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Utilization And Land Cover Examined In Two Blue Earth County Streams, Mark Gamm, Robert James Childs

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Examining soil mapping units of the United States Agriculture department's Soil Conservation Service for comparison with land usage In the Blue Earth River valley, this study found that seven of 56 units in the valley accounted for 76.5 percent of the study terrain. Agricultural use or non-use of the land units matched established . designations.

The Le Sueur River flows for about 40 miles within Blue Earth county of south ·central Minnesota. Land cover in the valley, as determined by stereoscopic examination of aerial photographs, shows forest on 65 percent, agriculture on 22 percent, and other cover on 13 percent …

Duck Hunting In Mississippi River Pools: A Geographer's Assessment, Mark Schroeder

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Terrain, ducks, and hunters combine to provide an environment of land, water, and air space above that constitutes a great waterfowl hunting region along the Mississippi River between the mouths of the Black River and Wisconsin River and touching boundaries of three states -Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. The marshes of the floodplain have provided excellent waterfowl habitat, particularly since the 1930's when development of river navigation channels created pools of relatively consistent water level and land conditions. Many types of ducks, with canvasbacks especially numerous, utilize the region during annual migrations. Major highways offer access to the region for hunters, …

Soil Quality And Agricultural Zoning: An Examination Of Conflicts, Darrell Napton

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The most common method used by local governments, to prevent conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses is zoning. An identification of high quality soils may be the most crucial stage in the development of agricultural zoning ordinances. Common soil quality classifications are not adequate in this identification, largely because they do not take local conditions into account. When soil information is used to design zoning ordinances that can withstand litigation, several additional legal criteria must be fulfilled. Four Minnesota county zoning ordinances were examined to determine if soil quality was used as a zoning criterion. Only one of the counties …

Hierarchy, Systems, And Geography, Gerald R. Pitzl

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The concept of hierarchy in geographical studies has been applied primarily to identifications of structure and not process. This limited application is partly due to the omission of the concept in attempts at applying systems theory in geographic studies. Hierarchy as an organizing and integrating concept is an essential element in systems investigations. Several philosophical dichotomies that have hampered holistic geographical research efforts are reviewed, and the concept of hierarchy in process investigations is placed within the wider realm of systems theory. Extension of the integrating nature of geography into authentic interdisciplinary studies is encouraged.

Cemeteries Of South Central Minnesota, James Pyle

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Features of 351 cemeteries in south central Minnesota are described as pervasive, visible points of the cultural landscape. The preferred hilltop location and regular layout and design reflect values and attitudes of early settlers, whose history can be traced through analysis of tombstones. Alternative uses of cemetery land are considered hypothetically, although no changes in land use are anticipated.

On The Concept Of Form In Geographical Studies, Gerald R. Pitzl

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT - The concept of form in its subjective (strictly qualitative) connotations is inappropriate as the organizing principle for geographical investigations. Yet, elements identified as formal (structural/morphological) which are objectively measurable are valid for study and possible integrations toward holistic conclusions. Thus, if the form-function-process approach is to be advanced, the formal segment must be stated in a clearly determinable mode in order to allow integration.

A Finnish Riihi In Minnesota, Matti Kaups

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A Finnish riihi in Minnesota is described and analyzed from the perspectives of form and function. The riihi or the combination grain drying, threshing, and winnowing barn, is one of the several folk architectural forms that immigrants from rural Finland built and used in settling sections of Minnesota. Since most of the log structures erected by the Finns are in a state of decay or already have vanished, it seems pertinent to preserve examples of the transplanted folk heritage in writing, and hopefully, in material form as well.

Postwar Industrial Locations In Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, Roger Prestwich

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The spatial and temporal dynamism of manufacturing industry in a metropolitan area is a vital aspect of urban morphology. The Twin City area is analyzed with respect lo changing overall patterns of industrial location over the time period 1946 to 1967. A centralizing tendency strongly emerged in the early years, but a marked decentralization prevailed later. The city boundary proved to be an economic as well as a political and socio-cultural barrier in terms of plant relocation. Decisions were dominated by space considerations, transportation technology and availability, and zoning regulations. The pattern of suburbanization of manufacturing, which occurred somewhat belatedly …

Cleared Farm Land In Upper Lake States, 1910-1964, John Fraser Hart

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

A cartographic analysis of fluctuations in cleared farm land acreage in each county of the Upper Lake slates al each census between 1910 and 1964 is based on standard deviations from the mean acreage for the county. The smallest relative fluctuations have occurred in counties with the largest percentages of their area in cleared farm land. Peak acreages were attained in most Michigan counties by the time of World War I, but acreages continued to increase in Wisconsin and Minnesota until World War II, and even since that time in some western Minnesota counties.

Some Computer And Isodensitracer Applications In Geography, Avi Degani

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The use of computers in geography has contributed greatly to the improvement of mapping, has offered solutions to cartographic problems, and has introduced new approaches and potentialities to geographic spatial analysis: Three-dimensional maps, especially since automatically produced, provide a great potential for mapping statistical and topographic surfaces, for building solid models, dynamic mapping and simulation. The use of the isodensitracer technique suggests solutions to many traditional cartographic problems and eliminates many errors inherent to the common manual procedure of isoline mapping.

The Challenge Of Historical Geography, Louis Seig

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

As geography changes with the times, traditional techniques, such as historical geography, should be reassessed to insure their relevance. Historical geography is evaluated in terms of definition, use, and prospects. Teaching of the methods of historical geography is advocated to equip students with tools rather than with regional descriptions of historical geographic information .

