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The Platte River Ecology Study: Special Research Report', Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
The Platte River Ecology Study: Special Research Report', Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Each spring about 80%of the sandhill cranes in North America stop for several weeks in the Platte and North Platte River Valleys of Nebraska while en route to breeding grounds in Canada, Alaska, and the Soviet Union. This concentration of cranes is unparalleled in North America and these sites represent the principal spring staging areas for the midcontinent population. Large numbers of waterfowl, numerous bald eagles, whooping cranes, and many other species also use the area.
Recent changes in habitat conditions along the Platte and North Platte Rivers have prompted concern for the welfare of sandhill cranes and other migratory …
Review Of Deserts On The March By Paul B. Sears, R. Douglas Hurt
Review Of Deserts On The March By Paul B. Sears, R. Douglas Hurt
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1935, the worst Dust Bowl year, Paul B. Sears, then professor of botany at the University of Oklahoma, published Deserts on the March, a succinctly written book that directed public attention toward the growing menace of soil erosion in the United States. By 1980, Deserts on the March had become a classic ecological study; it is currently in the tenth printing and fourth edition. Sears, now retired from his position of chairman of the conservation program at Yale University, has rewritten much of the original text, but his message is the same today as it was nearly fifty …