Population growth in Southern California throughout the decade of the 1980s brought about a furtherance in the augmentation of an already dynamic urban fringe to the east of the city of Los Angeles, and a continuing diminishment of local agricultural . . .

The economy that once supported manufacturing in the U.S. is being replaced by service oriented businesses. This change has led to companies abandoning obsolete factories, often leaving behind large vacant parcels contaminated with toxic chemicals fro . . .

Brewer’s Oak (Quercus garryana var. breweri) is a dense, shrub-like variety of Garry Oak (Quercus garryana – referenced as Oregon White Oak or Oregon Oak), which is found primarily in the western regions of North America. Scientists and surveyors work . . .

Owens Valley, lying in eastern California’s Basin and Range Province, is a graben, built through the action of block faulting. Sedimentary deposits of the Tertiary period overlay granitic intrusions of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The climate . . .

Overuse of many of the National Parks is resulting in permanent damage to areas that were set aside to preserve the unique heritage of the nation, and projections indicate that this growth in demand will continue. Those remedial steps taken by the Nat . . .

Maximum and minimum temperatures in the Eastern Mojave Desert are primarily a function of elevation: lower elevations are warmer due to greater compression. Both mean maximums and minimun1s for July change about 8 kelvins per kilometer; January mean m . . .

This paper deals with the degree and nature of the clustering of Jews in cities of the United States. Jewish families migrated in large numbers to neighborhoods of American cities around 1900, and continued to live in close association, as they had in . . .

Very little work has been done by cartographers toward a precise description of how map users perceive numerousness on dot maps. This study, in order to investigate some of the problems in this area, incorporated three tests designed to examine the pe . . .

Rainfall and other variables with similarly skewed distributions are hard to characterize climatically due to their extreme variability. In the past, the arithmetic mean has been used. The main limitation of the mean is that it is too greatly influenc . . .

This study takes a habitat suitability index (HSI) for Black Bears (Ursus americanus) designed for the Appalachian Mountains region of North Carolina and applies it to the Eagles Nest area in Northeastern Minnesota. The Minnesota HSI was tested using . . .