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Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth
Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Prehistory of Texas is an attempt to synthesize work on the prehistoric archaeology of the Southern Great Plains and surrounding areas of Texas. Sixteen archeologists contributed to the book, which is divided into six parts. The first chapter of part one provides the necessary cultural-historical and environmental background for the chapters that follow. The second chapter is a long, in-depth, well-researched treatment of the Paleoindian presence in Texas.
Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear
Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Loren M. Smith and his students at Texas Tech have been studying the ecology of playas for two decades. Playas of the Great Plains is the fruit of that work.
Playas (or playa lakes) are shallow, circular basins that hold water following rainstorms but usually dry up later in the growing season. These unique, ephemeral wetlands occur in arid and semi -arid environments around the world, but nowhere more abundantly than on the tablelands of the Southern Great Plains of North America.
Review Of Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of The Great Plains And Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States By R. F. Diffendal, Jr., And Anne P. Diffendal, Harmon Maher, Jr.
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
When it comes to science in general, and the geology of the Great Plains in particular, there is arguably an imbalance between the wealth of material written for experts and the relative paucity written for the general public. These publications help correct that imbalance at a time when the various Lewis and Clark celebrations create an especially receptive and engaged audience.
The Impact Of Higher Energy Prices On Great Plains Crop Farm Expenditures, Jeffrey Williams, Richard Nelson, Michael Langemeier
The Impact Of Higher Energy Prices On Great Plains Crop Farm Expenditures, Jeffrey Williams, Richard Nelson, Michael Langemeier
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Use of energy-intensive inputs in agriculture in generally considered to be unresponsive to price increases in the short run. An increase in diesel and natural gas prices directly increases cots of energy used on farms for irrigation, machinery operation, and heating. Energy-intensive production inputs such as fertilizer prices also increase due to higher energy costs. This study assesses the impact of substantially higher energy prices in 2000 and 2001 on whole-farm production costs on 983 Kansas farms using actual whole-farm data. It is hypothesized that the impact on fuel, irrigation energy, and fertilizer costs will be significantly more than the …
Availability Of Suitable Habitat For Northern River Otters In South Dakota, Alyssa M. Kiesow, Charles D. Dieter
Availability Of Suitable Habitat For Northern River Otters In South Dakota, Alyssa M. Kiesow, Charles D. Dieter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Currently, the northern river otter (Lontra canadensis) is listed as a threatened species in South Dakota. We determined whether adequate habitat was available for reintroducing river otters in South Dakota. The 17 rivers/creeks included in the analysis were selected according to stream size, water gradient, and water permanence. A vegetation transect was conducted and a water sample was collected at each study site, ranging from one to four per river. Rivers/creeks were rated (1 = least suitable to 5 = most suitable) according to habitat requirements of river otters in the following categories: stream characteristics, watershed features, water …
Predictors Of Earnings For Mexican Americans In The Midwest, Rosalie Torres Stone, Bandana Purkayastha
Predictors Of Earnings For Mexican Americans In The Midwest, Rosalie Torres Stone, Bandana Purkayastha
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Much of the research on Mexican Americans and earnings has focused on either national samples or on states such as California and Texas. Even though Mexican Americans have become more visible in the Midwest, we know very little about their earnings in the Midwest. Using an individual level sample consisting of data on 1,807 Mexican Americans from the 2000 Integrated 1% Public Use Microdata Series, we examine the extent to which human capital, family status and industry concentration predict earnings. Multivariate analyses reveal that education and years in the U.S. are positively associated with earnings. However, Mexican American women yield …
Potential Ecological Impact Of Diet Selectivity And Bison Herd Composition, Claudia Rosas, David Engle, James Shaw
Potential Ecological Impact Of Diet Selectivity And Bison Herd Composition, Claudia Rosas, David Engle, James Shaw
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Behavioral segregation between the sexes of bison (Bas bison), coupled with artificially manipulated sex ratios of bison herds, might profoundly influence prairie ecosystems. Therefore, we measured carbon isotopes in hair collected from bison from the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeast Oklahoma to determine if adult male, adult female, and juvenile bison segregate on the basis of botanical composition of their diet. Sex ratio of bison herds in the Great Plains and behavioral differences between sexes were used to assess potential effects of sex ratio on tallgrass prairie. Botanical composition of diet differed among the three bison groups, in …
Review Of Lewis And Clark On The Great Plains: A Natural History By Paul A. Johnsgard, Andrea Laliberte
Review Of Lewis And Clark On The Great Plains: A Natural History By Paul A. Johnsgard, Andrea Laliberte
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
In Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard takes us on the Lewis and Clark trail from Kansas to Montana, describing the flora and fauna Meriwether Lewis and Williams Clark encountered on their historic journey in 1804-1806. Johnsgard focuses on species initially described or discovered by Lewis and Clark and on known species for which the explorers uncovered new biological information. Readers will not only discover which species Lewis and Clark first identified, but why in some cases the explorers failed to be credited wit ha discovery because that species wasn’t formally named …
Review Of The Tos Hand Hook Of Texas Birds By Mark W. Lockwood And Brush Freeman, Kent Rylander
Review Of The Tos Hand Hook Of Texas Birds By Mark W. Lockwood And Brush Freeman, Kent Rylander
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Several authoritative checklists of Texas birds have been published since the first one in 1912. As is typical of most checklists, all appeared in the conventional narrative format--a tradition for checklists that seems impossible to give up, even though range maps have long been used effectively in bird books. Now, with the publication of Lockwood and Freeman's Texas Ornithological Society volume, we have at last a Texas checklist that allows us the convenience of referring to shaded distribution maps.