Decline Of Railroad Passenger Services In Minnesota, Matti Kaups, Kalevi Rikkinen

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Since 1920 there has been an accelerating discontinuance of passenger train service in Minnesota. Railroads first tried to meet competition for passenger services from bus lines, streetcars, and private automobiles by reducing the frequency of schedules and by changing to mixed freight-passenger trains. These steps were followed by discontinuance of passenger services on branch lines or in marginal areas. The Transportation Act of 1958 created conditions favorable to continuance of unprofitable passenger schedules, but curtailment has continued.

This paper is concerned primarily with the declining role of Class I railroads as passenger carriers in the United States, with Minnesota as …

Geography: De Facto Or De Jure, F. Lukermann

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

ABSTRACT-The acceptance of the Kantian classification of geography among the sciences as the science of space carries with it certain methodological obligations. Geographers who advocate a macroscopic approach to research are especially bound by Kantian strictures to employ mechanistic models of gravity, equilibrium and potential force fields in their studies. The limitations of such functional models in formulating hypotheses and the underlying assumptions these models make in causal explanations are examined in detail. Reference is made to a number of studies in the post-war period, culminating in the programmatic statement for the macroscopic method in geography published by the Geographical …

Some Interpretations Of A Map On Minnesota Sawmilling, Lyda Belthuis

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Sawmilling in Minnesota started about the time of settlement and, until 1870, mainly consisted of small mills located in the southern half of the state. Mills along the Mississippi River were mainly in urban centers while the remainder were scattered and associated with the clearing of the land and the meeting of the needs of local communities. After 1870, mills become larger. Many were constructed in northern Minnesota. All used forests in the northern port of the state and reduced them so greatly that, by 1920, the mills closed and were replaced by portable sawmills.

Geographic Potential Surfaces, Michael Munson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The attempt is made to trace the development of the surface potential with particular reference to the social sciences, especially geography. The geographic potential is derived from Newton's law, F = GMm/d" and is mathematically expressed and explained. The formula for the ,r potential at a single point or area, j, is ;~1(P;•P)" / d;;"'• Minnesota population potential for 1960 and 1930, and 1960 Minnesota income potentials have been calculated and mopped. The Twin Cities possess the peak potential for all three variables. Of prime importance to the understanding of geographic potentials is a knowledge of the underlying assumptions and …

An Example Of Crop Dynamics In Minnesota--The Soybean, Philip L. Tideman

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The soybean is a plant which has been domesticated for several thousand years. The exact time and place of this domestication is not known but the domesticated plant is referred to early in Chinese literature (Morse, 194 7 : 138). The hearth of domestication appears to have been northern China but very early it spread as a crop over a considerable part of Eastern Asia and became a common crop in the areas known today as Japan, China and Manchuria, Formosa, and Korea. Until very recent times the soybean was only a botanical curiosity to the European or Western World …

Measurement Of Vegetation And Terrain Characteristics On Small Scale Vertical Aerial Photographs, Merle P. Meyer

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Few events in recent years have stirred public imagination and interest to the degree occasioned by the uses made of aerial photographs in the Cuban affair. The average earth scientist, however, was not taken by surprise since the basic methods, materials and principles involved were not new to him. As a matter of fact, since World War II, aerial photography has become an everyday, virtually indispensable tool to most earth feature and natural resource analysts. In order better to understand the application of aerial photographs to such civil pursuits, it would be well at this point to differentiate the two …

The Formation Of The Duluth-Superior Harbor, William G. Loy

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Public Service Patterns In A Border Community: College Corner, Ohio-Indiana, Ronald A. Helin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Land Maps From Aerial Photos, E. W. Gahr

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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The Acadian Migrations, Robert G. Leblanc

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The cultural diversity of people and shifting national boundaries have often led to political instability by the creation of enclaves and exclaves of minority groups. One means by which such situations may be rectified is the forced migrations of peoples across international boundaries. Perhaps the most recent example of this was the measures· taken in the Central European "shatter zone" following World War II to eliminate the minority problems that existed there before the War. The colonial history of North America provides a comparable situation. During the course of the Anglo-French struggle for control of North America a new boundary …

A Geographic Study Of The Red Lake Chippewa Indian Band Of Minnesota, Merle Sherman

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This study traces the movement of the Chippewa Indians from Lake Superior into Minnesota and their organization into the separate bands with which the United States government treated to obtain cessions of land. It will take up the organization of the Red Lake Band as a distinct group, analyze their settlements around the Red Lakes and their uses of the resources of the reservation.

Remarks On The Geography Of Births And Deaths, John W. Webb

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This paper is concerned with the analysis of natural balance as a factor in population change. The procedure will be to use the English County of Essex in the 20th century as a case example.

Some Initial Impacts Of The Highway Relocation In Mankato And North Mankato, Minnesota, Bert E. Burns

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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The Effects Of A Limited-Access Freeway On Occupance In Rural Areas, Everett G. Smith Jr.

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Problems Of Delimiting Multiple-Component Regions, Leverett P. Hoag

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Railroad Expansion And Agricultural Settlement In Minnesota, 1860-1910, Harold A. Meeks

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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The Growth Of Shipping On The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Waterway As Related To Duluth Superior, Richard Sielaff

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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Science And Historical Truth On French Maps Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, Hildegard Binder Johnson

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

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The Rural Nonfarm Population Of Minnesota, Marion W. Solly

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.