Great Plains Research Table of Contents
FEBRUARY 1991 VOL. 1/NO. 1
EDITOR'S NOTE 3
INTRODUCTION 4
ARTICLES
The Geological Record of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, and Aridity on the Southern High Plains Vance T. Holliday 6
Drought and Precipitation Fluctuations in the Great Plains During the late Nineteenth Century Cary J. Mock 26
Relationships Between 700 mb Circulation Variations and Great Plains Climate Daniel J. Leathers 58
Hydroclimatic Variability on the Great Plains Michael J. Keables 77
Snow Cover Variability on the Northern and Central Great Plains David A. Robinson and Marilyn G. Hughes 93
Drought Experience and Perception of Climatic Change among Great Plains Farmers David M. Diggs 114
Sustainability of the Great Plains in an Uncertain Climate William E. Riebsame 133
Lowering Real Interest Rates Could Slow Global Warming Craig S. Marxsen 152
CONFERENCE REPORT
35th Annual Midwest Groundwater Conference 168
BOOK REVIEWS
Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939 by John R. Adams, Jr., reviewed by F. Andrew Schoolmaster 171
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective by Don E. Albrecht and Steve H. Murdock, reviewed by Keith D. Parker 172
Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies by Scott L. Collins and Linda L. Wallace, reviewed by Jane H. Bock 173
Transportation Service to Small Rural Communities: Effects of Deregulation by John F. Due, Benjamin J. Allen, Mary R. Kihl, and Michael R. Crumm, reviewed by L. Orlo Sorenson 174
Agricultural Bioethics: Implications of Agricultural Biotechnology by Steven M. Gendel, A. David Kline, D. Michael Warren, and Faye Yates reviewed by Vernon W. Ruttan 175
The Struggle for the Land. Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World by Paul A. Olson, reviewed by Adolph M. Greenberg 177
Atlas of American Indian Affairs by Francis Paul Prucha, reviewed by David J. Wishart 179
Watering the Valley: Development Along the High Plains Arkansas River, 1870-1950 by James Earl Sherow, reviewed by James R. Shortridge 180
The Cherokees: A Population History by Russell Thornton, reviewed by Henry F. Dobyns 182
Northern Prairie Wetlands by Arnold van der Valk, reviewed by Richard A. Gersib 183
Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope by William A. Weber, reviewed by Robert B. Kaul 184
NEWS AND NOTES 186
AUGUST 1991 VOL. 1/NO. 2
EDITOR'S NOTE 194
ARTICLES
The Rural-Urban Continuum and Environmental Concerns J. Allen Williams, Jr. and Helen A. Moore 195
Farm Women's Labor Contributions to Agricultural Operations Audie Blevins and Katherine Jensen 215
Frontier Flintlocks: A Fault Tree Analysis of Firearm Use at Contact Period Sites of the Great Plains Peter Bleed and Daniel Watson 233
The Lucanidae and Passalidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Nebraska Brett C. Ratcliffe 249
Global Change in the High Plains of North America J. H. Bock, W. D. Bowman, and C. E. Bock 283
Observed Variations in Great Plains Seasonal Temperatures During the Past Century Nolan J. Doesken and Thomas B. McKee 302
Economic Development Programs in the Great Plains: The Example of Nebraska Michael Broadway 324
CONFERENCE REPORT
Assoc. of American Geographers, Great Plains-Rocky Mt. Division 345
BOOK REVIEWS
Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., reviewed by Daniel J. Bernstein 347
Groundwater Levels in Nebraska, 1989 by Michael J. Ellis, Gregory V. Steels, and Perry B. Wigley, reviewed by M. Stanley Dart 348
Sustainable Agriculture in Temperate Zones by Charles A. Francis, Cornelia Butler Flora, and Larry D. King, reviewed by David R. Lighthall 349
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing by Thomas H. Lewis, reviewed by Elizabeth Grobsmith 351
The Wild Oat Inflorescence and Seed: Anatomy, Development and Morphology by M. V. S. Raju, reviewed by David M. Sutherland 353
Harvest of Opportunity: New Horizon for Farm Women by Lois L. Ross, reviewed by Katherine Jensen 354
The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture by James R. Shortridge, reviewed by John Fraser Hart 356
