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The following is excerpted from Women in Racing: In Their Own Words. Published September 2001 by Eclipse Press.When I started out, gender was a huge issue in my field of work. When I was growing up and was friends with Julie (Krone) back in the dark ages, she used to insist to people that it made no difference. And to some extent she still insists that. She still tells people, you know, "don't think of me as a female jockey. I'm a jockey that happens to be female."But for me, I'll say flat out it made a huge difference. I think it made it much more difficult. I had a lot of trouble getting as much respect as the men that wore the big brown photo vests and carried Nikons and the various things.
A lot of photographers made my life very difficult when I came out. They would make up stories about me and tell clients terrible things about me which were flat-out lies. Why did they do that? I always thought it was insecurity on their part, which is funny, because the two that I'm thinking of right now were both capable photographers. I found it very odd that they would waste their mental energy attacking me.I got a lot of positive feedback on the Turnback the Alarm photo that wound up winning the Eclipse Award (1992). After it was published, one of these men said to me, "It's a great shot." And I thought, "Wow, I've made it, this guy actually gave me a compliment!" Then, after I got the award months later, the same guy was standing with a group of people one day and he said, "Barb, you got to admit, anybody could have taken that shot that was there that day."So, here it is twenty years later and they still do stuff like that on occasion. I think these guys are so hard on me because I'm just such a girl. You just see me walking around, and I'm smiling at everybody, feeding apples to the horses. Some of it is about competition -- this is a very competitive business. There is something about me being a bubbly, happy girl that really annoys them. A lot of these people don't love the horses. I just HAVE to do this work because I love horses. I can't do anything else. I walk into that paddock, and there's nowhere else I'd rather be.Buy the bookOther excerpts
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The film begins with the wraparound story, a tale about a young boy, Timmy (Matthew Lawrence) who is kidnapped by a crazed suburban housewife (Deborah Harry) and locked in a cellar whilst she prepares dinner for her guests (Timmy is to be the main course). In order to stall her, Timmy begins reading the first of three stories from a book she has left him to read, a book she loved as a child.
The first story is called Lot 249 and is based upon a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle; it is adapted by Michael McDowell. Two university students, Susan (Julianne Moore) and Lee (Robert Sedgwick), cheat fellow student Bellingham (Steve Buscemi) out of a scholarship by framing him for the theft of a valuable artefact. Bellingham's roommate - Susan's brother - Andy (Christian Slater) discovers that an ancient mummy Bellingham has purchased can be brought back to life. Bellingham seeks revenge for being set up by the two lovers, whilst at the same time, Andy has his own revenge plans for Bellingham.
The second story, The Cat From Hell, is based on a short tale by Stephen King and is directed by George A. Romero. In this segment a miserly millionaire, Drogan (William Hickey), has spent his life running a pharmaceutical company that produce drugs for people with heart conditions. His main test subjects are cats.Read more ›
And while I'm not much of an anthology-movie person, a brief glimpse of "Tales of the Darkside" on TV was all it took to make me hunt down the original movie. The second story has a rather ridiculous climax, but otherwise these three stories are brilliant little horror nuggets, starring black cats, mummies and mysterious women.
The framing story is that a young boy has been kidnapped and caged by a refined suburban witch (Debbie Harry). She plans to eviscerate and roast him for a dinner party she's giving, but he manages to delay her by reading stories from a book she left in the cage.
"Lot 249": A graduate student named Bellingham (played by Steve Buscemi) has been cheated out of a valuable scholarship by a spoiled rich boy (Robert Sedgwick) and his cruel girlfriend (Julianne Moore). But when he uncovers a scroll hidden in the body of an ancient mummy, Bellingham finds a way to unleash revenge on those who have wronged him...
"Cat From Hell": An elderly pharmaceutical magnate named Drogan (William Hickey) hires a hit man (David Johansen) to destroy his greatest enemy: a black cat that he claims has killed three people. The hit man thinks it's stupid, but agrees. But as the night wears on, he finds it difficult to kill the cat -- and soon discovers that he might end dying instead.
"Lover's Vow": A struggling artist (James Remar) witnesses a grotesque gargoyle viciously murder a man, and is only allowed to live when the creature demands a promise of eternal silence about what he has seen.Read more ›
The film opens with the wraparound story that stars Blondie's Deborah Harry as a woman who is planning on cooking a young boy in a nod to Hansel and Gretel, in a bid to stall her the young boy tells her three ghastly tales. The first tale is about revenge involving a Mummy and it stars a young looking Steve Buscemi, Christian Slater and Julianne Moore. Secondly there is the Stephen King based story with George Romero doing the screenplay, it's another take on Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat and stars William Hickey in his usual "cantankerous old man" role and David Johansen as a hitman. James Remar gives a good performance in the third and best of the tales, he stars as a struggling artist who meets the Rae Dawn Chong character and his life seems to be perfect, it will stay that way if he can keep a promise he made. This tale is very similar to one of the segments in the wonderful Japanese horror anthology called Kwaidan. The wraparound story ends the film nicely with a touch of humour that is sprinkled throughout the movie.
It isn't particularly scary or humorous, but it does mix enough of both to work. There's enough well known faces in the movie to ensure the acting is of a pretty high standard, Deborah Harry did well considering she's far better known for her singing.Read more ›
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The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on human burning of fossil fuels, and related shifts in tropical air flows, it said.
"Monsoon failure becomes much more frequent" as temperatures rise, Anders Levermann, a professor of dynamics of the climate system and one of the authors at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told Reuters.
India's monsoon, which lasts from June to September, is vital for India's 1.2 billion people to grow crops such as rice, wheat and corn. India last faced a severe widespread drought in 2009 and had to import sugar, pushing global prices to 30-year highs.
