SPRING 2012 VOL. 22/NO. 1
Identity, Integration, and Assimilation Recorded in Manitoba’s Polish and Ukrainian Cemeteries Lukasz Albanski and John C. Lehr 3
Key Words: cemeteries, ethnicity, Manitoba, Poles, Ukrainians
Mapping Burned Areas in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma, 2000–2012 Rhett L. Mohler and Douglas G. Goodin 15
Key Words: burned-area mapping, MODIS, prescribed fire, remote sensing, tallgrass prairie
Parochlus kiefferi (Garrett, 1925) in Nebraska (Diptera: Chironomidae) Barbara Hayford 27
Key Words: Chironomidae, freshwater conservation, rare species, stream ecology
Adaptation of Annual Forage Legumes in the Southern Great Plains John A. Guretzky, Twain J. Butler, and Jim P. Muir 35
Key Words: annual clovers, annual medics, hairyvetch, overseeding, pasture management, Austrian winter pea
A Conceptual Model to Facilitate Amphibian Conservation in the Northern Great Plains David M. Mushet, Ned H. Euliss, Jr., and Craig A. Stockwell 45
Key Words: amphibian conservation, adaptive management, conceptual models, ecological attributes, ecological effects, ecosystem drivers, ecosystem stressors
Channel Width and Least Tern and Piping Plover Nesting Incidence on the Lower Platte River, Nebraska Joel G. Jorgensen, Mary Bomberger Brown, and Andrew J. Tyre 59
Key Words: channel width, Charadrius melodus, interior least tern, lower Platte River, piping plover, Sternula antillarum athalassos
Wetland Hydrodynamics and Long-Term Use of Spring Migration Areas by Lesser Scaup in Eastern South Dakota Sharon N. Kahara and Steven R. Chipps 69
Key Words: lesser scaup, Prairie Coteau, Prairie Pothole Region, wetland hydrodynamics, wetland surface area
Reproduction and Population Characteristics of White-Tailed Jackrabbits in South Dakota Charles Dieter and Dustin Schaible 79
Key Words: fecundity, population characteristics, reproduction, South Dakota, white-tailed jackrabbit
ABSTRACTS
BOOK REVIEWS
Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories by Carolyn Podruchny and Laura Peters, eds., reviewed by Frank D. Lewis 87
Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 by Cathleen D. Cahill, reviewed by Stephen J. Rockwell 87
Alberta’s Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009—and Beyond by Tom Langford, reviewed by Gordon Cleveland 88
Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies by Frances Swyripa, reviewed by Hans Werner 89
Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967 by Dale Barbour, reviewed by Pauline Greenhill 89
Two Toms: Lessons from a Shoshone Doctor by Thomas H. Johnson and Helend S. Johnson, reviewed by Christopher Loether 90
A White-Bearded Plainsman: The Memoirs of Archaeologist W. Raymond Wood by Raymond W. Wood, reviewed by Peter Bleed 90
Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts by Bruce Granville Miller, reviewed by Drew Mildon 91
Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas by Michael Ariens; Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken, reviewed by David Anderson 91
Texas Bobwhites: A Guide to Their Foods and Habitat Management by Jon A. Larson, Timothy E. Fulbright, Leonard A. Brennan, Fidel Hernández, and Fred C. Bryant, reviewed by Markus J. Peterson 92
Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America by David E. Naugle, ed.; Foreword by Mark S. Boyce, reviewed by Cameron L. Aldridge 93
The Gospel of Sustainability: Media, Market, and LOHAS by Monica M. Emerick, reviewed by Toby A. Ten Eyck 93
FALL 2012 VOL. 22/NO. 2
Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and Trans-Mississippi West Robert Pahre 99
Key Words: westward expansion, interpretation, national parks
Evaluating the Role of Latinidad and the Latino Threat in the State of Missouri Joel Jennings and J.S. Onésimo Sandoval 123
Key Words: demographics, Latinidad, Latino threat, Midwest, urban
Right Call: Baseball Coachs’ Attempts to Influence Umpires Kevin Warneke and Dave Ogden 137
Key Words: baseball, coaches, influence tactics, social power, umpires
Documenting Change at Upper Hamburg Bend: Nebraska’s First Side-Channel Restoration Brandon L. Eder and Gerald E. Mestl 147
Key Words: alluvial processes, chute, mitigation, pallid sturgeon, restoration, side channel
Initial Changes in Species Cover Following Savanna Restoration Treatments in Western Iowa David A. McKenzie, Thomas B. Bragg, and David M. Sutherland 163
Key Words: bur oak, Loess Hills, Quercus macrocarpa, restoration, savanna
Monitoring Standing Herbage of the Sands and Choppy Sands Ecological Vegetation Types in the Nebraska Sandhills Daniel W. Uresk 181
Key Words: grassland structure, livestock, management, Robel pole, wildlife
Review of Conspecific Attraction and Area Sensitivity of Grassland Birds David R.W. Bruinsma and Nicola Koper 187
Key Words: area sensitivity, behavioral ecology, conspecific attraction, grassland birds, landscape ecology
New Distribution Records of Great Plains Pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) Paul O. Cooney and James A. Kalisch 195
Key Words: pseudoscorpion, false scorpion, arthropod records, Great Plains, grasslands, ecology, yucca, sagebruch
REVIEW ESSAY
An Atlas to Be Read from Cover to Cover, a review of Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer; Foreword by David J. Wishart; Introduction by John C. Hudson, reviewed by Harm J. De Blij 203ABSTRACTS
BOOK REVIEWS
Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West: Return of the Horse by John S. Hockensmith, reviewed by Karen Dalke 207
Birds of Southwestern Nebraska: An Annotated Check-List of Species in the North and South Platte River Valleys and at Lake McConaughy by Mary Bomberger Brown, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Charles R. Brown, reviewed by Wayne J. Mollhoff 207
Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide by Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz, reviewed by Stephen L. Young 208
Agricultural History: History of the Prairie West Series, Volume 3 edited by Gregory P. Marchildon, reviewed by Bradford Rennie 209
Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons by David M. Freeman, Foreword by Robert Ward, reviewed by Mary Bomberger Brown 209
Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba by Shannon Stunden Bower, Foreword by Graeme Wynn, reviewed by Sterling Evans 210
Clovis Lithic Technology: Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas by Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, David L. Carlson, et al., Foreword by Michael B. Collins, reviewed by Heather M. Rockwell 211
Land of the Tejas: Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700 by John Wesley Arnn III, Foreword by Tom D. Dillehay, reviewed by Robert Cast 212
On the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado by Bonnie J. Clark, reviewed by Jason M. LaBelle 212
Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity by Joanne Barker, reviewed by Jo Carrillo 213
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan, reviewed by Robyn Green 214
White Man’s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community by Erica Prussing, reviewed by Paul Spicer 215
Trailblazers: The Lives and Times of Michael Ewanchuk and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk by John Lehr and David McDowell, reviewed by Denis Hlynka 216
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight by Timothy Pachirat, reviewed by Donald D. Stull 216
Keep True: A Life in Politics by Howard Pawley, Foreword by Paul Moist, reviewed by Kelly Saunders 217
Turning Points: A Memoir by George A. “Bud” Sinner and Bob Jansen, reviewed by Stephen W. King 218
State of Change: Colorado Politics in the Twenty-First Century edited by Courtenay W. Daum, Robert J. Duffy, and John A. Straayer, reviewed by Robert R. Preuhs 219
Together We Can: Pathway to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M by Edward A. Hiler and Steven L. Bosserman, reviewed by Theodore R. Alter 219