Author Archives: Dominica Whitesell

Making a Bold Statement with a Small Bird: How the Sage Grouse is Emblematic of Tensions over Government Intervention

The sage grouse is a bird that made national headlines this week because of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to keep this animal off of the federal endangered species list. This verdict comes out of multiple years of … Continue reading

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) fundamentals

Much of our work at Banks involves GIS software. We thought we’d give you some background on these tools. GIS, which stands for geographic/geospatial information systems, is a software tool used for analyzing the spatial components of any given data … Continue reading

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