Great Plains Research Table of Contents
SPRING 2008 VOL. 18/NO. 1
Engineer Cantonment, Missouri Territory, 1819-1820: America's First Biodiversity Inventory Hugh H. Genoways and Brett C. Ratcliffe 3
Key Words: biodiversity, inventory, Engineer Cantonment, fauna, flora, Stephen Long, Nebraska, Titian Peale, Thomas Say
Testing Multigenerational Colonization of Carrion by Blow Flies in the Great Plains Timothy E. Huntington, David O. Carter and Leon G. Higley 33
Key Words: cadaver, Calliphoridae, carcass, decomposition, Diptera, entomology, forensic resource island, taphonomy
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 39
Key Words: crops, land cover, Nebraska, satellite remote sensing
Using Schools to Map the Frontier of Settlement on the Canadian Prairies John C. Lehr and Brian McGregor 53
Key Words: frontier, Manitoba, mapping, settlement, schools
Mapping the Dispossession: Scandinavian Homesteading at Fort Totten, 1900-1930 Karen V. Hansen and Mignon Duffy 67
Key Words: Fort Totten, homesteading, landowning, Scandinavian, Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation
Developing the Nature-Based Tourism Sector in Southwestern North Dakota Nancy M. Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, and Kara L. Wolfe 81
Key Words: agritourism, hunting, nature-based tourism, North Dakota, sector development
Perception of Drought Hazard and Its Sociological Impacts in South-Central Nebraska Donna L. Woudenberg, Donald A. Wilhite, and Michael J. Hayes 93
Key Words: community, drought, perception, sociological impacts, water restrictions
Personal Characteristics Preceding Pro-Environmental Behaviors that Improve Surface Water Quality Courtney Quinn and Mark E. Burbach 103
Key Words: motivation, environmental attitude, moral reasoning, conservation practices, pro-environmental behaviors, surface water quality
BOOK REVIEWS
Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water edited by Karen Bakker, ed., reviewed by Henry David Venema 115
Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler by Jim Shiliday, reviewed by Merle Massie 116
Drought Adaptation in Cereals by Jean-Marcel Ribaut, reviewed by Patrick F. Byrne 117
Greener Pastures: Decentralizing the Regulation of Agricultural Pollution by Elizabeth Brubaker, reviewed by Eva Pip 117
Roots of Change: Nebraska's New Agriculture by Mary Ridder, reviewed by James M. Peterson 118
Genetically Engineered Crops: Interim Policies, Uncertain Legislation by Iain E. P. Taylor, reviewed by Rene C. Van Acker 118
Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking by Wilson J. Warren, reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt 119
The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History by James E. Sherow, reviewed by Francis Moul 120
Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian by Michael E. Harken and David Rich Lewis, eds., reviewed by Paula Wagoner 120
Handbook of Forage and Rangeland Insects by William O. Lamp, Richard C. Berberet, Leon G. Higley, and Craig R. Baird, eds., reviewed by J. E. McPherson 121
Predator upon a Flower: Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider by Douglass H. Morse, reviewed by Hank Guarisco 122
George Miksch Sutton: Artist, Scientist, and Teacher by Jerome A. Jackson, reviewed by Paul A. Johnsgard 122
Scats and Tracks of the Great Plains: A Field Guide to the Signs of Seventy Wildlife Species by James C. Halfpenny, with illustrations by Todd Telander, reviewed by Raymond S. Matlack 123
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill by David J. Meltzer, reviewed by Steven R. Holen 124
Inconstant Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions by Ronald J. Mason, reviewed by Roger Echo-Hawk 124
The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies? by Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman, reviewed by David J. Peters 125
From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health by R. Alton Lee, reviewed by Michael H. Fox 125
Drinking and Sobriety among the Lakota Sioux by Beatrice Medicine, reviewed by Teresa Milbrodt 126
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 by Richard L. Schiefelbusch and Stephen R. Schroeder, eds., reviewed by Warren J. White 127
The Niobrara: A River Running through Time by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by Fritz L. Knopf 127