The researchers defined monsoon "failure" as a fall in rainfall of between 40 and 70 percent below normal levels. Such a drastic decline has not happened any year in records dating back to 1870 by the India Meteorological Department, they said.
"In the past century the Indian monsoon has been very stable. It is already a catastrophe with 10 percent less rain than the average," Levermann told Reuters.
The study, in the journal Environmental Research Letters, projected a temperature rise of 4.6 degrees C (8.3 F) over pre-industrial times by 2200. U.N. scenarios indicate a gain of between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees C (2.9-11.5F) by 2100.
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Almost 200 nations have promised to limit global warming to below 2.0 degrees C (3.6 F) above pre-industrial times to avoid dangerous changes such as more droughts, floods and rising sea levels.
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In years with an El Nino weather phenomenon, which warms waters in the eastern Pacific, the Walker pattern gets shifted eastwards, bringing high pressure over India. That pattern suppresses the monsoon.
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"We don't need these socialist forms of regulation—the Elizabeth Warrens of the world coming down and sticking their little fingers and micromanaging the capital markets," he told Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones.
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Tabacco was credited as the manager of the Fortified Funds, and has appeared on Fox Business Network on their behalf in the past. But according to Business Insider, Fortified is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Tabacco's LinkedIn profile identifies him as the head of Internet broadcaster Tabacco Media.
Tabacco does have a stock-trading background, having run LocateStock.com. He's also registered with FINRA, but his check record hasn't been updated in nearly two decades. And Tabacco was fined $50,000 and barred from the National Association of Securities Dealers in 1997 for allowing the execution of transactions in customer accounts without their knowledge or authorization.
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Influence of soil thickness on stand characteristics in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
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DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9235-3
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- Meyer, M.D., North, M.P., Gray, A.N. et al. Plant Soil (2007) 294: 113. doi:10.1007/s11104-007-9235-3
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Soil thickness can be an important factor influencing vegetation, yet few spatially-explicit studies have examined soil horizon thickness and vegetation composition in summer-drought forests. We compared seismic and soil penetration measurements of combined A + C and Cr horizon thickness, soil moisture and temperature, and stand variables in a contiguous 4-ha mixed-conifer stand of the Sierra Nevada. Thickness of A + C and Cr horizons were highly variable but were not correlated to each other. Total basal area and canopy cover were positively related with A + C horizon thickness, and shrub cover was positively related with Cr horizon thickness. Basal area of white fir [Abies concolor (Gord and Glend) Lindl.] and incense-cedar [Calocedrus decurrens (Torrey) Florin] were positively correlated with A + C horizon thickness, but there was no relationship between A + C or Cr horizon thickness and basal area of Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. and Balf.), sugar pine (P. lambertiana Douglas), or red fir (A. magnifica A. Murray). Both white and red fir seedlings were associated with decreased soil temperature, but only white fir seedlings were positively associated with soil moisture. Soil penetration estimates of soil thickness were similar to seismic estimates for shallow soils (<50 cm depth) but were poorly related on deeper soils. Visual surface conditions and tile probe estimates of soil thickness can be highly misleading because 'shallow' areas may have a thick layer of weathered bedrock that can serve as a potential rooting medium for deep-rooted trees and shrubs. In our study only the refraction seismic method had the potential to measure total soil depth that included A + C and Cr horizon thickness.
KeywordsForest regenerationRefraction seismic methodSoil moistureSoil temperature
Soil is the fundamental substrate of forest ecosystems and has a functional role in decomposition, nutrient cycling, net primary productivity, water supply, food webs, and stand dynamics (Wall and Moore 1999; Fisher and Binkley 2000). Many factors influence a soil's productivity, including organic and mineral content, porosity, microbial biomass, temperature, and moisture (Fisher and Binkley 2000). In seasonally-dry forest ecosystems, soil thickness can be an important influence on productivity and stand features because it strongly affects potential root volume, plant-available water, hydrologic function, vertical temperature profile, and buffering capacity (Poff 1996). In some forests, soil thickness can limit stand basal area (Fralish 1994), productivity (Romanya and Vallejo 2004), and tree recruitment (Dovčiak et al. 2003), and influence tree species composition across the landscape (Stohlgren and Bachand 1997).
Upper mineral soil layers (including A, B, and C horizons) are important for forest vegetation, with thicker layers often associated with greater root biomass and plant productivity (Jackson et al. 1996). Water-holding capacity and nutrient conditions in these upper horizons may be crucial for tree seedlings and understory shrubs that often have roots concentrated at shallow soil depths (Royce and Barbour 2001; Rose et al. 2002). Recently, more attention has been given to the importance of the lower soil layers (i.e., deep regolith; Zanner and Graham 2004) that includes the parent material important for growth of deep-rooted plant species (Canadell et al. 1996), and soil genesis and respiration (Richter and Markewitz 1995). Deeper soil horizons may be important for plant growth and productivity, especially in warmer moisture-limited forests and woodlands where trees and shrubs exhibit deep rooting profiles that extend into weathered bedrock substrates (i.e., Cr horizon; Arkley 1981; Wang et al. 1995; Sternberg et al. 1996; Hubbert et al. 2001a; Rose et al. 2002; Witty et al. 2003). Few studies, however, have examined the relative importance of these two different soil layers for shrub, tree, and seedling composition and density in a moisture-limited coniferous forest stand.
