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Review Of The Proper Edge Of The Sky: The High Plateau Country Of Utah By Edward A. Geary, John A. Butler

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

Near the end of his introduction, Edward A. Geary states that "the pages that follow are neither guidebook, nor travel narrative, nor natural history, nor social history, nor literary history, nor personal essay, though they incorporate elements from all these genres" (p. 3). While the work does challenge classification, it presents a massive accumulation of details that vividly portrays the interaction between an extraordinary landscape and a remarkable people. Geary accomplishes this through twelve intriguing chapters.

A Review Of White-Tailed Deer Movements In The Great Plains Relative To Environmental Conditions, Kurt C. Vercauteren, Scott E. Hygnstrom

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

Movements of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus Rafinesque) in the eastern Great Plains and Midwest were examined. The proportion of deer that move between distinct summer and winter home ranges varies among different populations. Seasonal migration between home ranges is influenced primarily by phenological period, agricultural activities, and the availability of cover and food. Corn provides a nearly unlimited source of cover and food in summer and early fall. In late fall and early winter, deer move to areas of permanent cover, such as wooded river bottoms, draws, or slopes. Hunting, crop harvest, or seasonal change may influence deer movements …

Sensitivity Of Streamflow To Climate Change: A Case Study For Nebraska, Clinton M. Rowe, Karl C. Kuivinen, Francisco Flores-Mendeza

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

Climate change, whether natural or due to human action, will have an impact on many aspects of our environment. The nature of streamflow changes will depend on the magnitude and direction of the climate change. However, since the principal climatic factors that control streamflow are precipitation and evapotranspiration (which can be estimated from air temperature data), the sensitivity ofstreamflow to variations in climate can be studied through the use of plausible scenarios of climate change.

A simple water budget model was used to reconstruct streamflow from monthly temperature and precipitation data for locations within and immediately surrounding the Little Blue …

Quantifying The Effect Of Technology And Management On Wheat Yields In The Western Great Plains, Elizabeth Law-Evans, Paul A. Kay

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

The relative influences of interannual climate variability, technological development, and management strategies on crop yields are difficult to separate. Assessment of climate impacts and of an agricultural system s ability to protect crops from weather-related yield changes are important questions receiving considerable attention in view of the potential for climate change. Statistical and ecological crop-climate studies have assumed that the combined effects of technology and management have produced linear or exponential yield increases in most crops in recent years.

In this study, an empirical assessment of influences of management and technology on wheat yields in north-central Colorado was made using …

Review Of Symposium On The Impacts Of Climatic Change And Variability On The Great Plains By Geoffrey Wall, Paul A. Kay

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

This book collects the papers from a 1990 symposium in Calgary that brought American and Canadian experts together to share knowledge and insights on the regional implications of global change. The symposium was sponsored by government agencies on both sides of the border, attesting to the recognition of the importance of the issues and implications. The volume opens with nine overview papers on climatic change, climate models, scenarios of international and Plains agriculture under climatic change, socioeconomic adaptability, and response strategies. The following six topical sections each contain five or six brief papers (most with short bibliographies) by specialists. Introductory …

Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 1, February 1994

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

Contents:

Articles

Book Reports

News and Notes

Inherited Morphologies Of Two Large Basins In Clay County, Nebraska, Mark S. Kuzila

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

The Rainbasin area of south-central Nebraska is an important component of the central flyway of migratory waterfowl. Little is known or has been reported about the morphology of large basins in the Rainbasin. A subsurface investigation was conducted to determine the morphology of two basins in Clay County, Nebraska. Transects were located across two sample areas, and seventeen test holes were drilled to determine loess thickness and stratigraphy. Radiocarbon dates were obtained from buried paleosols. The modern basin landscape was determined to be a direct result of 2.5 to 8 m of loess deposition on an older basin landscape. The …

Water Current, Volume 26, No. 1, February 1994

Water Current Newsletter

UWIN Offers Forum for Water Information
Sixth Annual Festival Set for March
Register Now for Conference
From the Director
High Plains Groundwater as a Sustainable Resource
Nitrogen Conference Proceedings Available
Tropical Water Center Set Up
Brochure Describes Water Laboratory
Water Focus of Interest
High School Primer Out
National Fellowships Available in Water Sciences
Valmont Offers Grants
Symphony to Add New Note to Children's Groundwater Festival
National Forum Participants to Visit Festival
Water, Drought Management Focus of Western Conference

