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An assessment of public attitudes toward black bears and black bear management in middle Georgia
(uga, 2008-12)
I examined public attitudes toward black bears (Ursus americanus) and black bear management in Middle Georgia using demographic variables to predict attitudes toward black bear existence and also compared attitudes of ...
Interlocal agreements for historic preservation in Georgia
(uga, 2009-05)
All across the Unites States, local governments have chosen to enact protections for their historic resources. However, a survey of local historic preservation commissions indicates that merely seventy percent of these ...
Preserving early southern architecture
(uga, 2016-05)
Antebellum houses are a highly significant and irreplaceable cultural resource; yet in many cases, various factors lead to their slow deterioration with little hope for a financially viable way to restore them. In Hancock ...
Drastic Dykes and accidental activists
(uga, 2012-08)
Lesbian histories exist somewhere between the academic disciplines of history and gender studies. Southern lesbian histories barely exist at all. Charlotte, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia share an important place ...
"Not ratified but hereby rejected"
(uga, 2009-12)
The women’s suffrage movement in Georgia consisted of a small but spirited group of women who unsuccessfully fought for enfranchisement from 1895 to 1920. Though this movement failed nominally, the strategies white southern ...
Estimation of production function and related labor risk considerations for landscape and lawn care firms in Georgia
(uga, 2001-12)
The fast growing landscape and lawn care industry deserves attention, but research has been limited by data availability. Primary data, collected through a mail survey from firms providing services, allow disaggregated ...
Acetolactate syntahse (ALS) resistant Amaranthus palmeri
(uga, 2007-12)
Studies were conducted from 2005 to 2007 to establish the geographical, distribution extent, dose response, and heritability for acetolactate synthase (ALS)-resistance in Georgia Palmer amaranth. Sites were randomly ...
Seasonal food habits of the coyote (Canis latrans) on differing landscapes in the Piedmont Region of Georgia
(uga, 2012-05)
I evaluated the seasonal food habits of coyotes via scat analysis from March 2010 through February 2011 on Cedar Creek (CC) and B.F. Grant (BFG) Wildlife Management Areas. These sites in the Piedmont Region of central ...
Seeking education for liberation
(uga, 2007-08)
Long before emancipation, black Americans recognized the paramount role that education would play in ameliorating their subjugation. From the beginning of U.S. history, black communities including the city of Athens, ...
Seasonality of low birth weight prevalence and effects of heat stress on low birth weight in Georgia, U.S.
(uga, 2013-05)
Although widely studied, there has been no consistent conclusion on the seasonal patterns of low birth weight (LBW), and the relationships between heat stress and LBW remain to be answered. This thesis uses Georgia’s birth ...