In California's Sierra Nevada, where seasonally-dry soils are commonly thin (<200 cm) and underlain by Cr horizons of weathered granitic bedrock (Witty et al. 2003), soil thickness is suspected to have a strong influence on soil water availability, and stand composition and density (Urban et al. 2000). In mixed-conifer forests, denser stands of fir (Abies spp.), sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Douglas), and incense-cedar [Calocedrus decurrens (Torrey) Florin] are often observed on apparently thicker and cooler soil microsites, while lower density stands dominated by shrubs or Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.) are considered indicative of shallow and exposed mineral soils (Vasek 1978; North et al. 2002). Seedlings of red fir, sugar pine, and incense-cedar also have greater occurrence and survivorship in moister, cooler, less exposed (Barbour et al. 1990; Gray et al. 2005), and deeper (red fir; Barbour et al. 1998) soil microsites. In contrast, shrubs and Jeffrey pines may effectively colonize and grow on shallow mineral soils by developing more extensive root systems (Royce and Barbour 2001) or extracting moisture from weathered bedrock during the hot and dry summer months (Hubbert et al. 2001a, b; Rose et al. 2002; Witty et al. 2003). This deeper moisture may be critical to the recruitment and survival of deep-rooted trees and shrubs in summer-drought forests, because total plant-available water storage in weathered bedrock can exceed twice the amount in soil during the summer (Hubbert et al. 2001b).
Estimation of mineral soil thickness with soil penetration methods (e.g., tile probe) is standard procedure for soil sampling conducted in forest research (e.g., Smallidge and Leopold 1994; Lookingbill and Urban 2004). These methods can provide relatively accurate estimation of soil thickness in the upper 50 cm of soil (e.g., Fuhlendorf and Smeins 1998), especially in the absence of cobbles or broken parent material. In comparison, seismic soil thickness estimation can be a useful tool for determining thickness of mineral soil, weathered bedrock, and total regolith thickness, especially in deeper (>200 cm) soils and at lower soil depths with higher densities of fragmented parent material and homogenous soil moisture profiles (Haeni 1986; Meju et al. 2003). In combination, seismic and soil penetration methods could provide complimentary estimates of soil thickness, but the two methods have not been directly compared in many forest soils.
The objectives of this study were to examine the influences of soil thickness (A + C and Cr horizons) on the density and composition of trees, shrubs, and tree seedlings in a single Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest stand. We predicted that total basal area, canopy cover, and occurrence and seedling densities of white fir [A. concolor (Gord and Glend) Lindl.], red fir (A. magnifica A. Murray), incense-cedar, and sugar pine would be positively related to A + C horizon thickness, while shrub cover and occurrence of Jeffrey pine would be more strongly related to thickness of the Cr horizon. We also predicted seedlings of incense-cedar and sugar pine would be positively associated with moist microsites, and seedlings of white fir and red fir would be positively associated with cool and moist microsites. Additionally, we compared soil thickness measurements made with a tile probe to seismic soil thickness measurements to assess the relationship between these methods above and below 50 cm depth. The expense of seismic methods constrained our sampling to a 4 ha area within the Teakettle Experimental Forest. Within the selected sample area, however, extensive mapped data sets allow us to compare soil depth, moisture, and temperature with vegetation composition.
Materials and methods
Study Site
We conducted our study at the Teakettle Experimental Forest, located in the southern Sierra Nevada of California. Teakettle Experimental Forest (1,800–2,400 m elev., 36°58′N latitude and 119°2′W longitude) experiences hot, dry summers, and precipitation (mean is 125 cm/year at 2,100 m) that falls almost exclusively in the form of snow from November to April (North et al. 2002). Dominant trees include white fir, red fir, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, and incense-cedar. Dominant shrubs include mountain whitethorn (Ceanothus cordulatus Kellogg; 11.0% cover), greenleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula Greene, 2.1% cover), California hazelnut (Corylus cornuta Marshall californica (A. DC.) W.M. Sharp, 2% cover), and bush chinquapin (Chrysolepis sempervirens (Kellogg) Hjelmquist, 1.5% cover; based on understory plant surveys in 2002). Teakettle Experimental Forest is an old-growth forest characterized by a multi-layered canopy and numerous large (>100 cm dbh) trees (many >200 years), snags, and decayed logs. There has not been a widespread fire at Teakettle since 1865 (North et al. 2005), and thinning has not occurred within the study area with the exception of 48 ha of forest that was experimentally thinned adjacent to the study site (North et al. 2002). Mean slope of the study site was 9% with a southwest-facing aspect.
Teakettle's most common soils are mixed, frigid Dystric Xeropsamments (Cagwin series), formed from decomposed granite, typical of many soils in the southern Sierra Nevada (Giger and Schmitt 1983). Litter and upper and lower soil layers vary across the study area, and all soils are derived from decomposed granite with similar texture, very low (<5%) clay content, and low water-holding capacity (North et al. 2002). All sample points in this study were on Cagwin soils defined by an A horizon of brown gravelly, loamy coarse sand with weak granular structure and a mean soil pH of 5.4, the absence of a B horizon, a C horizon of soft, very friable mineral soil, and an underlying Cr horizon of weathered bedrock usually encountered below 50 cm depth and overlying hard bedrock (North et al. 2002).
Vegetation measurements
We conducted our study in an intensively sampled 4-ha plot located in one untreated plot of the Teakettle Experiment (18 plots total with six treatments). Plots were sized and located so that they contained a representative composition of patch and forest conditions within mixed-conifer forest (North et al. 2002). Within this 4-ha plot, all trees and snags >5 cm dbh and shrubs (≥4 m2 in area) were measured in 2002–2003. Trees were measured, and tree and shrubs were identified to species and mapped [position coordinates (x, y, and z)] using a surveyor's total station (Criterion 400 and Topcon 300, LTI, Denver, CO, USA). All coordinates were converted to Universal Transverse Mercator units and elevation using a ground-based corrected global positioning system reading for the initial station location. We established 49 sample points within the 4 ha plot in a seven by seven grid with 25 m spacing between points and a 25-m buffer from the plot boundary. In June through August 2002, understory shrub and herbaceous vegetation cover was measured within a 1.8 m radius (10 m2) of each sample point, and seedlings (5–50 cm in height) of the five dominant overstory tree species were counted within a 3.5 m radius (38.5 m2) of each grid point. Using the 4 ha stem map, basal area was estimated for all trees within 12.6 m (0.05 ha) of a sample point and weighted by distance from the plot center. We used weighting to account for the potentially stronger correlation between soil thickness and vegetation rooted directly over the plot center where thickness was measured. In our weighting, the basal area of all trees within 3 m of the plot center was multiplied by 1.0 and all trees >3 m from the center was multiplied by 1.0–0.1 (β − 3), where β = distance from the plot center.
