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about Robert H. Giles, Jr.

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Robert H. Giles, Jr. was born on May 25, 1933, in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended E.C. Glass High School. He won a Bausch and Lomb Science award in high school for studies of the ring-necked pheasant. As an Eagle Scout, he won the W. T. Hornaday National Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and in national competition, the James E. West Scouting Conservation Scholarship for a conservation essay and activities. During high school and the summer of 1953 he taught nature lore, scout craft, and similar subjects at Boy Scout, 4-H, and private camps in Virginia and Kent, Connecticut.

From September, 1951, to June, 1955, he attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was enrolled in the Forestry and Wildlife Conservation curriculum, elected the forestry option, and graduated with a B.S. in Biology; Major, Forestry. During this time he was feature and news writer for the campus newspaper; founded and edited The Virginia Tech Nique, a student agricultural magazine; was a member of the forestry club and editor of the club annual, The Virginia Tech Forester; elected president of the V.P.I. Corps of Cadets of 6000 students; and awarded the university President's Campus-Man-of-the-Year award in 1955. In addition, he was chapter president of the Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honorary; member of other national honoraries, Alpha Zeta (agricultural), Pi Delta Epsilon (journalism), Pershing Rifles and Scabbard Blade (military), Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Sigma Xi (scientific), Phi Sigma (biological), and Xi Sigma Pi (forestry).

From June, 1955, to June, 1957, he completed two years of study and research leading to a Master of Science Degree; Major, Wildlife Management, with Dr. J. S. Lindzey, Unit Leader. His work on the conservation knowledge of Virginia school pupils was supported by the Wildlife Management Institute. Following formal courses in zoology, botany, and ecology, he took supplementary work in educational measurement. He administered 15,000 tests on conservation based to a sample of the total state school population in grades 7-12.

He attended Infantry Basic Training at Ft. Benning, Ga., and won a U.S. Army Ranger tab at the end of that period in the active Reserves.

He is married (since 1956) to Mary Wilson Burnette Giles. They have two daughters, Anne Hayes Giles, born December 30, 1958, and Margaret Pfeiffer Galecki, born October 17, 1960. They have 3 grandchildren.

He joined the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries in 1958 and lived in Covington, Virginia, where he worked with wildlife managers on four districts of the George Washington National Forest. He was responsible for forest wildlife management on the Forest and in a five-county area.

He attended The Ohio State University in 1961. He was awarded a PhD for work on the effects of malathion insecticide labeled with the S-35 isotope on forests in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District North of Dover/New Philadelphia, Ohio. His work was supported by the US Atomic Energy Commission.

He went to teach and do research in the College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Science at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, in 1964. There he taught big game management, a wildlife techniques course, and graduate seminars. He was involved in creating the wilderness research center with Dr. Paul Dalke late in his stay there. He left Idaho in 1967 and joined the faculty of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).

Teaching

His teaching responsibilities have included:

  • Man and Environment - a campus-wide course within the College of Architecture at Virginia Tech.
  • Wildlife Management Techniques (graduate level).
  • Occasional Graduate Seminars in Wildlife Management and Environmental Planning.
  • General Systems Ecology - a campus-wide sophomore-junior level course.
  • Wildlife Management Techniques (graduate level).
  • Principles of Wildlife Management - a 3-hour introductory course (80 to 120 students).
  • Integrated Plant Pest Management - a computer-based course for students in the plant pest management curriculum.
  • Forestry spring camp, wildlife section (annually for 1 week).
  • Advanced Wildlife Management - senior level capstone course, with many computer teaching units.
  • Modern Faunal Resource System Management - 1998, Northern Virginia Graduate Center - a distance-learning course

Dr. Giles was given the first annual faculty award for teaching excellence by the students of the School (forestry and Wildlife Sciences). In 1977 he won the Wine Award, a university cash prize for teaching excellence.

In 1971 he gained an NSF Scientific Instructional Equipment grant while at Virginia Tech enabling him to acquire analog computers and a programmable calculator. He has continually attempted to use innovative educational aids including individual handouts, textbook supplements, overhead projection, physical game boards, computer based games and educational units, taped lectures, TV units, and others.

In 1967 he was a group chairman and participated in meetings of the National Academy of Sciences - Commission on Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources.

He has taught in several colleges: Integrated Pest Management (College of Agriculture), Man and the Environment (College of Architecture), and given lectures in agroforestry, world forestry, photogrammetry (GIS), and human health systems (College of Human Resources), Descriptive Environmental Systems and Design (Architecture); Complexity of Socio-Technological Problems (Mechanical Engineering).

In 1999 he developed and taught a distance-learning wildlife management course at the Northern Virginia Graduate Center. He continues adding material to that course content on the Internet.

College Experience and Education

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute; B.S., Forestry,1955
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute; M.S., Wildlife Biology,1957
  • The Ohio State University; Ph.D., Zoology,Wildlife Conservation,1964

Employment Information

  • 1952, Summer field work, U.S. Forest Service,Oregon
  • 1958-1961, District Game Biologist, Va. Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
  • 1964-1967, Instructor and Assistant Professor, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
  • 1967-1972, Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources,VPI and SU
  • 1972-1998, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • 1998 - retired; taught graduate wildlife class, Northern Virginia Graduate Center

In the summer of 1952 he worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Oakridge, Oregon, as a fireguard and trail crewman. While a student at Virginia Tech, he was employed as a vegetative mapper for the Bartlett Tree Surgeon Company for the Greenbriar Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He had previously been a temporary employee of a local tree surgeon and also of a local veterinarian.

In September, 1963, he joined the College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Science at the University of Idaho as a instructor. While in Moscow he was active in student organizations, taught Techniques of Wildlife Management, Big Game Management, and a graduate seminar. Field trips and meetings throughout the state enabled him to become familiar with the state and its people. His research with a forest pesticide, metasystox, was published as a college bulletin. Results of other research, one on a topographic model of populations and the other on elk browse field analyses, have been published. He was involved in early reconnaissance of and reports on the Taylor wilderness property now acquired for the University of Idaho wilderness research center.

He was presented a plaque of appreciation by one of his classes and had three of his students join him at VPI and SU for Ph.D. work - C. D. Buffington, C. Lobdell, and T. D. McKinney.

In Idaho he developed several computer-based instructional games in wildlife management. He left Idaho in 1967 as an assistant professor and joined the staff of the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources (then the Department of Forestry and Wildlife) in September, 1967, as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1972.

In 1976 he was presented the Virginia Governor's Conservationist of the Year award. He has attended many classes, seminars, and workshops since 1964 including an intensive NATO-sponsored summer workshop in statistical ecology in 1978.

Research

Dr. Giles' research interests are broad and are reflected in the following lists of theses and publications. They are centered on a systems approach to resource management and lean toward computer applications to the solution of environmental problems, particularly wildland problems. He has worked intensively on the problems of wildlife rabies, population simulation, management decision analyses, and comprehensive large area data bases used in impact analyses.

