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Columns::September 16, 2002

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The year-long project, headed at UGA by economist John Bergstrom, will identify the social, economical, ecological and ethical values of the land already under the National Wilderness Preservation System.

The forest and the trees: UGA helps spearhead Forest Service national study to set wilderness value benchmarks

The National Wilderness Preservation System holds and protects millions of acres in the United States from human development. But of what value is this wilderness, really?
UGA scientists are helping spearhead a national study to help elected officials, regulatory agencies and land policymakers answer this question.
When such natural areas as a wilderness are preserved, there is often debate on whether the preservation is worth the lost jobs and income that might come from commercial development.

Performing Arts Center presents ‘Something Wonderful’

“Something Wonderful: Richard Rodgers’s Centennial of

Song” will be performed at 3 p.m. Sept. 22 at Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center. Tickets, available from the box office (542-4400), are $23-$27.
UGA students can buy tickets at half-price.Richard Rodgers (1902-79) is considered one of the most talented and prolific composers ever to write for the stage and screen. His first complete Broadway show was Garrick Gaieties (1925), a collaboration with lyricist Lorenz Hart, with whom he went on to compose such outstanding musicals as The Girl Friend (1926), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), Babes in Arms (1937) and Pal Joey (1940). Many of the songs from Rodgers and Hart’s theater and film scores became classics: “My Heart Stood Still,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “My Funny Valentine” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.”

Parting thoughts: Provost reflects on successes, challenges of her tenure at UGA

Karen A. Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at UGA, spoke to Columns about her tenure at UGA before taking up the reins as president of Ohio State University Oct. 1.

Southern forest products industry loses $430 million

New research shows the Southern forest products industry loses an estimated $430 million a year by operating timber harvesting systems at only two-thirds of full production capacity.
Forest scientists at the University of Georgia, the University of Maine and Louisiana State University surveyed loggers and mills in Georgia and Maine to determine the full wood production capacity in these states and the causes behind lost production.

Sandy Cederbaum weighs nestlings as part of a study of the effect of farming practices on songbirds.

Sound science: Research shows clover strip-cropping in cotton provides critical habitat for threatened songbirds

Cotton farming is on the rise across the South, and that spells trouble for rural songbirds. Conventionally grown cotton relies heavily on pesticides, herbicides and plowing or disking every three weeks, contributing to the steady decline of birds like the Eastern meadowlark, bobwhite quail and grasshopper sparrow.
But research by wildlife scientists in UGA’s Warnell School of Forest Resources shows that alternative farming practices like clover strip-cropping provide critically important habitats for threatened songbirds.

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