Great Plains Research Table of Contents
SPRING 1997 VOL. 7/NO. 1
ARTICLES
The Prairie Indian Vote in Canadian Politics 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study from Alberta Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost and Kirby Smith 3 [1997 Leslie Hewes Award]
Restoring the Pre-Settlement Landscape in Stanley County, South Dakota Susan E. Boettcher and W. Carter Johnson 27
Gubernatorial Electoral Coalitions in the Great Plains Thomas M. Carsey 41
Farmsteads as Mirrors of Cultural Adjustment and Change: The Ukranian Canadian Experience James W. Darlington 71
Borderland and Interaction in the International Region of the Great Plains: An Historic- Geographical Perspective Randy William Widdis 103
BOOK REVIEWS
Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction edited by Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, reviewed by Thomas J. Lyon 139
The Sjovold Site: A River Crossing Campsite in the Northern Plains by Ian Dyck and Richard E. Morlan, with contributions by E. A. Christiansen, Hugh E. Hendry, D. W. Anderson, and J. G. Ellis, reviewed by Henry T. Epp 140
The Jumanos: Hunters and Traders of the South Plains by Nancy Parrott Hickerson, reviewed by Yasuhide Kawashima 143
Comanche Political History: An Ethnohistorical Perspective 1706-1875 by Thomas W. Kavanagh, reviewed by Daniel J. Gelo 145
Retracing Major Stephen H. Long's Expedition: The Itinerary and Botany by George J. Goodman and Cheryl A. Lawson, reviewed by Robert B. Kaul 146
Sovereign Nations or Reservations? An Economic History of American Indians by Terry L. Anderson, reviewed by Nicholas J. Aieta 148
Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives edited by Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack, reviewed by Ronald L. Trosper 149
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum by Teresa D. LaFromboise, reviewed by Lee Little Soldier 150
The Institutionalized Cabinet: Governing the Western Provinces by Christopher Dunn, reviewed by Paul Barker 152
State Trust Lands: History, Management and Sustainable Use by John A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax, reviewed by Clive S. Thomas 153
Main Street Revisited: Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America by Richard V. Francaviglia, reviewed by Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser 155
Wyoming: A Source Book by Roy A. Jordan and S. Brett DeBoer, reviewed by Jay H. Buckley 157
Prairie Night: Black-footed Ferrets and the Recovery of Endangered Species by Brian Miller, Richard P. Reading, Steve Forrest, with foreword by Mark R. Stanley Price, reviewed by Jerry L. Godbey 158
The Nebraska Sand Hills: The Human Landscape by Charles Barron McIntosh, reviewed by Philip J. Gersmehl 159
The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban edited by Satadal Dasgupta Lanham, reviewed by Paul Gingrich 161
Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico by William G. Degenhardt, Charles W. Painter, and Andrew H. Price, reviewed by Jeffrey R. Parmelee 162
Aboriginal Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary by Thomas Isaac, with forewords by Graydon Nicholas and Strater J. Crowfoot, reviewed by John R. Wunder 164
The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 by Jon Gjerde, reviewed by John D. Buenker 165
Saving the Best of Texas: A Partnership Approach to Conservation by Richard C. Bartlett, reviewed by Pete A. Y. Gunter 167
Grain Elevators by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger with foreword by Aldo Rossi, reviewed by Robert Duncan 169
Economic Thresholds for Integrated Pest Management edited by Leon G. Higley and Larry P. Pedigo, reviewed by Richard E. Plant 170
NEWS AND NOTES 173
FALL 1997 VOL.7/NO. 2
ARTICLES
A Great Plains Presidential Primary James L. McDowell 179
Where One Size Does Not Fit All: Small Community Diversity Kathleen Prochaska-Cue, Ann Ziebarth, and Bonnie Shrewsbury 209
