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Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement By Matt S. Meier And Margo Gutierrez, Ralph Vigil Oct 2000

Review Of Encyclopedia Of The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement By Matt S. Meier And Margo Gutierrez, Ralph Vigil

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

This informative, well-written book on the Mexican American civil rights movement is a valuable reference tool. Entries include biographical sketches of leaders, histories of organizations, legal cases, legislation, court decisions, important historical events, and topics ranging from the myth of Aztlan to the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, followed by suggestions for further reading. A chronology of the Mexican American civil rights struggle and a detailed index add to the value of the work.

The volume's contribution to knowledge of Mexican Americans on the Great Plains is limited, but the entry discussing the Midwest (150-51) gives basic information about migration …

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Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Contents Apr 2000

Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Contents

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

Contents

Great Plains Research Awards
Feature Article
Critical Dialogue
Social Sciences
Book Reviews
News and Notes

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Review Of Unruly River: Two Centuries Of Change Along The Missouri By Robert Kelley Schneiders, John E. Thorson Apr 2000

Review Of Unruly River: Two Centuries Of Change Along The Missouri By Robert Kelley Schneiders, John E. Thorson

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With renewed discomfort, I return to my September 1997 issue of National Geographic, reading of China's grandiose Three Gorges Project. Construction of this immense concrete dam across the Yangtze River is well underway. When complete in 2009, the dam and reservoir will displace two million people and inundate four hundred miles of beautiful river and riparian lands. I want to lease a cargo plane, fly to China, and dump thousands of copies of Robert Kelley Schneiders's Unruly River on the cloistered leadership in Beijing, yelling at the top of my lungs, "Don't you see?"

Unruly River: Two Centuries of …

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The Platte As A Prairie River: A Response To Johnson And Boettcher, Paul J. Currier, Craig A. Davis Apr 2000

The Platte As A Prairie River: A Response To Johnson And Boettcher, Paul J. Currier, Craig A. Davis

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

Johnson and Boettcher (2000) question the status of the presettlement Platte River as a prairie river, and they argue that it was "a wooded river traversing a prairie landscape." Here we review evidence in support of the prairie river concept, suggesting the channels of the Platte were predominantly open and largely absent of trees. Direct support for a prairie river is found in the detailed map drawn by Lieutenant Woodbury in locating the site for Fort Kearny in 1847. Woodbury showed a thin strip of timber, located in an area that appeared to be elevated above the influence of active …

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The Pre-Settlement Platte: Wooded Or Prairie River?, W. Carter Johnson, Susan E. Boettcher Apr 2000

The Pre-Settlement Platte: Wooded Or Prairie River?, W. Carter Johnson, Susan E. Boettcher

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

The pre-settlement Platte River is commonly described as a mostly unwooded prairie river, comprised of water, sand, and wet grassland. However, primary historical accounts do not support this prairie river concept. Instead, the early accounts and quantitative information from the General Land Office survey indicate that, prior to settlement by European immigrants, the Platte was a wooded river traversing a prairie landscape. Woodland was reported as dense on innumerable islands in the channel, but scattered along on the outer banks. This woodland was cleared during exploration and early settlement. Thus, the openness of the post-settlement river observed early in the …

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Thinking Like A Dune Field: Geologic History In The Nebraska Sand Hills, David B. Loope, James Swinehart Apr 2000

Thinking Like A Dune Field: Geologic History In The Nebraska Sand Hills, David B. Loope, James Swinehart

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The Nebraska Sand Hills region is a giant dune field that is presently stabilized by prairie vegetation. During numerous severe droughts within the last 15,000 years, the dunes have lost their plant cover and have migrated freely. Wetlands between dunes are extensive in the central Sand Hills and are connected to the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer. Lakes and wetlands were formed when dunes blocked and deranged stream systems. Evaporation of water from wetlands may benefit adjacent dune vegetation during extended droughts, by locally increasing humidity and rainfall. Buried bison tracks are abundant within the dunes, suggesting that grass and water …

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Occupational Segregation Of Women On The Great Plains, Ann Mari May, Robert Watrel Apr 2000

Occupational Segregation Of Women On The Great Plains, Ann Mari May, Robert Watrel

