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Timber product value loss due to prescribed fire caused injuries in red oak trees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Prescribed fire is used for a variety of land management tasks in sites containing merchantable sized red oak trees with sparse information on how it affects lumber product values. We analyzed how fire related injuries affect lumber volume and value...
The history of the Knapheide Wagon Co.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1941)
"The parallel between the Knapheide Wagon Co. and the wagon industry as a whole is worth noting. The Knapheide Co. started as an association between two skilled workmen, a wagon maker and a blacksmith; with little or no ...
In vitro digestibility of cellulose and chemical composition of preferred foods of Missouri white-tailed deer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
"The white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, is one of the very few wild animals that has benefitted from man's exploitation of North America. Lumbering and agriculture have increased deer range and numbers until today it is the most wide ranging...
The manual arts as an illustrative factor in history and geography in the upper grades
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experiments herein described were undertaken for the purpose of discovering to what extent the Manual Arts could be used profitably, under ordinary school-room conditions, in illustrating history and geography in grades ...
Healing the frontier : Catholic sisters, hospitals, and medicine men in the Wisconsin Big Woods, 1880-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examines Gilded Age and Progressive Era frontier American images of health and sickness as well as the development and application of an early modern doctrine of health care. I do this through an examination ...
Place names of six southeast counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1938)
Counties: Pemiscot, Dunklin, New Madrid, Scott, Mississippi, and Stoddard
Narrating disturbance : risk, power, and Mountain Pine Beetles
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Beginning in the mid 1990's, an outbreak of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in northern Colorado affected over 3.4 million acres of primarily lodgepole pine forest. Mountain Pine Beetle are native to these ...
Place names of five central southern counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939)
Counties: Dallas, Dent, Laclede, Shannon, Texas.
Stand structure development effects on wood quality of Melina (Gmelina arborea roxb.)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A stem analysis was perform to examines the effects of thinning treatments on Melina (Gmelina arborea) wood quality and tree architecture in the North Coast of Colombia. 27 plots under forest management regimes and age ...
The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since
1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails,
a trading center for Native Americans, a ...
A study in seventh grade subject-matter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Two years ago the writer came into the University Elementary School to devote about half time to teaching the seventh grade and the other half to graduate work in the University. As the writer worked along he found that ...
A study of fruit marketing organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
The question that confronts the fruit grower of the present time is not only how to raise more and better fruit, but how to realize a reasonable profit on what he does produce; how to put up his product so it will reach ...
Location of Wabash-M.K. & T. cut-off at Columbia, Missouri
(University of Missouri, 1910)
The object of this investigation is to determine the best and cheapest route connecting the Missouri Kansas and Texas R. R. with the Wabash R. R. Such a connection, we believe would be feasible because of the amount of ...
Patterns of local mobility in an Iban community of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study examines the concept of mobility in relation to small-scale, subsistence-oriented societies, in which groups and individuals create complex resource networks in order to satisfy physical and social needs. Mobility ...
Plant succession on Missouri strip-mined land
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
There are many agencies which create successional areas--water, as flood or glacier; wind, as hurricane or tornado; volcanic activity, as ash or lava flow; or man, as seeker of energy sources, lumbering or mining. It is believed that all disturbed...
A man ain't nothin but a man
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In reflecting personally and historically, mythological tales and folklore such as the legend of John Henry and the many sagas of Greek mythological figures, have acted as a kind of measuring guide or moral compass for ...
Early history of money and banking in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
Since money is an instrument of commerce it follows that a history of money that did not take into account the extent and character of exchanges would be lacking in a most essential respect. In a highly developed state of ...
Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
(2016)
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City
and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight
serves as a case study in localized Midwestern ...
The impact of wood pellet manufacturing on United States southern timberlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Global wood pellet production grew from an estimated 1.7 million metric tons in 2000, to 35.4 million metric tons in 2018. U.S. mills established over this period account for a large share of new supply triggered by renewable ...
Uncertainty and tangible assets in firm investment : inter-industry evidence from APEC countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation investigates how the role of cash flow changes with the uncertainty coming from oil price fluctuations, using the annual data obtained from COMPUSTAT global during the period of 1991 to 2004. I construct ...