Maybe narratives are more "scientific" than maps. But are they really? Listing the counties that border the range of a species …
Evidence Of Holocene Climate Change In A Nebraska Sandhills Wetland, Barbara Nicholson, James B. Swinehart
Evidence Of Holocene Climate Change In A Nebraska Sandhills Wetland, Barbara Nicholson, James B. Swinehart
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Nebraska Sandhills consist of 50,000 km2 of dunes, currently stabilized by vegetation. Radiocarbon dates of paleosols, blocked paleovalleys, and sand beds found in interdunal wetlands suggest that the Holocene had significant periods of dune reactivation. A paleoecological investigation was conducted in Jumbo Valley, NE, in an interdunal wetland known to contain sand layers interbedded with peat. The sedimentary record in two cores is continuous, except for some loss due to surficial burns. Macrofossils indicate that the late Pleistocene was cool and wet, with current vegetation establishing around 12,000 years ago. Sand and bulk density profiles reveal significant periods …
Review Of Eighteenth-Century Naturalists Of Hudson Bay By Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, And Mary Houston, Greg Michalenko
Review Of Eighteenth-Century Naturalists Of Hudson Bay By Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, And Mary Houston, Greg Michalenko
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay by Stuart and Mary Houston, veteran Saskatchewan ornithologists and historians of northern Canadian exploration, and climatologist Tim Ball provides a welcome, colorful addition to McGill-Queen's University Press's thirty-four-volume Native and Northern Series.
The 1670 Crown charter to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) granted a vast trading territory including substantial parts of the northern Canadian Plains and a portion of North Dakota and Minnesota. Furs were brought from a network of posts for shipping out of Hudson Bay, primarily at Fort Churchill and York Factory. Most of the posts and their commercial activities were outside of …
Review Of The Farm As Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems Edited By Dana L. Jackson And Laura L. Jackson, Richard Levins
Review Of The Farm As Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems Edited By Dana L. Jackson And Laura L. Jackson, Richard Levins
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Farm as Natural Habitat shows how wildlife need not be banished to distant parks but can and should be integrated into our farming systems. Editors Dana and Laura Jackson have organized a delightful collection of eighteen essays, linked by insightful transitions, addressing "the connection between the grocery list and the endangered species list, between farms and nature." A related theme concerns the "bullying notion" that holds the advance of industrial, habitat-destroying agriculture as inevitable.
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - Editorial Matter
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - Editorial Matter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
No abstract provided.
Depopulation And Rural Churches In Kansas, 1950-1980, Robert Wuthnow
Depopulation And Rural Churches In Kansas, 1950-1980, Robert Wuthnow
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Discussions of religion in the rural Great Plains present two radically different images: one of declining and abandoned churches, the other of surprising in congregational vitality. Both images purport to describe how rural churches are adapting to declining population, but neither view has been examined very systematically. Kansas provided a natural laboratory in which to examine the relationships between religion and rural depopulation. From 1950 to 1980 Kansas experienced the sharpest decline in number of farms in the state’s history. Yet population change in rural counties varied widely. I compare 39 rural counties that experienced the greatest depopulation with 30 …
Impacts Of Business Development In Rural Communities, Cheryl Devuyst, F. Larry Leistritz, Angela Schepp
Impacts Of Business Development In Rural Communities, Cheryl Devuyst, F. Larry Leistritz, Angela Schepp
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to examine the local socioeconomic impacts of new economic development initiatives in North Dakota’s rural (nonmetropolitan) communities. The analysis utilized interview, survey, and secondary data from four communities with recently developed agricultural processing plants, three with manufacturing and/or explored services facilities, and two control communities (i.e., towns that had not experienced the advent of a major new employer during the 1990s). Information from the two groups of development communities and the control communities is compared and contrasted to discern similarities and differences in the effects of the different types of development initiatives and to …
Distribution Of Carnivore Burrows In A Prairie Landscape, Glennis Kaufman, Scott Kocher, Donald Kaufman
Distribution Of Carnivore Burrows In A Prairie Landscape, Glennis Kaufman, Scott Kocher, Donald Kaufman
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Mammals impact prairie ecosystems through burrowing activities. Burrows used by carnivores were studied in four habitat types at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, a native tallgrass prairie near Manhattan, KS. We surveyed nearly 40 km of l0-m-wide transects and counted burrows in upland, slope, and lowland prairie and along ravines. Burrows were placed selectively along slopes (7.3 per km) and to a lesser extent along edges of ravines (4.2), but only infrequently in upland (0.6) and never in lowlands (0.0). We also recorded features (e.g., location, aspect, and slope steepness) along slope transects at a 30 m intervals to estimate …
Review Of Caddo Verb Morphology By Lynette R. Melnar, David Rood
Review Of Caddo Verb Morphology By Lynette R. Melnar, David Rood
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
When I was a graduate student on the West Coast, we used to playa little game to make fun of East Coast formal linguistics by asking each other, "What would transformational grammar look like if Chomsky spoke X instead of English?" Obviously, if Caddo were X, the answer would not involve tree diagrams, phrase structures, or transformations. Things haven't changed very much. Faced with describing a language like Caddo, a linguist receives virtually no help from the massive literature on syntactic and morphological theory from the last forty or fifty years.
