Many tropical birds from South America can be found here. Palms, subtropical woodlands and even citrus trees grow here. The Rio Grande delta (the land at the mouth of the river, where it flows into the ocean) once had an extensive palm forest. The Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda first named the river the Rio de las Palmas, "River of Palms," in 1519. The fertile land along the Rio Grande River has given rise to many farms.
Everglade National Parks Eco-system Candy Burtle SCI/230 10/23/11 Carol Thigpen Located in Southern Florida Everglade National Park is the third largest National Park in the United States. The Everglades stretch from central Florida all the way to the Florida Bay. On December 6th 1947 the Everglades was declared a National Park and inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1979. It contains vast subtropical wetland and costal/marine habitat which includes tropical hard wood hammocks, pine rock land, freshwater marshes, saltwater marshes, mangrove forests, and sea grass ecosystems
The Rideau River Ecosystem and Food Web Team A BIO/101 Brian Fox The Rideau River Ecosystems are biological populations of interacting organisms and their physical surroundings. Many are areas of lands that have changed due to the nearby water currents. These areas of land are home to many animals and plants that have adapted to survive. Each individual ecosystem is comprised of different features that make it conducive to certain plants and animals. That means each ecosystem is unique.
Florida Envirothon Study Packet Wildlife Section Contents CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 1 WILDLIFE BIOLOGY .................................................................................................................. 3 General Biology Rules and Principles.............................................................................. 3 Ethology ............................................................................................................................... 5 Genetics ................................................................................................................................ 6 MANAGEMENT AND
To successfully invoke this defense, the purchaser or occupier had to establish that it had no reason to know that the property was contaminated. Since the problem with brownfields is the existence or suspicion of contamination, the defense was largely unavailable to prospective developers or tenants of brownfield sites. To eliminate this obstacle to redevelopment of brownfields, the Brownfield Amendments created the BFPP defense for landowners or tenants who knowingly acquire or lease contaminated property after January 11, 2002. Only those parties that qualify for the BFPP defense are potentially subject to the windfall lien. To qualify for the BFPP, the owner or tenant must establish by a preponderance of the evidence that it has satisfied the following eight conditions: • All disposal of hazardous substances occurred before the purchaser acquired the facility.
Lujan v. Defenders of wildlife 504 U.S. 555 (1992) Facts of the Case: Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 divides responsibilities regarding the protection of endangered species between the Secretary of the Interior (Manuel Lujan, D) and the Secretary of Commerce. The section requires each federal agency to consult with the appropriate Secretary to ensure that any action funded by the agency is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence or habitat of any endangered or threatened species. Both Secretaries initially promulgated a joint regulation extending the section’s coverage to include actions taken in foreign nations; however, a subsequent joint rule limited the section’s scope to the United States and the
It would be my advice for Mr. Jones to not buy the stock because of the liability of current and future tax obligations which Mr. Jones would incur from the purchase of the stock. Since the tax identity of Smithon corporation would have not ceased, it is not a favorable purchase for Mr. Jones. Ina a case where the tax identity of a firm does not cease not to exist, the tax aspects will remain the same and so will the existing tax schedule. So in this case it would mean that Mr. Jones would not be allowed to change the financial year to end on December 31. The buyer in cases where he can’t change the legal entity is in a non -benefice situation, the buyer is limited to follow the current tax basis on the company’s assets even if the buyer paid more for the
The Sacketts did not believe that their property violated the Clean Water act, requesting a hearing with the EPA, which was denied by the United States District Court for the District of Idaho (Sackett v. EPA 2012). The grievance challenged that the EPA’s Issuance of the compliance order was illogical and erratic under the
Groupe Roussel-Uclaf has announced its intention to distribute RU-486 in the US. There are only two modes of legitimate entry to the market: drug approval through FDA or qualification under an importation exemption for “life-saving” medications. If made available in the US, RU-486 will make abortion more accessible, a trend which runs counter to the Republican’s pro-life platform and the administration’s desire to eliminate use of federal monies for abortion-related activities. A Republican appointee, FDA Commissioner Young must prevent RU-486 from entering the market. He can do so by employing regulatory tactics such as exercising authority, traditional bureaucratic “red tape,” and anti-abortion regulations; codifying these decisions, hence
deep) off the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico all the way down to Brazil, in the Amazonian River Basins, around the islands of Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico, as well as along the central west and east coasts of Africa, up the Nile and down to Madagascar. The West Indian/Florida manatees currently inhabit the warm sub-tropical waters along the coast of Florida (as far north as the Carolinas and west along the coast of Louisiana and Texas). Though their range is quite large, manatees today exist in only a few small populations due to centuries of hunting them for meat and hides, coastal development and boating, and environmental changes. It is currently estimated that there are only about 2,200 manatees remaining in the US. They have no natural enemies except man and power boats which are responsible for most manatee deaths- (in 1990, 218 manatees or 12 % of the total population were killed by boats), though the red tide (toxins released from the bloom of dinoflagellates) of 1982 and1996 killed over 15% of the population.