Posted: Dec 04, 2020 3:28 PM CT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Grace Morgan studies a beaver dam. Her book Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains, released posthumously, contains more than three decades of research.(Submitted by Brian Morgan)
A new book that looks at the traditional knowledge of Indigenous people on the prairies is being hailed as an important scholarly work, but it also has a fascinating back story.
Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains was written by Grace Morgan.
It was more than three decades in the making. It s author died in 2016, before it was completed.
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Alachua County interim school superintendent has big goals for COVID-19, equity
COVID-19 threatens to worsen the district’s dismal racial achievement gap, a state-required plan for how the district will deal with the pandemic is coming due and the everyday job of running the system must continue.
Despite all that, Simon said she is not going to be merely a caretaker in the interim role. Instead will try to get the district on a new course regarding equity while ensuring that students and staff are as safe as can be during the pandemic.
“The district has struggled with certain levels of managing equity concerns, and COVID has shined a brighter light on things that need to be addressed,” Simon said. “I think we have some exciting opportunities for the future to consider and try to establish.”
Analysts Say Cat Models Would Encourage Wildfire Mitigation Measures
Predictive modelers told California regulators on Thursday that the state’s antiquated rules for calculating wildfire risk when setting property insurance rates discourage innovative mitigation measures that could ultimately reduce losses.
Nancy P. Watkins, a principal and consulting actuary for Milliman, said during a webcast on “home hardening” hosted by the state Department of Insurance that California is one of only three states that doesn’t allow insurers to use catastrophe modeling to determine wildfire risk. Rates must be based on historical losses.
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Watkins said that is a “very simple” method of ratemaking. “It’s kind of like expecting the Rocky Mountains to be flat because we just drove through Kansas and Missouri,” she said.