He worked on a series of studies of rabies epidemiology as a system from 1965 to 1975. He developed a computer-based rabies analysis system for the State Health Department which integrates disease control data with laboratory analyses and produces measures of program effectiveness.

Simultaneously, he completed a computer system with the U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest on big game forage analyses. As a result of this effort and presentations at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, he was employed by the U.S. Wildlife Refuge System as a consultant. This activity resulted in involvement with one Ph.D. study, "Analysis of the Structure and Function of the Decision Making Process in the U.S. Wildlife Refuge System."

He became involved at the University of Idaho in wildlife law enforcement research where field work as well as computer simulations were conducted. Violations were dealt with largely as a stochastic process in population simulation models. He then wrote extensively about the needs in law enforcement research and organized and administered the Southeastern Wildlife Law Enforcement Research Project for many years. This was a cooperative endeavor among five states, the Wildlife Management Institute, the American Petroleum Institute, and the National Wildlife Federation. That effort terminated in 1979.

Research in population modeling has been successfully pursued with students. Early efforts in Idaho were published in the Journal of Wildlife Management. This and subsequent work in simulation resulted in an invitation to prepare two sections for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, one in "Wildlife Conservation", and the other on "Wildland Operations Research."

Mr. John Mechler, in his M.S. thesis, analyzed deer population data for the State from 1947 to 1967 and developed regression equations for counties in Virginia. These and later work by Richard Holloran provide the basis for predicting deer harvests in the next year and enable improved decision making about game seasons. He has developed an extensive deer population simulator, now available for state wildlife agent use. Future modifications of this system, by Hoecker in the model called NATAL, tied to the regression analyses of Mechler, provide a substantial body of knowledge for improved deer hunting recreation in the state.

A series of theses has been directed, along with staff action, to creating a statewide information system. That effort continues with success having been reached in (1) automating environmental assessments for powerlines, airports, and surface mines, (2) providing computer-produced aids for comprehensive land use planning, and (3) developing wildlife information systems, both knowledge-based (BOVA, a wildlife information system created and delivered to the Virginia wildlife agency) as well as geographic information.

He edited the book Wildlife Management Techniques (1971). As author of two chapters of the book Manual of Wildlife Conservation, he was invited in several years to make lectures before the National Conservation Commissioners Shortcourse at Ft. Collins, Colorado. He authored Wildlife Management (Freeman Co., 1978) a widely used textbook and a book on principles of wildlife management translated into Chinese in 1994.

He has been a research reviewer for the National Park Service, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and NSF, and has reviewed many articles for the Journal of Wildlife Management, Environmental Management, and others.

Extension

While he has had no direct responsibility in the state Cooperative Extension Program, he has been very active there. He has lectured often at the 4-H Club Congress. He was co-director of a week long TVA workshop for the staff of the Division of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife Development.

He has been a major participant in many workshops sponsored by the Extension Division for state wildlife biologists, US Forest Service biologists, participated annually in the Junior Foresters Institute held on campus, and was a member of the Virginia Tech Speakers Bureau and a frequent lecturer to various groups.

Speeches by Giles.

Lectures Presented

  • Hollins College
  • University of Michigan
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • University of Florida
  • Longwood College
  • Oregon State University
  • University of Idaho
  • Old Dominion University
  • Colorado State University
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Maine, Orono
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
  • Northeast Institute of Forestry, Harbin, Peoples Republic of China
  • Bombay Natural History Society, Bombay, India
  • Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun, India

Memberships

  • The Wildlife Society (Certified Wildlife Biologist) (former)
  • The Society of American Foresters (former)
  • Ecological Society of American (Life Member)
  • The British Ecological Society (former)
  • American Fisheries Society (former)
  • International Association of Landscape Ecology (former)
  • Pi Chi Omega (pest control fraternity, 1998)

Past Offices

  • Member and chairman (1974) Blacksburg Planning Commission
  • Virginia Herpetological Society, Board of Directors
  • Cumberland Farm for Adolescents, Board of Trustees

Consulting

Urban Design Concept Associates

He assembled a team of three resource experts and did a brief ecological study of the impact of an interstate (I 70-N) on a park in Baltimore, Maryland. The highway was to be built; it simply stopped at the edge of the park ... waiting. It was an after-the-fact job; he reported on the consequences of past decisions. The report was well received. The study provided associations with colleagues, highway commissioners, urban designers, and with city officials.

U.S. Wildlife Refuge System

He was employed as a systems analyst for the Refuge System for one month and subsequent periods of several days each. He wrote a 400 page report, Operation Converge, which was later abstracted. He reported on the state of the System (it was not a system then), that it would be desirable to operate as a system, and how to do it. Many of his recommendations have been implemented.

Virginia Landmark Corporation

He was employed as a member of a resource analysis team to work as an agent for an undisclosed major investment corporation to analyze and provide the ecological design criteria for a large mountainous year-round, recreationally-based community within 4 hours from Washington, D.C. The early planning phase was one of insistence that the community be ecologically "right." Many reports on all aspects of ecological, forest inventory, ski opportunities, housing, golf ranges, roads, watersheds, and fisheries were developed. The area was developed and is now the popular Wintergreen.

He also was employed to do an ecological examination of a proposed housing development in Williamsburg. The study dealt with landscape values, construction limits, design criteria, potential hazards, and suggestions for using the environment to reduce certain undesirable aspects of high-density living (e.g., noise reduction) and preserving and enhancing certain features present (e.g., specimen trees and flower glades).

TVA

He designed the Woodland Resource Analysis Program (WRAP) for TVA. The system used on about 300 farm woodlands each year for many years. It has been shelved for small, personal computer applications.

Essex Community College

He was employed for 3 days to examine the grounds of Essex Community College, Baltimore County, Maryland, and to make recommendations on the impact of proposed parking areas and other campus developments on the campus. The report was accepted and resulted in alterations in campus plans and construction.

Harland Bartholomew Associates

He developed with the staff of the Richmond office of Harland Bartholomew Associates a plan for maintaining the environmental quality and health of the city of Williamsburg. The plan dealt with all aspects of the environment and contained 25 prescriptions as well as an outline for approaches to implementing them. He was awarded the first annual Award of Merit for the document by the Virginia Chapter of the American Institute of Planners.

Nettleton Real Estate, Inc.

He designed a complex, highly integrated, computer-based corporation dealing with the total resource systems of a 9000 acre area near Covington, Virginia. The plan included the following Divisions: Systems Design, Agriculture, Forestry, Wildland, Recreation, Camping, Pure Water, Recycling, Memorial, Education, Publishing and Marketing, Maintenance and Security, Housing, Arts, and Land Rehabilitation (1978).

Dames and Moore

He participated with 25 scientists in the analysis of the environment impacts likely in the Antarctic resulting from NSF research and research operations there (1978).

Penn Virginia Resources Corporation

He has designed and created a land management plan for the 68,000 acre tract in Wise County, Virginia. About 10,000 acres of the land area had been strip mined and the project involved design of total land-use systems for Appalachia, especially the coal counties of Virginia.

