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Record W3183493121 · doi:10.33915/etd.7291

CHANGES IN BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT AND THEIR IMPACT ON FORESTRY IN WEST VIRGINIA

2018· dissertation· en· W3183493121 on OpenAlexfundno aff
William E. McCormick

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental Conservation and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcGill University
KeywordsWest virginiaForestryEnforcementBusinessLoggingGeographyPolitical scienceArchaeology

Abstract

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Forestry Best Management Practices are a compilation of environmental regulations established to help mitigate and offset water sedimentation and soil erosion. This study examines severe layoffs in the West Virginia Division of Forestry and the resulting cessation in BMP compliance inspections by the State of West Virginia. This study found a significant decline in notifications to the state from loggers about impending timber harvests, a decline of 14.5 percent from the average of the previous three years prior to the curtailment in inspections due to the layoffs, and significant declines in the proper establishment of forestry BMP criteria on notified timber harvests, a decline of 13 percent statewide from previous years in terms of sites passing their overall BMP inspections. Findings on non-notified harvested sites for forestry BMP compliance proved inconclusive.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.098
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2018
Admission routes1
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