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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.

Review Of Oklahoma Bird Life By F. M. And A. M. Baumgartner, Jack D. Tyler

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

This long-awaited book lives up to its advanced billing. Quarto size, it is bound in durable blue cloth, and the paper is of high quality. The layout is uncrowded, and the print is quite legible. Spelling and grammatical errors are comparatively rare. There are 159 black-and-white photographs, three maps, and 26 tables. Preliminary sections give background and explanatory information, including a checklist of Oklahoma birds (through 1987) that follows the latest AOU edition (1983). Seasonal and regional statuses for each of the 447 species are listed, plus a color plate number where each is illustrated in the center of the …

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 …

Review Of Gentle Conquest: The Botanical Discovery Of North America With Illustrations From The Library Of Congress By James L. Reveal, Richard A. Overfield

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

The main feature of Gentle Conquest is the abundance of beautiful illustrations of plants from the collection of the Library of Congress. Around these pictures James L. Reveal has spun a nice, brief account of the naturalists who collected these plants. There are 135 illustrations and pictures, eighty-four in color, forty-three are full page, and most are paintings of plants.

Contrary to the title, the narrative is confined largely to what becomes the United States. The approach is primarily "American frontier": thus the first four chapters cover the period of European colonization, a chapter each on the 1500s and 1600s …

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 Science With Practice: Charles E. [Edwin] Bessey And The Maturing Of American Botany By Richard A. Overfield, Linda Johnson Rossi

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

Science with Practice thoroughly treats the professional life of Charles Edwin Bessey, a prominent nineteenth-century American scientist, professor, and educational reformer, who helped to lay the foundation of modern plant biology. The book focuses on Bessey as a prime promoter of the laboratory as an important learning center in college and university teaching of botany and agriculture. Bessey used his broad knowledge of plant classification to innovate the Bessey System, one that is still in use. It explains Bessey in the context of American botany-student of Asa Gray and intellectual forebear of the American botanists Roscoe Pound, Pier A. Rydberg, …

News And Notes - Volume 4, Number 1, February 1994

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

Contents:

Call for papers

Conferences

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

Review Of Aboriginal Peoples And Politics: The Indian Land Question In British Columbia, 1849-1989 By Paul Tennant, Bruce Stadfeld

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

Aboriginal peoples have received unprecedented attention in Canada in the last five years. Violent confrontations and constitutional negotiations have combined to remind non-Native Canadians that the land they now call theirs was once defined and controlled by a wide variety of vibrant and creative Aboriginal groups. This new awareness has meant that many people have attempted to look beyond the headlines and sound-bites to understand the fundamental importance of the Aboriginal land question in Canadian history. Political scientist Paul Tennant's Aboriginal Peoples and Politics is a welcome contribution to this ongoing dialogue and provides many answers for those who wish …

Review Of Flat Water: A History Of Nebraska And Its Water By Robert K. Kuzelka, Project Manager; Charles A. Flowerday, Editor; Robert Manley, Contributing Editor/Consulting Historian; Bradley C. Rundquist, Editorial Associate, Thomas C. Gustavson

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

Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water contains, as the title suggests, a detailed and intriguing account of the history of water development and use and of the leading figures in this process. The title is a bit misleading because this book goes beyond providing a simple historical account of the development of water resources in Nebraska. Appropriately, the book begins with a summary of the evidence of occupation by Native Americans during the last 11,000 years and their uses of water, which range from construction of boiling pits for the preparation of food to diversion of stream …

Review Of The Palliser Triangle: A Region In Space And Time By R. W. Barendregt, M. C. Wilson, And F. J. Jankunis, Alex Paul

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

The main title of this book might suggest to the reader that it is a work of broad scope on the subhumid to semiarid part of the Canadian prairies often called the Palliser Triangle. The second subtitle, A Festschrift Honoring Dr. Archibald MacSween Stalker, is closer to what the book really does. Indeed, not all of the chapters are about the Palliser Triangle.

