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    Introduction This paper will analyse the 2013/14 Fiscal budgets the City of Ukiah and California City. I will attempt to examine the similarities and differences of both these cites revenue and expenditure line items in their budgets. The cities are similar in that they generate revenue from many of the same resources and they have similar expenditures in their annual fiscal budget. However, the cities budgets strategies are different because both these cities demographics, social, economic, political

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    The struggle between providing for California’s burgeoning population and the corresponding increase pressure on California’s ever shrinking pristine natural wonders and natural resources has been a constant clash between the forces of big business and conservation activism. However, the outcomes of these many battles have increasingly favored the side of economics over nature. The trend that becomes clear is that the will of the businessmen have been prevailing over the concerns of the conservationists

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    Throughout my short life in Southern California, I have encountered a multitude of different natural disasters, strange weather patterns and a shift in climate. There have been three distinct phases of my life in which the occurrence of all of these can be found. At my elementary school, the more you aged, and thus changed grades, the better the field trips became. In the third grade, I had graduated from field trips around my community and my school and was finally allowed to venture into surrounding

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    Kho, Park What is an invasive species? Invasive species are plants, animal, fungi and bacteria that are non native to the ecosystem around it. There are three different category of invasive species. The three are category are invasive animal species, invasive fungus species, and last invasive plant species. You can classify invasive plant by seeing if it is from the region or area.Well, an invasive plant has the ability to thrive and spread aggressively outside its natural range. This means that

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    Linh Luu 73372 The Golden State Right before I graduated from high school, many letters and opportunities came to my door. I applied for many schools around the world. During that time, I was devastated to making my own decision. I was held captive by the idea of freshman students cannot keep up their academics records due to the change in environment, the place they choose to stay for their whole-4 years. I want to go to England but unfortunately, my family persuade me to go to America. So I decided

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    Arcata Community Forestry

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    Managing a forest with and for the people: Community forestry and environmental public participation in the case of Arcata, California 1. Introduction All across the United States, historical patterns of resource extraction have led to degradation and fragmentation of forest landscapes. When a community depends on those resources, a local crisis can emerge from this process of degradation. To reverse this scenario, community forestry became a popular approach in the 1970s as a modern policy and

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    Eminent Domain

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    This may seem controversial as some people may not be able to understand how public parks benefit anyone. Public parks may seem purely aesthetic and ornamental, adding no true value to society, therefore some would argue that the government has no justification for taking their property. Eminent Domain was even used in World War II; “During World War II, the Lands Division oversaw the acquisition of more than 20 million acres of land. Property was transformed into airports and naval stations ,

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    Laurance Rockefeller was regarded as an incredibly important figure in environmentalism. He was very generous with his money, giving it away in the effort to protect special landscapes. Furthermore his money, family, and donations helped him reached very high environmental positions. The Rockefeller Family, the Power Elite, and Noblesse Oblige, can help explain some Laurances life in context. In or der to explain how Laurance climbed his way to the top environmentally, one must start with his family

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    Chapter 01 Environmental Interrelationships     Multiple Choice Questions   1. An area of land in which there is little or no human development is referred to as a  A. tract development. B. reserve. C. wilderness. D. multiple land use.   2. Environmental science is an interdisciplinary area of study that deals with all of the following except  A. politics. B. economics. C. ethics. D. All of these are correct.   3. An ecosystem is  A. the transition zone between

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    My plot is a pair of benches near the library, overlooking the courtyard that stretches from Parks to the Enrolment Service Building. When I was first asked to do this I had a hard time thinking of a good place, I had some ideas but nothing that really stood out to me. So I decided to take a walk around campus to my favorite spots and see what caught my eye at every spot, and from there whichever was the most exciting would be my plot. Finding a plot was pretty hard for me because, the way I view

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