the environment in general. With this app, you can...

Soundscape Recorder (iOS app)
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Soundscape Recorder (iOS app)

Soundscape ecology is a new field of research that investigates how sound in the environment can be used to assess ecosystem health and human connection to nature and the environment in general. With this app, you can...

Status of Reforested Mine Sites in S.W. Indiana
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Status of Reforested Mine Sites in S.W. Indiana

Current Indiana coal mine reclamation regulations require the maintenance of at least 450 living trees and shrubs per acre, as determined in the last year of a five-year responsibility period. This publication discusses ...

Study Guide for the National FFA Environmental and Natural Resources CDE Identification Practicum
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Study Guide for the National FFA Environmental and Natural Resources CDE Identification Practicum

This PDF publication was created to help students study for the identification practicum section of the National FFA Environmental and Natural Resources Career Development Event. The 51-page, full-color document can be p...

Surface Root Syndrome
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Surface Root Syndrome

Trees in the landscape are highly prized and provide many benefits to you and your home. However, those shallow roots that appear on the surface of our lawns can create real headaches, especially when trying to grow l...

Sustainable Aquaculture: What does it mean to you?
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Sustainable Aquaculture: What does it mean to you?

Aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in the United States. This publication describes what sustainable aquaculture is, a sampling of aquaculture species are produced in the Midwest, health benefits associated with e...

The Great Clearcut Controversy
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The Great Clearcut Controversy

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In this inquiry-based teaching unit, st...

The Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment: Indiana Forestry and Wildlife
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The Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment: Indiana Forestry and Wildlife

Many of Indiana's forests, especially in the southern part of the state, have been dominated by oak and hickory trees for thousands of years. In recent decades forest researchers and managers in the east-central United S...

The Nature of Teaching: Coloration Exploration
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The Nature of Teaching: Coloration Exploration

This 22-page PDF is a unit in the Nature of Teaching series. A lesson and classroom activities for teachers of students through grade five help students understand how animals change colors to survive in their environmen...

The Nature of Teaching: Discovering the Watershed
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The Nature of Teaching: Discovering the Watershed

This 23-page PDF is a unit in the Nature of Teaching series. A lesson and classroom activities for teachers and students through grade five introduce students to watersheds and why they are important to a healthy ecosyst...

The Nature of Teaching: Disease Ecology
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The Nature of Teaching: Disease Ecology

This unit, part of the Nature of Teaching series, introduces students to basic principles of disease ecology, including the diversity of parasites, how diseases are modeled, and how parasites and hosts interact. ...

The Nature of Teaching: Unit 5, Ashes to Ashes: We All Grow Up
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The Nature of Teaching: Unit 5, Ashes to Ashes: We All Grow Up

This 23-page PDF is teaching Unit 5 in the Nature of Teaching series. Two lessons and classroom activities for teachers of students kindergarten through grade five describe how an ecosystem is constantly changing and wha...

The Scientific Method
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The Scientific Method

This publication briefly describes the scientific method and peer review. It is part of a Climate Change series of publications.

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The Scientific Process of Conservation Biology: Analyze, Design, Debate
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The Scientific Process of Conservation Biology: Analyze, Design, Debate

Conservation biology is considered by some to be a "crisis discipline." Decisions within the field must often be made quickly, sometimes without enough time to gather all of the data one would ideally have, and they c...

Transforming Drainage: Potential Benefits of Drainage Water Recycling - a case study from Indiana
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Transforming Drainage: Potential Benefits of Drainage Water Recycling - a case study from Indiana

This publication, part of the Transforming Drainage series, shows how drainage water recycling can improve water quality and crop production. A 10-foot-deep reservoir representing 6% of an Indiana field area met irrigati...

Transporting Food Waste
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Transporting Food Waste

This Nature of Teaching lesson plan teaches students how transportation of food and food waste affects the environment. Students will expand their vocabulary, broaden their geography and have fun working on their math sk...

Tree Defect Identification
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Tree Defect Identification

Well-maintained trees provide many benefits including increased property values, improved air quality and curb appeal. Trees are living organisms making them vulnerable to pests and environmental extremes resulting in he...

Tree Installation: Process and Practices
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Tree Installation: Process and Practices

Choosing and planting a tree should be a well-informed and planned decision. Proper selection and planting of urban trees can provide years of enjoyment for you and future generations as well as increased property val...

Tree Planting Part 1: Choosing a Tree
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Tree Planting Part 1: Choosing a Tree

Choosing and planting a tree should be a well-informed and planned decision. Proper selection and planting of urban trees can provide years of enjoyment for you and future generations as well as increased property value,...

Tree Planting Part 2: Planting Your Tree
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Tree Planting Part 2: Planting Your Tree

Trees and all forestlands are major assets to our cities, towns, and communities. Urban trees, in particular, provide aesthetic, functional, and environmental benefits to improve the quality of life. A well-planted an...

Tree Pruning Essentials
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Tree Pruning Essentials

Pruning has been called "one of the best, worst maintenance practices" performed on trees. The process creates wounds, which have a major impact on plant processes. Improper cutting on a tree causes severe damage or even...

Tree Pruning Essentials
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Tree Pruning Essentials

Pruning has been called "one of the best, worst maintenance practices," especially when performed on urban trees. The process creates wounds, which have a major impact on plant processes. Improper cutting on a tree cause...

Turtles of Indiana
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Turtles of Indiana

This 64-page, full-color publication describes in detail the 18 species of turtles in Indiana. The soft-cover book contains information about identification, distribution and status, and ecology and behavior. A quick ...

Understanding White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands
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Understanding White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands

Deer are an essential part of our ecosystems, but the phenomenon of too many deer should be of concern to forest landowners and the public in general. Deer are a "keystone" species, meaning their browsing can impact fore...

Urban Agriculture - Demographics of Indiana's Urban Agriculturalists
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Urban Agriculture - Demographics of Indiana's Urban Agriculturalists

This publication summarizes the demographic information of urban agriculturalists in Indiana. The data is part of an urban agriculture needs assessment conducted by Purdue Extension....

Urban Heat Island Effect
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Urban Heat Island Effect

The conversion of the natural landscape into a town or city is known as urbanization. The once-natural landscape that had vegetation such as grasses, shrubs, trees, and permeable soils is converted into a landscape of...

What Are We Preparing For?
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What Are We Preparing For?

This publication briefly describes potential effects of climate change on the Midwest the signs of climate change visible today. This is part of a Climate Change series of publications...

What Is Ground Water?
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What Is Ground Water?

This publication discusses what ground water is, its use and quality. Illustrations are included showing the Hydrologic Cycle and sources of ground water contamination, the distribution of average annual precipitation ...

Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Autumn Olive
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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Autumn Olive

Autumn-olive is an invasive plant that is originally from Asia, but has been introduced into the United States for erosion control, and wildlife food and cover.

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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Common Buckthorn
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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Common Buckthorn

Native to Eurasia, common buckthorn was introduced into the United States as an ornamental plant, but has since invaded our woodlands as an invasive plant. Common buckthorn is becoming more common in Indiana.

Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Japanese Barberry
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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Japanese Barberry

Japanese barberry is an invasive plant that is originally from Japan, but has been introduced into the United States as an ornamental plant.

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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Privet
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Woodland Stewardship for Landowners: Privet

A variety of privets have been introduced into the United States from China, Europe and North Africa. Privet has been used as an ornamental plant, particularly as a hedgerow plant, but has since became an invasive specie...