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Wildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases, protect wildlife from poachers, and to help manage small populations of threatened species. Humanwildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences: Wildlife can damage valuable livestock, crops, or infrastructure, some species carry diseases of agricultural concern, and a few threaten human lives.
At the same time, people kill wild animals for food, trade, or to defend lives or property, and human activities degrade wildlife habitat. Separating people and wildlife by fencing can appear to be a mutually benecial way to avoid such detrimental effects. But in a paper in the journal Science, published April 4th, WCS and ZSL scientists review the 'pros and cons' of large scale fencing and argue that fencing should often be a last resort.
Although fencing can have conservation benefits, it also has costs. When areas of contiguous wildlife habitat are converted into islands, the resulting small and isolated populations are prone to extinction, and the resulting loss of predators and other larger-bodied species can affect interactions between species in ways that cause further local extinctions, a process which has been termed "ecological meltdown".
"In some parts of the world, fencing is part of the culture of wildlife conservation it's assumed that all wildlife areas have to be fenced. But fencing profoundly alters ecosystems, and can cause some species to disappear.
In addition to their ecosystem-wide impact, fences do not always achieve their specific aims. Construction of fences to reduce humanwildlife conflict has been successful in some places but the challenges of appropriate fence design, location, construction, and maintenance mean that fences often fail to deliver the anticipated benefits. Ironically, in some places, fences also provide poachers with a ready supply of wire for making snares.
Co-author Simon Hedges of WCS said: "A variety of alternative approaches including better animal husbandry, community-based crop-guarding, insurance schemes, and wildlife-sensitive land-use planning can be used to mitigate conicts between people and wildlife without the need for fencing. WCS projects working with local people and government agencies have shown that humanelephant conflict can be dramatically reduced without using fences in countries as different as Indonesia and Tanzania."
Co-author Sarah Durant of ZSL's said, "An increased awareness of the damage caused by fencing is leading to movements to remove fences instead of building more. Increasingly, fencing is seen as backwards step in conservation."
Continue reading at Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Fences May Cause 'Ecological Meltdown' of Wildlife
Denver is one of the few metro areas in the country that added construction jobs last year, thanks in part to the redo of Denver Union Station and the 122-mile FasTracks mass-transit project, transportation and construction officials said Tuesday.
Video: Union Station construction boom taking off
The lag in construction work, along with the lack of qualified construction workers, does not bode well for the American economy, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America.
Journeyman electrician Shawna Smith and apprentice electrician Ryan Bell work on punch-list items as part of the redevelopment of Denver Union Station downtown. Denver is one of the few metropolitan areas in the country that added construction jobs last year, thanks in part to the redevelopment of the station and the 122-mile FasTracks mass transit project, said transportation and construction officials on Tuesday. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
"A nationwide survey of construction firms found that two-thirds of contractors are already having a hard time finding qualified workers," Simonson said while standing in the middle of the Union Station Transit Center. "Seventy-nine percent of contractors expect the shortages to remain bad, or get even worse, over the coming year."
Construction worker shortages, Simonson added, can hamper broader economic growth "by needlessly delaying and inflating the cost of construction and development projects."
The Denver metro area is the exception as it placed among the top 10 out of 339 metro areas in the country for construction jobs added in the past year, Simonson said. According to the contractor group, the Denver metro area added 3,600 construction jobs between February 2013 and February 2014.
He noted that construction employment in the metro area has gone from a February low point of 64,300 in February 2011 to 77,500 in February 2014. That 21 percent increase is more than double the 9 percent increase in construction employment nationwide in the past three years.
"I think what is going on around the Denver Union Station contributes greatly to that increase," Simonson said.
Workers take part in a fire- safety drill Tuesday as work continues on the massive face-lift at Denver Union Station that has been a boon for construction jobs. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
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Denver better than most in construction jobs
DENVER (AP) The construction industry says it's in danger of running short on workers to keep up with the demand for building projects, as employees age and more teens are pushed to go to college. To counter the effect, a top construction trade group kicked off an effort Tuesday to help bolster the employment ranks.
The plan by the Associated General Contractors of America, which represents 30,000 companies, aims to draw more people into building trades by establishing charter schools focused on technical training, starting non-union apprenticeship programs and pushing for immigration reform.
The employment concern comes despite the fact that more than 2 million construction workers were laid off during the recession. The group believes many of the laid-off workers have since found work in other fields or have retired.
Meanwhile, about 44 percent of the construction workforce is age 45 or older and nearly one of every five construction workers is 55 or older, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics.
On immigration reform, the group wants protections for immigrants already in the country and higher caps on the number foreign workers temporarily allowed into the country to work on construction projects.
"Unless there is action soon on these fronts, the construction industry in Colorado and across the country will face worker shortages with increasing frequency," Ken Simonson, the association's chief economist, said over hammering and the whirring of a drill at Denver's Union Station.
"These shortages have the potential to undermine broader economic growth by needlessly delaying and inflating the cost of construction and development," he said.
