The National Park Service, Biological Resources Division, sponsored the development of a Restoration Rapid Assessment Tool (RRAT), an objective and transparent process for prioritizing sites for restoration in parks and other preserves. This document details the application of the Restoration Rapid Assessment Tool to Selected Disturbed Sites on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park, California

Alex never thought of himself as a hero. He thought he'd live his entire life in relative ease-- nothing out of the ordinary ever happens to him. Then his world was turned upside down. The people of Amoria are vanishing and Alex's Dad was one of the first to go. Alex doesn't know what to think but he knows that there is something happening in the Winter kingdom that is beyond his understanding. Then ten years after his Father's disappearance his Mother goes missing as well. Alex embarks on a journey to find the missing but gains more than he bargained for when he enters the Dark Forest. Alex...

It s a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago with the introduction of institutional asylum psychiatry that self-mutilation was first described as a category of behavior, which psychiatrists, and later psychologists and social workers, attempted to understand. With care and focus, Psyche on the Skin tells the secret but necessary history of self-harm from the 1860s to the present, showing just how...