We expected the abundance and composition of tree seedlings to be highly influenced by soil moisture and temperature (Gray et al. 2005) in addition to the possible influence of soil horizon thickness. Therefore, we measured relative differences in percent soil volumetric water content at 0–15 cm depth between 0800 and 1800 for the same day, 14 August 2002, using time domain reflectometry (TDR), following methods described by Gray and Spies (1995). We did not calibrate soil moisture values to changes in sample time during the day because TDR measures are very robust to changes in soil temperature (Czarnomski et al. 2005), and soil temperature (10 cm depth) was weakly correlated (r = 0.134, P = 0.003) with time of day during sampling. Soil moisture data collected at 402 sample points for 5 years at Teakettle indicates a consistent pattern in which soils start out at field capacity after snow melt (usually mid-May) and dry down during the summer. We used August measurements because it is at the end of the growing season and typically has the lowest soil moisture readings of the year (A.N. Gray, personal observation). Soil temperature was recorded on 8 August 2002 at all 49 points at 10 cm depth (T10 cm, °C) using a digital thermometer (Taylor Digital Max/Min, Forestry Suppliers, Inc., Jackson, MS, USA). Measurements were taken at each of the 49 sample points.
Soil thickness measurements
Thickness of soil horizons was measured using a refraction seismic method (RSM) that measures the velocity at which a seismic wave propagates through subterranean material, such as soil, weathered bedrock, or hard bedrock (e.g., Haeni 1986; Meju et al. 2003). Higher seismic primary-wave velocities indicate material of higher density, typically quantifying the strength or competency of the material. This allowed measurements of the depth to competent or weathered bedrock beneath the upper soil horizons (below A + C horizons) and the depth to unweathered hard bedrock (below Cr horizon; McCann et al. 1988; Gasch et al. 2002). Seismic geophones were placed at 6 m intervals along seven parallel east–west transects that overlapped with all 49 sample points. Using a digital, distributed, 24-bit instrument, seismic velocities were recorded from the energy produced from an impact tool placed between each set of successive geophone locations. Results were provided as a profile of RSM values with depth along each transect. We used RSM velocity values to indicate lower boundaries of A + C and Cr soil horizons (1,000 and 3,500 m/s, respectively), based on standard values (McCann et al. 1988) and adjusted for granitic-based soils (Gasch et al. 2002) and calculated the Cr horizon thickness by subtraction of the A + C horizon from total soil depth.
We compared the RSM velocity estimates of the A + C and Cr horizon thickness against measurements from a tile probe, a field instrument commonly used by foresters. The probe was a long (up to 2 m) steel rod with a crossbar that was shoved into mineral soil using the downward force equal to the weight of the tile probe operator. To reduce variation in downward force applied, the same two people of similar height and weight operated the probe for the calibration and plot data collection. We inserted the tile probe at five randomly selected points within 2 m of each grid point and used the maximum value from the five samples to minimize the influence of cobbles. We calibrated tile probe measurements by digging soil pits at five sites within 300 m of the study site. Calibration sites were chosen to represent a range of perceived soil depths from deep to shallow based on observed surface physiographic features. We selected deep soil sites where there was no visible surface bedrock or evidence of geomorphic processes (e.g., sediment accumulation, mass wasting), and thin soil sites based on the presence of one or more of the following features: high percent cover of surface bedrock outcrops, ridges or benches, or forest openings with no A horizon. At each site, five tile probe measures were taken 40 cm apart along a 2 m transect. The area surrounding the tile probe measurements was then excavated by shovel, taking care to not step on or pile soil on one side of each soil pit. Once each pit was excavated to the bottom of the Cr horizon, the depth from the soil surface to the boundary between A + C and Cr soil horizons was measured in five locations along the soil pit and averaged to one value.
Statistical analysis
Stand variables
We used Pearson's correlation to examine the association between upper and lower soil thickness and seismic and tile probe measures of soil thickness. We used linear regression to estimate thickness of the A soil horizon (PROC REG, SAS Version 9.1) with the average of the five probe measurements as the predictor variable and soil thickness via excavation as the response variable. We also used linear regressions to evaluate the relationships between tile probe and seismic soil thickness estimates using the top 50 cm in a first analysis and lower 50–150 cm of soil in a second analysis (as measured using seismic methods). We used multiple regressions with a forward stepwise procedure to select independent predictors (A + C and Cr soil horizon thicknesses; included in model if P = 0.10) of stand variables (total tree basal area, canopy cover, shrub cover, basal area of white fir). All variables were evaluated for normality, homoscedasticity, and independence of residuals. All conifer species, with the exception of white fir (normal distribution), were analyzed using logistic regression (see below) due to their non-normal distribution. We tested for serial correlation using a Durbin–Watson statistic and multicollinearity by examining correlations between independent factors and calculating the Variance Inflation Factor for each significant factor (Statistica 2003).
