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Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup Jan 1982

Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup

The Bridge

Very few Danish immigrants who came to the United States just prior to and immediately following the beginning of the Twentieth Century were acquainted with the English language. Immigrants of every ethnic group have countless tales, some comic and some rather serious, of the difficulties which befell them. Years after their arrival, most of them could regale themselve at length with stories of misinterpretations and the blending of language from their own experiences. A good sense of humor carried most of them through. Others succumbed to a nostalgia which drove them back to the homeland. Still others, who might have …

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Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn Jan 1982

Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn

The Bridge

A jackrabbit was sunning himself on a rock in the warm March sun, stretched out and went to sleep. Suddenly a noise awakened him and he jumped quickly away at right angles to where the noise had originated. From a safe distance he stopped, sat up to see what had disturbed his siesta, wiggling his ears and nose as he watched another of those strange creatures going by his sunning rock. What were they? They had been passing in increasing numbers, and had actually made parallel tracks right by his rock!

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Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer Jan 1982

Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer

The Bridge

Niels Andreas Kierkegaard, born April 13, 1809, was apparently destined by his father, a merchant in Copenhagen, to take over the family business. His two brothers were top students in the University-bound curriculum, but Niels was steered into business. Dissatisfaction with the course his life was taking and frustration with parental pressure led him in 1832 to seek advance payment on his inheritance and to emigrate to America, where he by no means lived the life of a prodigal son . In letters to his family, the first one from Providence, Rhode Island, and dated January 8, 1833, he told …

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Contributors Jan 1982

Contributors

The Bridge

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A Sampler, Carl Hansen Jan 1982

A Sampler, Carl Hansen

The Bridge

Note: Seventy years after his death the Danish-born writer Carl Hansen (1860-1916) remains, among those who read Danish, a highly valued interpreter of the immigrant experience in the United States. Hansen was the subject of two articles in earlier issue (Vol. 2:1, 1979) of The Bridge. His short stories and one novel are together a landmark in the American literature written in Danish , but the books have become inaccessible to many and, as to language, closed to a large audience who would appreciate his ability to sketch Danish-American personalities and lives. In Tyler, Minnesota, where he lived until 1910, …

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"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen Jan 1982

"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen

The Bridge

"The mental alertness and spiritual hunger of the Apostle Paul shine through the words of his request to his young friend Timothy. The business of our Danish Lutheran Publishing House is founded on that, and on our Lord 's command to His Church to bring the Gospel to every nation . . . Its business is not to make money, but to do the printing of the Church. Its success or failure is to be measured not by the figures in its "profits" or "losses" columns, but in the volume or extent of its distribution of Christian books and other …

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The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong Jan 1982

The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong

The Bridge

My first reaction to our son's Danish school teacher was one of dismay, for I was still under the dismal domination of the American veneration of youthiness. Somehow the keen, kind blue eyes and the lean, lithe body of the grey-haired gentleman who rose at his elevated desk to greet me when I entered the school room, accompanied by my wretched, reluctant, rebellious, ready-to-bolt nine year old, did not tranquilize the depressing discovery that the teacher Theodore was to have his first year in a foreign school was an old man - at least sixty!

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A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen Jan 1982

A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen

The Bridge

In 1920 the Danish immigrant Niels Jensen Blagen looked back on his long, vigorous life, fifty years of which had been spent in the United States, and composed the autobiographical sketch which follows . Perhaps it was characteristic of N. J. Blagen that, as a man of action, he did not spend more time than he did recounting his remarkable career as a builder and lumberman in the Pacific Northwest. In an English that sometimes betrays through unusual phrasing the writer's foreign origin, Blagen takes the reader from 1850 and Rabylille on the island of M0n to 1920 and Portland, …

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The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt Jan 1982

The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt

The Bridge

On July 3, 1982, Det Danske Udvandrerarkiv in Aalborg will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and look back on an existence marked by great difficulties. During critical times, in fact, its continued existence often seemed in doubt.