The station in the city's trendy lower downtown neighborhood is being renovated and a hotel and shops are being added along with commuter rail and bus service.
The group picked Denver for the announcement because it has been one of the top 10 metro areas for construction hiring in the past year. Simonson said Colorado's oil and gas industry is one of the main customers for new construction, but added that the industry is also competing for the same workers as builders.
Two union electricians working on a train platform said they saw the need for more training for future workers, noting that people been brought in from Nebraska and Oregon to finish the construction project. However, they said training programs offered by their union, the United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, worked well and paid workers as they trained.
Paving Investigation
Henderson County authorities are warning residents to beware of a man that may be going door to door, offering to pave your driveway. One Fletcher woman said...
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Who is the oldest person you know? goes the television commercial. Twice in the past month I was grieving for the oldest people I knew. First for Frank Klein, then about a week later for Aunt Mary Jane Wilson.
Mary Jane died peacefully in her house-atop-a hill near Carlisle, Pa, where she had raised her four sons and her daughter since about 1940, and worked as office manager in the familys paving operation when her husband died in 1971. Years ago Mary Jane went to see a doctor about a misaligned toe. He said it would need surgery. She laughed and said, No, thank you, that she was 68 and probably wouldnt need it for more than a few years anyhow. She lived until 2014, still walking on the same pair of feet. Her eyes started to give her trouble, but otherwise she was in better shape than I am.
Mary Jane was the last survivor of my parents generations. She was married to my mothers youngest brother, and was the mother of my Wilson cousins. They are owners and operators of Wilson Paving in Carlisle, Pa. and enjoy a reputation for honesty and dependability. The youngest is the only female, Fern, a freelance chef widely admired by foodies in the Harrisburg and West Shore area.
My mothers youngest brother fell in love with airplanes, learned to fly, taught others, was part of the barnstorming scene that World War II interrupted. Uncle Frank shrugged and turned his little airfield near Carlisle into a training school for the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, materials were hard to come by. Frank found it easier to make and pour his own asphalt, both on the runways of Wilson Field and later on the driveway of his home, launching the paving business that still supports his family.
Mary Jane told me years later how they met. She was saving her money for a cross-country train trip when the war broke out and curtailed travel. So she decided on flying lessons instead, at Wilson Field. Her instructor said she was hopeless, couldnt learn. Frank stuck up for her, saying she just had a very light touch. He told her later that she impressed him because, of all the young women hanging around the airport, she was the only one who refused a cigarette. He was a reformed smoker, and fanatic about it. They married. J.Frank was 40, Jane 16 years younger. He bought a hilltop surrounded by Cumberland Countys cornfields, and on top of it they built mostly by hand a house of flagstone and timber, with a quarter-mile long straight driveway where his pals could land their airplanes.
That house. From its hilltop above the world, you can see summer storms smudging the horizon, lightning blazing, corn lying flat before the wind while the sun shines and the corn stands serene beside the long driveway. I was there the night a neighbors barn burned. From two miles away it was like watching from above the earth, first a thin column of smoke, then billowing flames, while fire trucks and volunteers converged, lights visible and sirens audible from great distances.
Mary Jane was quiet and thoughtful, absolutely unflappable, always with time to visit despite babies underfoot and her work keeping the books for the company. She kept her hair pulled back in a tight bun I never saw it any other way and managed the sprawling house built in the Southwestern style she and Frank had admired in their travels. Frank was the youngest of the Wilsons, the second to die. One by one, death claimed them all, and their spouses. Mom was the last of the siblings. Mary Jane, Franks widow, survived them all and became the matriarch. Last year when we drove up to visit, I had the same moment of disbelief: That green-stained wood and stone house, more like a spaceship hovering gently, for about 72 years now, its roof needing work, the stain a bit faded.
And Mary Jane? As usual, she met us in her big kitchen, somehow smaller now, but just as pleasant. She was nearly 95 years old. She still answered the phone part-time, still exuded a curious matter-of-fact vivacity, still lived alone in her hilltop house. Dont let the name Frank confuse you. Father Frank his devotees called him, and despite a long life that touched the lives of so many others, its doubtful my aunt and my dear friend would have ever met.
The Rev. Frank O. Klein was born in Pittsburgh and was 93 years old when he died in March. A resident of Arbor Terraces, Father Frank had lived for nearly a decade here in Peachtree City plenty of time for an enterprising, congenial fellow to make a legion of friends to heap upon the many he made during his pastoral calls. A graduate of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, he also graduated from the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary (now Trinity) For years he drove himself to call on members of Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church here in Peachtree City. They called him a visitation pastor until budget considerations cut the program.
He understood things like that from his own years in several pulpits, and just kept on visiting. I think he would have paid the congregation to let him continue. That wasnt necessary, and he was still visiting parishioners almost until he died. His smile was his trademark, augmented by both hands waving a greeting across a room. His hugs were so comfortable. And according to insiders, attendance at his Bible studies was breaking all records.
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