Jaakko Poyry Consulting Inc., Tarrytown, New York

Reviewer for the Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Timber Harvesting and Forest Management in Minnesota.

He continues to write, do consulting, lecture, and teach graduate courses (Dynamic Natural Resource Planning Systems and Modern Wildlife Resource Management) in the Northern Virginia Graduate Center, a unit of Virginia Tech. He is active with the Fish and Wildlife Information Exchange at Virginia Tech with whom he is developing a second-stage version of Guidance.

Theses by R. H. Giles

Giles, R. H. 1958. Conservation knowledge of Virginia School pupils. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly, Inst. and State. Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 190 pp. mimeo.

Giles, R. H. 1964. The ecology of a small forested watershed treated with the insecticide malathion - S35. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus. 418 pp. multilithed (Univ. Microfilm, Ann Arbor, Michigan) order no. 64-9563.

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertations, R. H. Giles, Major Professor

McKinney, T. D. 1969. Effects of differential grouping on levels of brain acetylcholinesterase and adrenal catecholamines. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 68 pp.

Buffington, C. D. 1972. An analysis of the decision-making systems within the National Wildlife Refuge System. Unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. x + 167 pp.

Lobdell, C. H. 1972. MAST: A budget allocation system for wildlife management. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. vi + 227 pp.

Smart, C. W. 1976. A computer-assisted technique for planning minimum impact transmission right of way routes. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. xiii + 192 p.

Beattie, K. H. 1979. A social psychological investigation of attitudes of Virginia sportsmen toward game laws and regulations. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. x + 217 p.

Cowles, C. J. 1979. Optimal deployment of wildlife law enforcement agents with analyses of agent productivity. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. xi + 230 p.

Koeln, G. T. 1980. A computer-assisted general aviation airport location and evaluation system for Virginia. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. xii + 235 pp.

Williamson, J. F., Jr. 1981. Dynamic classification: conceptual development and applications in wildlife management. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. x + 231 pp.

Jhala, Y. V. 1991. Habitat and population dynamics of wolves and blackbuck in Velavadar National Park, Gujarat, India. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Blacksburg, Va. 235 pp.

Ezealor, A. U. 1995. Ecological profile of a Nigerian Sahelian wetland: toward integrated vertebrate pest damage management. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. 231 pp.

Hamed, Safei E. 1989. Landscape planning objectives for developing the arid Middle East. Unpub. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. ...[Giles was co-major professor with Robert Dyck, College of Architecture, Dept. Landscape Architecture]

Trani, M. K. (Margaret Trani-Griep). 1996. Landscape pattern analysis related to forest wildlife resources. PhD Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
(12 total dissertations)

Master of Science Theses, R. H. Giles, Major Professor

Buffington, C. D. 1967. A computerized system of harvest analysis for Idaho big game management. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Univ. Idaho, Moscow. xii + 213 pp.

Redetzke, K. A. 1968. The population of Merriam's Turkey in Central Idaho. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Univ. Idaho, Moscow. ix + 51 pp.

Vilkitis, J. R. 1968. Characteristics of big game violators and extent of their activity in Idaho. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Univ. Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

Fales, R. R. 1969. Some applications of computer-generated maps to wildlife management, Unpub. MS Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 83 pp.

Prior, Ellen T. 1969. A study of rabies incidence in Western Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vii + 57 pp.

Wertheim, R. F. 1969. Response of pine voles and white mice to crowding and to a bacterial endotoxin. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vii + 60 pp.

Mechler, J. L. III. 1970. Factors influencing the white-tailed deer harvest in Virginia, 1947-1967. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., viii + 106 p.

Perry, M. C. 1970. Studies of deer-related dog activity in Virginia. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. x + 90 pp.

Smart, C. W. 1970. A computer model of wildlife rabies epizootics and an analysis of incidence patterns. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. ix + 126 pp.

Skeen, J. E. 1971. Indices of stress in crowded populations of house mice and white mice. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vii + 74 pp.

Thompson, J. A. 1971. Responses of several stressed mouse populations to endotoxin challenge. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vi + 65 pp. (April)

Lee, J. M., Jr. 1972. Citizen participation in wildlife management decision making: the squirrel hunting season as an example. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, V.P.I. and S.U., Blacksburg, Va. xi + 164 pp.

Rayburn, E. B. 1972. A measure of land for supporting deer populations. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. ix + 195 pp.

Rayburn, Susan B. 1972. Analyses of major factors influencing decisions to acquire public lands for wildlife. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vii + 122 p.

Graf, R. L. 1973. Methods for delineating wildlife and other environmental management regions. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xii + 164 p.

Damalas, A. P. 1973. Monitoring CO2 evolution from mercury treated and natural forest soils. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xvii + 189 p.

Smith, J. L. 1973. An analysis of the environment stability of Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Tech. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. xiv + 229 p. (June)

Carey, A. B. 1974. An analysis of an apparent rabies epizootic in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. x + 168 p.

Walls, M. L. 1974. A dynamic white-tailed deer population simulator and lessons from its use. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. viii + 167 p.

Conlin, W. M. 1973. Feedback functions in MAST. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. vi + 112 p.

Kaminsky, M. A. 1974. Analysis of the spatial and temporal occurrence of deer spotlighting violations in Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., x + 170 p.

Ritter, A. F. 1975. Objectives and performance criteria for state wildlife law enforcement agencies. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xii + 199 p.

Hoecker, S. W. 1976. NATAL: A computer based educational unit on white-tailed deer bioenergetics. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., vi + 163 p.

Leenhouts, W. P. 1976. Forecasting policy and human population effects on the Michigan deer resource. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., ix + 153 p.

Hamill, J. F. 1976. A computer-based methodology for estimating potential wildlife productivity for large areas. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., x + 94 p.

Jones, A. B. III. 1976. POWER: a computer information system for land use decisions. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., vi + 194 p.

Lawrence, G. E., Jr. 1976. A computer-based insolation mapping algorithm for large areas. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va.

Teaford, J. W. 1977. MAST and HABAN: A forest wildlife management decision aid. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xii + 155 p.

McDonald, M. V. 1977. A computer information system for Virginia counties. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., viii + 99 p.

Saunders, E. F. 1977. WATFLOW: A computer system to aid in reclaiming watersheds affected by surface mines. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xii + 296 p.

LeFranc, M. N., Jr. 1977. A computer decision aid for reclaiming Eastern abandoned surface mines. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., x + 144 p.

Hamm, C. P. 1978. A soil information algorithm for the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province of Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., vi + 75 p.

Holloran, R. L. 1978. A white-tailed deer harvest data-analysis and information system for Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xi + 276 p.

Gladwin, D. N. 1978. An airport environmental information system for Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., viii + 307 p.

Hoar, A. R. 1980. A methodology for mapping probable ranges of endangered terrestrial mammals within selected areas of Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., xi + 191 p.

