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Sandy Notice of Adopted Amendment (2012-05-10)
No full text6 pp. Adopted 2012-05-10. Department of Land Conservation and Development Notice of Adopted AmendmentAdoption of park master plans for Sandy River Park, Meinig Park, and Bornstedt Area Park. The three parks total 146.31 acres. The master plans are refinements to the City of Saiuh Parks Master Plan which s an addendum to the Comprehensive Plan. A new zoning district addition to the comprehensive plan and development code, and an annevation election for Sandy River Park nave made immediate adoption of the three master plans necessary
Sandy Notice of Adopted Amendment (2011-06-22)
No full text6 pp. Adopted 2011-06-22. Department of Land Conservation and Development Notice of Adopted AmendmentOrdinance 2011-05 maned the Sandy Municipal Code Chapters 17.84 and 17.100 regarding the installation of broadband fibe
Sandy Notice of Adopted Amendment (2008-09-17)
Full text link13 pp. Adopted 2008-09-17. Department of Land Conservation and Development Notice of Adopted AmendmentThe proposal is a legislative text amendment to Sandy Development Code 17.46.20 to allow drive-thru Comprehensive Plan Map Amendment Zoning Map Amendment facilities as a conditional use in the Village Commercial (C-3) Zone, subject to additional requirements
City of Sandy urban renewal plan
No full text37 pp. Bookmarks supplied by UO. Includes maps. Adopted December 21, 1998. Captured December 4, 2007.The Sandy Urban Renewal Plan consists of Part One - Text and Part Two - Exhibits. The Sandy City Council acts as the Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Sandy, Oregon.... The Urban Renewal Area is a single geographic area with a single contiguous boundary in which a variety of activities and projects are contemplated to eliminate blight and the causes of blight and intended to create an environment in which the private sector may develop uses compatible with the purposes of this plan. [From the Plan
Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
No full textA brief oral history by Sandy Wilbur himself describing the start of his Fish and Wildlife Service career.
Mr. Wilbur provides a brief narrative about reporting to his first duty station.
Organization: FWS
Name:Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
Years: 1960-1994
Program: Refuges
Keywords: Wildlife refuges, Biography, Employees (USFWS), History, Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Merced National Wildlife Refuge, Minidoka National Wildlife RefugeREPORTING (ALMOST) TO OUR FIRST DUTY STATION
Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
When I graduated from Humboldt State College in January 1963, I had already worked for Fish and Wildlife Service three summers in Refuges' student trainee program (one summer at Stillwater Refuge in Nevada, and two summers at Sacramento Refuge in California). The Service was hiring a lot of biologists in those days (those were the days!) and, if you were in the student trainee program, you were pretty much guaranteed a job at graduation. You didn't get to choose where that job would be, but you did have a job waiting for you.
As graduation neared, I had a number of phone conversations with Gib Bassett, our Region 1 personnel officer. Sally was very much pregnant with our first child, and I was able to get a two month delay reporting for duty. There had been various rumors about where we might be going, but Gib warned me not to do anything until I actually had my transfer papers in hand. The papers finally arrived, and I found I had been assigned to the Merced Refuge in central California.
As a student trainee, I was a career-conditional employee, and had some financial coverage for our move. Unfortunately, I was only covered from my last duty station (Sacramento Refuge) to the new one, a distance of a couple hundred miles. To save some of the money that we didn't really have, we decided to make the move from Humboldt to Merced in our '51 Ford sedan. We thought we could probably do it in two round-trips, paying only to have our (very limited) furniture moved by truck.
Even though Sally was eight months pregnant, we loaded up the car, and drove the 500 miles down the Redwood Highway and through the Bay Area to Merced. I had never been to refuge headquarters, but had worked six months for California Department of Fish and Game on their wildlife area at nearby Los Banos, so the territory was familiar. Another assignment in the Central Valley hadn't been our dream, but as we drove Sandy Mush Road, we saw the obligatory refuge coot, and felt like we were "home."
That feeling changed quickly as we entered the refuge office. Don White, the manager, was there by himself. (I don't think he had a clerk, at that time.) He asked, not particularly cordially, as I recall, who we were. I said, "I'm your new assistant manager." "I don't think so," he replied. "I better call Mac."
"Mac," Ken McDonald, was Region 1 refuge supervisor. He was pretty liked and respected, I think, but he liked to move his field folks around, sometimes on fairly short notice. We stood in the office, and listened to Don's half of the phone call to Portland. Mac was obviously doing most of the talking. When the call was over, Don turned to us, and said, "Mac says you're not coming here." He paused. "Mac also says that I'm not staying here."
We climbed in our still-loaded Ford, and drove back to the Redwoods. A month later, with a 9 day old baby boy, we were headed for Minidoka Refuge in southern Idaho. Don was also on his way north, to Bowdoin in Montana.