Depopulation of the Rural Great Plains Counties of Texas Charlene R. Nickels and Frederick A. Day 225
The Politics of Elementary Schools in a German-American Roman Catholic Settlement in Canada's Province of Saskatchewan, 1903-1925 Clinton O. White 251
Microclimate of an Aboriginal Winter Campsite at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, Saskatoon E. A. Ripley, O. W. Archibold, C. Jackson, and E. G. Walker 273
Regional Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Differences among U.S. Latinos: The Effects of Historical and Contemporary Latino Immigration/Migration Systems Ed A. Muñoz and Suzanne Ortega 289
Growth of a Natural History Museum on the Plains: The University of Nebraska State Museum Thomas P. Myers 315
BOOK REVIEWS
Dividing New Mexico's Waters, 1700-1912 by John O. Baxter, reviewed by Kenneth Orona 347
The Texas Challenge: Population Change and the Future of Texas edited by Steve H. Murdock, Nazrul Hoque, Martha Michael, Steve White, and Beverly Pecotte, reviewed by Robert K. Holz 348
Prairie Voices: Process Anthropology in Family Medicine by Howard F. Stein, reviewed by Charles B. Hennon 350
Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique edited by Philip Duke and Michael C. Wilson, reviewed by Alan J. Osborn 352
Peyote: The Divine Cactus by Edward F. Anderson, reviewed by Daniel J. Gelo 353
From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West that Was edited by Richard E. Jensen, reviewed by Charles W. Allen John Husmann 355
Grazing on Public Lands by Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, reviewed by Kathleen H. Keeler 356
NEBRASKAland Magazine: Wildlife Viewing Guide by Joseph Knue, reviewed by Paul M. McKenzie 357
Of Bison and Man by Harold P. Danz, reviewed by James R. Shortridge 359
Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair by Leslie Prosterman, reviewed by Georgia L. Stevens 360
A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif; the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis by Peter Bakker, reviewed by Paul Dube 362
Ecology & Economics of the Great Plains by Daniel S. Licht, reviewed by David M. Armstrong 363
Changing Rural Institutions: A Canadian Perspective edited by Richard C. Rounds, reviewed by Paul H. Gessaman 365
Social Policy and Social Justice: The NDP Government in Saskatchewan during the Blakeney Years edited by Jim Harding, reviewed by Allen Seager 367
"Toil and Peaceful Life": Doukhobor Village Settlement in Saskatchewan, 1899-1918 by Carl J. Tracie, reviewed by Hans P. Werner 369
NEWS AND NOTES 371
ANNUAL INDEX 377
SPRING 1998 VOL. 8/NO. 1
FRESHWATER FUNCTIONS AND VALUES OF PRAIRIE WETLANDS: A special issue sponsored
by the Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research (IWWR) and supported by
Ducks Unlimited Canada and Ducks Unlimited Inc.
ARTICLES
Freshwater Functions and Values of Prairie Wetlands Henry R. Murkin 3
Hydrologic Functions of Prairie Wetlands James W. LaBaugh, Thomas C. Winter and Donald O. Rosenberry 17
The Groundwater Recharge Function of Small Wetlands in the Semi-Arid Northern Prairies Garth van der Kamp and Masaki Hayashi 39
Nitrogen Transformation and Fate in Prairie Wetlands William G. Crumpton and L. Gordon Goldsborough 57
Distribution and Environmental Fate of Pesticides in Prairie Wetlands L. Gordon Goldsborough and William G. Crumpton 73
Sedimentation of Prairie Wetlands Robert A. Gleason and Ned H. Euliss, Jr. 97
Effects of Atmospheric Change and Agriculture on the Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology of Prairie Wetlands Richard D. Robarts and Marley J. Waiser 113
Decision-making for Prairie Wetlands Restoration Susan M. Galatowitsch, Arnold G. van der Valk and Rachel A. Budelsky 137
Functions and Values of Prairie Wetlands: Economic Realities Jay A. Leitch and Patrick Fridgen 157
Wetland Policy in Canada: A Research Agenda for Policy Reform Jonathan Scarth 169
BOOK REVIEWS