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Full Issue Jan 1982

Full Issue

The Bridge

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Notes On The Reproductive Biology Of Zigadenus Paniculatus, A Toxic Range Plant, V. J. Tepedino Dec 1981

Notes On The Reproductive Biology Of Zigadenus Paniculatus, A Toxic Range Plant, V. J. Tepedino

Great Basin Naturalist

Zigadenus paniculatus is a toxic plant common on sagebrush foothills at middle elevations in the western United States. Plants produce several racemes from a single stalk. Flowering commences at the base of each raceme and proceeds upwards. The terminal raceme begins blooming first and is followed by lower racemes in sequential order. Flowers are markedly protandrous and incapable of autogamy. Observations do not support the idea that apomixis is a viable reproductive strategy. Plants are mostly self-incompatible; a few seeds were produced from geitonogamous hand pollinations. The pollen/ovule ratio was high, also suggesting outcrossing as the predominant mode of sexual …

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A Note On The Food Of Callibaetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae), C. E. Cushing, R. T. Rader Dec 1981

A Note On The Food Of Callibaetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae), C. E. Cushing, R. T. Rader

Great Basin Naturalist

Callibaetis nymphs in Rattlesnake Springs, Hanford Reservation, Washington, feed almost exclusively on fine particulate organic matter (FPOM) collected from the stream bottom.

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Summer Food Habits Of Coyotes In Central Wyoming, Joseph Tucker Springer, J. Steven Smith Dec 1981

Summer Food Habits Of Coyotes In Central Wyoming, Joseph Tucker Springer, J. Steven Smith

Great Basin Naturalist

Summer food habits of coyotes (Canis latrans) were investigated on a 3100-km2 area in central Wyoming, divided into one deer-use area and five non-deer areas. Analysis of 404 scats (fecal samples) revealed an overall average of 63 percent occurrence of native ungulates, 63 percent leporids, 46 percent rodents, 14 percent livestock, and 11 percent birds. Pronghorn (Antilocapra Americana) was the ungulate most frequently consumed, occurring in about 87 percent of the scats. Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) occurred in only 8 percent, and in 5 percent the native ungulate remains were not identifiable beyond …

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Bald Eagle Winter Survey In The Snake River Canyon, Wyoming, Art H. Korhel, Tim W. Clark Dec 1981

Bald Eagle Winter Survey In The Snake River Canyon, Wyoming, Art H. Korhel, Tim W. Clark

Great Basin Naturalist

A 5-year winter Bald Eagle survey was conducted along 22 km of the Snake River Canyon in northwestern Wyoming. Surveys were done on 94 days requiring 1,414 hrs and 1,888 km driving. In all, 220 (85 percent adults) Bald Eagles were seen. Seventy-seven percent of all eagles were perching, 15 percent were flying, 4 percent were feeding on road-killed mule deer, and 4 percent were flying low over water. Perching sites were identified as 32 percent cottonwoods, 30 percent spruce, 17 percent Douglas-fir, and 22 percent other. Eagles were somewhat clumped in distribution.

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Understory Vegetation In Fully Stocked Pinyon-Juniper Stands, Richard L. Everett, Susan Koniak Dec 1981

Understory Vegetation In Fully Stocked Pinyon-Juniper Stands, Richard L. Everett, Susan Koniak

Great Basin Naturalist

Ten fully stocked pinyon-juniper stands contained a total of 73 species in the understory, but the number of understory species in any one stand was moderately low (x̄ = 20). On each stand, species of at least five different plant groups were present in the understory (shrub, perennial grass, perennial forb, annual grass, or annual forb). A perennial grass, Sandberg bluegrass (Poa sandbergii), and a group of annual forbs with relatively high cover and constancy among stands appeared best adapted to coexist with the pinyon-juniper overstory. The proportion of total plant cover was greater on tree-associated microsites (duff …

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Association Of Rhabdocline Needle Blight And Epicormic Branching In Douglas-Fir, Ronald M. Lanner, James A. Bryan Dec 1981

Association Of Rhabdocline Needle Blight And Epicormic Branching In Douglas-Fir, Ronald M. Lanner, James A. Bryan

Great Basin Naturalist

In northern Utah, Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) with symptoms of Rhabdocline needle blight had a significantly higher frequency of epicormic branching than did healthy trees. It is not known whether Rhabdocline infection stimulates epicormy, or whether the proliferation of epicormics increases resistance to the disease.

