Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
This book is a revised edition of a volume that in original form did not include the present section on the South Dakota Badlands, here written by Ronald Weedon, a biologist at Chadron State College. Also added to this revised version is a treatise on the environmental situation of the Black Hills as of 1990. This essay, as well as essays on the topography, geology, biology, and history of the Black Hills, is by biologist Sven Froiland of Augustana College. The book also features long pages of quoted material from various kinds of technical sources (soil profiles, checklists of mammals and birds) and some eclectic appendices (Indian reservations, endangered plants, regional butterflies, list of elevations). There are a large number of useful, if not very aesthetic, photographs, maps, and charts, although a map that is made much of in the text nowhere appears in the paperback I received from the publisher. Natural History of the Black Hills and Badlands is, in short, quite a compendium of information about these two Northern Plains landforms.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.