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State-Wide Assessments and Resource Strategies (SWARS) are a tool for islands to identify their highest priorities for forest resource management and seek implementation of their strategies, with on-island partners and with assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS). State assessments and resource strategies are integral to the Forest Service’s State and Private Forestry (S&PF) Redesign and required as an amendment to the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act (CFAA), as enacted in the 2008 Farm Bill. Each State is required to complete a State Assessment and Resource Strategy within two years after enactment of the 2008 Farm Bill (June 18, 2008) to receive funds under CFAA.

Guam's EPA has the role to monitor, control, and prevent abuse of the environment through granting permits and rejecting those with the potential to damage the environment. As part of it's program activities, it identifies sites for surface and ground water within Guam, addresses air pollution and control measures, extinction and careless fishing destroying Guam marine life.

The world burns about 17% of its fossil fuel on transport (the fastest growing sector). The Pacific imports all its fossil fuel and burns 70%+ of that on transport. The world divides its energy thinking into electricity (energy) and Transport Electricity is its priority. When it thinks about transport as energy it mainly thinks about land transport.

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.

An overview of the natural history studies in Guam

The focus of this presentation is to identify and become with the most common benthic substrates from photo-quadrat data used by monitoring programs

General characteristics of geographic features in the western pacific.

A regional geography of the western pacific for Guam

An introduction to phylum protozoa and phylum cnidaria for lab practical and theory.