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

Despite large increases in the participation of women in the paid labor force, occupational segregation by sex continues to be a significant characteristic of the labor market in the US. To better understand occupational segregation, we developed a new measure of occupational segregation that allows us to identify "female-dominated," "male-dominated," and "integrated" occupations. We use the new measure to examine differences in occupational segregation in the Great Plains states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, compared with the US as a whole. Our results indicate that more women on the Great Plains are employed than expected, given male …

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Strengths And Stresses Of Omaha Indian Families Living On The Reservation, Douglas A. Abbott, Glenna Slater Apr 2000

Strengths And Stresses Of Omaha Indian Families Living On The Reservation, Douglas A. Abbott, Glenna Slater

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

We studied current strengths and contemporary stresses of Omaha Indian families living on the reservation in northeast Nebraska. Interviews with 60 tribal members revealed that major family and tribal strengths included: extended family support, spiritual values and religious practices, community generosity and support, Omaha culture and traditions, and a determination of many tribal members to recognize and overcome their problems. Respondents also identified major stresses that included: alcohol use, family breakdown, tribal leadership, unemployment and their children's education. Social Interaction Theory suggests that the identification of stresses should be more common than the identification of strengths by an oppressed minority. …

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Presidential Voting Regions Of The Northern Great Plains: No Need For An East Dakota And West Dakota, Robert H. Watrel, Erin Hogan Fouberg Apr 2000

Presidential Voting Regions Of The Northern Great Plains: No Need For An East Dakota And West Dakota, Robert H. Watrel, Erin Hogan Fouberg

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

In South Dakota and North Dakota, political pundits, journalists, politicians, academics, and citizens often reduce political questions to an east-west divide. Here we statistically examine whether an east-west divide occurred in presidential voting behavior in the Northern Great Plains over the last century. We found that there were four presidential voting regions in South Dakota and North Dakota. These presidential voting regions reflect the economic, ancestral, and political cultures and landscapes of this area of the Northern Great Plains.

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Use Of Fatty Acid Stores By Larvae And Adults Of A Nebraska Salt Marsh Tiger Beetle, Cicindela Togata Globicollis Casey, W. Wyatt Hoback, R. L. Rana, D. W. Stanley Apr 2000

Use Of Fatty Acid Stores By Larvae And Adults Of A Nebraska Salt Marsh Tiger Beetle, Cicindela Togata Globicollis Casey, W. Wyatt Hoback, R. L. Rana, D. W. Stanley

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

Tiger beetles are common predators in open habitats throughout the Great Plains, including the eastern salt marshes. Adult tiger beetles are active searchers that attack and eat small insects. By contrast, their larvae are sit-and-wait predators that form permanent burrows and depend on prey moving within striking distance. We hypothesized that adults and larvae of the tiger beetle, Cicindela togata globicollis Casey, would differ in their utilization of lipid (fat) energy reserves, such as fatty acids, based on differences in the likelihood of starvation. To investigate this, we determined the fatty acid profiles from larvae and adult tiger beetles. We …

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Influence Of Past Interactions On The Prairie Today: A Hypothesis, Kathleen H. Keeler Apr 2000

Influence Of Past Interactions On The Prairie Today: A Hypothesis, Kathleen H. Keeler

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

Past conditions in North American prairies have left behind animals and plants whose features were shaped by interactions, some of which no longer exist. For example, pronghorns are fast runners but there are now no fast predators to chase them. Similarly, bison activity structured grasslands, but few prairie reserves now have bison. Here I draw attention to possible cases where ecological patterns are best explained by conditions not present in the modern prairie and propose that such outcomes may be more important than presently thought. My aim is to stimulate a reevaluation of prairie organisms and the effect of their …

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Production Agriculture Versus The Environment: The Role Of Statistics, Linda J. Young Apr 2000

Production Agriculture Versus The Environment: The Role Of Statistics, Linda J. Young

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

Corn production in the United States provides an example of the agricultural changes that have occurred in recent times. Because all such agricultural activity potentially can affect the environment to some degree, the challenge is now to quantify and understand those effects. Although monitoring of the environment for such effects is not new, the procedures often fall short of providing reliable quantitative data. One example is the inconsistent, incomplete, and unreliable information currently available to assess US surface water quality and trends in that quality. The utilization of probability-based sampling designs could playa vital role in the improvement of information …

