Emergency Service Duties to Be Preformed at a Chemical/Biological Weapons Release
1.Incident size up and assesment
2.Scence control/ establish perimeter
3.Product identification/ information gathering
4. Pre-entry examination
5.Establishment of decontamination area
6.Entry Planning
7. Entry into contaminated area and rescue of victims
8. Cintainment of spill/release
9. Neutralization of spill
10. Decontamination of victims/patients/rescuers
11. Triage of ill/injuried
12. BLS car
13. Hospital/expert consultation
14. ALS care/ specific anidotes
15. Transport of patients to appropriate hospital
16. Post-Entry evaluation examination of rescuers/equipment
17.Complete stabilization of the incident/ collection of evidence
18. Delegation of final clean up to respnsible party
19. Record- keeping/ after-action reporting
20. Complete analysis of actions/recommendations to action plan
http://www.emergency.com/cbwlesn1.htm
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Superfund
The Superfund program was created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). The acts established authority for the government to respond to the release/threat of release of hazardous wastes, including cleanup and enforcement actions. Long term cleanups at National Priority List (NPL) sites last more than a year while short term /emergency cleanups are usually completed in less than a year. Our Federal Facilities Program monitors and provides assistance to federal facilities in Region 4 to ensure compliance with environmental regulations and policies under CERCLA. The Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, under the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response provides the policy, guidance and direction for our knowledge managment programs.
The Superfund and Federal Facilities Restoration programs are helping state and local governments all over the Southeast region realize significant real estate and development opportunities by assisting in cleaning up Superfund sites for reuse through our land revitalization effort. We are collaborating with our state and local partners to help restore land and watersheds that have been contaminated, deforested and eroded by mining in the past.
http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/sf/index.htm
The Superfund and Federal Facilities Restoration programs are helping state and local governments all over the Southeast region realize significant real estate and development opportunities by assisting in cleaning up Superfund sites for reuse through our land revitalization effort. We are collaborating with our state and local partners to help restore land and watersheds that have been contaminated, deforested and eroded by mining in the past.
http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/sf/index.htm
Waste Site Cleanup In Vermont
Bennington Municipal Sanitary Landfill Bennington, Vt
BFI Sanitary Landfill Rockingham, Vt
Burgess Brothers Landfill Woodford, Vt
Commerce Street Plume Williston, Vt
Darling Hill Dump Lyndonville, Vt
Elizabeth Mine Strafford, Vt
Fly Copper Mine Vershire, Vt
Old Springfield Landfill Springfield, Vt
Parker Sanitary Landfill Lydonville, Vt
Pike Hill Copper Mine Corinth, Vt
Pine Streeet Canal North Pownal, Vt
Tansitor Electronics INC Bennington VT
BFI Sanitary Landfill Rockingham, Vt
Burgess Brothers Landfill Woodford, Vt
Commerce Street Plume Williston, Vt
Darling Hill Dump Lyndonville, Vt
Elizabeth Mine Strafford, Vt
Fly Copper Mine Vershire, Vt
Old Springfield Landfill Springfield, Vt
Parker Sanitary Landfill Lydonville, Vt
Pike Hill Copper Mine Corinth, Vt
Pine Streeet Canal North Pownal, Vt
Tansitor Electronics INC Bennington VT
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Hunters Protecting Wildlife
In 1937 a group of hunters started the Wildlife Restoration Program. They started the Wildlife Restoration Program because animal population was getting dangerously low. The White Tail Deer population was 500,000 now there is over 18,000,000. The turkey population was down to 100,000 now there is over 43,000,000. Rock Mountian Elk population has grown from 41,000 to over 800,000.
Hunters also contribute millions of dollors towards wildlife preservation. 11% of the purchase price of firearms, ammunition, and archary equipment go to the federal government. The government than gives the money to natural resource agenceys for fish and wildlife conservation. As a result hunters have contributed over a billon dollers each year to wildlife conservation since 1937.