Francis, D. L. 1980. A computer-based wind information system for land use planning in Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., vii + 207 p.

Cason, T. W., Jr. 1980. Phaedrus: a system for the preliminary environmental evaluation of large physical projects. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly, Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., viii + 305 pp.

Anderson, D. R. 1981. A climatological information system for natural resource management: temperature. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ.,Blacksburg, Va. vii + 220 pp.

Ziewitz, J. W. 1982. A computer-assisted method for deriving soil maps of Virginia counties. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 175 pp.

Kroll, G. 1982. Computer aids for reclaiming eastern surface mines as rangelands. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 272 pp.

Fies, M. L. 1983. Predicting forest cover types in Southwestern Virginia using topographic information. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 134 pp.

Zack, J.S. 1983. Geographic information system strategies for improving Landsat land use classification accuracy. MS Thesis, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, VA 487p.

Clark, A. G. 1985. Characteristics of trappers in Maine, 1976 to 1980. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 156 pp.

Waldon, J. L. 1987. Maximizing wildlife benefits through hardwood timber harvest scheduling. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 146 pp.

Martin, S. M. 1988. Select geomorphological components of wildlife habitat in the Ridge and Valley Province of Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 203 pp.

Diamond, S. J. 1989. Vegetation, wildlife, and human foraging in prehistoric Western Virginia. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 239 pp.

Cotton, F. E. 1990. Potential beaver colony density in parts of Quebec. Unpub. M. S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 330 pp.

Gueye, M. 1991. Managing the wildlife resources of Senegal's forests and wildlands. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. 229 pp.

Bullard, C. O. III. 1993. Evaluating wildlife law enforcement agent productivity: a methodolgoy. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.

Gruen, K. A. 1993. Mesoscale temperature estimates for western Virginia. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 164 pp.

Wajda, R. K. 1993. A site-specific rainfall model for Western Virginia ecosystems. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. xi + 143 pp.

Mason, N. A. 1994. Floral richness inventory of an eastern US forest. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va. 107pp.

Casabona, G. 1994. GIS Procedures for analyzing wildlife topics in a National Park in Virginia. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 99 pp.

Findley, S. H. 1994. Hydrologic modeling as a decision-making tool in wildlife management. Unpub. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. ix + 164 pp.

Hassouna, K. M. 1997. Developing a natural resource data base for geographic information system. M.F. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 81 pp.

McCombs, J. W. 1998. Geographic information system topographic factor maps for wildlife management. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 141 pp.

Klopfer, S. D. 1998. Insolation, precipitation, and moisture maps for a Virginia geographic information system. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. 184 pp. electronic thesis access: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/public/etd-7197-113632/etd-title.html

Morton, D. 1998. Landcover map of Virginia. M.S. Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.

(59 MS theses)

Publications by Robert H. Giles, Jr.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1951. Camp Monocan, Boy Scouts' contribution to wildlife conservation. Virginia Wildlife. 12(2): 10-11. (see Valley History link at www.stoneycreekwtg.org for reprint of article)

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1951. James E. West award winner - why I want to study conservation. The V.F.W. National Auxiliary Bulletin. September p. 11.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1956. Conservation education evaluation studies in the public schools of Virginia. Paper, Conservation Education Association Convention, Clemson, S.C., August.

Rinsland, G. H. and R. H. Giles. 1957. Disease and the pigeon fancier. All Pets Magazine. 28(4): 20.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1957. Wildlife units and philosophies. Virginia Tech Forester (Student annual). pp. 37, 39.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1957. The lure of the birds lists. Frontiers 21(5): 133-134.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1958. A suggested technique for preference-rating sportsmen's magazines. S.E. Assn. Game and Fish Commissioners, Louisville, Ky.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1958. Conservation knowledge of Virginia school pupils, Bul. 257. Va. Agric. Extension Service, Blacksburg, Va., 41 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1959. About bats. Virginia Wildlife. 20(10): 20-21.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1959. Response to proposals for society changes. The Wildlife Society News. No. 70 pp. 1-2.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1959. Conservation knowledge of Virginia school pupils. Trans. N. Amer. Wildl. Conf. 24: 488-499.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1959. Wilderness and the southeastern wildlifer. S. E. Assn. of Game and fish Commissioners, Baltimore, Md. reprinted in Virginia Wildlife, 1960, 21(1): 16-17, 19, 21.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Wilderness of their own. Living Wilderness. 25(73): 1-2. Summer.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Conifers for wildlife. Virginia Wildlife. 21(9): 10-11.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. The effects of pesticides on natural resources. Unpublished M.S. prepared for Ohio Div. Wildlife for the Ohio Advisory Legislative Committee on Pesticides. 40 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. The free-running dog. Virginia Wildlife. 21(6): 6-7.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Population stress. Frontiers. 25(1): 22-23.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Edge effect and land management for wildlife. Release No. 211. Ohio Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. (Paper presented at 1st Annual Conf. Ohio Wildl. Mgmt. Assn., Columbus, October 1-2, 1960).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Salt as a game management tool. Virginia Wildlife. 21(8): 16-17.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. The passing of the buffalo. Virginia Wildlife. 21(9): 9.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1960. Conservation knowledge of Virginia school pupils. Soil Conservation. 25(11): 262-63.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1961. Vulture blind. Virginia Wildlife. 22(10): 8-9.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1961. Overlay mapping as a technique for improved management of upland game. Release 212, Ohio Cooperative Wildl. Research Unit. (Paper presented at 23rd Midwest Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.)

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1961. A major game management principle: the big edge. Virginia Wildlife. 22(8): 10-11.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1961. A definition of conservation - high time. Virginia Wildlife. 22(3): 18-19.

Peterle, T. J. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1961. New tracer techniques for evaluating the effects of an insecticide on the ecology of a forest fauna (progress report). U.S. AEC report TID-13650. 22 pp. (NSA 15-38 910).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1962. Timber-wildlife coordination concepts for large eastern forests. Trans. N. A. Wildl. Conf. 27: 402-412.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and J. V. Gwynn. 1962. The Alleghany County, Virginia Deer Herd. Va. Jour. Sci. 13(1): 1-16.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and T. J. Peterle. 1963. Distribution of aerially applied Malathion S-35 in a forest ecosystem. Symposium on the Use and Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation in the Control of Plant and Animal Insect Pests. Int. AEC and RAO of the U.N. Sponsors, Athens, Greece, April 22-26.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1963. "Instrumentation" in H. S. Mosby, 1963 (2nd Ed.) Manual of Game Investigational Techniques, The Wildlife Society, Blacksburg, Va., pp. 1-21.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1964. The ecology of a small forested watershed treated with the insecticide malathion - S35. Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 418 pp. multilithed (Univ. Microfilm, Ann Arbor, Michigan) order no. 64-9563.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1964. Techniques used in determining animal populations. Trans. 55th Western Forestry Conference, Spokane, Wash. Western Forestry and Conservation Association. Amer. Bank Bldg., Portland, Oregon. Illus., Dec. 1, 1964.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1965. Ideas on the role of operations research in big game management. Paper presented at the annual meeting, Northwest Section of the Wildlife Society, Missoula, Montana, April 9-10.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1965. Fledgling foresters at camp. Virginia Forests. 20(2): 16, 17, 26.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1965. Rich Hole country. The Living wilderness, Summer. 29(89): 3-6.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1966. What is your conservation I.Q.? Idaho Wildlife Review, 18(4): 13-14.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1966. Rich hole country (reprint from The Living Wilderness). Virginia Wildlife. 28(2): 4-5, 14-16.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1966. Idaho graduate seminar. The Wildlife Society News. No. 106, October, p. 60.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1966. When buzzards go bad. Virginia Wildlife. 27(11): 10-11.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1966. The nature of big game food. Idaho Wildlife Review. 19(3): 8-9.

