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Community Dreaming In The Rural Northwest The Montana Study, 1944-47, Philip J. Nelson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 28 April 1944, three intellectuals, each representing the views of different regions of the country, met in Chicago and laid the basis for an experimental program in adult education and community outreach. Ernest Melby, the newly appointed chancellor of the University of Montana system of higher education, Baker Brownell, a respected Northwestern University philosophy professor and leading advocate of the small community, and David Stevens, head of the Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation agreed on the shape of a community action project that would later be called the Montana Study. They brought together the concerns and needs of …

Title And Contents- Winter 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Quarterly

Volume 19/ Number 1 / Winter 1999

Contents

The Death Of Edward Mcmurty

Litigation, Mitigation, And The American Indian Religious Freedom Act: The Bear Butte Example

Literacy Practices At The Genoa Industrial Indian School

Book Reviews

Notes And News

Multilife Premium Calculation With Dependent Future Lifetimes, Michel Denuit, Anne Cornet

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

Actuaries traditionally have calculated multi-life (joint life) premiums by assuming the independence of the future lifetimes of insured persons. Recent studies, however, demonstrate dependence of the future lifetimes of couples (such as husbands and wives). This dependence materially affects the values of multi-life annuities and insurances. Using the Frechet-Hoeffding bounds and Norberg's Markov model, we determine the effect of this dependence in lifetimes on the actuarial present values of a widow's pension benefit.

Late Prehistoric High Plains Foragers: Starving Nomads, Affluent Foragers?, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Past human groups of the High Plains have been variously characterized as starving nomads and affluent foragers. In fact, these terms do not capture the multi-faceted nature of the human foraging experience on the High Plains. Relying on human ecology and archaeological interpretations, this paper examines the coping strategies used by Late Prehistoric foragers in the high variance environment of the High Plains, which was relatively less variable during the early part of the Late Prehistoric time period and more variable in the later part.

From Chiefly Provisioning To Commercial Fishery: Long-Term Economic Change In Arctic Norway, Sophia Perdikaris

School of Global Integrative Studies: Faculty Publications

Stratified farm mounds with excellent organic preservation in the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands in Arctic Norway provide a long-term record of changing human use of fish. In Arctic Norway, zooarchaeological signatures of intensive dried fish production extend back into the Iron Age, indicating a substantial role for cured cod prior to the beginning of the historical stockfish trade in c. AD 1200. North Norwegian chieftains of the late Iron Age and Viking periods clearly disposed of substantial staple surpluses of stockfish as well as the better documented prestige goods (furs and ivory). A comparative study of substantial collections spanning the …

2018 Nebraska Water Leaders Academy - Final Report, Mark E. Burbach

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Nineteen participants completed the 2018 Water Leaders Academy bringing the total number of graduates to 120 since the inception of the program in 2011. Assessment of participants’ transformational leadership skills, champion of innovation skills, water knowledge and engagement, civic capacity, and entrepreneurial leadership behaviors showed a significant increase over the course of the year, from both participants’ and their raters’ perspectives. Feedback from participants was highly positive and constructive. Participant concerns were addressed, and only minor changes are planned for the 2019 Academy curriculum. Results of the program assessment indicate that the curriculum is meeting Academy objectives. Most importantly, Alumni …

A Comparison Of Wildlife Control And Cattle Vaccination As Methods For The Control Of Bovine Tuberculosis, R. R. Kao, M. G. Roberts

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

The Australian brushtail possum is the major source of infection for new cases of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in New Zealand. Using hypothetical values for the cost of putative cattle and possum Tb vaccines, the relative efforts required to eradicate Tb in cattle using possum culling, possum vaccination or cattle vaccination are compared. For realistic assumed costs for 1080 poison bait, possum culling is found to be a cost-effective strategy compared to cattle vaccination if the required control area is below 13 ha per cattle herd, while possum vaccination is cost-effective for control areas of less than 3 ha per …

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Winter 1999

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

Everything is Connected to Everything Else - Dave Gosselin, NESEN Director

Encouraging Girls in the Sciences

1999 Summer Workshops - Join us in July!

"Why Did the Chicken Change the Climate ... ?" July 7-8th

"Virtual Nebraska-A New View" July 12-13th

"The 'Dirt' on Soil" July 14-15th

Students and Teachers Exchanging Data, Information and Ideas (STEDII)

