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...rodents for years, and only makes the jump into humans when the two populations come into contact. Observes Yale epidemiologist Dr. Robert Ryder: "These viruses basically say to man, 'You stick to your territory and I'll stick to mine.' But then man begins to encroach on the habitat of the viruses...
Rogahn, after volunteering extensively to direct University Lutheran and St. James Transitional Homeless Shelters in Cambridge, will take a year off to work in a Habitat for Humanity project in Ghana...
...report on flooding along the Pajaro River [CALIFORNIA, March 27] stated that the residents blamed the preservation of the habitat of the endangered Santa Cruz long-toed salamander for preventing local officials from improving water flow. There is, however, no evidence that this salamander is even in theriver, and flood-control projects have not been postponed for its benefit...
...land is critical tosurvival of troubled fish or wildlife, while the Clinton Administration defends the government's right to impose restrictions over commercial activities on private property to protect endangered species. The case centers on Oregon loggers who want to cut trees on private lands that are the habitat of the threatened northern spotted...
However, in his report Rogers notes that thecost-of-repair approach does have some drawbacks.For example, it is difficult to assign repaircosts to such intangibles as a loss of aestheticsor damage to habitat. Moreover, socialconsiderations such as equity and the role ofwomen would be very difficult to incorporate intothe model...