This thesis has traced the history and chronological development of the academic Department of Natural Resources at Ball State University by researching printed matter concerning the department and by conducting interviews with the people concerned.The history included recent happenings within the department, i.e., course offering implementations, and dates of the movement from program (1967) to institute (1970) to department (1974). It also included the past history of Ball State Teachers College (which became the present Ball State University) and early interest in natural resources courses first offered in 1919. Of particular interest was the research on the Natural Resources Advisory Committee which met from 1965 to 1973 and which formulated the early aspects of the natural resources program and developed them into the present department.The development of the department was researched using personal and written interviews and was basically an assessment of the progress of the present department. Comments were obtained from Natural Resources Advisory Committee members, past and present faculty, graduates of the department and employees of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The consensus of opinion was that the creation of the department was due to the hard work and dedication of its present chairman, Dr. Clyde Hibbs. / Department of Natural Resources

Indiana Department of Natural Resources began a program of right-of-way (ROW) plantings for wildlife in 1976. By 1983, almost 950,000 shrubs had been planted along four-lane highways. The use of these plantings by wildlife was studied from June 1983 to January 1984. Shrub-planted study areas and grassed control areas were identified along four highways. All areas were walked four times during the study period and observed birds, mammals and roadkilled wildlife were recorded. Incidence of roadkill was not affected by the plantings. The number of rabbits was only slightly increased by the presence of shrubs. Planted areas were used by a greater number of bird species and by a much greater number of individual birds than the grassed areas. ROW plantings are an important addition to wildlife habitat.

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Thesis (M. En.)--Miami University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-26).

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The movement to conserve natural resources in the United States began as a response to the perceived inefficiency which governed resource allocation. The subsequent environmental movement served to expand the definition of conservation to include not only the efficient use of resources, but also the preservation of land in its natural state. In Indiana, this supposed deficiency in conservation led some environmentalists to establish the Indiana Nature Preserves System which locates remnants of the Indiana wilderness and protects them from development. The Indiana Nature Preserves System is symbolic of the Land Ethic proposed by the early ecologist Aldo Leopold, who believed that man was but one component of the "land community." To alter all natural areas, Leopold and Indiana preservationists argued, was both an assault on ecological stability and on the right of nature to exist for its own sake. / Department of History

Thesis (M. En.)--Miami University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], v, 169, [1] p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36).

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