NESEN Lending Library

The POSSE's on the Trail

EarthComm Reunion - March 19th & 20th

Earth Science on the Internet

Journey to Planet Earth to Premier on PBS

Now Available from the Earth Science Information Center

Isolates Of Uromyces Appendiculatus With Specific Virulence To Landraces Of Phaseolus Vulgaris Of Andean Origin, Craig M. Sandlin, James R. Steadman, Carlos M. Araya, Dermot P. Coyne

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Five isolates of the bean rust fungus Uromyces appendiculatus were shown to be specifically virulent on bean genotypes of Andean origin. This specificity was demonstrated by the virulence of five pairs of isolates on a differential set of 30 Phaseolus vulgaris landraces. Each isolate pair was from a different country in the Americas and consisted of one Andean-specific isolate and one nonspecific isolate. Of the differential P. vulgaris landraces, 15 were of Middle American origin and 15 were of Andean origin. The Andean-specific rust isolates were highly virulent on Andean landraces but not on landraces of Middle American origin. …

Archival Orientation Interviews As Social Interactions, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

For social scientists, every orientation interview is inherently an opportunity for systematic observation, analysis, and critique. Consider, by way of contrast, a hypothetical committee of mathematicians who visit archival repositories searching for documentary materials to display during the upcoming centennial celebration of the Mathematics Department at their home university. As mathematicians, orientation interviews are simply means to their pragmatic ends. For social scientists, however, especially for qualitative sociologists such as myself (Hill 1993), the situation is more complex. For some of us, every social interaction is potentially a source of sociological insight (Deegan and Hill 1987). Thus, every orientation interview …

Tertiary Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) From Northern Nebraska, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Bruce E. Bailey, Richard G. Corner

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Scarce remains of bats are reported from five localities in northern Nebraska in which other kinds of vertebrates are much more common. ?Oligomyotis or ?Myotis, possibly of an undescribed species, is represented by fragments of jaws and humeri from an early Arikareean (late Oligocene) locality in Dawes County. Several toothless jaw fragments from the late Hemingfordian (middle Miocene) Companion Quarry in Sioux County represent an indeterminate microchiropteran. An indeterminate species of Myotis was encountered in the middle Clarendonian (late Miocene) Ashfall site in Antelope County. A hairy-tailed bat, Lasiurus sp. indet., occurred in late Clarendonian (late Miocene) …

Protecting Communication Departments: Reflections On The Nebraska Experience, Ronald Lee, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Eight years ago, in the first week of the 1991 fall semester, the Acting Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs announced a series of vertical budget cuts that included the elimination of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s department of Speech Communication (now Communication Studies). Over the next seven months the department fought against the proposed action. In March 1992, the Budget Reduction Review Committee voted against the Vice Chancellor’s recommendation. Later in the month, the Academic Planning Committee also voted to rescind the budget cutting measure.

These actions ended the battle and assured the continuation of the department. In an earlier …

Experimental Infections Of Muskoxen (Ovibos Moschatus) And Domestic Sheep With Umingmakstrongylus Pallikuukensis (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae): Parasite Development, Population Structure, And Pathology, Susan J. Kutz, Eric P. Hoberg, Lydden Polley

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Three captive muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) were successfully infected with third-stage larvae of Umingmakstrongylus pallikuukensis digested or emerged from the slugs Deroceras reticulatum and D. laeve, for the first time completing the life cycle of this parasite under experimental conditions. The course of parasite development and patency was followed for 26 months post infection (p.i.) using fecal examinations and radiography. The prepatent periods in two of the muskoxen were 91 and 95 days and the patent period in one extended for 23 months. Larval production peaked 13–14 months p.i. On postmortem of two of the muskoxen at months …

Octamer-Based Genome Scanning Distinguishes A Unique Subpopulation Of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Strains In Cattle, Jaehyoung Kim, Andrew K. Benson

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

Multilocus-genotyping methods have shown that Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a geographically disseminated clone. However, highresolution methods such as pulse-field gel electrophoresis demonstrate significant genomic diversity among different isolates. To assess the genetic relationship of human and bovine isolates of E. coli O157:H7 in detail, we have developed an octamer-based genome-scanning methodology, which compares the distance between over-represented, strand-biased octamers that occur in the genome. Comparison of octamer-based genome-scanning products derived from >1 megabase of the genome demonstrated the existence of two distinct lineages of E. coli O157:H7 that are disseminated within the United States. Human and bovine isolates are nonrandomly …

A Memorial For William V. Sliter, Robert G. Douglas, Jere H. Lipps, James C. Ingle Jr., John Barron

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

William V. (Bill) Sliter, an internationally known micropaleontologist and research geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, passed away suddenly, October, 1997, while talking to a colleague in his office. In his honor, B. Huber, T. Bralower, and M. Leckie organized a keynote symposium ‘‘Paleoecological and Geochemical Signatures of Cretaceous Anoxic Events’’ at the 1998 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Toronto, Canada. This theme issue of the Journal of Foraminiferal Research contains the published papers from the symposium and is dedicated to his memory.