The Political Economy of Manitoba edited by Jim Silver and Jeremy Hull, reviewed by Ralph F. Harris 357
Farming the System: How Politicians and Producers Shape Canadian Agricultural Policy by Barry K Wilson, reviewed by George E. Lee 359
NEWS AND NOTES 361
INDEX 363
FEBRUARY 1992 VOL. 2/NO. 1
EDITOR'S NOTE 3
LAW AND SCIENCE: AN INTRODUCTION John R. Wunder 4
ARTICLES
The Latent Influence of Equity in Wyoming v. Colorado (1922) James E. Sherow 7
Hydrology and Texas Water Law:. . . A Logician's Nightmare Otis W. Templer 27
Native Americans, the Courts and Water Policy: Is Nothing Sacred? Peter J. Longo and Christiana E. Miewald 51
Law Careers and Community Context: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Experience Donald D. Landon 67
Economic and Environmental Futures of the Black Hills: A Delphi Technique Study Russell Stubbles 97
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Tenth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop 109
Colloquium on Sustainable Housing and Urban Development 113
BOOK REVIEWS
Twenty-eighth Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop Proceedings edited by D. R. Bennett, reviewed by David T. Lewis 117
American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law by Lloyd Burton, reviewed by Richard B. Collins 118
Reptiles and Amphibians of the Cimarron National Grasslands Morton County, Kansas by Joseph T. Collins and Suzanne L. Collins, reviewed by Royce E. Ballinger 120
Free Trade on the Prairies: The Implications of Canada-U.S. Trade Pact for the Three Prairie Provinces by Steve Dorey, reviewed by Bashir A. Qasmi 122
Women in Veterinary Medicine: Profiles of Success by Sue Drum and H. Ellen Whiteley, reviewed by Polly Schoning 124
Points in Time: Structure and Event in a Late Northern Plains Hunting Society by Philip Duke, reviewed by W. Raymond Wood 126
Co-operatives and Community Development: Economics in Social Perspective by Brett Fairbairn, June Bold, Murray Fulton, Lou Hammond Ketilson, and Daniel Ish, reviewed by Sharon Lord Gaber 127
Multiple Job-holding Among Farm Families by M. C. Hallberg, Jill L. Findeis, and Daniel A. Lass, reviewed by Audie Blevins 129
The Wright Space: Patterns and Meaning in Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses by Grant Hildebrand, reviewed by David Seamon 131
Crane Music: A Natural History of American Cranes by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by Amy L. Richert 134
Colorado 's Government: Structure, Politics, Administration and Policy by Robert Stuart Lorch, reviewed by Robert Sittig 136
Strength in Adversity: A Study of the Alberta Economy by Robert L. Mansell and Michael B. Percy, reviewed byWilliam Watson 137
Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics and Process in the EC and USA by H. Wayne Moyer and Timothy E. Josling, reviewed by James G. Kendrik 139
The Government and Politics of the Alberta Métis Settlements by T. C. Pocklington, reviewed by K. P. Binda 141
The Scarab Beetles of Nebraska by Brett C. Ratcliffe, reviewed William B. Warner 143
Nebraska Residents' Perceptions of the State's Water Quality by S. Kay Rockwell, Ann Ziebarth, DeLynn R. Hay, and Shirley M. Niemeyer, reviewed by J. Allen Williams, Jr. 144
Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West edited by Clive S. Thomas, reviewed by Peter Longo 146
At Odds with Progress by Bret Wallach, reviewed by William E. Riebsame 147
The American West: A Narrative Bibliography and a Study in Regionalism by Charles Wilkinson, reviewed by Kenneth A. Erickson 149
NEWS AND NOTES 151
AUGUST 1991 VOL. 2/NO. 2
INTRODUCTION Paul A. Kay 163
ARTICLES
A Daring Proposal for Dealing with an Inevitable Disaster? A Review of the Buffalo Commons Proposal Karen De Bres and Mark Guizlo 165
Population Change in the High Plains Ogallala Region: 1980-1990 Stephen E. White 179
The Popper Proposals for the Great Plains: A View from the Canadian Prairies Alec H. Paul 199
Landscape Ecology of Hedgerows and Fencerows in Panama township, Lancaster County, Nebraska Richard Sutton 223
