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Authors: R,ESLTN4ENPor mis de’n siglo el rruckee River ha sufrido el imqa5tg humano implacabie. El agotamiento deagua’ r:rbanizaci6n’ canalizaci6n, y olros impactos h“r, .rnb, “ao “i .“ta.t.ripr”a.,ividad d.el rruckeeRiver’ organizado en 1993, el Lower Truckee River Restora[ion Steering icommitee) desarroll6 m6todosy piane6 actividades para meiorar las cond.icio.-,“r.a.1 io ?ra el pez En peligro, cui-ui, y la amenazadalahontan c’tthroat trout y el ecosistema. Despu6s de identificar ^“o, y “u, “,i?“r, con base en prhcipiosde un sistema fluvial intacto normal, el comit€ inici6 estudios para determinar causa y efectuar relaciones.usando los resultados de nuestro estud’ios como una gufa, el comit6 desarroilJ ‘n piano de restauracidnque indtrye l) las prescriPlone.s de fluio reqrleridl por”los procesos fisicos y biol6gicos, 2) modificacionesal cauce’ usando los resultados de nuestra waluaci6n geo*o.iologi.“, 3) plan de manejo d.e corredor de rfo,

Year: 1995 (xxvii)

Abstract

, 9“.It“t-ago’ DFC extended its outreach by providing materials to the world via INTERNET. Themultimedia offerings of fish photographs, informative text:distdbution maps, proce.di.rgr, and meetinginformation’ have Proven veqy popular. Though regular statistics are not compiled, it was evid.ent fromcomments to tJre webmaster that the system was beirg widely seen. The DFC;;g”, are now ind.exed. inmost maior INTERNET search rystems, and are linked ro a great diversity of other INTERNETbiodiversity–related informatjon services. In addition to linls from.otrrer {rs!ems, approval has been grantedlo utilize DFC www-materials i“ “te.tt”.,iJy;;il;; i** .r-,a co-Roili; .or,r“-ation and fishbiologr course material at fotrr u.S- arrd canadian r:.niversities.Detailed fi’le transmission data are routinely recorded on the server, but due to their massive size, aredeleted at midnight every day, so thorough summaries over time are not available, however, theauthorAvebmaster, following thl deadline for receipt of abstracts at lg0o hours on g/15/g5,reviewed thedata for the period of sept’ 7 - 14’ In that weei<, ^1,392 files totailing 10.3 megabytes were transmitted-This was not aPparently a ieflection of mlmbers_searching for information about ,rru.rrltting abstracts, sincedaily usage was lowest.in the 3 days prior to the deadline, an{ had been highest on sunday. The fai1,eof many abstracts to follow format criieria further substantiated this condio.,. Averaged over the week,Peal* in usage o€cuT1d around 8-9 AM (central rime) ““J!-o pM. percentrges of tobl bytes transferredduringtheweektodifferentdomains**!*^f:l”t,z.io-.&gntina 1.65-Australia;0.65-Belgium; l.0g- Cana’i“; 0’65 - switzerland; 0’65 - chile; o.2g - Finland; t.iz^-^Hor,g K“^so.tt- u,grr,, o.72 - rtaly0.79 Japan;0.79 - Netherlands; 0.29 - Norwalr 1.36 _ Sweden; O.29 - United Kingdom; l.5g - United States;0’29’southAftica 19’83 - u’s’ commerad; zs.sz - u.S. Educational; 3.4-5 - u.-S. Go.rernment; o.29 - u.s.Militarl4 6’54 - Netrvorlq 0’93 Non-Profit organizati on;24.43 - unresolved ; 4.24 -utexas.ed.u. There seerns ;ilT::t ;.:?1“:*n.T:,:fr. anvthing but an averase week. so in excess of 5o,0oo n“, ;;t;. Perusing the details of the domains of users, rhose familiar to the webmaster from e-mail $,ith DFCmembers were not corrunon’ It seems therefore that tJre outside world. is using the system far more thanare members’ The international nature of utjlization is interesting. perhaps as a reflection of increasedinternational awareness of DFC, by the time of the meeting DFa www will likery have an extensive 48