Acuta Enews January 1994, Vol. 23, No. 1

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Board Report

Presidents message

FCC proposes regulations for toll fraud

Cruising he information superhighway

21st century technology

Environments Of Aeolian Deposition In South-Central Nebraska During The Last Glacial Maximum, Zhao-Dong Feng, William C. Johnson, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

The Peoria loess of south-central Nebraska, deposited approximately during the last Glacial Maximum, can be subdivided into three zones: an upper laminated loess and a lower massive loess, separated by a dark gley zone in which bison bones and spruce charcoal are found. The lower Peoria unit is characterized by high organic matter content, relatively high bulk density, and common root channels. The upper Peoria unit has rhythmic patterns of two orders: strongly gleyed and weakly gleyed zones alternating in couplets about 2-5 m thick, and coarse- and fine-grained laminae of second order, about 2-4 mm thick. The strongly gleyed …

Ec94-448 Let's Preserve : Jams, Jellies & Preserves, Julie A. Albrecht

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 94-448-B discuses let's preserve jams, Jellies, and preserves.

H. Albert Hochbaum: A Man Not Forgotten, Jerome R. Serie

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This book is a posthumous collection of essays by Al Hochbaum, compiled and edited by his son George, and is a unique blend of classic literary pose and artistry. It is colorfully illustrated with brilliant photographs by two of the best waterfowl photographers, Jack A. Barrie and Glen D. Chambers. Hochbaum's painting of a canvasback flight over Delta Marsh graces the frontispiece and several of his pen-and-ink sketches are scattered throughout. Both the foreword, by Gene Bossenmaier, and the introduction, by George Hochbaum, pay tribute to Hochbaum' s dedication to waterfowl, his immense talents, and a lifetime of accomplishment. Hans …

Crowned Sparrows, Jerry Clark, Scott E. Hygnstrom

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) are distinguished by their pink or yellowish bill, erect posture, gray throat and breast, and prominent crown streaked with black and white. Geographic races, including the mountain (Z. l. oriantha), Gambel’s (Z. l. gambelii), Nuttall’s (Z. l. nuttalli), and Puget Sound white-crowned sparrow (Z. l. pugetensis) show minor differences in head pattern, bill color, and song. Their songs vary geographically, but consist primarily of clear whistles. White-crowned sparrows are abundant in the western United States. They breed primarily …

Geochemical Evidence Of Saharan Dust Parent Material For Soils Developed On Quaternary Limestones Of Caribbean And Western Atlantic Islands, Daniel R. Muhs, Charles A. Bush, Kathleen C. Stewart, Tracy R. Rowland, Russell C. Crittenden

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Most previous workers have regarded the insoluble residues of high-purity Quatemary limestones (coral reefs and oolites) as the most important parent material for well-developed, clay-rich soils on Caribbean and western Atlantic islands, but this genetic mechanism requires unreasonable amounts of limestone solution in Quatemary time. Other possible parent materials from external sources are volcanic ash from the Lesser Antilles island arc and Saharan dust carried across the Atlantic Ocean on the northeast trade winds. Soils on Quatemary coral terraces and carbonate eolianites on Barbados, Jamaica, the Florida Keys (United States), and New Providence Island (Bahamas) were studied to determine which, …

Discussion Of "Textile Transformations And Cultural Continuities In West Africa", Christopher B. Steiner

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

I have divided my discussion of these papers into two parts. First, I would like briefly to address each of the papers individually—highlighting what I find to be some of the most important issues raised by each. And second, I would like to put forth two dichotomies—(1) regarding the relationship between the sacred and the profane, and (2) on the relationship between aesthetic value and commercial value—both of which strike me as critical organizing principles that join these four papers [those of Judith Byfield, Kathleen Bickford, Lisa Aronson, and Elisha Renne and Joanne Eicher in this proceedings] into a coherent …

Paracas Cavernas, Paracas Necroplis, And Ocucaje: Looking At Appropriation And Identity With Only Material Remains, Ann Peters

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Paracas Cavernas, Paracas Necropolis, and Ocucaje are groups of burials made some 2000 years ago on the south coast of Peru. The Peruvian coast is a desert, and textiles, basketry, and other artifacts made from plant fiber and animal fiber and other organic materials are preserved there in ancient tombs. The Andes is known for funerary traditions that emphasize the dressing of the dead, with documented preservation of mummified ancestors or funerary bundles, and in some cases their participation as ancestors in kin group and community ritual.

