scholarly journals Using a Coproduction Approach to Map Future Forest Retention Likelihood in the Southeastern United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Rachel E Greene ◽  
Kristine O Evans ◽  
Michael T Gray ◽  
D Todd Jones-Farrand ◽  
William G Wathen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
High Likelihood ◽  
Land Use Conversion ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Very High

Abstract Forestlands in the Southern United States provide important ecological and socioeconomic services that are under increasing pressure from development and other stressors. We used a coproduction approach with 50+ stakeholders to create a qualitative, spatially explicit Forest Retention Index to provide a gradient of future forest retention likelihood on presently forested lands. An estimated 17.7 million acres are at high risk of forest loss by 2060. These losses are largely driven by urbanization, but sea-level rise plays a key role in some coastal areas. Approximately 59 percent of southern forest is projected to be retained with High or Very High likelihood but is unevenly distributed among southern states. Approximately 8 percent of highly biodiverse forest is at high risk of land-use conversion. This tool provides a collaborative, transparent, and defensible mapping product that can aid in identification of key areas where retaining forest is critical to maintaining ecological and socioeconomic integrity.

Marriage Comes Early in the Mountains

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Syrett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Very High

Using the 1937 Appalachian marriage of nine-year-old Eunice Winstead and twenty-two-year-old Charlie Johns, and the subsequent international attention it received as a prism, this chapter focuses on the persistence of very youthful marriage in the rural southern United States. During the Great Depression, when rates of marriage were down and the age of first marriage increased, minors continued to marry at very high numbers in rural southern states. This chapter argues that isolation, poverty, child labor, poor schooling, and the lack of age consciouness that was its consequence, account for this trend. In communities where calendar age had far less meaning than it did among the middle class and urban residents, white, black and Latino Americans in rural America continued to countenance child marriage in part because they did not see it as noteworthy. Urbanites voiced their horror for the practice in newspapers, magazines, and in film using a language of civilization to condemn those they perceived as backwards barbarians.

HYDROPTILIDAE (TRICHOPTERA) FROM SOUTHERN UNITED STATES

1947 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Denning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caddis Flies ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

During the past several years a number of interesting collections of Hydroptilidae were made in the southern states, particularly in Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. These collections have now been examined and found to contain several new species and new distributional records of this little known family of “micro” caddis flies.Unless designated otherwise types of new species described herein are in the author's collection at the University of Wyoming.

scholarly journals Men’s Vasectomy Knowledge, Attitudes, and Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Southern United States: Results From an Exploratory Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 155798832094936
Author(s):  
Ashley L. White ◽  
Rachel E. Davis ◽  
Deborah L. Billings ◽  
Emily S. Mann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Capacity ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

Vasectomy is one of the few options men have to manage their reproductive capacity and take on a more equitable role in pregnancy prevention. While the method is underused throughout the United States, the southern states have a lower prevalence rate compared to the rest of the country. Existing survey research does not assess what men know or think about the procedure as a means of understanding why this is the case. We created and conducted an exploratory survey to assess men’s knowledge, attitudes, and information-seeking behaviors about vasectomy in the Southern United States. We used targeted Facebook advertising to recruit men ages 25–70 years living in 7 southern states to complete an online survey ( n = 397). Using regression analyses, we identify that participants who had a vasectomy knew more about the procedure than participants who had not. Participants who had not had a vasectomy had less positive attitudes about the procedure across all six attitude subscales compared to participants with vasectomies. We highlight potential avenues for future research to understand why this may be the case. Finally, the majority of participants knew someone who had had a vasectomy. This suggests that men disclose having a vasectomy to others. The interpersonal dynamics around vasectomy decision-making and disclosure remain unknown and a viable area for future research. Findings from this exploratory survey may be used by public health officials interested in implementing campaigns to increase knowledge about vasectomy and reduce stigma, which may encourage more positive attitudes about the procedure.

Spatially-explicit modeling of multi-scale drivers of aboveground forest biomass and water yield in watersheds of the Southeastern United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 158-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhtar Ahmed Ajaz Ahmed ◽  
Amr Abd-Elrahman ◽  
Francisco J. Escobedo ◽  
Wendell P. Cropper ◽  
Timothy A. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Water Yield ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Spatially Explicit Modeling

scholarly journals Evaluating Potential Changes in Fire Risk fromEucalyptusPlantings in the Southern United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott L. Goodrick ◽  
John A. Stanturf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fire Behavior ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Short Rotation Woody Crops ◽  
Shrub Layer ◽  
Short Rotation ◽  
Fuel Characteristic ◽  
In Fire ◽  
Very High