Giles, R. H., Jr., C. D. Buffington, and J. A. Davis. 1966. Working models of game population stability. 8th Annual Meeting of the Idaho Academy of Science, Univ. Idaho, Moscow. Paper presented, April 29-30.

Giles, R. H. Jr. 1966. Early natural history of a forested area near Dover, Ohio. Ohio J. Science. 66(5): 469-473.

Brotzman, R. L. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1966. Electronic data processing of capture-recapture and related ecological data. J. Wildlife Mgmt. 30(2): 286-292.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and T. R. McKinney. 1967. Feeding deer to death. National Wildlife. 6(1): 46-47.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1967. Neodidactics and the wildlife manager. Data Processing Mag. 9(4): 72-74, 76.

Schenk, J. A., R. H. Giles, Jr., and F. D. Johnson. 1967. Effects of trunk-injected oxydemetonmethyl on Douglas-fir cone and seed insects, seedling production, and mice. Sta. Paper No. 2, Forest Wildlife and Range Experiment Sta., Univ. Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. 20 pp. (Aug.).

Pendleton, J. D. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1968. A survey of the use of audiotutorial systems for teaching soil and crop science. Va. Acad. Sci., Paper presented at 46th Annual Meeting, Roanoke, Va., May 8-10.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. (editor). Wildlife management techniques. The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C. 623 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Something about a marsh. Virginia Wildlife. 30(8): 3.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Wildlife management disproduct. The Wildl. Soc. News. No. 120: 4.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. A strategy for resolving a wildlifer's dilemma. Wildlife Soc. News. No. 123, August, p. 33.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. The approach, p. 1-4 In R. H. Giles, Jr. (Ed.) Wildlife management techniques, The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C., 623 pp.

Giles. R.H., Jr., C.D. Buffington, and J.A. Davis. 1969. A topographic model of population stability. J. Wildlife Manage. 33(4):1042-1045

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Instrumentation, p. 73-81 In R. H. Giles, Jr. (Ed.) Wildlife management techniques, The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C., 623 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Population manipulation, p. 521-526 In R. H. Giles, Jr. (Ed.) Wildlife management techniques, The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C., 623 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Systems for the Refuge System, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., 110 pp. (offset).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. Laws of effective reform. The Wildlife Society News. No. 124, October, p. 47.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1969. What's an ecologist? Virginia Wildlife. 30(9): 12.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and R. F. Scott. 1969. A systems approach to refuge management. Trans. N. Am. Wildlife Conf. 34: 103-117.

McKinney, T.D., D.M. Baldwin, and R.H. Giles, Jr. 1970. Effects of differential grouping on adrenal catecholamines in the cottontail rabbit. Physiological Zoology 43(1): 55-59

Giles, R.H. and N. Snyder. 1970. Simulation techniques in wildlife habitat management, p. 637+ in J.A. Bailey, W. Elder, and T.D. McKinney (eds.), Readings in wildlife conservation, The Wildlife Soc, Washington, DC xiv +722pp.

Giles, R.H., Jr. 1970. The ecology of a small forested watershed treated with the insecticide Malathion-S35. Wildlife Monographs 24, 81p.

Perry, M. C. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1970. Studies of deer-related dog activity in Virginia. Proc. S.E. Assoc. Game and Fish Comm. 24:64-73.

Giles, R.H., Jr. (Editor). 1971. Wildlife management techniques (third edition). The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C., 633 pp.

Giles, R.H. Jr. 1971. Research to meet future management needs. p. 156-160 in R.D. Teague , editor, A Manual of Wildlife Conservation, The Wildlife Society, Washington, DC. x +206p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1971. The cosmic balancing act: populations and resources, p. 37-50 In The Global Village, (a book) Fulcrum, Inc., Riner, Virginia. 79 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1971. Book Review: Man and his environment: the ecological limits of optimism. Edited by Francois Mergen. Yale University, School of Forestry, New Haven, Conn., 1970, 77 pp. $2.00 (paper), In J. Wildl. Mgmt. 35(2): 399-401.

Giles, R. H., Jr., M. Kaminsky, and J. McLaughlin. 1971. Wildlife law enforcement research - the context and the needs. Proc. S.E. Assn. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 25: 677-687.

Buffington, C.D. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1971(2?). Methods for obtaining and evaluating inputs for management information systems for wildlife agencies. Proc. S.E. Assoc. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 25: 323-337.

Wertheim, R. F. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1971. Effects of bacterial endotoxin and crowding on pine voles and white mice. J. Mammalogy. 52(1): 238-242.

Perry, M. C. and R. H. Giles. 1971. Free-running dogs. Virginia Wildlife. 32(5): 17-19.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1972. A glance ahead: Cells within the wildlife agency. Wildl. Soc. News No. 139, April, p. 12.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1972. Wildlife management decisions: an aid. Pub. 500, Cooperative Extension Service, Va. Poly. Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg, Va., i + 84 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1972. Sportsmen: federated for function or fun? (Part I). Federation Record (Virginia wildlife Federation). 16(5): 6-7. Part II, 16(6):

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1972. Future uses of computers in environmental management, p. 3-21 In R. N. Stone and K. D. Ware (Eds.), Proc. of a Workshop on Computers and Information Systems in Resource Management Decisions, U.S. Forest Service, Cooperative State Research Service, Washington, D.C. 130 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and A. Damalas. 1972. When the ground gasps. Virginia Wildlife. 33(12): 19-20.

Lee, J. M, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1972. Furry political plum. Virginia Wildlife. 33(3):6-7.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1972. A prototype urban environmental policy statement. J. Environ. Systems. 2(4):305-310.

Giles, R. H. and S. A. Huffman. 1973. Heuristic teaching environments: A design document. Trans. Amer. Fisheries Soc. 102(3):658-662.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and A. B. Carey. 1973. Notes on rabies in Virginia. Virginia Wildlife 34(7):8.

Smart, C. W. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1973. A computer model of wildlife rabies epizootics and an analysis of incidence patterns. Wildlife Diseases. 61, 89 p. (WD-73-1).