Review Of Aboriginal Conditions: Research As A Foundation For Public Policy Edited By Jerry P. White, Paul S. Maxim, And Dan Beavon, Nathalie Piquemal
Review Of Aboriginal Conditions: Research As A Foundation For Public Policy Edited By Jerry P. White, Paul S. Maxim, And Dan Beavon, Nathalie Piquemal
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Grounded in recent research, this book successfully identifies key issues hearing on the current social challenges Aboriginal people face in Canada. It speaks to policy makers, social scientists, and Aboriginal communities, three constituencies for which greater cooperation is advocated, given that such cooperation is essential for positive social development within Aboriginal communities. Much of the research informing the authors' reflections on current Aboriginal conditions is framed within social and scientific method, yet with special attention to evidence-based policy making. As such, the volume offers sharp insights into socioeconomic and cultural issues, including community dynamics and population outcomes, ethnic mobility and …
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - News And Notes
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - News And Notes
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Contents:
Conferences
Charles E. Bessey Award
Leslie Hewes Award
Review Of Circle Of Goods: Women, Work, And Welfare In A Reservation Community By Tressa Herman, Alice Littlefield
Review Of Circle Of Goods: Women, Work, And Welfare In A Reservation Community By Tressa Herman, Alice Littlefield
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This slim volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary reservation economies in the Northern Plains, a subject that has received insufficient attention from anthropologists. Berman's narration demonstrates the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges or goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, home to the affiliated Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes who were settled there in the 1860s. Her analysis addresses several themes: the circulation of goods within a symbolic system of social and power relations; the centrality of women in kinship and community relations: and the reorganization of reservation economy …
Review Of Geology Of The Lewis & Clark Trail In North Dakota By John W. Hoganson And Edward C. Murphy, Richard Josephs
Review Of Geology Of The Lewis & Clark Trail In North Dakota By John W. Hoganson And Edward C. Murphy, Richard Josephs
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Stephen Ambrose would he proud! During this bicentennial commemoration of the most intrepid expedition in American history, a plethora of hooks on a broad range of topics dealing with the "Journey or Lewis and Clark" have made their appearance. Hoganson and Murphy have taken an intriguing look at one segment or the journey-the physical environment or North Dakota where the expedition spent more time (213 days) than in any other area that would become a state during its two-and-a-half-year-long journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. As mandated by Thomas Jefferson, a major goal or the expedition was to …
Review Of The Hell Creek Formation And The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary In The Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record Of The End Of The Cretaceous Edited By Joseph H. Hartman, Kirk R. Johnson, And Douglas J. Nichols, Russell Jacobson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Hell Creek Formation (especially near the Fork Peck Reservoir and the Cedar Creek Anticline in east-central Montana) has been extensively studied over the years to evaluate changes in terrestrial floras and faunas across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary. The research round in this volume, however, contains important new data from the lesser studied eastern outcrop area of western North Dakota, South Dakota, and nearby areas, along with new analyses of data from the well-studied areas around Fort Peck Reservoir. The compilation or new research is based on years of field studies that, for the most part, have not been published. …
Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson
Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The shift from integrated crop and livestock farms to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the last thirty years requires better regulatory policies, better enforcement, greater incentives for farmers to prevent pollution, and modification of some “right to farm” legislation. This is the thesis of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape by Terence Centner, a professor of agricultural law and economics at the University of Georgia.
