SPRING 2003 VOL. 13/NO. 1
Migrations of Grassland Communities and Grazing Philosophies in the Great Plains: A Review and Implications for Management Joe C. Truett 3
Key Words: bison, grasslands, distribution, grazing, Great Plains, history, mixed-grass, prairie dogs, shortgrass
Constructing the Cooper Model of Folsom Bison Kills on the Southern Plains Leland C. Bement 27
Key Words: bison kills, Folsom, Paleoindians, Southern Plains
Geography of Population Change and Redistribution within the Post-Frontier Great Plains J. Clark Archer and Richard E. Lonsdale 43
Key Words: cultural diversification, geography, Great Plains region, metropolitan transition, net migration, population change
Relationships Between Community Satisfaction and Migration Intentions of Rural Nebraskans Rebecca Vogt, John C. Allen, and Sam Cordes 63
Key Words: community satisfaction, migration, Nebraska, population
Changes in Asian and Hispanic Population in the Cities of the Great Plains, 1990-2000 Evelyn Ravuri 75
Key Words: Asians, ethnicity, Great Plains cities, Hispanics, meat-processing industry
Sustainability and Historical Land-Use Change in the Great Plains: The Case of Eastern Colorado William J. Parton, Myron P. Gutmann, and William R. Travis 97
Key Words: cropland, Great Plains, land-use change, population, range-land
Range and Population Size of the American Burying Beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) in the Dissected Hills of South-Central Nebraska Mark M. Peyton 127
Key Words: American burying beetle, endangered species, Nicrophorus americanus
Fish Community Persistance in Eastern North and South Dakota Rivers Jeffery S. Shearer and Charles R. Berry Jr. 139
Key Words: fish communities, hydroperiod, James River, natural variability, persistence, prairie streams
BOOK REVIEWS
Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930 by Bruno Ramirez, reviewed by John C. Lehr 160
Cranes the Noblest Flyers: In Natural History and Cultural Lore by Alice Lindsey Price, reviewed by Felipe Chavez-Ramirez 161
Prairie Wetland Ecology: The Contribution of the Marsh Ecology Research Program by Henry R. Murkin, Arnold G. van der Valk, and William R. Clark, eds., reviewed by Gary L. Krapu 162
Watershed: Reflections on Water by Grant MacEwan, reviewed by Lee Foote 163
Geoarchaeology in the Great Plains by Rolfe D. Mandel, reviewed by John W. Wyckoff 164
Plains Indian Rock Art by James D. Keyser and Michael A. Klassan, reviewed by Jack Steinbring 165
A People’s Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada by Dan Russell, reviewed by Ross Gordon Green, Q. C. 167
Science at the American Frontier: A Biography of DeWitt Bristol Brace by David Cahan and M. Eugene Rudd, reviewed by Robinson M. Yost 169
Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change by US Global Research Program, reviewed by Suan M. Capalbo 170
The War on Weeds in the Prairie West: An Environmental History by Clinton L. Evans, reviewed by Ian Morrison 173
A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century by Randal S. Beeman and James A. Pritchard, reviewed by Kristin L. Ahlberg 174
FALL 2003 VOL. 13/NO. 2
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High Plains Regional Aquifer Study Revisited: A 20-Year Retrospective for Western Kansas Jeffrey M. Peterson and Daniel J. Bernardo 179
Key Words: agricultural economy, energy prices, irrigation, Ogallala Aquifer, water policy
Habitat Use and Migration Patterns of Sandhill Cranes along the Platte River, 1998-2001 Craig A. Davis 199 [2003 Charles E. Bessey Award]
Key Words: Grus anadensis, habitat use, Nebraska, Platte River valley, roost sites, sandhill crane, spring migration
Invasion Dynamics and Biological Control Prospects for Sericea Lespedeza in Kansas Thomas A. Eddy, Jeff Davison, and Brian Obermeyer 217
Key Words: Lespedeza cuneata, sericea lespedeza, Chinese bush clover, Tetralopha scortealis, lespedeza webworm, biological control, invasive plant
Differential Population and Income Migration in the Great Plains, 1995-1998 Alexander C. Vias and Charles O. Collins 231 [2003 Leslie Hewes Award]
Key Words: income, migration, depopulation, rural decline, economic impact, public services
Reverse Migration and Nonmetropolitan Employment in Four Great Plains States, 1970-1980 A. Olu Olyinlade 253
Key Words: migration, nonmetropolitan, rural, employment, Great Plains
Bosnian Refugees’ Adjustments to Resettlement in Grand Forks, North Dakota Devon A. Hansen 271
Key Words: refugee resettlement, refugee adjustments, Bosnian refugees, North Dakota
The Impact of Immigration on a Local Economy: The Case of Dawson County, Nebraska Örn Bodvarsson and Hendrik Van den Berg 291
Key Words: immigration, labor market, Hispanics, Great Plains
Migration and Counterurbanization in the Edwards Plateau of Texas, 1985-1990 Jason P. Holcomb 311
Key Words: counterurbanization, Edwards Plateau, Great Plains, migration, stream efficiencies, weighted standard distance
BOOK REVIEWS
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture and The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell, ed., reviewed by Charles A. Francis 329
Writing Off the Rural West: Globalizations, Governments, and the Transformation of Rural Communities by Roger Epp and Dave Whitson, eds., reviewed by K. K. Klein 330
The Failure of National Rural Policy: Institutions and Interests by William P. Browne, reviewed by Donna Barnes 332
On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish and Brethren by Donald B. Kraybill and Carl F. Bowman, reviewed by Royden Loewen 334
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada’s Beef Commodity Chain by Ian MacLachlan, reviewed by Michael J. Broadway 336
Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century by Howard A. Leeson, ed., reviewed by Joseph Garcea 337
Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law by David E. Wilkins and K. Tsaninia Lomawaima, reviewed by Blake A. Watson 339
Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane Wiener, eds., reviewed by Benjamin R. Kracht 340
Science and Native American Communities: Legacies of Pain, Visions of Promise by Keith James, ed., reviewed by Dave Pruett and Ernest Stromberg 342
Water on the Great Plains: Issues and Politics by Peter J. Longo and David W. Yoskowitz, reviewed by Jack Smith 344
Ferns and Fern Allies of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas by Sharon C. Yarborough and A. Michael Powell, reviewed by Alan R. Smith 345
Toxic Plants of North America by George E. Burrows and Ronald J. Tyrl, reviewed by James A. Pfister 346
Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta by Linda Kershaw, Joyce Gould, Derek Johnson, and Jane Lancaster, reviewed by Donna M. Cherniawsky 348
Tiger Beetles of Alberta: Killers on the Clay, Stalkers on the Sand by John Acorn, reviewed by Stephen M. Spomer and William J. Allgeier 351
The Nature of Nebraska: Ecology and Biodiversity by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by L. LaRessa Wolfenbarger 352
Birds of Nebraska: Their Distribution and Temporal Occurrence by Roger S. Sharpe, W. Ross Silcock, and Joel G. Jorgensen, reviewed by David L. Swanson 354
Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies for the Future by John Faaborg, reviewed by Kenneth P. Able 355
The Agricultural Revolution of the 20th Century by Don Paarlberg and Philip Paarlberg, reviewed by Lowell Hardin 356
Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm by Richard A. Levins, Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith, reviewed by Frederick Kirschenmann 358
Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America by Ronald R. Kline, reviewed by Barbara Handy-Machello 359