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Title: Amy Foster oral history interview, 2019
Creator: Foster, Amy, 1965-
Date Created: 2019-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Livestock, Farms, Cattle, Chickens, Farmers' markets, Social media, Urbanization
Description: Amy Foster discusses her twelve years as a livestock farmer and co-owner of Gilcrest Natural Farm in Iron Station, North Carolina. Mrs. Foster describes how her desire to control her food and develop her land were factors that led her to become a ...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: Connor M. Newman and Kimberly H. Schoch oral history interview, 2019 March 12
Creator: Newman, Connor Michael
Date Created: 2019-03-12
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Farm life, Agritourism, Organic farming, Climatic changes, Urbanization
Description: Connor Newman and Kim Hodges Schoch of Hodges Family Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, discuss the past, current, and future operations of the farm. The interview, conducted in the bridal suite of the farm's 1932 barn, focuses on a variety o...

Title: Harry W. Suddreth oral history interview, 2003 July 16
Creator: Suddreth, Harry W. (Harry Wilson), 1941-
Date Created: 2003-07-16
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Land use, Rural, Nurseries (Horticulture), Greenhouses, Ornamental trees, Animals, Feral cats, Urbanization
Description: Harry W. Suddreth recounts moving to Mount Holly, North Carolina in the 1960s, and what he likes about living in the community. Topics discussed include urbanization in the surrounding area, owning and running his businesses, Low Meadow Greenhouse...

Title: Harvey Gantt Mayoral Inauguration
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1983
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Mayors, African American mayors, City planning, Community development, Urban, Urbanization, City planning--Citizen participation
Description: Begins with Harvey Gantt handing a gift to Eddie Knox from the Charlotte City Council. Video cuts to the inauguration ceremony. Accompanied by his wife, Cindy, and children, Gantt is sworn in as Mayor of Charlotte. Gantt then gives a speech to tho...

Title: Johnny Moore and Moore Family oral history interview, 2004 January 19
Creator: Moore, Johnny C. (Johnny Clark), 1957-2019
Date Created: 2004-01-19
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Land use, Rural, Rural families, No-tillage, Field crops, Dairy cattle, Dairy cattle--Breeding, Farm manure, Urbanization, Farm life
Description: Married couple Johnny and Karen Moore, and their children Brian and Shelley Moore, recount their family's background and the history of their farm in Rowan County, North Carolina. Mr. Moore and his family discuss their farming practices such as th...

Title: Johnny Moore and Moore Family oral history interview, 2004 January 19
Creator: Moore, Johnny C. (Johnny Clark), 1957-2019
Date Created: 2004-01-19
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Land use, Rural, Rural families, No-tillage, Field crops, Dairy cattle, Dairy cattle--Breeding, Farm manure, Urbanization, Farm life
Description: Married couple Johnny and Karen Moore, and their children Brian and Shelley Moore, recount their family's background and the history of their farm in Rowan County, North Carolina. Mr. Moore and his family discuss their farming practices such as th...

Title: Kim Shaw oral history interview, 2019 March 18
Creator: Shaw, Kim Diana
Date Created: 2019-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Urban agriculture, Community-supported agriculture, Local foods, Urbanization
Description: Kim Shaw, the owner of Small City Farms in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses some of the issues with urban farming and recalls some memories of starting the farm in 2007. She explains how urban farming is difficult due to the lack of tax breaks...

Title: Stanford Brookshire oral history interview 2, 1973 April 3
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Date Created: 1973-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Mayors, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Bombings, Municipal water supply, Politics and government, Cities and towns--Politics and government, County government, Cities and towns--Growth, Civic centers--Planning, Urban renewal, City planning, Urbanization, Local transit, Roads--Design and construction--Planning, Roads--Design and construction, Police administration, Civic leaders
Description: In this second interview with Ed Perzel, Stanford Brookshire discusses his experiences as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1961-1969. He begins by talking about the bombing of four civil rights leader's homes in Charlotte in 1965 and his ro...

Title: Storm warning
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Overpopulation, Cities and towns--Growth, Urbanization
Description: Topics include: Population growth; Urbanization; North Carolina Piedmont Crescent

Title: The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Author: Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...

Title: The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Author: Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...