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The Platte As A Wooded River: A Response To Currier And Davis, W. Carter Johnson, Susan E. Boettcher Apr 2000

The Platte As A Wooded River: A Response To Currier And Davis, W. Carter Johnson, Susan E. Boettcher

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

This dialogue in Great Plains Research (GPR) is most welcome. It increases visibility of the historic status and significance of woodlands in the Platte River. In our article, we bring together the bulk of the information available on pre-settlement woodlands of the Platte River. We submitted to GPR because of its geographic focus and to invite peer-review of our work. Our paper is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available. Despite protestations to the contrary by Currier and Davis, we remain convinced that the evidence presented supports the wooded river concept. We purposely chose the word "wooded" rather than …

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Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – News And Notes Apr 2000

Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – News And Notes

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

Contents:

Call for papers
Conferences

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Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Awards Apr 2000

Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Awards

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

Contents:

Establishment of the Charles E. Bessey Award
Leslie Hewes Award
Great Plains Research Junior Academy of Sciences Award

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Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Critical Dialogue, Svata M. Louda Apr 2000

Great Plains Research, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2000 – Critical Dialogue, Svata M. Louda

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

With the following articles, we are pleased to initiate a new section, called "Critical Dialogue," to be published whenever a manuscript is accepted that we think addresses a particularly important, potentially controversial issue in the Great Plains. The purpose of the section will be to present alternative perspectives on such issues, to inform our readers and to stimulate rational discussion of the data available for science-based policy and management decisions. Thus, we will invite and peer-review a reasoned response to the stimulating manuscript, and we will provide the original author(s) with an opportunity for rebuttal to that response.

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Review Of Hazardous Wastes In Rural America: Impacts, Implications, And Options For Rural Communities By Steven H. Murdock, Richard S. Krannich, And F. Larry Leistritz. Lanham, Larry E. Erickson Apr 2000

Review Of Hazardous Wastes In Rural America: Impacts, Implications, And Options For Rural Communities By Steven H. Murdock, Richard S. Krannich, And F. Larry Leistritz. Lanham, Larry E. Erickson

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

Hazardous Wastes describes the goals, methods, results, and conclusions of a research study, funded by the US Department of Agriculture, on the consequences of hazardous waste processing and storage sites in rural America. The inquiry compared current conditions and patterns of recent socioeconomic change in communities affected by waste facility siting and development with those that have experienced other types of recent development and with communities that have experienced only baseline patterns of change. Fifteen communities in five states (Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah) provided information for the study.

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Review Of Hydrology And Geochemistry Of Glacial Deposits In Northeastern Kansas By Jane E. Denne, Rachel E. Miller, Lawrence R. Hathaway, Howard G. O'Connor, And William C. Johnson, Edwin Gutentag Apr 2000

Review Of Hydrology And Geochemistry Of Glacial Deposits In Northeastern Kansas By Jane E. Denne, Rachel E. Miller, Lawrence R. Hathaway, Howard G. O'Connor, And William C. Johnson, Edwin Gutentag

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

Northeastern Kansas is characterized by dissected till plains. Glacial sediments overlie the older Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. Outcropping rocks of Paleozoic age include the Pennsylvanian and Permian rocks extensively studied in other reports. This report includes the twelve northeastern Kansas Counties (Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Nemaha, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, and Wyandotte) that were glaciated during Pleistocene time. The study area was entirely glaciated during pre-Illinoian (classical Kansas and Nebraskan) time, except for its southern fringe. The deposits exposed in the area include glacial drift (till, outwash, lake deposits), loess, and alluvium. Pregacial drainage ways became buried valleys after …

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Review Of Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War By Peter Carrels, John M. Donahue Apr 2000

Review Of Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War By Peter Carrels, John M. Donahue

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

Students in my Water, Culture, and Power course must read Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert (1993), but Peter Carrels's Uphill Against Water will now become required reading as well. Carrels provides a grassroots perspective on twentieth-century water policy in the United States that complements the more macro analysis in Reisner's work. Writing in his hometown of Aberdeen, South Dakota, Carrels tells the story from the vantage point of farmers who were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the massive Oahe Irrigation Project in northeastern South Dakota. How over a thirty-year period they became its successful opponents is the story line of …