Stalker is a celebrated glacial geologist/glacial geomorphologist who has made significant contributions to the understanding of the landforms of central and southern Alberta. Like myself, those who have an interest in this topic, or for that matter …

“Wading To Pembina”: 1849 Spring And Summer Weather In The Valley Of The Red River Of The North And Some Climatic Implications, Danny Blair, W. F. Rannie

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

The weather of 1849 in the central Great Plains and western interior of the United States has been reconstructed in numerous analyses of diaries from the mass migration to the California goldfields, military post records, and other archival materials. These studies have demonstrated that the spring and summer periods of 1849 were unusually cold and wet, particularly in the eastern region of the Oregon Trail (near Kansas City). Historical sources from the valley of the Red River of the North of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba support this contention and extend the climatic reconstruction 1,000 km northward. Spring breakup of …

Review Of Robert S. Roeschlaub: Architect Of The Emerging West, 1843-1923 By Francine Haber, Kenneth R. Fuller And David N. Wetzel, H. Keith Sawyers

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

Prospective readers of this book would be wrong to assume from the title that they will be exposed to a contemporary version of late nineteenth century hometown boosterism. The high degree of parochialism commonly encountered in studies focusing upon regional architects and their work is refreshingly subdued in this well written and handsomely illustrated book. The preface provides a revealing summary of the nearly twenty-year history of the endeavor and identifies the sources of substantial scholarly input from an unusually well-qualified cadre of contributors. One of these, Kenneth Fuller, architect and son of Robert Roeschlaub's successor, Robert Fuller, was the …

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 …

Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930 By Kirk N. Lambrecht, Louis A. Knafla

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

The lands in Canada's western provinces and northern territories have undergone a tortuous history from the advent of the Confederation to the transferral of Crown land to the prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1930. Numerous parliamentary statutes, and orders in Council promulgated by the Governor in Council, created and defined various land use regulations and amended them frequently. Kirk Lambrecht, a practicing Edmonton lawyer who has spent many years studying the history of land law in western Canada, has presented in this volume a significant collection of materials for the history of the land law from 1870-1930.

The …

Wpa News 43 (1994), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (February 1994), number 43

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Unfastening The Electoral Connection: The Behavior Of U.S. Representatives When Reelection Is No Longer A Factor, John R. Hibbing, Rebekah Herrick, Michael K. Moore

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

September 1994 - Staff Meetings

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

As I Lay Writing: How To Write Law Review Articles For Fun And Profit: A Law-And-Economics, Critical, Hermeneutical, Policy Approach And Lots Of Other Stuff That Thousands Of Readers Will Find Really Interesting And Therefore You Ought To Publish In Your Prestigious, Top-Ten, Totally Excellent Law Review, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

You've made it onto a law faculty, and you're wondering what to do. Teaching obviously isn't going to occupy much of your time. You prepare your notes the first year, and you're home free. To fill the gap in your life, why not publish something in a law review?

Publishing an article in a law review is an honor and a privilege. "[L]aw reviews hold a special place of trust and importance in the legal system and in society"; they "play a vital role in the preservation of society." Most important, they make it much easier for a law professor …

Regulation A And The Integration Doctrine: The New Safe Harbor, C. Steven Bradford

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Critics have long charged that the Securities Act of 1993 (Act) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which administers the Act, are insensitive to the capital formation needs of small businesses. The Act's regulatory regime, it has been argued, is too rigid and expensive and discourages or precludes small businesses from selling securities. In 1992, in reaction to such criticism, the SEC proposed a variety of rule changes designed "to facilitate capital raising by small businesses and reduce the compliance burdens placed on these companies by the federal securities laws." Among these "small business initiatives," adopted in the summer …

Battered Woman Syndrome, Expert Testimony, And The Distinction Between Justification And Excuse, Robert F. Schopp, Barbara J. Sturgis, Megan Sullivan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Robert Schopp and his coauthors, Barbara Sturgis and Megan Sullivan, discuss the practical effects and the viability of the battered woman syndrome as a support for self-defense. The authors detail the conflict inherent in demonstrating the "reasonableness" of the defendants' actions through the premise that she was psychologically impaired. They argue that current research on battered women does not show key characteristics posited by the theory. The authors conclude that, use of the syndrome to support a legal defense is misleading and may harm the credibility of women in their claims of self-defense.

Who Wants To Stop The Church: Homosexual Rights Legislation, Public Policy, And Religious Freedom, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Religions that make peace with the spirit of the age have little to fear from the rulers of the day. But believers who refuse to adapt their religious practices to the Zeitgeist are vulnerable under Smith, unless the Court decides to protect religious pluralism by giving full scope to Smith's exceptions.

