Box 16

Grant to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in support of research on rainforest tree seeds. Dr. Leopold is the son of Aldo Leopold.

Grant in support of a Masters thesis project, studying the role of natural wildlife corridors in fragmented forest landscapes. Thesis is included with folder.

Grant in support of family planning initiatives (see also box 12). RARE Center’s Family Planning Initiative Summary Report also available. (see also box 12)

Grant in support of a study of the “Migration and Winter Ecology of Common Loons and Other Fish-Divers in the Southeastern U.S. See also: Loan, Spitzer, in administrative files.

Grant in support of conservation efforts in Nepal, specifically research on “the applicability of U.S. environmental law and policy as a framework of lessons and ideas to foster the growing public interest legal movement in Katmandu”.

Funding for research into biological control of white fly, a major insect pest on vegetative crops in the Caribbean Island of Dominica.

Grant in support of an ecological investigation of long-term changes in forest productivity and survival on Camels Hump Mountain, in Huntington, VT

Funding to complete a manual entitled, “River Watch Network Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Manual”. This manual is intended to enable volunteer groups to monitor benthic macroinvertebrates in rivers as indicators of the biological integrity and pollution impacts on rivers.