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Review Of The Making Of The 1996 Farm Act By Lyle P. Schertz And Otto C. Doering Iii, Roy Frederick Apr 2000

Review Of The Making Of The 1996 Farm Act By Lyle P. Schertz And Otto C. Doering Iii, Roy Frederick

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

Schertz and Doering have produced a useful, comprehensive volume that details key actions leading to passage of the 1996 Farm Act. Although both authors are distinguished economists, the book is more about the political process-and associated policymakers-than economics. It should have lasting value, if for no other reason than that the 1996 legislation differed greatly from the twenty or so farm acts preceding it. For anyone who has wondered why the outcome was different in 1996, this book is must reading.

The authors begin, correctly, with a chapter on the 1994-95 setting for farm legislation, since farm bills are typically …

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Review Of Saving American Farmland: What Works, Lonnie L. Schulz Apr 2000

Review Of Saving American Farmland: What Works, Lonnie L. Schulz

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

This well-organized, comprehensive reference on protecting America's farmland provides, along with a brief history of the nation's loss of irreplaceable agricultural resources to urban sprawl, an account of the successful techniques and strategies state governments and communities have used to protect farmland and support agriculture.

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Review Of With Scarcely A Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration Into The United States And Western Canada, 1850-1920 By Randy W. Widdis, Robert M. Bone Apr 2000

Review Of With Scarcely A Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration Into The United States And Western Canada, 1850-1920 By Randy W. Widdis, Robert M. Bone

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There is no Little Canada in the United States; yet the relocation of Anglo-Canadians to the United States ranks among the largest group of foreigners settling in America. Why then is their cultural impact on the American landscape virtually invisible? This is the intriguing question Randy W. Widdis addresses in his aptly titled With Scarcely a Ripple.

Widdis begins his story with the relocation of some 50,000 Loyalists (Americans who remained loyal to the British crown) north during the late eighteenth century and ends with the settlement of the Canadian Prairies. In between his account of these two historic movements …

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Review Of The Limits Of Labour: Class Formation And The Labour Movement In Calgary, 1883-1929 By David Bright, Alvin Finkel Apr 2000

Review Of The Limits Of Labour: Class Formation And The Labour Movement In Calgary, 1883-1929 By David Bright, Alvin Finkel

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This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the history of both Canadian labor and the Canadian West. It weaves together both a wealth of primary documents and secondary sources to fashion a forceful argument about the character of the working class in early Calgary.

Bright's study of the evolution of Calgary's working class concludes that Calgary workers, on the whole, did not privilege their working-class identities over other aspects of their identity, including ethnicity, gender, and citizenship in the larger society. Even those who largely identified with their status as workers did not always put class before …

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Review Of Men As Women, Women As Men: Changing Gender In Native American Cultures By Sabine Lang, Claire R. Farrer Apr 2000

Review Of Men As Women, Women As Men: Changing Gender In Native American Cultures By Sabine Lang, Claire R. Farrer

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Some prefer to read books by going directly to the crux, bypassing any Preface or Introduction. To do so with this book would create confusion, as Lang uses terms idiosyncratically. She defines her terms well, however, presents justifications for employing them, and provides an overview of the study and how she came to write it in both its English and German editions. All this is vital information for those approaching the text.

It has become standard among scholars writing in English to refer to people of mixed, blended, or other genders using first the term for the person's biological sex …

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Review Of The Dynamics Of Native Politics: The Alberta Metis Experience By Joe Sawchuk, Chris Anderson Apr 2000

Review Of The Dynamics Of Native Politics: The Alberta Metis Experience By Joe Sawchuk, Chris Anderson

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

Since at least the 1960s, Canadian Aboriginal political activity has witnessed a startling increase in both its breadth and intensity. This activism has increasingly voiced the concerns and frustrations of Aboriginal people through political organizations whose explicit mandate was and remains to lobby the provincial and federal governments on behalf of their constituents. There is considerable debate, however, about the extent to which these organizations actually represent progressive social change for Aboriginals in Canada or simply owe their "resistance" to the heavy influence of federal and provincial government funding.