We used logistic regression to relate selected soil factors to the occurrence of red fir, incense-cedar, sugar pine, and Jeffrey pine trees as well as seedlings of each species (Jeffrey pine seedlings were excluded due to inadequate sample size). We selected A + C and Cr horizon thickness in our analyses of the occurrence of each tree species (red fir, incense-cedar, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine) and incense-cedar and sugar pine seedlings. In addition to soil horizon thickness, we included soil moisture and temperature in our analyses of white fir and red fir seedling occurrence, and soil moisture in our analyses of incense-cedar and sugar pine seedling occurrence, because these variables were important predictors of seedling occurrence for conifer species at our study site (Gray et al. 2005). To reduce model over-fitting, we only included significant (P < 0.05) predictors in our logistic regression analyses, and tested for multicollinearity by examining potential correlation between independent factors in each model. For each significant parameter in the logistic regression model, we calculated odds-ratios and their confidence intervals based on a Quasi-Newton estimation that approximates the second-order derivatives of the retrospective loss function (Statistica 2003). The odds-ratio estimates were interpreted as the odds of occurrence of a tree species given a one unit change in a soil parameter (e.g., A + C horizon thickness) after being adjusted for the effects of other soil parameters in the model. Odds-ratios provide information regarding the relative importance of soil parameters on tree or seedling occurrence and do not imply cause and effect relationships between these variables. We used a sensitivity analysis of each treatment type to evaluate the performance of the reduced logistic regression model and assess model accuracy in successfully predicting occurrence of tree species among sample points (Hosmer and Lemeshow 2000). Unless otherwise noted, all statistics were conducted with Statistica 6.1 (StatSoft Inc., Tulsa, OK, USA) and an α level of 0.05.
Mean (±SE), percent of total, and range of stand structure variables measured (July–August 2002) in Teakettle Experimental Forest (Fresno County, CA, USA)
Stand or soil variable
Mean (±SE)
Tree basal area (m2/ha)
53.1 (5.2)
White fir
30.9 (1.9)
Red fir
5.6 (0.9)
Sugar pine
10.1 (1.2)
4.2 (0.7)
Jeffrey pine
2.3 (0.3)
Seedling density (n/ha)
2,984 (1,661)
White fir
1,426 (726)
Red fir
1,352 (936)
Sugar pine
117 (42)
80 (27)
Jeffrey pine
11 (11)
A + C horizon thickness (cm)
48 (5)
Cr horizon thickness (cm)
105 (7)
Litter depth (cm)
1.9 (0.2)
Hemispherical canopy cover (%)
79.8 (1.0)
Shrub cover (%)
18.9 (4.0)
Herbaceous plant cover (%)
5.3 (1.8)
Soil volumetric water content, 0–15 cm (%) August 2002
2.95 (0.09)
Soil temperature (°C) August 2002
16.9 (0.6)
Best linear regression models for basal area, shrub cover, and canopy cover in relation to soil horizon thickness in Teakettle Experimental Forest
Coefficient estimate
Coefficient standard error
Predictor P
Partial R2
Overall regression
Basal area
A + C horizon thickness
Canopy cover
A + C horizon thickness
Basal area of white fir
A + C horizon thickness
Shrub cover
Cr horizon thickness
Results of logistic regression models indicating soil variables associated with the occurrence of tree species and seedlings in Teakettle Experimental Forest
Independent variable
Estimate (SE)
Odds ratioa (95% CI)
A + C horizon
0.027 (0.011)
1.3 (1.1–1.5)
White fir
Soil moisture
1.68 (0.72)
5.3 (1.2–22.9)
Soil temperature
−0.36 (0.14)
0.7 (0.5–0.9)
Red fir
Cr horizon
0.02 (0.01)
1.2 (1.0–1.4)
Soil temperature
−0.40 (0.18)
0.7 (0.5–1.0)
Ninety-three percent of censused conifer seedlings were either white fir or red fir, and spatial variability in seedling abundance was high for all species (Table 1). The probability of occurrence of white fir seedlings increased with soil moisture and decreased with soil temperature (Table 3). The reduced logistic regression model correctly classified 44 and 81% of white fir seedling presence and absence, respectively. The probability of occurrence of red fir increased with Cr horizon thickness and decreased with soil temperature (Table 3). The reduced logistic regression model correctly classified 45 and 95% of red fir seedling presence and absence, respectively. The probability of occurrence of incense-cedar (χ2 = 1.571, df = 1, P = 0.250) and sugar pine (χ2 = 1.701, df = 1, P = 0.192) seedlings were not associated with horizon thickness or soil moisture. Ninety-eight percent of all conifer seedlings were restricted to microsites with soil temperatures ≤17°C (67% of microsites), and no seedlings of any species were found in microsites with soil temperatures exceeding 21°C (14% of microsites).
Our study was limited to a single forest stand and represents an investigative study of the relationship between soil and stand variables within a stand. Results should be viewed with caution and with attention to limitations in the size of the study area and soil measurement techniques. Thickness of A + C horizon and not Cr horizon were important for overstory stand composition in our 4-ha stand at Teakettle. This may be largely due to the overstory dominance of white fir at our study site, a shade-tolerant species with roots located primarily in the upper soil horizon (Laacke 1990). Greater thickness of organic and mineral layers in the upper soil horizons may hold more soil moisture that can be important for more water-limited and shade-tolerant tree species, white fir, red fir, and incense-cedar, which dominate our study site (Gray et al. 2005). Additionally, increased A + C horizon thickness may provide tree roots with increased rooting volume and access to a greater diversity of ectomycorrhizal networks that can increase water uptake for symbiotic tree roots (Bruns 1995; Izzo et al. 2005). In the northern Sierra Nevada, white fir and incense-cedar frequently grow in deeper soils, while Jeffrey pine is often observed on shallow soils with increased cover of surface rock (Vasek 1978). In the southern Sierra Nevada, Jeffrey pine productivity was not limited by upper horizon thickness if underlain by a thick layer of weathered bedrock (Witty et al. 2003). At Teakettle, white fir and incense-cedar were associated with thicker A + C horizon soils, although we did not detect an association between Jeffrey pine occurrence and shallow A + C horizon or deep Cr horizon soils, possibly due to the infrequent occurrence and small sample size of Jeffrey pine at our study site.