Pod Network News, December 1998

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

President's Column

Time for Applause!

Carnegie Teaching Academy

Regional Association Overviews and News

Office Established

IJAD Editorial Board

TIA Review Team

Member News

Future Newsletter Items

Ways to Contact POD

Touring Colonial America: Review Of Edward Kimber, Itinerant Observation In America, Ed. Kevin J. Hayes., Darin E. Fields

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Traveling to the colonies in 1742 at age twenty-three, young Edward Kimber embarked on what was no doubt the adventure of his life. Son of Isaac Kimber, editor of the London Magazine from 1732 to 1755, Edward had grown up around the publishing industry and was keenly aware of the public appetite for reading material. Like nearly all literate travelers of his day, but perhaps more aware than many that his travels in the colonies would furnish material for later publication, Kimber dutifully kept a journal record of his observations and experiences. His American adventure yielded literary fruit from 1743 …

Water Current, Volume 30, No. 6, December 1998

Water Current Newsletter

Additional Research Shows Promise for Buffer Strips
From the Director: Testing Your Drinking Water; Drinking Water Tabloid Suggestions; USGS RFPs
Planning Nebraska's Water Future
Where Do You Get Your Water From?
Recycling Program Collects 49 Tons of Plastic
Lingle Earns Extension Wildlife Award
Laundry Disk ClaimsDon't Hold Water
Seminars Spotlight Latest in Water Research
Nation's Water Use Down, USGS Says
Water News Briefs
Agronomy Society Lauds Website
Free Wetlands Tabloid
Franti Earns Research Award
Looking for Ideas
Ben Nelson Service Award
Great Plains Research Articles
Assessing the Impact of Waste Lagoons on Groundwater

Cattle, Environment, And Economic Change: A History Of Cherry County, Nebraska’S Cattle Industry, From Earliest Times To 1940, Gail Lorna Didonato

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A modern cattle industry in Cherry County, Nebraska, developed as challenges of land use and pressures of economic change demanded new and flexible adaptation to the unique environment. Located in the Sandhills, a region only opened to legal white settlement after Indian removal in 1878, the area passed through phases of occupation. Open-range cattlemen drawn by lucrative local markets gave way to struggles over land use between farmers and ranchers. Early twentieth century legislation, the 1904 Kinkaid Act, designed to promote farm settlement, in the end, benefited ranchers the most. As the wedge to gain legal access to land ownership, …

Apostatic Selection By Blue Jays Produces Balanced Polymorphism In Virtual Prey, Alan B. Bond, Alan Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Apostatic selection, in which predators overlook rare prey types while consuming an excess of abundant ones, has been assumed to contribute to the maintenance of prey polymorphisms. Such an effect requires predators to respond to changes in the relative abundance of prey, switching to alternatives when a focal prey type becomes less common. Apostatic selection has often been investigated using fixed relative proportions of prey, but its effects on predator–prey dynamics have been difficult to demonstrate. Here we report results from a new technique that incorporates computer-generated displays into an established experimental system, that of blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata …

The Probe, Issue 193 – October 1998

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Recollections, 1966-1996 -- James E. Forbes, Past President, NADCA
Giles Resigns as NADCA President
Executive Committee to Appoint President
Call for Papers: 14th Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Conference; Theme: "Solving Conflicts between People and Exotic Wildlife"
Book Reviews: 'The Humane Approach to Living with Wildlife", Edited by John Hadidian, Guy Hodge, and John W. Grandy, Humane Society of the United States. Fulcrum Press, 1997. 255 pags with indices. $16.95 Softcover.
Review by Stephen Vantassel, NWCO Correspondent
Review by Gregory A. Giusti, Forest & Wildlands Advisor, Cooperative Extension, University of California

Persian Gulf Sea Surface Temperature As A Drought Diagnostic For Southern Iran, M. Jafar Nasemosadat

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

The Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, situated over the northwestern extremity of the tropical Indian Ocean, make up the southern border of Iran (Figure 1). During hot seasons, the sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of these water bodies are high, and a huge thermal trough system is usually dominant over the region (Bitan and Sa’aroni, 1992). The summer SSTs of the Persian Gulf are reported to be the highest in the world (Gabler, 1977).

