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Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

2008 October 19 · Leave a Comment

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
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SWMP USDA grants

2006 October 7 · Leave a Comment

I don’t know about this USDA source but can go find out more. It makes too much sense to integrate solid waste management with protecting water and supporting healthy rural life.
Solid Waste Management
The U.S. Department of Agriculture requests applications for the Solid Waste Management Grant Program. This program supports projects that seek to [...]

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Biocultural Dimensions of Environment and Health

2006 January 11 · 5 Comments

Bumsted, M. Pamela, Karen S. Young, and Leon H. Tafoya 1994 Biocultural Dimensions of Health and Environment. In John S. Andrews, Howard Frumkin, Barry L. Johnson, Myron A. Mehlman, Charles Xintaras, and Jeanne A. Bucsela, eds. Hazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste. pp. 245-252. Princeton: Princeton Scientific [...]

Tags: ES&H · LANL · New Mexico · Pueblo · communities · public involvement · published · rural

Cooperative Extension Work in Indian Country

2006 January 11 · 2 Comments

This is an excellent brief intro (Indian Country 101–A Primer) to the other major form of government in the US (the one most are unaware of, much less familiar with). The analysis is spot on. But the problems don’t just affect the poor showing of Extension. Natural Resources Conservation Service, especially its Resource Conservation & [...]

Tags: AI/AN · organizational culture · public involvement · rural

VT-CH-94 Vermont’s Earliest Known Agricultural Experiment Station

2006 January 9 · Leave a Comment

man in the northeast 19:1980 pp. 73-82
M. Pamela Bumsted
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Abstract
The first documented prehistoric corn remains from Vermont, in association with abundant gathered foods, were recovered in 1978 from an early Late Woodland (ca., A.D. 1450) site on the Winooski River intervale in the Champlain Lowland. The presence of both cultivated and gathered foods suggests [...]

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