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Review Of American Indian Population Recovery In The Twentieth Century By Nancy Shoemaker, Dean R. Snow Apr 2000

Review Of American Indian Population Recovery In The Twentieth Century By Nancy Shoemaker, Dean R. Snow

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One might expect a book on American Indian historical demography to be a lugubrious recitation of catastrophic losses accompanied by tiresome moralizing, but this slim volume gives us ethnohistory at its best. In place of thick descriptive narrative, Shoemaker offers us a refreshingly concise empirical analysis. Conclusions are not simply assertions, but concise statements supported by data presented in clear tables and graphs.

Shoemaker steers clear of the 1492 population debate in order to focus on demographic recovery, which occurred in the twentieth century after the aggregate US Indian population reached a nadir of 237,000 in 1900. She does this …

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Review Of The Fontenelle & Cahanne Trading Posts: The History And Archeology Of Two Missouri River Sites By Richard E. Jensen, Thomas D. Thiessen Apr 2000

Review Of The Fontenelle & Cahanne Trading Posts: The History And Archeology Of Two Missouri River Sites By Richard E. Jensen, Thomas D. Thiessen

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More than a mere archeological site report, this volume is an important contribution to the history and archeology of the fur trade of the American West. It tells the story of two early nineteenth-century trading posts that operated, sometimes in competition with one another, during the same approximate time and in the same region. Cabanne's Post was situated near the mouth of Ponca Creek north of present-day Omaha, Nebraska. Fontenelle's was located about fifteen miles to the south and gave one of its several historical names to the present city of Bellevue. Although the ownership of each post changed over …

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Review Of Transcontinental America, 1850•1915, Volume 3 Of The Shaping Of America: A Geographical Perspective On 500 Years Of History By D. W. Meinig, G. Malcom Lewis Apr 2000

Review Of Transcontinental America, 1850•1915, Volume 3 Of The Shaping Of America: A Geographical Perspective On 500 Years Of History By D. W. Meinig, G. Malcom Lewis

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The editors of the Journal of Historical Geography considered the publication of the third volume of Donald Meinig's "magisterial historical geography" to be so important as to merit a sixteen-page special feature: an account of the project by the author followed by invited commentaries by Cole Harris and Carville Earle (JHG, January 1999). Meinig explains that "America" refers to the United States, though "other Americas" (Canada, Mexico, Panama, etc.) are considered in presenting it in "a broader geographic context... ." The Shaping in the series title announces an emphasis on "form, morphology, spatial patterns, [and] geographic structure"; in the author's …

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Review Of The Land Of Prehistory: A Critical History Of American Archaeology By Alice Beck Kehoe, Raymon Wood Apr 2000

Review Of The Land Of Prehistory: A Critical History Of American Archaeology By Alice Beck Kehoe, Raymon Wood

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The Land of Prehistory is a comprehensive-indeed, encyclopedic - and insightful introduction to the history of Americanist archaeology. Well written and comprehensible to both lay and professional readers, it traces North American archaeology from its European foundations through such contemporary themes as the new archaeology, postmodernism, and NAGPRA (though, curiously, only paying lip service to gender studies). It will be a useful, if often controversial, textbook for courses in introductory archaeology, the history of archaeology, and for seminars in archaeological method and history.

It is impossible to deal adequately with the volume's richness of detail: bare listings must suffice where …

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Recent Biodiversity Patterns In The Great Plains: Implications For Restoration And Management, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Curtis H. Flather, Stephan Mccanny Oct 1999

Recent Biodiversity Patterns In The Great Plains: Implications For Restoration And Management, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Curtis H. Flather, Stephan Mccanny

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

Ecosystem, species and genetic dimensions of biodiversity have eroded since widespread settlement of the Great Plains. Conversion of native vegetation in the region followed the precipitation gradient, with the greatest conversion in the eastern tallgrass prairie and eastern mixed-grass types. Areas now dominated by intensive land uses are "hot spots" for exotic birds. However, species of all taxa listed as threatened or endangered are well-distributed across the Great Plains. These species are often associated with special landscape features, such as wetlands, rivers, caves, sandhills and prairie dog towns. In the long run, sustaining biodiversity in the Great Plains, and the …

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