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Feeding Interrelations Of Native Fishes In A Sonoran Desert Stream, Donald C. Schreiber, W. L. Minckley Dec 1981

Feeding Interrelations Of Native Fishes In A Sonoran Desert Stream, Donald C. Schreiber, W. L. Minckley

Great Basin Naturalist

Native fishes in Aravaipa Creek, Arizona, cropped foods proportional to abundance of those foods within the system. Ephemeropteran nymphs and adults comprised the major prey of 5 of 7 fishes (Gila robusta, Meda fulgida, Rhinichthys osculus, Tiaroga cobitis, and Catostomus insignis). The omnivorous Agosia chrysogaster ate almost as many nymphal mayflies as did the carnivores. Pantosteus clarki was herbivorous, taking animals only when they were abundant. When ephemeropterans decreased in abundance, a shift by some fish species occurred to other locally or seasonally abundant items. Other fishes continued to feed upon the same foods throughout the year. Abundance …

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Range Extension Of Helianthus Spp. (Asteraceae) In Arizona And Utah, Gerald J. Seiler, Luka Cuk Dec 1981

Range Extension Of Helianthus Spp. (Asteraceae) In Arizona And Utah, Gerald J. Seiler, Luka Cuk

Great Basin Naturalist

Two populations of Helianthus niveus (Benth.) Brandegee ssp. canescens (A. Gray) Heiser were discovered in northern Arizona extending the range 300 miles north for this species. Helianthus deserticola Heiser range was extended 100 miles east in both Arizona and Utah.

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Length Of Western Tent Caterpillar Egg Masses And Diameter Of Their Associated Stems, J. M. Schmid, P. A. Farrar, I. Ragenovich Dec 1981

Length Of Western Tent Caterpillar Egg Masses And Diameter Of Their Associated Stems, J. M. Schmid, P. A. Farrar, I. Ragenovich

Great Basin Naturalist

Stems bearing egg masses of the western tent caterpillar (Malacosoma californicum), collected in Arizona and northern New Mexico during 1977–1980, had mean diameters between 2.9 and 4 mm. Mean lengths of the egg masses were consistently between 11 and 14 mm.

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Species Composition And Relative Abundance Of Adult Fish In Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Steven Vigg Dec 1981

Species Composition And Relative Abundance Of Adult Fish In Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Steven Vigg

Great Basin Naturalist

Pyramid Lake fish populations were sampled with nets on a monthly basis from November 1975 through December 1977. Fish species were taken in the following order of numerical relative abundance: tui chub (Gila bicolor), Tahoe sucker (Catostomus tahoensis), Lahontan cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki henshawi) including cutthroat-rainbow hybrids, cui-ui (Chasmistes cujus), and Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus). Relative abundance estimates are discussed with respect to seasonal availability, spatial distribution of the fish, sampling bias of the fishing methods, and biomass of the fish. Recent temporal trends in the population structure of the …

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History And Status Of The Franklin's Gull On Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, Carroll D. Littlefield, Steven P. Thompson Dec 1981

History And Status Of The Franklin's Gull On Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, Carroll D. Littlefield, Steven P. Thompson

Great Basin Naturalist

Franklin's Gulls first arrived in southeast Oregon in 1943, but the first nest was not located until 1948. From 1949 to 1964 gull numbers showed annual fluctuations. An increase began in 1965 and continued through 1980. By 1980 an estimated 2500 Franklin's Gulls were nesting on Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon. The species arrives in April and nesting begins by 1 June. Average nest and egg measurements were similar to those from other areas within the species range.

