Review of Northern Prairie Wetlands

Authors

Jack Deforest, Fairfax County, Virginia

Date of this Version

1989

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1989 .Copyright 1989 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Evidence of human disruption of ecosystems often generates a "crisis response," but fortunately we are finally learning that a base of solid scientific information is crucial for effective policymaking. This useful book provides such information for a type of wetland that is little known and poorly understood, the prairie pothole region. It developed out of a 1985 symposium in North Dakota that aimed to review the "state of knowledge" concerning various elements of the region's wetland ecology. Because of the subject's complexity, the book's content is limited to select areas: geology and hydrology, water chemistry, fauna and flora, food chains, wildlife habitat, etc.