I have tried to show that homosexual rights legislation imposes heavy costs on the right of employers and landlords to take character into account when making business decisions. These costs are particularly heavy when borne by religiously-motivated persons, who are declared outlaws merely for trying to obey God …

Responding To The Americans With Disabilities Act: Contributions Of Interpersonal Communication Research And Training, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Denise Labreque

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has resulted in considerable misinformation and resistance, especially when ablebodied individuals and persons with disabilities interact. This essay reviews contributions of interpersonal communication researchers who address the challenges persons with disabilities face when communicating with ablebodied others, suggesting ways to mitigate communication discomfort and to reduce problems in helping situations. The authors suggest foci for future research and training which can contribute to the acceptance and effectiveness of ADA and to facilitate communication between ablebodied persons and persons with disabilities.

Tragopan: Newsletter Of The Wpa/Birdlife/Species Survival Commission Pheasant Specialist Group 1-7 (1994-1997), World Pheasant Association, Birdlife International, Iucn Species Survival Commission Pheasant Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Issue 1 (June 1994)

Message from the President of WPA, Cheng Tso-hsin

Tragopan, Philip McGowan and Peter Garson

From the Chairman, Peter Garson

Core Committee business,Peter Garson

Reviews

Pheasants in Asia 1992, edited by David Jenkins, review by Carol Inskipp

The Brown Eared Pheasants by Li Xiang-tao and Liu Ru-sun, review by Michael Rank

Other news

The Mishmi Hills, Rahul Kaul

Investigating pheasant diets, Steve Moreby

BirdLife Vietnam Programme, Jonathan Eames

New Congol peafowl project, Don Bruning

The Core Committee

Issue 2 (January 1995)

Editorial, Philip McGowan

A round up from the Chairman, Peter Garson

Other news

Protection in China …

Annual Review Of The World Pheasant Association 1993/1994, World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Reports and Other Materials

Editor's preface, David Jenkins

President's foreword, Cheng Tso-hsin

Annual report of Council 1993/94

British Airways and the World Pheasant Association, Rod Hall

The Game Conservancy Trust, G. R. (Dick) Potts

The need for conservation action plans, Philip J. K. McGowan

Pheasant Specialist Group, Peter J. Garson

Pheasant surveys in Arunchal Pradesh, Rahul Kaul, Rashid Raza, and Rajiv Kalsi

Recent research on brown eared-pheasants at Dongling Mountain, Beijing, Li Xiangtao

Progress in research on Reeves's pheasant in China, Wu Zhikang, Li Xhumei, and Wang Jihuai

Survey and status of the Congo peafowl in eastern Zaire: Progress report (March-June 1994), John Hart …

Policy Perspectives And Future Directions: A View From A Former U.S. Trade Representative, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

Tom Donahue expressed very well where we as a nation and we as a world should go on the worker rights issue. I'm going to spend most of my time focusing on how we get there, if we really want to accomplish something. Many countries would prefer not to have worker rights in the GATT at all. When we went to Punta del Este in 1986 to begin the Uruguay Round, the United States was a minority of one in trying to get the worker rights issue on the agenda in any way, shape, or form.

Ec94-872-S Nebraska Crop Budgets, Roger Selley, Larry Bitney, Richard T. Clark, Daryl E. Ellis, H. Doug Jose, Dale Kabes, Robert Klein, Raymond E. Massey, Timothy A. Powell

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Resource Persons • Crops Budgeting Procedure • Prices Used for 1994

Panhandle • Gravity Irrigated Crops • Sugar Beets • Dry Edible Beans • Corn for Grain • Corn for Silage • Establish Alfatfa with Oats • Alfalfa Hay Gravity Irrigated • Center Pivot Irrigated Crops • Sugar Beets • Dry Edible Beans • Corn for Grain • Winter Wheat • Alfalfa Hay • Non-Irrigated Crops • Winter Wheat Stubble Much Fallow • Winter Wheat, Eco-Fallow (Chemical and Tillage Combination) • Sunflower, Wheat-Sunflower-Fallow Rotation • Millet, Wheat, Fallow, Millet, Fallow

Southwest • Corn for Grain, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for …

Price-Conditional Technology, Lilyan E. Fulginiti

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Economics theorists for years have considered the possibility that the direction of technical change is altered by changes in relative prices. Prices also have been identified as one of the determinants of technical change through innovation, This article extends the theory of the firm to cover situations in which the firms technology set is conditional on expected prices. The basic idea is to distinguish between "market prices," or the prices that guide the firm's choices subject to the technology that is in place, and "normal prices," the prices conditioning the choice of technology. A “generalized" price effect is obtained that …