Land+and+Water+Use

A. Agriculture 1. Feeding a growing population--(Human nutritional requirements; types of agriculture; Green Revolution; genetic engineering and crop production; deforestation; irrigation; sustainable agriculture) 2. Controlling pests--(Types of pesticides; costs and benefits of pesticide use; integrated pest management; relevant laws) B. Forestry--(Tree plantations; old growth forests; forest fires; forest management; national forests) C. Rangelands--(Overgrazing; deforestation; desertification; rangeland management; federal rangelands) D. Other Land Use 1. Urban land development--(Planned development; suburban sprawl; urbanization) 2. Transportation infrastructure--(Federal highway system; canals and channels; roadless areas; ecosystem impacts) 3. Public and federal lands--(Management; wilderness areas; national parks; wildlife refuges; forests; wetlands) 4. Land conservation options--(Preservation; remediation; mitigation; restoration) 5. Sustainable land-use strategies E. Mining--(Mineral formation; extraction; global reserves; relevant laws and treaties) F. Fishing--(Fishing techniques; overfishing; aquaculture; relevant laws and treaties) G. Global Economics--(Globalization; World Bank; Tragedy of the Commons; relevant laws and treaties)
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ARTICLE LINKS AND DISCUSSIONS:
**SUMMER ARTICLES 2011 (check list so you are not duplicating) **

[|Solving the Climate Puzzle One Piece at a Time]
 * MARCH ARTICLES 2010:**

[|Chemicals Coat Apples Decades After Alar Scare]
 * FEBRUARY ARTICLES 2010:**

[|Where to find one-million acre feet of water California]

= = [|As Drought Persists, Pressure Is on Central Valley Lawmakers] [|EU agrees on 2010 fishing limits] [|Melting Glaciers Nourishing Oceans with Ancient Carbon] [|NASA Study Shows Major Groundwater Loss in California Since 2003]
 * JANUARY ARTICLES:**

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**[|Booming Middle-Class Diet May Stress Asia's Water Needs]**. = = [|Israeli inventions that could shape the next green century] [|Fishing Body Agrees to Cut in Atlantic Tuna Quota]
 * DECEMBER ARTICLES:**

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NOVEMBER ARTICLES:
[|Destruction of Kenya's Forest Feeds Deadly Drought] [|Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought] = = [|Proposed Water Plant Raises Growth Issues in Marin County] [|Mexico Fells Trees to Save Butterfly Reserve] [|To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates]

OCTOBER ARTICLES: [| Study Raises Questions About EPA's Pesticide Risk-Assessment Scheme] =[|Angry fire' roars across 100,000 California acres]=

[|The Way We Live Now Natural Happiness] =[|Europe Moves Closer to Banning Bluefin-Tuna Trade]= = =