Review Of Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties And Contemporary Controversies Edited By Bruce E. Johansen, Taiawagi Helton
Review Of Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties And Contemporary Controversies Edited By Bruce E. Johansen, Taiawagi Helton
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Even casual observers know of disputes between Natives and non-Natives over governmental authority or natural resources. In the nearly forty years since tribes gained direct access to federal courts, they have been pursuing their rights with increasing fervor. With rare exceptions, those rights are declined in a treaty. Indeed. treaties provide the foundation for the hulk or the relationship between Tribal Nations and the United States and remain a vibrant source of tribal, international, and federal law. Nevertheless only a small fraction of the general public understands the text of these documents. Interpreting treaty language requires an understanding of the …
Review Of Giving Voters A Voice: The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In America By Steven L. Piott, Allen Cigler
Review Of Giving Voters A Voice: The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In America By Steven L. Piott, Allen Cigler
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Recent decades have shown renewed interest in using the initiative and referendum, typically viewed by reformers as devices with the potential to broaden citizen awareness and participation, thereby curbing the influence of special interests in the policy process. To others, such direct policy making by citizens strikes at the very heart of representative democracy: considered deliberation by elected officials is bypassed and public policy may not he well thought out.
Review Of Farm Communities At The Crossroads: Challenge And Resistance Edited By Harry P. Diaz, Joann Jaffe, And Robert Stirling, Kenneth Bessant
Review Of Farm Communities At The Crossroads: Challenge And Resistance Edited By Harry P. Diaz, Joann Jaffe, And Robert Stirling, Kenneth Bessant
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Farm Communities at the Crossroads is a collection of works by twenty-nine authors dealing with the "transformations in farming and farm communities." The metaphor of a "crossroads" is aptly invoked to draw attention to the complex overlay of social, economic, political, and knowledge processes affecting rural society. The two themes of "challenge" and "resistance" are central to the conceptual organization of the hook, which incorporates issues such as the changing nature of farm work, rural restructuring, community development, the farm crisis, technological change, and agricultural policy development. The volume contains twenty-six articles organized into seven sections, the first of which …
Review Of Engineering The Farm: Ethical And Social Aspects Of Agricultural Biotechnology Edited By Britt Bailey And Marc Lappe, Clark Wolf
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
During the last two centuries, America's Central Plains have been transformed by agriculture. But during the past thirty years, agriculture has been transformed by biotechnology, by the rise of bigger and bigger farms, and by the influence of corporate research and marketing of seeds, pesticides, and other agricultural products. This book collects a set or important essays critical or the technology that has shaped and irrevocably changed our agricultural institutions in recent decades. The authors included are almost all uniformly critical or biotechnology, corporate farming, and the internationalization of' agricultural markets and trade rules. Their essays are passionate, articulate, and …
Review Of Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity On Farms And Ranches Text By Daniel Imhoff, Design By Roberto Carra, David Van Tassel
Review Of Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity On Farms And Ranches Text By Daniel Imhoff, Design By Roberto Carra, David Van Tassel
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Cross a grain crop with a wild perennial, and we frequently get a big, bold plant that combines many of the best features of its parents. Farming with the Wild is a cross between a coffee-table book, a travelogue, and an agroecology textbook. A big, bold hybrid, its layout and photography are elegant and striking. The text is information-dense, yet largely free of technical jargon. Unlike its cousin, editor Andrew Kimbrell's Fatal Harvest (2002), this is an upbeat book focusing on success stories rather than the grim global outlook for both agriculture and wildlife.
The first sections chronicle Dan Imhoff …
Review Of Conserving Biodiversity In Agricultural Landscapes: Model-Based Planning Tools Edited By Robert K. Swihart And Jeffrey E. Moore, Robert Sopuck
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Despite its title, this book is more about advice to Public sector authorities on how to plan housing and industrial developments in agricultural regions than about "conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes." The hook presents models of "nature-based planning" and assumes that in jurisdictions where legislated planning mechanisms are absent, biodiversity is automatically threatened. It is a book for those who see land use planning as the only answer to difficult landscape issues.
There is little appreciation that most agricultural lands are privately owned and inhabited by people who subscribe to the values and cultural norms or agrarian societies. These societies …
Review Of Great Wildlife Of The Great Plains By Paul Johnsgard, Gregory A. Smith
Review Of Great Wildlife Of The Great Plains By Paul Johnsgard, Gregory A. Smith
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Few authors have done more to increase awareness of the history, ecology, and inhabitants of the Great Plains than Paul Johnsgard. Great Wildlife of the Great Plains follows in the tradition of Johnsgard’s Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution (1979), Prairie Birds: Fragile Splendor in the Great Plains (2001), and Faces of the Great Plains: Prairie Wildlife (2003). In Great Wildlife of the Great Plains, Johnsgard focuses on some of the most notable and characteristic terrestrial species in the region as well as additional species of conservation concern: 121 total species including 74 birds, 28 …