Ruddy Ducks & Other Stifftails: Their Behavior and Biology by Paul A. Johnsgard and Montserrat Carbonell, reviewed by John Faaborg 183
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes by Hugh Prince, reviewed by Sanford S. Kaplan 184
Common Flora of the Playa Lakes by David A. Haukos and Loren M. Smith, reviewed by Kelly W. Allred 185
Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes by Dennis H. Knight, reviewed by David M. Armstrong 187
Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem edited by Fred B. Samson and Fritz L. Knopf, reviewed by Walter H. Fick 188
Collecting the Natural World: Legal Requirements and Personal Liability for Collecting Plants, Animals, Rocks, Minerals and Fossils by Donald Wolberg and Patsy Reinard, reviewed by Gregory W. Brown 189
Paleoindian: Geoarcheology of the Southern High Plains by Vance T. Holliday, reviewed by Berkley B. Bailey 191
Atlas of the New West edited by William Riebsame, with maps by James Robb, reviewed by Michael F. Logan 192
North American Exploration: A Continent Defined edited by John Logan Allan, reviewed by Leslie Hewes 194
The Geography of Manitoba: Its Land and Its People edited by John Welsted, John Everitt, and Christoph Stadel, reviewed by Paul Hackett 195
Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts by Richard V. Francaviglia, reviewed by Duane A. Smith 197
Guide to Kansas Architecture by David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich, reviewed by Jennifer Honebrink 198
Buildings of Colorado by Thomas J. Noel, reviewed by Ted A. Ertl 199
Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts by William M. Clements, reviewed by Paul G. Zolbrod 201
Bless the Pure & Humble: Texas Lawyers and Oil Regulation, 1919-1936 by Nicholas George Malavis, reviewed by Patrick L. Cox 203
NEWS AND NOTES 205
FALL 1998 VOL. 8/NO.2
CONTENTS
LETTER FROM THE NEW EDITOR 211
FEATURE ARTICLE
Tallgrass Prairie: Remnants and Relicts Jane H. Bock and Carl E. Bock 213 [1998 Leslie Hewes Award]
NATURAL SCIENCES
Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Southwestern Kansas Douglas G. Goodin, John A. Harrington Jr., Gerold I. Holden Jr., and Brian D. Witcher 231
Grassland Birds and Habitat Structure in Sandhills Prairie Managed Using Cattle or Bison Plus Fire Randall L. Griebel, Stephen L. Winter, and Allen A. Steuter 255
Nuclear DNA Content and Chromosome Numbers in Switchgrass Ku Lu, Shawn M. Kaeppler, K. P. Vogel, K. Arumuganathan, and D. J. Lee 269
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Regional Economic Development: Evaluation of a Local Initiative in North Dakota F. Larry Leistritz and Dean A. Bangsund 281
Movie Theaters in the Maintenance of Rural Communities in Kansas Roy Christman 299
The Economic Impact of Hockey in Saskatchewan: A Rural-Urban Comparison David A. Fennell 315
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Grazing on Public Lands: An Alternative View William A. Laycock 335
BOOK REVIEWS
The Desert Grassland edited by Mitchel P. McClaran and Thomas R. Van Devender, reviewed by Rob Mitchell 337
The Hidden Sea: Ground Water, Springs, and Wells by Francis H. Chapelle, reviewed by David E. Kromm 338
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook: For Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands edited by Stephen Packard and Cornelia F. Mutel, reviewed by Douglas H. Johnson 339
The Science of Conservation Planning: Habitat Conservation under the Endangered Species Act by Reed F. Noss, Michael A. O'Connell, and Dennis D. Murphy, reviewed by Craig A. Davis 341
U.S. Agricultural Response to Income Taxation by Hoy F. Carman, reviewed by A. L. Frederick 342
Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis edited by Andrew Hurley, reviewed by Timothy R. Mahoney 344
People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History by Emily W. B. Russell, reviewed by Emily Greenwald 346
Principles of Geoarchaeology: A North American Perspective by Michael R.Waters, reviewed by Rolfe D. Mandel 348