Gavitt, J. D. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1973. Simulation studies of quail hunting success associated with ecological succession of planted pine stands. Proc. National Bobwhite Symposium. p. 343-349.

Conlin, W. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1973. Maximizing edge and coverts for quail and small game. Proc. National Bobwhite Quail Symposium. p. 302-305.

Lobdell, C. H. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1973. A model for determining least-cost quail stocking programs. Proc. National Bobwhite Quail Symposium. p. 361-366.

Smart, C. W., R. H. Giles, Jr. and D. C. Guynn, Jr. 1973. Weight-tape for Virginia white-tailed deer. J. of Wildlife Management 37(4):553-555.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1973. Improved game seasons. Va. Wildlife Federation Record. 17(2):5.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1973. Better use of wildlife bucks. Va. Wildlife Federation Record. 17(3):9.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1973. Have a professional wildlifer work for you. Va. Wildlife Federation Record 17(4):12.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1973. Virginia's land: exploitation or conservation. Va. Wildlife Federation Record 17(8):8, 12.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1973. Night flight across a blue sky: prognostics. Proc. Bird Control Seminar, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, Ohio, 6:223-228.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1974. Book Review: Wildlife ecology: an analytical approach, by A. N. Moen, 1973, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA. xviii + 458 p., Ecology 55(4).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1974. Criteria for wildlife laws. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 2:69-70.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1974. Forest-wildlife components of environmental impact statements, p. 120-126 In Timber Wildlife Management Symposium, Missouri Acad. Sci. Occasional Paper 3, Univ. Missouri, Columbia, 131 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1974. Wildlife conservation and wildland operations research, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of the Environment, reprinted from McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 1971, p. 560-567.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1974. An earring for Elmer. Va. Wildlife 35(10): 18.

Buffington, C. D., R. H. Giles, Jr., and T. A. White, Jr. 1974. WRAP--A system to assist landowners in the management of Tennessee Valley forest and wildland resources. Conf. International Inst. Applied Systems Analysis on the TVA Experience, Baden, Austria, Oct. 28-Nov. 1. 27 p. offset.

Graf, R. L., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1974. A technique for delineating optimum deer management regions. Proc. Southeastern Assoc. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 28:581-586.

Kaminsky, M. A., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1974. An analysis of deer spotlighting in Virginia. Proc. Southeastern Assoc. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 28: 729-740.

Prior, E. T., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1974. A study of rabies in Southwestern Virginia. Va. Wildl. 35(7): 21.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and A. F. Ritter. 1974. A proposal for a regional law enforcement research program. Ann. Conf. Southeastern Assoc. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 28:740-745.

Giles, R. H., Jr., and A. B. Jones, III. 1975. Hunt I and II: Computer-based deer management units for university and inservice education. Proc. Southeastern Assoc. Game and Fish Commissioners 29:706-711.

Damalas, A. P., R. H. Giles, Jr., and O. T. Sanders. 1975. Measuring forest soil CO2 evolution for assessing mercury and other ecological impacts. 2nd Int. Symp. on Env. Biogeochemistry, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. April 8 - 11. 16 p. + tables + illus.

Conner, R. N., J. Smith, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1975. Winged pollution. Va. Wildl. 36(9):20-21, 19.

Graf, R. L. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1975. Calculating the effectiveness of fish and wildlife planning regions. Proc. N.E. Fisheries and Wildl. Conf., New Haven, Conn. Feb. 23 - 26.

Rayburn, E. B. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1975. Energy balance as a criterion for acquiring deer management areas. Proc. S.E. Assn. of Game and Fish Commissioners. 29:481-492.

Rueger, L. A. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1975. Forest clearings: how size affects uses. Va. Wildl. 36(9):15.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1975. Injury vs damage (Letter to the editor). J. For. 73(6):323.

Giles, R. H., C. W. Smart, and A. B. Jones, III. 1976. Power: a high voltage transmission corridor location system, p. 43-47, Proc. 1st National Symposium on Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, 335 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr., A. Blair Jones, III, and C. W. Smart. 1976. POWER: a computer system for corridor location. Res. div. Bul. 117, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1976. Siting high-voltage powerlines in Virginia. Industrial Vegetation Management. 8(3):14-19.

Giles, R. H., Jr., A. R. Tipton, T. L. Sharik, G. J. Buhyoff, and K. A. Argow. 1976. Computer-aided parkland research optimization. First Conf. on Scientific Res. in the Natl. Parks. 1051-1060 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1976. Management today, wildlife tomorrow. Va. Wildlife. 37(11):33-34.

Giles, R. H., Jr., A. B. Jones, III, A. R. Tipton, and T. L. Sharik. 1976. Predicting impacts of proposed facilities in parks. First Conf. on Scientific Res. in the Natl. Parks. 1061-1066 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1977. Alpha man. Va. Wildlife 38(7): 14-15.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1977. A watershed planning and management system: design and synthesis. Virginia Water Resource Research Center, Bul. 102. Blacksburg, Va. 133 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1977. Simulating the environmental impacts of a high voltage transmission line. Winter Simulation Conference Proc. Vol. 1, 319-321.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and J. F. Hamill. 1977. Wildlife as a factor in state land use planning systems. Man-Env. Systems 7(3): 165-168.

Beattie, K. H., R. H. Giles, Jr. and C. J. Cowles. 1977. Lack of research in wildlife law enforcement. Wildlife Society Bul. 5(4): 170-174.

Beattie, K. H., C. J. Cowles, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1977. Objectives of state wildlife law enforcement division. Proc. Southeastern Assoc. Game and Fish Commissioners. 31:709-716.

Beattie, K. H., C. J. Cowles, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1977. An analysis of nation-wide wildlife law enforcement data. Proc. Southeastern Assoc. Game and Fish Commissioners. 31:698-708.

Beattie, K. H., R. H. Giles, Jr. and C. J. Cowles. 1977. Fines in wildlife law enforcement. Proc. Southeastern Game and Fish Commissioners. 31:690-697.

Holloran, R. L. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1977. A white-tailed deer management system for Virginia. (A computerized data analysis and information system). Proc. Joint Northeast-Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting, Va. Comm. Game and Inland Fisheries, Richmond, Va. 149 p.

McDonald, M. V. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1977. An appropriate home for a state environmental information system. 68th Annual Special Libraries Assoc. Conf., (June 5-9) New York Hilton, N.Y. 11 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978. Wildlife management. W. H. Freeman Co., San Francisco, Calif. 416 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978. WRAP: A woodland resource analysis procedure for TVA landowners. Norris, Tenn. Unpub. Final Report.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978. A computer-based methodology for reducing wildlife impacts from high voltage powerline location. Proc. Western Assn. State Game and Fish Commission. 57: 104-110.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and A. B. Jones. 1978. Boll-1: A system for assessing ecological effects of pesticide applications to large areas. Final Report to USDA-APHIS. 29 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978. Preliminary concepts for STAVE: strategies toward agriculture with valued energetics. Report to USDA-APHIS. 54 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and B. S. McGinnes. 1978. Perspectives on reclaiming abandoned Appalachian surface coal mines. Final Report to USDI, FWS/OBS. 83 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1978. An experience with a computer-based course. Teaching and Learning, Learning Resources Center, VPI and SU. Blacksburg, Va. 1 p.