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It is clear that there are continuing relations of contact, …

Managing The Costs And Risks Of Housing Finance: A New Role For Actuaries, Anthony Asher

Journal of Actuarial Practice (1993–2006)

Housing finance is a nontraditional field where actuarial expertise could be applied fruitfully. The development of mortgage instruments requires the application of financial mathematics, while the evaluation and management of the financial risks to which borrowers and lenders are exposed require a knowledge of insurance principles. This paper splits the financial costs of home ownership into several components: those that arise from inflation, risk, administration, and the residual real interest charge. The risk component further is partitioned into life contingencies, economic contingencies, and various moral hazards. This analysis provides a basis for future financial innovation, highlights where government intervention may …

Admiring Advocate Of The Great Plains: Father Pierre, Jean De Smet, S. J., On The Middle Missouri, Robert Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains fascinated Pierre-Jean De Smet. When describing his favorite haunts in the broad trans-Mississippi West, De Smet's letters bulged with superlatives. He used only grand and eloquent adjectives to describe the celestial peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the spewing geysers in the Yellowstone basin, The Dalles of the Columbia River, and the freeform, contorted rock formations that sprawled across the White Cliffs of the upper Missouri River. It was the Great Plains, however, that received from Father De Smet not only some of his most dramatic prose, but also some of his most perceptive comments regarding the future …

Review Of Prince Charming Goes West: The Story Of The E. P. Ranch., Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a history of the E. P. (Edward Prince) Ranch intertwined with a selective biography of H. R. H. Edward Windsor (Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) during the forty.-three years he owned the property. Edward arranged for the purchase of the ranch after a visit to the Pekisko Creek district in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains' front ranges of southern Alberta in 1919. The author discusses Edward's motives for acquiring and retaining the 1440 acres and additional leased land and identifies the evolving management strategies and personnel connected with the ranch. In …

Index To Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If plenary speeches at the Coalition for Western Women's History conference in the summer of 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska, are any indication, the 1990s have begun with an apparent methodological consensus by women's historians: that race and class conflict and cooperation, as well as gender differences, must serve as organizing themes for a genuine history of western women. In Relations of Rescue, Peggy Pascoe, professor of history at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, delivers an excellent model for framing such multicultural research. Her starting point for the history of Protestant missionary women in the late nineteenth …

Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.

Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Members of the legal profession have made useful contributions to our knowledge of the history of western Canada. In Manitoba the writings of Roy St. George Stubbs and Dale Gibson come to mind. To be added to that list is Kirk N. Lambrecht, a practicing attorney from Edmonton, Alberta, who has made an important contribution to the literature on the administration and development of Dominion Lands in the western provinces and northern territories of Canada. After the vast areas of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories were transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada on 15 …

Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him "Mr. Canadian Post.. modern."2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon's formulation, however, …

Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These two highly disparate reference works will amply serve any inquisitor into Kansas history.

A North American Connection: Women In Prairie Novels, Ann Barnard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Canadian poet Eli Mandel has said that the prairie writer is one who points in the direction of the prairie and not necessarily one who always lives there or writes exclusively about that region. Mandel, who suggests that the prairie has as much to do with "state of mind" as with locale and that prairie space is dynamic, cites Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch, among others, as examples of Canadian writers identified with the West who have withdrawn and returned. ¹ In the United States, Willa Cather comes to mind as prototype for Mandel's paradigm, and although her later work …

Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From Zane Grey novels to the television series Rawhide, the cattle-trailing period has always fascinated Americans. Jimmy M. Skaggs presents a very readable account of this brief but very important period in the settlement of the American West. Skaggs an economic historian structures his work as a study of the activities of Great Plains cattle-trailing contractors. First published in 1973 and now reprinted the book also includes information on the establishment of stockyards and commission companies. These were vital to the efficient handling of the tremendous influx of beef cattle being trailed up from Texas following the Civil War.

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …

"Gone Back To Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting The Great Plains, Francis W. Kaye, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Maybe that did it, I thought-maybe that was one of the things that turned me into a writer-my playing [softball] far out in the field. The playing, and the watching that went with it. The listening, out there. The wanting to enter the game while fearing that someone might hit the ball in my direction. The being isolated, out there in the prairie wind and the summer light; my striking up a conversation with a nearby gopher as I watched the pitched ball. . . . The caring so much, so enduringly, for the movements of small creatures, for the …