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NOTE: My FWS career ran from 1960 to 1994, beginning with Refuges (Regions 1 and 4), moving to Research (Patuxent field staff), then to Region 1 Endangered Species, and finally back to Region 1 Refuges. – Sandy Wilbur, 4367 S. E. 16th Street, Gresham, OR 97080. E-mail: [email protected]
Sandy soils in south central coastal Vietnam: their origin, constraints and management
Full text linkIn Vietnam, sandy soils are distributed mainly in the coastal central provinces where they occupy 337,768 ha comprising 63 % of the nation’s sandy soils, and they are also important to regional economic growth where more than 10 million people are living i.e.14 % of the Vietnamese population. The sandy materials in the central coastal Vietnam originate from mostly in situ weathering of granite although aeolian sediments are parent materials for sandy soils also. Sandy soils have a wide range of limiting factors for agricultural production, including nutrient deficiencies, acidity, low water holding capacity and wind erosion risk (on coastal dunal sands). Although there are soil fertility constraints to the use of sandy soils in Vietnam, 79,076 ha has been utilized in agriculture. Developing integrated nutrient management practices are needed to improve soil physical, chemical and biological fertilities of sandy soils. For example, systematic use of farmyard manures, crop residues, green manures, and alley cropping need to be considered. Developing integrated nutrient management practices also need to address environmental considerations by matching nutrient applications to crop needs and amending soils to minimise nutrient losses to water. Developing new soil management technologies (such as use of biochar, slow release fertilisers and minimum tillage) is also important for sustainable management of sandy soils in Vietnam
The Nation Builders - Sandy
No full textNation Builders - Sandy 55:03-59:42 - Narrative which talks about Tobago and moves on to identify with an early freedom fighter of the island named “Sandy”
Low faunal diversity on Maltese sandy beaches : fact or artefact?
Full text linkEight sandy beaches on Malta and two on Gozo were sampled for macrofauna to test the hypothesis that Maltese beaches have
an intrinsically low diversity. Stations distributed in the supralittoral (dry zone), mediolittoral (wet zone) and upper infralittoral
(submerged zone to 1m water depth) were sampled by sieving core samples and standardised searching during daytime, and pitfall
trapping and standardised sweeping of the water column using a hand-net at night, as appropriate. Physical parameters of the
sediment were measured and human occupancy of the beaches was estimated.
From the supralittoral and mediolittoral, 39 species represented by 1584 individuals were collected by the combined techniques of
pitfall trapping, sieving and standard searching. For Ramla beach, which had the highest diversity, 267 individuals representing 25
infaunal species were collected by sieving from a combined volume of 1.175m3 of sand, and 149 individuals representing 28
epifaunal species were collected by standardised searching from a combined area of 700m2 of sand during two winter and two
summer sampling sessions between 1992 and 1993. For nine other beaches sampled during the summer of 2000, only six
macrofaunal species were collected from core samples, with overall population densities ranging from 4.13 to 45.45 individualsm 2.
Only 92 individuals belonging to 12 species were collected by hand-net from the uppermost infralittoral of five beaches sampled
using this method during the summer of 2000. Taxa of gastropods, bivalves, decapods, mysids and staphylinid beetles generally
abundant on Mediterranean sandy beaches, were entirely absent from the beaches sampled.
Few correlations that could explain the impoverishment of Maltese sandy beaches were found between physical parameters and
faunal abundances, and other factors such as inadequate sampling effort, human disturbance and marine pollution were also
excluded; however, seasonally biased sampling may partly explain the results obtained. One factor that may explain why certain
species are missing could be lack of recruitment, due to Malta’s geographical isolation from the European and African mainlands.
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Sandy Notice of Adopted Amendment (2008-05-21)
No full text18 pp. Adopted 2008-05-21. Department of Land Conservation and Development Notice of Adopted AmendmentComprehensive Plan Map Amendment Zoning Map Amendment Amend the Development Code to meet the standards of Paragraph 60.3(d) of the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) regulation
Effect of clay amendments on nitrogen leaching and forms in a sandy soil
Full text linkNitrogen (N) leaching in sandy soil decreases fertiliser use efficiency and may depress plant production. Application of high cation exchange capacity (CEC) materials (e.g. high activity clay minerals) is hypothesized to reduce N leaching and increase plant N uptake in sandy soils. However, the mechanism of leaching in sands with clay amendment is not understood. A column experiment was conducted to determine N leaching and N concentration in soil solution in a sandy soil (1.4 % clay) with three soil amendments (nil, clay soil and bentonite clay) and three fertiliser rates (0, 28 N 17 P 22 K kg/ha and 56 N 34 P 44 K kg/ha). Soil amendments were applied at the rate of 50 Mg/ha. The soil columns were leached with de-ionised water equivalent to 50 mm rainfall every 4 days. Concentrations of soil solution extracted by Rhizon samplers indicated that NH4 leaching was decreased 38-43 % by bentonite addition but little of the soil solution N was in NO3 form and bentonite had no effect on mobility of this form of N. The application of bentonite was able to hold NH4 in soil solution of top soil. Leaching of NH4 was delayed to 15 day after fertiliser application in bentonite-amended sand
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