Cowles, C. J., K. H. Beattie, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1978. A survey of methods of recording reports of fish and wildlife law violations. Fish. Bull. Am. Fish. Soc. 3(2):8-11.

Cowles, C. J., R. H. Giles, Jr., and K. H. Beattie. 1978. Objective related deployment of wildlife law enforcement manpower. Proc. Northeastern Fish and Wildl. Conf., White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Beattie, K. H., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1978. Wildlife management: what is it? Colo. Outdoors. 27(2): 8-11.

Carey, A. B., R. H. Giles, Jr., and R. G. McLean. 1978. The landscape epidemiology of rabies in Virginia. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 27(3): 573-580.

Beattie, K. H. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1979. A survey of wildlife law enforcement research needs and current research. Wildlife Soc. Bull. 7(3): 185-188.

Cason, T. W., Jr. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1979. A role for subjective probability in interbasin water transfer decisions. Southwestern Regional Meeting, Society for General Systems Research. 7 p.

Cowles, C. J., K. H. Beattie and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1979. Limitations of wildlife law compliance estimators. Wildlife Soc. Bull. 7(3): 188-191.

Francis, D. L., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1979. When the north wind blows. Va. Wildlife. 40(2): 10-12.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1979. Choosing the best line routing. Transmission and Distribution, (March). 35-38.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1979. Dynaplan: System for aiding comprehensive planning in Virginia counties, Dept. Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Va. Brochure.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and E. G. Okie. 1979. MINE-1: A general systems application in surface mine reclamation. Southwestern Regional Meeting, Society for General Systems Research. 5 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and C. J. Cowles. 1979. Why are deer tails white? Va. Wildlife 40(11): 29.

Hoar, A. R. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1979. A system for remapping the ranges of threatened and endangered wildlife species. Southeastern Regional Meeting, Society for General Systems Research. 8 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and J. M. Lee, Jr. 1979. When to hunt eastern gray squirrels, p. 583-596, In W. A. Duerr, D. E. Teeguarden (Eds.), Forest resource management: decision-making principles and cases, W. B. Saunders, Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 611 pp. (2nd edition, also 1975).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1979. Using computers in evaluating vertebrate pest control procedures, p. 304-312 In J. R. Beck (Ed.) Vertebrate pest control and management materials, ASTM Tech. Pub 680, Amer. Soc. for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, Pa. 323 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1979. Modeling decisions or ecological systems? p. 147-159, In J. Carins, Jr., G. P. Patil, and W. E. Waters (Eds.) Environmental biomonitoring, assessment, prediction, and management-certain case studies and related quantitative issues, International Cooperative Pub. House, Fairland, Md., 438 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1979. Research to meet future management needs, p. 219-224 In R. D. Teague (Ed.), Wildlife conservation: principles and practices, The Wildlife Society, Washington, D.C. 280 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and J. M Gaines. 1980. Where the sun shines brightly. Va. Wildlife. 41(8):14-15.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1980. Wildlife and integrated pest management. Env. Mgmt. 4(5):373-374.

Schemnitz, S. D. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1980. Instrumentation, p. 499-506 in S. D. Schemnitz (Ed.) Wildlife management techniques manual. The Wildlife Soc., Washington, D.C. viii + 686 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1980. The effects of forestry practices on plants and non-game animals, in L. H. Wade (Ed.) W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Forum Proceedings, 17th Annual Auburn Forestry Forum, Alabama (May 10-11, 1978).

Beattie, K. H., C. J. Cowles, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1980. Estimating illegal kill of deer, p. 65-71 in White-tailed deer population management in the North Central states, Proc. Symposium at 41st Midwest Fish and Wildl. Conf., Urbana, Ill. (Dec. 10, 1979). 116 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. Assessing landowner objectives for wildlife, p. 112-129 Wildl. Management on Private Lands Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisc., Wisc. Chapter, The Wildlife Society., Madison, WI, 568 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. Bridges to the future: a planning document (Southwestern Virginia coal field), Occasional Paper, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Virginia. 11 pp.

Koeln, G. T., R. H. Giles, Jr., and A. B. Jones, III. 1981. Virginia geographic information system. Commonwealth Data Base, Dept. of Taxation, Richmond. 187 pp.

Koeln, G. T., R. H. Giles, Jr., and A. B. Jones, III. 1981. State geographic information system and terrestrial ecosystem protection. Trans. Northeastern Sec. Wildl. Soc. 38:108 (Abstr.)

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. Environmental agency research results: improved transfer. Env. Mgmt. 5(4):291-294.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. Non-forest industry corporate land management programs, p. 81-88 in P. T. Bromley and R. L. Carlton (Eds.) Proc. Symposium on Habitat Requirements and Habitat Management for the Wild Turkey in the Southeast. Wild Turkey Fed., Elliston, Va. 180 pp.

Damalas, A. P., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1981. Monitoring mercury treated and natural forest soil CO2, p. 16 (abstract). Seventh Annual Scientific Research Meeting, National Park Service-Southeast Region, Great Smoky Mt. Natl. Park, Gatlinburg, Tenn. June 25-26.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. Endangered species: an aid to land-use planning in the coal producing counties of Southwestern Virginia, Occasional Paper, Dept. Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Va. 12 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1981. The wild turkey guild: wildlife management for corporate profit. Occasional paper, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Va. (Reprinted from Bromley and Carlton (Eds.) Proc. Symposium on habitat requirements and habitat management for the wild turkey in the Southeast, 1981).

deSteiguer, J. E. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1981. Introduction to computerized land-information systems. J. Forestry 79(11):734-737.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. Mitigation and management of damaged ecosystems or damaged habitat: overview p. 165-169 in Mason, W. T., Jr. and S. Iker (Eds.) Research on fish and wildlife habitat. Office of Research and Development, U.S. E.P.A., Washington, D.C. EPA 600/8-82-022. 248 pp.

Koeln, G. T. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1982. Value of the geobased information systems to state information and education departments. J. Env. Ed. 13(2):34-39.

Giles, R. H. 1982. Have you ever thought about slopes? Va. Forests 38(2):14-15.

Minkler, L., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1982. Silviculture and fauniculture: cybernetic forces in the forest. Proc. Internatl. Union Forestry Research Organizations, Tiota, Japan. p. 67-72.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. Management knowledge through wildlife research: a perspective. Env. Manage. 6(3):185-191.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. Book Review: Environmental education: principles, methods and applications. (Eds.) Bakshi and Naveh, Trans. Amer. Fisheries Soc. 111(4):540-541.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. A comprehensive plan for managing the nongame animals of Virginia. Unpub. Final Project Report to Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Richmond, Virginia 83 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. A computer data base for fauna of Virginia. Virginia Coop. Wildl. Res. Unit Biannual Prog. Rpt. 47(1):28-29.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1982. The crests: a guidance document (2 volumes), Rep. to Penn virginia Resources Corporation, Duffield, Virginia. Vol. 1, 666 pp.; Vol. 2, 277 pp.