White and red fir seedlings were associated with cooler (both species) and moister (white fir) soils at Teakettle, although the percentage of logistic regression models that correctly classified the presence of seedlings of either species was low (<50%). These results support previous observations that white and red fir seedlings grew more favorably (Barbour et al. 1990) or were more frequently encountered (Gray et al. 2005) in microsites with relatively high soil moisture and low direct solar radiation. At our study site, red fir seedlings were associated with thicker Cr horizon microsites, in contrast to our hypothesis that the thickness of the A + C horizon is more important than deeper weathered bedrock for regeneration of this species. In red fir forests of the Sierra Nevada, red fir seedling and sapling cover was correlated with total soil depth in clearcut areas where regeneration was defined as 'very slow' (Barbour et al. 1998). In the southern Sierra Nevada, roots of ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa Laws.) seedlings have been shown to penetrate mineral soil into weathered bedrock within 2 years of establishment (Witty et al. 2003), but similar work has not been conducted on red fir root dynamics. In a growth chamber experiment, roots of red fir seedlings averaged 34 cm depth in the first six months of growth (Barbour et al. 1990). At Teakettle, we've found red fir seedlings ( \( \bar x = 35\,{\text{cm}} \) height) with an average root depth of 58 cm (A.N. Gray and H.S.J. Zald, personal observation) and suspect some seedlings may penetrate weathered bedrock to extract water in the first several years of growth. Interestingly, white fir seedlings at Teakettle ( \( \bar x = 38\,{\text{cm}} \) height) also had relatively long roots ( \( \bar x = 53\,{\text{cm}} \) depth), indicating that weathered bedrock could be an important medium for water uptake and survival of some white fir seedlings. Further research is needed to understand the belowground mechanisms that influence conifer regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests.
In accord with our predictions, shrubs were positively related with thickness of the Cr horizon composed of decomposed granite and very low organic material. Shrubs in water-limited forests, such as A. patula Greene, extract soil water from the upper soil horizons (Royce and Barbour 2001) but shift to lower bedrock-derived soil late in the growing season when upper soil horizons are dry (Rose et al. 2002). Our study site was dominated primarily by C. cordulatus Kellogg, a nitrogen-fixing shrub that occurs primarily on soils exceeding 1 m depth at Teakettle (North et al. 2002). Several species of Ceanothus have deep (>2 m) roots that may extract soil moisture from lower soil horizons (Conrad et al. 1985), and potentially tap into deep ectomycorrhizal networks within bedrock material (Bornyasz et al. 2005). In southern California, roots of C. greggii. Gray and other chaparral shrubs penetrated depths exceeding 4 m (Sternberg et al. 1996) and roots of C. leucodermis Greene exceeded 6 m in depth (Conrad et al. 1985). At Teakettle, C. cordulatus Kellogg roots have been found at 2 m depths, and we suspect these deeper roots can extract soil moisture from weathered bedrock (North and Zald, personal observation).
Seismic and soil penetration methods provided similar estimates of mineral soil thickness above 50 cm, but there was no relationship between these methods below this depth. In our study, seismic estimates of mineral soil thickness <20 cm were highly variable (Fig. 4), and possibly inaccurate due to poor refraction propagation in shallow soils. In contrast, tile probe measurements were fairly accurate for shallow soils, but in three of our five pilot soil pits, probes provided poor estimates when soil thickness exceeded 50 cm. Unlike soil penetration methods, seismic methods provided estimates of both mineral soil and decayed bedrock thicknesses at total depths exceeding 250 cm. Although seismic estimation of soil horizon thickness has been frequently used in geologic and hydrologic studies, it has rarely been used in forest research. In this study, we found that visual surface conditions and tile probe estimates of soil thickness can be misleading because 'shallow' areas may have a thick layer of weathered bedrock. In moisture-limited forests, weathered bedrock is a potential rooting medium for shrubs, red fir seedlings, and Jeffrey pine and only RSM could potentially measure its thickness.
Our study suggests that both soils and weathered bedrock zones are important for shaping patterns of stand composition and regeneration within a single Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest stand. This is particularly the case where mineral soil is thin and weathered bedrock is relatively thick and provides rooting substrate for deep-rooted tree and shrub species. Patches of shrubs and low-density Jeffrey pine may occur on apparently shallow soil conditions, but these areas may be underlain with a relatively thick layer of water-holding weathered bedrock. More extensive studies comparing soil thickness and vegetation are needed to better understand the association between above ground vegetation composition and soil horizon characteristics and thickness.
Funding for this project was provided by the Joint Fire Sciences Program (project #01-3-2-02) and the Sierra Nevada Research Center of United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. We thank Teakettle field crews from 2002–2003 for assisting in data collection, Siyan Ma for collection of soil temperature data, and Brian Oakley, Nathan Williamson, Jim Innes, and Matthew Hurteau for logistic support.


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5 Parks near Dayton, Washington
Waitsburg, Washington 9.38 miles SW
Starbuck, Washington 15.24 miles NW
Pomeroy, Washington 20.6 miles NE
Walla Walla East, Washington 24.63 miles SW
Walla Walla, Washington 25.07 miles SW
Dayton, Washington (509) 337-6457
Sites: 30 | Latest Rate: $30.00 | 2 Reviews
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May 2015 - $30.00
This is a older campground with NO service and they charge $30.00 a night, way over priced. That being said the grounds are well kept lots of sights to pick from, within walking distance of the river. Great for a night or two. Ok AT&T cell service. There is a dump station, and you get that "free" if you stay. - laears
Jun 2010 - $19.00
Comparable to forest service campsites; water hook up available at dump station; access to the river; because of the rain the area's weeds are pretty high; over priced for the value but a pleasant place to stay. - User1359
Starbuck, Washington (map) | (509) 399-2056
Sites: 33 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 14 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $25.00
Very quiet park in the Palouse area of Washington. Wide pull-thru sites. Green grass & large shade trees on about half the sites. Park is kept up very well. - Nike
Jul 2016 - $25.00
What a great find. Very clean facility with wonderful large green grass areas including at our site.