Hunters and fisherman have also contributed over $185,000,000 per year to forest and wild life conservation through the purchace of hunting and trapping licences and tags.
Various licences, fees, tags, and hunting equipment fund more than 90% of fish and wildlife agencies.
FAIR CHASE STATEMENT FAIR CHASE, as defined by the Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild, native North American big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage over such animals.
HUNTER ETHICS Fundamental to all hunting is the concept of conservation of natural resources. Hunting in today's world involves the regulated harvest of individual animals in a manner that conserves, protects, and perpetuates the hunted population. The hunter engages in a one-to-one relationship with the quarry and his or her hunting should be guided by a hierarchy of ethics related to hunting, which includes the following tenets:
1. Obey all applicable laws and regulations.
2. Respect the customs of the locale where the hunting occurs.
3. Exercise a personal code of behavior that reflects favorably on your abilities and sensibilities as a hunter.
4. Attain and maintain the skills necessary to make the kill as certain and quick as possible.
5. Behave in a way that will bring no dishonor to either the hunter, the hunted, or the environment.
6. Recognize that these tenets are intended to enhance the hunter's experience of the relationship between predator and prey, which is one of the most fundamental relationships of humans and their environment.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/
Hunters also contribute millions of dollors towards wildlife preservation. 11% of the purchase price of firearms, ammunition, and archary equipment go to the federal government. The government than gives the money to natural resource agenceys for fish and wildlife conservation. As a result hunters have contributed over a billon dollers each year to wildlife conservation since 1937.
Hunters and fisherman have also contributed over $185,000,000 per year to forest and wild life conservation through the purchace of hunting and trapping licences and tags.
Various licences, fees, tags, and hunting equipment fund more than 90% of fish and wildlife agencies.
FAIR CHASE STATEMENT FAIR CHASE, as defined by the Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild, native North American big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage over such animals.
HUNTER ETHICS Fundamental to all hunting is the concept of conservation of natural resources. Hunting in today's world involves the regulated harvest of individual animals in a manner that conserves, protects, and perpetuates the hunted population. The hunter engages in a one-to-one relationship with the quarry and his or her hunting should be guided by a hierarchy of ethics related to hunting, which includes the following tenets:
1. Obey all applicable laws and regulations.
2. Respect the customs of the locale where the hunting occurs.
3. Exercise a personal code of behavior that reflects favorably on your abilities and sensibilities as a hunter.
4. Attain and maintain the skills necessary to make the kill as certain and quick as possible.
5. Behave in a way that will bring no dishonor to either the hunter, the hunted, or the environment.
6. Recognize that these tenets are intended to enhance the hunter's experience of the relationship between predator and prey, which is one of the most fundamental relationships of humans and their environment.
http://www.boone-crockett.org/
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Genetically Altered Foods
These Atlantic Salmon are roughly the same age, the big one was genetically engineered to grow at twice the normal rate of normal SalmonWhat are genetically altered foods?
The term GM foods or GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or improved nutritional content. The enhancement of desired traits has traditionally been undertaken through breeding, but conventional plant breeding methods can be very time consuming and are often not very accurate.
What are the advantages of genetically altered foods?
Pest resistance
Herbicide Tolorance
Diseases Resistance
Cold Tolorance
Drought Tolorance
Nutrition
Pharmaceuticals
What are the disadvantages of genetically altered foods?
Enviromental Hazards
Human Health Concerns
Economic Concerns
Deborah Whitman
Examples of Genetically Altered Foods
corn
canola
flax
potatos
tomatos
squash
soybeans
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Endangered Species
Endangered Animals in Florida
American Alligator
Gray Bat
Schaus Swallowtail butterfly
Whooping Crane
American Crocodile
Key Deer
Bald Eagle
Manatee
Several types of mice
Florida Panther
Puma
Sea turtles
Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake
Eastern Indigo Snake
Wood Stork
Finback Whale
Humpback Whale
Red-cockaded woodpecker
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