Bromley, P. T., M. C. Vodak, and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1982. Managing Southern Appalachian hardwoods for firewood and wildlife habitat. Proc. Soc. Amer. Foresters. 233-237 pp.

Cowles, C. J., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1982. A linear programming simulator for optimizing spatial distribution and movements of environmental protection personnel. J. Environ. Manage. 15:311-322.

Giles, R. H., Jr. (Task Force participant). 1983. Our natural resources: basic research needs in forestry and renewable natural resources. National Task Force on Basic Research in Forestry and Renewable Natural Resources. S. L. Krugman and E. B. Cowling, Co-chairman (N.C. State Univ., Raleigh, NC).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1983. Information please (BOVA interactive species information system). Va. Wildl. 44(1):32-33.

Koeln, G. T. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1983. Value of geobased information systems to state (natural resource agency) information and education departments. Va. Geographer 15:13-21 (reprinted from J. Environ. Ed. 13(2):34-39).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1983. Getting the turkey into and out of BOVA. Gobbler Tracks (Va. Wild Turkey Federation) 1(2):6, 8, 9.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and G. T. Koeln. 1983. Land and cropland primeness: concepts and methods of determination. Env. Manage. 7(2):129-142.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1983. Innovative uses of computers in management in Proc. of the national workshop on computer uses in fish and wildlife programs: a state of the art review, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Va. 8 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1984. The CAPS concept: alternative computer system could be useful planning tool. For. Planning 5(5):17-19.

Fies, M., R. H. Giles, Jr., and T. L. Sharik. 1984. Forest classification for white-tailed deer management in southwest Virginia. 19th Northeast Deer Tech. Comm., Sheffield, Pennsylvania. (Abstr.).

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1984. The geodesic group: a systems solution to Virginia coalfield problems. Virginia J. Sci. 35:115. (Abstr.)

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1985. A sugarbush system: a post-mining land use alternative. Proc. Symposium on Surface Mining, Hydrology, Sedimentology, and Reclamation. University of Kentucky, Lexington. BU 139, p. 421-430.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1985. An aid to planning the marking of mining area boundaries. National Symposium on Surface Mining, Hydrology, Sedimentology, and Reclamation. University of Kentucky, Lexington. BU 139, p. 93-96.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and J. Ziewitz. 1985. A tractor efficiency map: applied energetics for a coal field ownership. National Symposium on Surface Mining, Hydrology, Sedimentology, and Reclamation. University of Kentucky, Lexington. BU 139, p. 261-268.

Sirgy, M. J., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1985. A general system model of goal formulation in human activity systems. Proc. Soc. for General Systems Research, Los Angeles, California.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1985. Planning the distribution of watering and similar developments for terrestrial wildlife. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 13:411-415.

Sirgy, M. J., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1985. Goal formulation in human activity systems: a general systems model. Pages 635-641 in B. H. Banathy (ed.), Systems inquiring: applications, Vol. 2. Intersystems Publications, Seaside, CA.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1986. A computer program for use with raccoon trappers by wildlife extension specialists. Pages 615-722 in Symp. Forestry Microcomputer Software, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1986. A program to simulate decisions about a diverse non-for-profit wildlife-resource-based enterprise. Pages 601-614 in Symp. Forestry Microcomputer Software, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Cowles, C. J., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1986. A study of factors affecting wildlife law enforcement agent productivity. Proc. S.E. Assoc. Game and Fish Comm. 40. Giles, R. H., Jr. 1986. Computers can bridge the gap between forestry and wildlife interests. The Compiler (FORS) 4(1):4-5, 17.

Sirgy, M. J., and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1986. A systems model for setting advertising objectives. Pages 173-184 in John A. Dillon, Jr. (ed.) vol. 2, Proceedings of the international conference on mental images, values, and reality: Business and industrial systems area. Intersystems Publications, Seaside, CA.

Sirgy, M. J. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1986. Succession as an alternative concept to the product life cycle. Systems Research 3(4):233-242.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1987. A geographic information system design for a wildlife area. Pp. 525-535 in Proc. Internatl. Workshop on Geographic Information System, Beijing '87, 2 vols. 535 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1987. Nine thoughts about geographic information systems, Pp. 8-12 in Wildlife Working Group Newsletter No. 8, June, Lands Directorate, Env. Canada, Ottawa. (Reprinted in 1988). Canadian Cartographic Assoc. Newsletter. 14(1):10-12.

Giles, R. H., Jr., and Tsui Weihung. 1987. A land use guidance system: releasing the power of the geographic information system. Pp. 216-267 in Proc. Internatl. Workshop on Geographic Information System, Beijing '87, 2 vols. 535 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1987. The creation, uses, and demise of a Virginia, USA, Geographic Information System. Pp. 507-524 in Proc. Internatl. Workshop on Geographic Information System, Beijing '87, 2 vols. 535 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1987. Systems ecology, marketing, and quality of life. Pp. 112-128 in A. C. Samli (ed.), Marketing and quality-of-life interface. Quorum Books, New York. xviii + 348 pp.

Sirgy, M. J. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1987. System objectives: Dimensions and determinants. In D. Randell and M. Joseph Sirgy (eds.), System Research and Management. Proceedings of the Southeastern Conference of the Society for General Systems Research, St. Louis.

Sirgy, M. J., R. H. Giles, Jr., and B. Knuth. 1987. A systems model for unifying quality-of-life research. In D. Randell and M. Joseph Sirgy (eds.), System research and management. Proceedings of the Southeastern Conference of the Society for General Systems Research, St. Louis.

Diamond, S. J. and R. H. Giles, Jr. 1987. A vegetational history of Virginia's Ridge and Valley province. Quart. Bul. Arch. Soc. of Virginia. 42(4):177-187.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1988. Wildlife 01 and 02, micro-computer diskettes available from the author, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, VPI and SU, Blacksburg, Va. 24061.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and M. S. Fujita. 1989. Computer applications for wildlife management in national parks and protected areas. International Conf. on Parks and Protected Areas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16 p.

Giles, R. H., Jr., and L. A. Nielsen. 1990. A new focus for wildlife resource managers. J. For. 88(3):21-26.

Giles, R. H., Jr. and W. Dean. 1990. A wildlife management plan for the proposed Haysi Reservoir Project area: A Final Report to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. VPI and SU, Blacksburg, VA. 127 pp.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1990. Reflections on what actions to take. Human Dimension in Wildlife Newsletter 9(2):15-18.

Giles, R. H., Jr. 1990. A computer-aided prescription system for wildlife-management and related areas. Proc. Conf. on Applications of Geographic Information Systems, Simulation Models, and Knowledge