March 2014, Making Your Teaching More Environmentally Friendly
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gray Wolf-a Good Case Study Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the United States' Endangered Species Act (ESA). This federal law gives authority to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to identify endangered species and create recovery plans for them. The ESA is the most significant piece of endangered species legislation, having prevented the extinction of 99% of the species it protects since its inception in 1973, the agency states on its website. The purpose of the ESA is to con-serve imperiled species and the habitats upon which they depend. Today, the ESA protects over 1,400 U.S. species and 600 foreign species. USFWS has collected many resources and activities on their website to mark the anniversary (see On the web). ESA's anniversary coincided with the delisting of one of the law's success stories. gray wolf (Canis lupus), hunted nearly to extinction in the 1920s, was listed as endangered in 1974. Later, several wolf packs from Canada were introduced into Yellowstone National Park. reintroduction has been a success, with over 1,600 adult wolves living in the northern Rockies by the end of 2012 (see On the web). But as wolf populations grow in and around Yellowstone, the animals present a threat to local livestock. Amid outcry and legal action from wildlife conservation groups, the USFWS announced in 2013 that the gray wolf would lose its protected status under the ESA because the animal is no longer endangered. delisting is under review for the wolf's entire range but has only been implemented in some areas. Classroom activities I use the gray wolf in my environmental science classes as a case study for such topics as endangered species, wildlife conservation methods, ecosystem restoration, general population dynamics, and predator-prey interactions. Students begin by familiarizing themselves with the gray wolf, examining the USFWS's interactive map and species profile online. Note that the wolves' status is now recovered. Read more about the wolf reintroduction project in Yellowstone National Park, including the plethora of data park rangers have collected since reintroduction. Have students watch the fabulous video In the Valley of the Wolves, then choose which activities you want to follow. Conservation Nation, a wolf reintroduction activity from PBS, allows students to learn more about the Endangered Species Act and other wildlife conservation approaches (see On the web). …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it