The camp host was outstanding and very helpful. - daa10496
Jun 2016 - $25.00
This is a hidden jem, Granted it's in the middle of nowhere. Nice big sites.
Most of the sites are long pull toughs. Lots of space between sites.
It's clean and well maintained.
Were here during the week and very few here. Extremely quite.
Camp host was the nicest fellow.
There is no cell service what so ever.
Good WiFi provided.
Most sites should be able to get Satelite. - traveler1952
Starbuck, Washington (map) | (509) 399-8020
Sites: 51 | Latest Rate: $33.00 | 1 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $33.00
We stayed here to go fishing for walleye and catfish. The sites overlook the marina. Although there was lots of wind during our stay we enjoyed ourselves. Very nice view. Easy to load and dock boat .
We had full hookups at our site.
Everyone of the staff were friendly and helpful.
Nice stocked store, and restaurant . We didn't eat out because we always travel with our own meals.
Not a lot to do here but fish, do bring your boat . Oh, and relax. - swhitney9
Apr 2011 - $50.00
Sits on the side of a river, at a bridge. Appears to be a number of open i.e. treeless shadeless sites. It is also a marina and boat launch for people who fish. Camp store is also a cafe. My experience is with the cafe. The cook is not competent. If you plan to stop there for the food, take an extra 1/2 hr and find somewhere else. - jake blake
Dusty, Washington (map) | (509) 843-1556
Sites: 4 | Latest Rate: $29.00 | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2010 - $29.00
This park is owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and leased/operated by CLM (California Land Mgmt). At least up to last year. Now new stating the park will not be open for 2011. (Don't know if Army or CLM is dropping.) This was a top 100 family rated park in the US! Now closing? The spaces are all paved, well spaced, electric (30 amp only). A little short for hot summers, water and sewer available, as is fire pits, picnic tables and dumpsters close by. Firewood, ice, limited supplies available for fee. Clean restrooms/showers. (Coin op showers.) Great bass fishing at the park. Has free boat ramp for campers, large grassy areas for pets, kite flying, picnic lunches, tenting, etc. Very quiet, warm and clear skies, hiking. Signs in park say rattlesnakes are around. Have camped here for years and have not seen one. Snake river is a mile wide (or close to it). Only snake I have seen. Deer are frequently seen in park. Write to the Corps to keep open: so you can stay here and enjoy! - kaptainkirk
50 West George St. Walla Walla, Washington 99362 (map) | (509) 525-8282
Sites: 60 | Latest Rate: $39.00 | 37 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $39.00
This is a very tidy, convenient to downtown, campground. Our site allowed us to pull thru because there was no RV in the spot behind us. Each site has some grass, and paved pads for the picnic table and a car. There was no noise, nor any visible animals, at the humane society next door. The campground dog walking is outside the park fencing in an industrial area: not pleasant. There is one grassy area though outside the office. We would stay here again if we were in the area. - Dapper
Jul 2016 - $35.00
If you stay here try to get a space in the "Frontier" section as all the roads and sites are Asphalt pavement. If you get put in the "Outback" you will have a asphalt paved road but your site and the shoulders will be gravel. They charge the same price for all sites in both the Frontier and Outback sections. The Gravel site we had was not level so it took some time to level up our travel trailer. The one nice feature about all the sites is that they all have a concrete patio so there is no need to put down an outdoor rug or mat. And the patio is big enough for chairs and the picnic table they supply. There is not much if any shade. The cable had lots of TV channels. And though there are some long term residents, the sites were well kept and it was quiet at night. I took points off my rating due to no Good Sam discount for a 6 night stay (or week) and no discount for a gravel site vs. the nicer asphalt sites. The only amenities that this place is missing is a pool and store. - DadOf3
Jul 2016 - $50.00
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I have read several reviews of this book which all suggested Mary Balogh was back to form (some of the more recent books have been less appealing than her earlier works in many readers' minds) and so I looked forward to reading `The Proposal'. In fact I read it twice with a month's gap in-between. And as much as I enjoyed the book I didn't feel it was actually all that special.
There was lots of potential in a story about Lady Gwen Muir who has featured as a minor character in many of Balogh's other books including the Bedwyn (Slightly) series and the Simply series as well. All we knew about Gwen was that she had a limp and was a widow who had chosen not to remarry. In this story we find that Gwen's marriage was certainly not easy and that she had no real intention to look for another husband - even after she meets Lord Trentham, the former Major Hugo Eames, hero of the army for fighting a Forlorn Hope at Badajoz.
Gwen and Hugo are from different social classes and a relationship between them seems impossible. But in this story we follow them as they get to know one another and as a proposal is suggested - that Hugo court Gwen - to see where it leads. Is there a chance for a happy ending between two such different people?
I'm struggling to identify what it was about this book that left me dissatisfied. One minor aspect is that Balogh seems to have recently got into the habit of italicising words in reported speech to presumably give you an idea of the stresses in what people are saying, but very often the way I am reading the sentence in my mind doesn't work like that, and the excessive italicisation just annoys me. The other aspect I find in this story is that we are continually being told what people think, there's a lot of repetition throughout the book, rather than seeing what they think by their actions. I also felt that the pacing wasn't always that effective, there were dull sections where nothing much happens except people think about things, often with italics.
We meet lots of characters from previous Balogh novels. I have read the books so know who they are but I do wonder about new readers and what they will think - there are lists of people and it can get confusing. Is this really necessary, except to encourage readers to buy her backlist perhaps?