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Microenvironment And Nest Site Selection By Ring-Necked Pheasants In Utah, Alan K. Wood, Jack D. Brotherson Dec 1981

Microenvironment And Nest Site Selection By Ring-Necked Pheasants In Utah, Alan K. Wood, Jack D. Brotherson

Great Basin Naturalist

Vegetative and atmospheric parameters were evaluated at 16 different nest sites of ring-necked pheasants in Utah County, Utah, to determine which parameters are influential in the nest site selection process. These data indicate that total vegetative ground cover, high amounts of cover immediately surrounding the nest cavity, and drying power of the air are the parameters most influential in nest site selection.

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Electrophoresis Of Isoenzymes Of 16 Western Shrubs: Technique Development, R. L. Leonard, E. D. Mcarthur, D. J. Weber, B. W. Wood Dec 1981

Electrophoresis Of Isoenzymes Of 16 Western Shrubs: Technique Development, R. L. Leonard, E. D. Mcarthur, D. J. Weber, B. W. Wood

Great Basin Naturalist

Wildland shrubs have gained considerable attention in recent years due to increasing recognition of their values as animal feed, as wildlife habitat, and for land reclamation. Better management of the shrub resource will be possible through clearer taxonomic identification and better understanding of phylogenetic relationships. This study applied polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and further developed this technique to address genetic relationships among 16 paired shrub species (genera: Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, Atriplex, Ceratoides, Sarcobatus, Purshia, Cowania, and Cercocarpus [Compositae, Chenopodiaceae, Rosaceae]). Cluster analysis of similarity values for total protein and 14 isoenzyme systems gave patterns of species relationships expected from classical morphological grounds …

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Nest Of Formica Propinqua (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), George C. Wheeler, Jeanette Wheeler Dec 1981

Nest Of Formica Propinqua (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), George C. Wheeler, Jeanette Wheeler

Great Basin Naturalist

The nest of the ant Formica propinqua W. M. Wheeler is reported from Washoe Co., Nevada.

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End Matter, Vol. 41 No. 4 Dec 1981

End Matter, Vol. 41 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

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Subaerial Algae Of Navajo National Monument, Arizona, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth, Jack D. Brotherson Dec 1981

Subaerial Algae Of Navajo National Monument, Arizona, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Samuel R. Rushforth, Jack D. Brotherson

Great Basin Naturalist

Samples from soils and other xeric substrates in Navajo National Monument, Navajo County, Arizona, were collected in 1978. After being moistened with deionized water for three days, these samples were analyzed for algae. Thirty algal taxa were identified. Five species of filamentous Cyanophyta comprised the majority of the biomass. Diatoms were ubiquitous in the soils although low in density. Diatom floras were very similar throughout the monument. Well-developed algal crusts were common in sites where grazing and excessive litter were absent.

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Front Matter, Vol. 41 No. 4 Dec 1981

Front Matter, Vol. 41 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

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Ophiotaenia Critica (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), A Parasite Of The Colorado River Squawfish, Mbida Mpoame, E. James Landers Dec 1981

Ophiotaenia Critica (Cestoda: Proteocephalidae), A Parasite Of The Colorado River Squawfish, Mbida Mpoame, E. James Landers

Great Basin Naturalist

A total of 19 cestodes, Ophiotaenia sp., were recovered by deworming from adult Colorado River Squawfish (Pteichocheilius licius) maintained at the U.S. National Fish Hatchery at Willow Beach, Arizona. These specimens differ from other described species and are named Ophiotaenia critica.

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Full Issue, Vol. 41 No. 4 Dec 1981

Full Issue, Vol. 41 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

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Index [And Table Of Contents] To Volume 41 Dec 1981

Index [And Table Of Contents] To Volume 41

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

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