About 30% of the total rain-bearing air masses coming to the country originate in north Africa, the Red Sea, and western Saudi Arabia (Khalili, 1992). These air …

Great Plains Research, Fall 1998 - Annual Index

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual index

Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Southwestern Kansas, Douglas G. Goodin, John A. Harrington, Jr., Gerold I. Holden, Jr., Brian Witcher

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Recent international agreements for controlling emissions of greenhouse gases have focused the attention of both the climate research and policy communities on strategies for reducing the production and emission of these radiatively active substances. Most approaches have adopted a "top down" perspective, where mitigation strategies are framed at the level of national governments. However, emissions occur at local, rather than national scales. We describe a study aimed at documenting greenhouse gas emissions from a local area in the High Plains of southwestern Kansas that is currently undergoing marked economic change and population increase in response to restructuring of the meat …

Review Of North American Exploration: A Continent Comprehended Edited By John Logan Allen, G. Malcom Lewis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A Continent Comprehended is the final volume in a trilogy on North American exploration that began with the publication in 1997 of A New World Disclosed and continued with A Continent Defined. Disclosure, definition, and comprehension announce a conceptual approach appropriate to furthering the retrospective understanding of geographical exploration at the time of the Columbian Quincentenary, the event the volumes were originally planned to commemorate. Historiographers are unlikely to find much evidence of these or other essentially cognitive concepts in the exploration histories that celebrated the Quadcentenary one hundred years before. Yet here they are, more or less overt, …

Review Of Common Fields: An Environmental History Of St. Louis Edited By Andrew Hurley, Timothy Mahoney

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The thirteen articles in this fine volume make a strong contribution to the intellectual effort to put the environment back into urban history by elevating it from a mere "stage" or "setting" to an active independent variable which shaped the course of urban development. The authors' collective goal is to demonstrate that the residents of St. Louis and its region were engaged in a dynamic interaction with the environment from the origins of human settlement in the area, and that the actions and strategies they undertook to generate urban development were shaped as much by the environment as by their …

Review Of Principles Of Geoarchaeology: A North American Perspective By Michael R. Waters, Rolfe D. Mandel

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

First published in 1992, this book-now in paper-presents the fundamentals of geoarchaeology, the field of study that applies the concepts and methods of the geosciences to archaeological research. Although a number of good books have been written about this subdiscipline of archaeology, Waters restricts his review to late Quaternary landscapes in North America. Furthermore, he limits his discussion to the field aspects of geoarchaeology. Stratigraphy, site formation processes, and landscape reconstruction are the centerpieces of this study. Readers looking for information about laboratory methods, dating techniques, or the application of geophysics and geochemistry to archaeology must go to other sources. …

The Economic Impact Of Hockey In Saskatchewan: A Rural-Urban Comparison, David Fennell

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Current research suggests that there may be positive local economic benefits associated with holding local sporting and other tourism-related events in communities. This study examined the economic impact of two municipal hockey tournaments, one urban and one rural, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Based on the responses of three geographically-oriented travel groups (Total N=169), an estimated CDN $137,442 was generated by both tournaments; 87% was associated with the larger urban tournament in Saskatoon. However, the smaller rural tournament generated $10,635 revenue in Kamsack and vicinity. Evidence of the direct economic input from tourism should help communities and organizations who …

Grassland Birds And Habitat Structure In Sandhills Prairie Managed Using Cattle Or Bison Plus Fire, Randall Griebel, Stephen L. Winter, Allen Steuter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Grassland birds are known to respond to specific changes in habitat structure, such as plant height and density. However, the response of grassland bird communities to management induced changes in the regional habitat mosaic are less well understood. Grazing by ungulates and fire regimes play an important role in defining the habitat mosaic in the Great Plains. We provide information on bird abundance, distribution, and habitat structure from similar sandhill prairie landscapes managed traditionally with grazing by cattle (Bos taurus) and by a dynamic bison (Bos bison)-plus-fire regime. Although the two management regimes are dissimilar, only …

Review Of Wallace Stegner: His Life And Work By Jackson J. Benson, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When he died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in April of 1993, Wallace Stegner left a list of eight writing projects he had yet to do pinned above his desk, awaiting his return. Noting this fact toward the end of this thorough biography, Benson writes that "Stegner's career as a novelist followed a pattern of lifelong growth, reaching its zenith near the end." He was, his biographer says, "simply, by far, the brightest man I've ever known," and ultimately Benson concludes that "Perhaps Wallace Stegner's greatest creation was himself-a good man who always did the best he could. …