Both hero and heroine in this story are almost perfect; in fact, the only imperfection we see in Gwen (apparently) is her limp. Hugo's main disadvantage is that he frowns a lot. Balogh's earlier books tended to be peopled with far more human characters who had many faults and made many mistakes in their book. I found the characters in this story almost a bit too good to be true and the `baddies' unrealistic in their portrayal.
Although I do still like Mary Balogh's books very much I don't find the more recent stories nearly as satisfying as some of the earlier ones (`More than a Mistress', `The Secret Pearl', for example). However, having read many reviews of this book it seems I am in a minority in this view - so go ahead and read it yourself!
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^ Bakuman is the obvious one. It's entirely about making manga.
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would I'll give it my all....tomorrow count?
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Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka is a very good satire of the manga industry.
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Anybody here reading RIN-NE?
I'm interested but would like to know what others think about it...
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I started following along online when Viz started posting chapters. I stopped reading when I realized that I'd gotten to about 6 volumes-worth of chapters and the characters were exactly the same as they had been in the beginning. Exactly. The same.
It's interesting enough, and I guess if you're a Rumiko Takahashi fan you'll like it either way, but I'm already collecting Inuyasha at the moment and that about fills my "never-ending, never-changing supernatural shonen battle manga" needs.
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Thank you. I plan to get the VizBig volumes of Inuyasha instead.
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You're welcome! Oh, those are the ones I'm collecting, too. Much more affordable that way!
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I actually really liked RIN-NE, but I admit that the characters really do lack growth at times. To be honest, I liked the story concept and that's what kept me reading. There was a good mixture of speculative fiction and humor. Of course, Viz posting chapters online didn't hurt either like ZepysGirl brought up. Then again, I tend to adhere to a lot of Takahashi's work because I really like her art style.
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Why do you like them? Don't just list titles. Tell us what's good about them and why you'd recommend them or a mod will just delete your post.
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I read the first volume of Psyren the other day. The plot was kinda interesting and it wasn't a chore to read, but I didn't really enjoy it either. Does it get better as it goes on, get worse, or stay about the same enjoyability/quality as volume one? Is it worth my time to continue?
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Looking for a seinen, character focused drama/romance/slice of life, manga, that's licensed and completed already.
Would consider shounen if the characters feel real.
I am cool with some action/sci-fi as long as it doesn't take the center stage.
Please help.
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I'd recommend Inio Asano's Solanin and Jiro Taniguchi's A Zoo in Winter. Both are available as a single volume (in Solanin's case it's a 2 in 1 omnibus). Solanin is a portrayal of a drifting 20-something year old couple and their friends to find a place of their own and fit in after finishing their studies, with their relationship taking center stage; A Zoo In Winter is a semiautobiographical coming of age story of a mangaka in the 1960's.
You could also check Naoki Urasawa's work, especially Pluto, Hiroaki Samura's Ohikkoshi or the one-shot A Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms.
Most of what else I can think of is still ongoing (at least in english) though...
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I'm looking for any ecchi/harem and/or fan-service heavy manga for a straight male that's available digitally. I own an ipad.
Currently I'm reading Highschool of the Dead from Yen Press, but otherwise the pickings look slim, although I'm just not very educated on manga in general.
I tried reading Ninja Girls from Kodansha press, but, no, didn't work for me.
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tried tenjo tenge yet, its a viz release so it may be up for grabs digitally as they have a real hard on for digital releases at the moment and its got a fair amount of fan service in it, gantz does too and last i heard dark horse is doing digital releases so id be suprised if it wasnt on there.
As for harem...well sorry but im not big into the harem genre aside for 1 or 2 of em so im not well versed
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vizmanga.com is Viz's site for digital released. Aside from HOTD from Yen Press, which you've already mentioned, that's pretty much the only place you'll find digital stuff. Jmanga might have some as well, but I don't know for sure.
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Alfonso Soriano showed some power on Friday that he'd been lacking for quite a while, ending a 1-for-24 skid with a home run and a double.
It was Soriano's first extra base hit since July 8 and his first homer since June 19 and he admitted before Saturday's game that his struggles had been wearing on him mentally.
"I hope it (won't) continue that way, because sometimes it's very hard, the way we play, to keep your mind strong," Soriano said. "Because that's a difficult part of this game, mental."
Soriano attributed his newfound focus to the day off on Thursday, saying he'd been overthinking things at the plate. Manager Mike Quade agreed that it's best to go to the plate with a clear mind.
"There's a fine line between your thought process as a hitter and being up (at the plate) thinking," Quade said. "That's the incredible thing about this game, when you struggle -- and (Soriano) hadn't had a very good month -- sometimes your mind gets involved. And it needs to, to a certain extent, but if it gets in there too far, then that's not good."
However, Soriano's struggles have been going on for more than just a month. After an impressive April, in which he slugged .613 and hit 10 home runs, Soriano's power production has tailed off. Since May 1, Soriano has only five home runs and a measly .385 slugging percentage over 58 games.
With his speed sapped over the years due to multiple lower body injuries, combined with his sub-par on-base skills, Soriano's recent lack of power is even more disconcerting.
Quade said that giving veterans like Soriano a day off here and there, along with regularly scheduled days off, could help keep his team fresh. Quade credited solid bench players like Reed Johnson and Jeff Baker for allowing him to do that without seeing much drop off in production.
"As you go down the dreaded dog-days of August and September, they are a reality," Quade said. "Maybe as much mentally sometimes as physically."
Quade hoped that Soriano's good day at the plate on Friday would carry over to future at-bats for the streaky slugger.
With the trade deadline fast approaching, rumors are swirling that the Cubs would eat much of Soriano's contract in order to move him in a trade. Unless Quade is right and Soriano does go on one of his week-long home run binges, one would have to think there won't be much of a market for a player whose only real value is hitting home runs, especially when he's not hitting them.