A Chromosome Study of Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) in Northern Colorado T. Tsuchiya, W. McGinnies and A. Shahla 255
Withholding Payment on Otoe-Missouria Reservation Lands Daniel W. Overton 263
Career Differentiation: The Legal Community in Lincoln, Nebraska,1880-1891 Andrew Koszewski 281
BOOK REVIEWS
Sociobiology and the Social Sciences edited by Robert W. Bell and Nancy J. Bell, reviewed by David R. Johnson 301
Nature's Heartland: Native Plant Communities of the Great Plains by William Boon and Harlen Groe, reviewed by John W. Wyckoff and Ann M. Wyckoff 302
Aquatic Invertebrates of Alberta by Hugh F. Clifford, reviewed by Paul B. Kannowski 304
Contemporary Federal Policy Toward American Indians by Emma R. Gross, edited by Beth R. Ritter 305
Gaining Access: Congress and the Farm Lobby, 1919-1981 by John Mark Hansen, reviewed by Jim Kendrick 308
Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 309
Canadian Agricultural Trade-Disputes, Actions and Prospects edited by G. Lermer and K. K. Klein, reviewed by Michael Troughton 310
Drought and Natural Resources Management in the United States: Impacts and Implications of the 1987-89 Drought by William E. Riebsame, Stanley A. Changnon, Jr., and Thomas R. Karl, reviewed by Steven J. Meyer 312
The Bats of Texas by David J. Schmidley, reviewed by Patricia W. Freeman 313
An Ecological History of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C. - A.D. 10,000 by Daniel E. Vasey, reviewed by.Donald M. Edwards 315
Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland in Jeopardy by John L. Zimmerman, reviewed by John Janovy, Jr. 317
NEWS AND NOTES 319
INDEX 321
FEBRUARY 1993 VOL. 3/NO. 1
ARTICLES
Establishment and Survival of the Endangered Blowout Penstemon James Stubbendieck, Theresa R. Flessner, Charles H. Butterfield, and Allen A. Steuter 3
Economic Impact of Leafy Spurge on Grazingland and Wildland in North Dakota F. Larry Leistritz, Dean A. Bangsund, Nancy M. Wallace, and Jay A. Leitch 21
The Iconography of Plants Collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition Linda Rossi and Alfred E. Schuyler 39
The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination to Self-Determination George D. Watson, Jr. 61
Soil Moisture and Clay Measurement of Volcaniclastic Soils of Western Nebraska N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, and S. L. Hartun 94
BOOK REVIEWS
Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada: Historical and Legal Aspects edited by Kerry Abel and Jean Friesen, reviewed by Ken Leyton-Brown 108
American Wildflower Florilegium by Jean Andrews, reviewed by David M. Sutherland 109
Organizing the Lakota: The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations by Thomas Biolsi, reviewed by David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)110
Western Canada in the International Economy by Edward J. Chambers and Michael B. Percy, reviewed by M. L. Lerohl 113
Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada. A Regional Perspective edited by Ken Coates, reviewed by Olive Patricia Dickason 114
Distributional Archaeology by James I. Ebert, reviewed by Lawrence C. Todd 115
Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 by Deborah Fink, reviewed by Betsy Downey 117
Preserving the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Elaine Freed, reviewed by Lawrence Sommer 119
The Birds of Canada by W. Earl Godfrey, edited by Paul A. Kay 121
Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly Kindscher, reviewed by David J. Harter 123
Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West by Joni Louise Kinsey, reviewed by Martha Kennedy 125
Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present by Edward Lazarus, reviewed by Philip Deloria 127
The Constitutional Future of the Prairie and Atlantic Regions of Canada edited by James N. McCrorie and Martha L. MacDonald, reviewed by Howard Cody 128
Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment on the Kansas Prairies, 1875- 1925 by D. Aidan McQuillan, reviewed by David Peterson 130
For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic by Georges E. Sioui, reviewed by Lisa Emmerich 131
Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith, reviewed by Karl J. Reinhard 132
Integrated Characterization of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting the Remaining Resource for Advanced Oil Recovery by Noel Tyler, et al, reviewed by Jack A. Babcock 134
A Social Geography of Canada: Essays in Honour of J. Wreford Watson edited by Guy M. Robinson, reviewed by Randy Widdis 135
Homes in Alberta; Buildings, Trends, and Design 1870- 1967 by Donald G. Wetherell and Irene Kmet, reviewed by Peter Caron 137
Rural Information Systems: New Direction in Data Collection and Retrieval edited by Rueben C. Buse and James L. Driscoll, reviewed by Paul H.Gessaman 138
Kansas: A Pictorial History edited by Robert W. Richmond, reviewed by James W. Hewitt 140
Useful Pleasures: The Shaping of Leisure in Alberta, 1896-1945 by Donald G. Wetherell with Irene Kmet, reviewed by David Weaver 141
The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal by David M. Wrobel, edited by Frederick C. Luebke 142
NEWS AND NOTES 145
AUGUST 1993 VOL. 3/NO. 2
EDITOR'S NOTE Clare V. McKanna, Jr. 163
The Value on an Interdisciplinary Environmental Awareness: An Introduction J. Allen Williams, Jr. 164
ARTICLES
Atrazine in the Platte River and Lincoln Municipal Water James D. Carr 167
Estimated Effect of Alternative Production Practices on Profit and Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, and Verel W. Benson 189
Biological Control of Weeds in Great Plains Rangelands Svata M. Louda and Robert A. Masters 215
A Grain Agriculture Fashioned in Nature's Image: The Work of The Land Institute Jon K. Piper 249
The Conservation Reserve Program: Habitat for Grassland Birds Douglas H. Johnson and Michael D. Schwartz 273
Is the Distribution of Sandhill Cranes on the Platte River Changing? Craig A. Faanes and Michael J. LeValley 297
Southern Alberta's Cadillac Desert Mary C. Thompson 305
Free Trade and the Environment: A Case Study of the Texas Colonias F. Andrew Schoolmaster 321
Environmental Impact Assessment in Practice: Exploring the Contradictions Joel Novek 337
BOOK REVIEWS
Ecology and Human Organization on the Great Plains by Douglas B. Bamforth, reviewed by David Wishart 358
Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past edited by William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, reviewed by John R. Wunder 359
Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds edited by John M. Hagan III and David W. Johnston, reviewed by William C. Scharf 362
Birds in Kansas, Volume II by Max C. Thompson and Charles Ely, reviewed by Thomas E. Labedz 364
The Land That Feeds Us by John Fraser Hart, reviewed by Brad Bays 365
Economic Models of Agricultural Land Conservation and Environmental Improvement edited by Earl O. Heady and Gary F. Vocke, reviewed by Kent W. Olson 367
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains edited by David E. Kromm and Stephen E. White, reviewed by Vincent H. Dreeszen 368
Wild Animals and American Environmental Ethics by Lisa Mighetto, reviewed by Ronald M. Case 370
Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West edited by W. L. Minckley and James E. Deason, reviewed by John D. Lynch 371
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Omaha Indians: The Big Village Site by John M. O'Shea and John Ludwickson, edited by Robin Ridington 373
To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy by Donald J. Pisani, reviewed by Mark A. Eifler 374
Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America by Bob Peperman Taylor, reviewed by John Martin Gillroy 376
Wilderness Issues in the Arid Lands of the Western United States edited by Samuel I. Zeveloff and Cyrus M. McKell, reviewed by Thomas R. Dunlap 378
Law for the Elephant, Law for the Beaver: Essays in the Legal History of the North American West Gordon edited by John McLaren, Hamar Foster, and Chet Orloff, reviewed by Morris Bakken 379
Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin, reviewed by Eric H. Monkkonen 380
The Beginnings of Canadian Meteorology by Morley Thomas, edited by Paul A. Kay 382