Renewed interest in short-rotation woody crops for bioenergy and bioproducts has prompted a reevaluation of theEucalyptusspecies for the southern United States. One question that arises about the potential effects of introducing a nonnative species is what effect will there be on fire behavior. Our approximate answer based on modeling fire behavior using the Fuel Characteristic Classification System is that surface fire behavior in young stands differs little from surface fires common to pine plantations in the southern Coastal Plain. By the age of 9, the absence of a shrub layer, along with an increased height to live crown, reduced initiation potential despite increased bark shedding. When a shrub layer was introduced in the model, the initiation potential became equivalent to commonPinusfuelbeds. If a crown is ignited, however, the potentials for transmissivity and spread are very high, and the potential for crown fire behavior is more severe. Our modeling effort suggests that fire behavior at the stand level differs little from current conditions and points to the importance of avoiding the development of a shrub layer. Stands managed on short rotation (less than 10 years) will likely be harvested before bark shedding presents a significant spotting problem.

scholarly journals 1295. Advancing the PrEP Continuum: A Novel Collaboration Between a Public Health Department and a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center in the Southern United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. S395-S396
Author(s):  
Meredith Clement ◽  
Cedar Eagle ◽  
Destry Taylor ◽  
Benjamin Goldstein ◽  
Barbara Johnston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Community Health Center ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Continuous Variables ◽  
Black And Latino

Abstract Background While pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a promising strategy for HIV prevention, some high-risk persons have limited access to care, particularly Black and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). Disparities also exist by region: the Southern United States accounts for over half of new HIV diagnoses but only a third of PrEP prescriptions. We evaluated a novel PrEP program based on a collaboration between a local department of public health (DPH) and a federally qualified health center (FQHC) providing care to underserved racial/ethnic minorities in Durham, North Carolina. Methods In May 2015, the Durham County DPH and Lincoln Community Health Center, an FQHC, developed a program to offer PrEP services using existing resources. The model included initial no-cost screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), hepatitis B/C, and HIV at the DPH STI clinic, followed by referral to the FQHC for PrEP services. We profiled the PrEP continuum for patients starting at program initiation until March 2018. For PrEP initiators and non-initiators, comparisons were made using Wilcoxon rank-sum test for continuous variables, and Chi-square or FisherÕs exact tests as indicated for categorical variables. Results Of 196 unique patients evaluated in the STI clinic and referred to the FQHC, 117 (60%) persons attended their initial PrEP appointments. Among these, 84 (43%) filled a PrEP prescription, 69 (35%) persisted in care for at least three months, and 58 (30%) reported >90% adherence at follow-up (see figure). Among those presenting for initial appointments (n = 117), more than half were Black (n = 62, 53%) and 21 (18%) were Latino. Most were MSM (n = 95, 81%) and 9 were transgender. Almost half (n = 55, 47%) were uninsured. We found statistically significant differences between PrEP initiators vs. noninitiators based on race/ethnicity (P = 0.02), insurance status (P = 0.05), and history of sex work (P = 0.05). Conclusion A collaborative model of PrEP care between a DPH and an FQHC in the Southern United States was able to reach predominantly Black and Latino MSM at high-risk for HIV. Although this program is sustainable, efforts to improve steps along the PrEP care continuum are still needed in this population. Disclosures A. Sena, Gilead: Grant Investigator, Research grant.

scholarly journals Overwintering of Sclerotium rolfsii and S. rolfsii var. delphinii in Different Latitudes of the United States

Plant Disease ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Xu ◽  
M. L. Gleason ◽  
D. S. Mueller ◽  
P. D. Esker ◽  
C. A. Bradley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
North Dakota ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Sclerotium Rolfsii ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Bare Soil ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Northern United States

Previously known only from the southern United States, hosta petiole rot recently appeared in the northern United States. Sclerotium rolfsii var. delphinii is believed to be the predominant petiole rot pathogen in the northern United States, whereas S. rolfsii is most prevalent in the southern United States. In order to test the hypothesis that different tolerance to climate extremes affects the geographic distribution of these fungi, the survival of S. rolfsii and S. rolfsii var. delphinii in the northern and southeastern United States was investigated. At each of four locations, nylon screen bags containing sclerotia were placed on the surface of bare soil and at 20-cm depth. Sclerotia were recovered six times from November 2005 to July 2006 in North Dakota and Iowa, and from December 2005 to August 2006 in North Carolina and Georgia. Survival was estimated by quantifying percentage of sclerotium survival on carrot agar. Sclerotia of S. rolfsii var. delphinii survived until at least late July in all four states. In contrast, no S. rolfsii sclerotia survived until June in North Dakota or Iowa, whereas 18.5% survived until August in North Carolina and 10.3% survived in Georgia. The results suggest that inability to tolerate low temperature extremes limits the northern range of S. rolfsii.

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