GPR Volume 22

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   203

ABSTRACTS

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