Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2008
Abstract
NATURAL SCIENCES
Engineer Cantonment, Missouri Territory, 1819-1820: America's First Biodiversity Inventory (Hugh H. Genoways and Brett C. Ratcliffe)
Testing Multigenerational Colonization of Carrion by Blow Flies in the Great Plains (Timothy E. Huntington, David O. Carter, and Leon G. Higley)
Mapping Agricultural Land Cover for Hydrologic Modeling in the Platte River Watershed of Nebraska (Patti R. Dappen, Ian C. Ratcliffe, Cullen R. Robbins, and James W. Merchant)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Using Schools to Map the Frontier of Settlement on the Canadian Prairies (John C. Lehr and Brian McGregor)
Mapping the Dispossession: Scandinavian Homesteading at Fort Totten, 1900-1930 (Karen V. Hansen and Mignon Duffy)
Developing the Nature-Based Tourism Sector in Southwestern North Dakota (Nancy M. Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, and Kara L. Wolfe)
Perception of Drought Hazard and Its Sociological Impacts in South-Central Nebraska (Donna L. Woudenberg, Donald A. Wilhite, and Michael J. Hayes)
Personal Characteristics Preceding Pro-Environmental Behaviors that Improve Surface Water Quality (Courtney Quinn and Mark E. Burbach)
BOOK REVIEWS
Bakker, Karen, ed. Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water (Reviewed by Henry David Venema)
Shilliday, Jim Canada's Wheat King: The life and Times of Seager Wheeler
(Reviewed by Merle Massie)
Ribaut, Jean-Marcel Drought Adaptation in Cereals (Reviewed by Patrick F. Byrne)
Brubaker, Elizabeth Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation
of Agricultural Pollution (Reviewed by Eva Pip)
Ridder, Mary Roots of Change: Nebraska's New Agriculture (Reviewed by James M. Peterson)
Taylor, lain E. P. Genetically Engineered Crops: Interim Policies, Uncertain Legislation (Reviewed by Rene C. Van Acker)
Warren, Wilson J. Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking (Reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt)
Sherow, James E. The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History (Reviewed by Francis Moul)
Harken, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis, eds. Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian (Reviewed by Paula Wagoner)
Lamp, William 0., Richard C. Berberet, Leon G. Higley, and Craig R. Baird, eds. Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects (Reviewed by J. E. McPherson)
Morse, Douglass H. Predator upon a Flower: Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider (Reviewed by Hank Guarisco)
Jackson, Jerome A. George Miksch Sutton: Artist, Scientist, and Teacher (Reviewed by Paul A. Johnsgard)
Halfpenny, James c., with illustrations by Todd Telander Scats and Tracks of the Great Plains: A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy Wildlife Species (Reviewed by Raymond S. Matlack)
Meltzer, David J. Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill (Reviewed by Steven R. Holen)
Mason, Ronald J. Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions (Reviewed by Roger Echo-Hawk)
Partridge, Mark D., and Dan S. Rickman The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? (Reviewed by David J. Peters)
Lee, R. Alton From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health (Reviewed by Michael H. Fox)
Medicine, Beatrice Drinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux (Reviewed by Teresa Milbrodt)
Schiefelbusch, Richard L., and Stephen R. Schroeder, eds. Doing Science and Doing Good: A History of the Bureau of Child Research and the Schiefelbusch Institute for life Span Studies at the University of Kansas (Reviewed by Warren J. White)
Johnsgard, Paul A. The Niobrara: A River Running through Time (Reviewed by Fritz L. Knopf)
NEWS AND NOTES
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS RESEARCH A JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1, SPRING 2008.