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E. Emerson, reviewed by Alan J. Osborn 349
The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Margaret A. Kennedy, reviewed by Peter C. Mancall 352
Parallel Paths: Fiduciary Doctrine and the Crown-Native Relationship in Canada by Leonard Ian Rotman, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 353
North American Exploration: A Continent Comprehended edited by John Logan Allen, reviewed by G. Malcolm Lewis 355
The Explorers' Texas: The Animals They Found by DelWeniger, reviewed byDavid 0. Ribble 357
Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by James D. Rising 358
NEWS AND NOTES 360
ANNUAL INDEX 363
SPRING 1999 VOL. 9/NO. 1
CONTENTS
LETTER FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES EDITOR 3
TRIBUTE TO LESLIE HEWES 5
GREAT PLAINS RESEARCH AWARDS 7
FEATURE ARTICLE
Late Prehistoric High Plains Foragers: Starving Nomads, Affluent Foragers? LuAnn Wandsnider 9
NATURAL SCIENCES
Nonagricultural Benefits of Windbreaks in Kansas Ted T. Cable 41
Response of Breeding Birds in the Great Plains to Low Density Urban Sprawl David M. Engle, Tania L. Criner, Jon C. Boren, Ronald E. Masters, and Mark S. Gregory 55
Effect of Winter Wheat Seeding Date on Soil Erosion in the West-Central Great Plains S.J. Meyer, D.J. Lyon, and D.D. Baltensperger 75
Greater Prairie-Chicken Harvest in Kansas: Early vs. Regular Seasons Francis E. Durbian III, Elmer J. Finck, and Roger Applegate 87
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Platte River Cooperative Agreement: A Basinwide Approach to Endangered Species Issues" Allan Jenkins 95
Factors in Rural Community Survival: Review of Insights from Thriving Small Towns Milan Wall 115
Critique: Geological Errors in Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains Stephen S. Hart 137
Is the Family Disappearing? Northern Great Plains vs. National Trends in Family Structure Larry R. Peterson 145 [1999 Leslie Hewes Award]
BOOK REVIEWS
Western Visions: Perspectives on the West in Canada by Roger Gibbons and Sonia Arrison, reviewed by Michael D. Behiels 165
The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957 edited by D.C. Story, and R. Bruce Shepard, reviewed by William Neville 167
Rural Gays and Lesbians: Building on the Strengths of Communities by James Donald Smith and Ronald J. Mancoske, reviewed by Stephen T. Russell 169
Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men by Lester B. Brown, reviewed by Carolyn Epple 170
The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition by Bruce E. Johansen, reviewed by Mark R. Scherer 172
Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials by John William Sayer, reviewed by Tahunska Tanka (Leonard R. Bruguier) 173
Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality by Luana Ross, reviewed by Elizabeth S. Grobsmith 175
American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts by Shirley Silver and Wick R. Miller, reviewed by Catherine Rudin 178
Environmental Policy and NEPA: Past, Present, and Future edited by Ray Clark and Larry Canter, reviewed by Dean B. Suagee179
Reconciling Ecosystem and Political Borders: A Legal Map by Arlene J. Kwasniak, reviewed by Elaine L. Hughes 181
Evaluating Natural Resource Use in Agriculture by Thyrele Robertson, et al. reviewed by Glenn Helmers, 182
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics by Tony Prato, reviewed by Raymond J. Supalla 184
Managing Growth in America's Communities by Douglas R. Porter, reviewed by Gordon Scholz 185
Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmlands by Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers, reviewed by Julia Freedgood 187
Public Enterprise in an Era of Change edited by John R.Allan, reviewed by Ken Dennis 189
Archaeology on the Great Plains edited by W. Raymond Wood, reviewed by Philip Duke 190
In Search of Ancient Alberta by Barbara Huck and Doug Whiteway, reviewed by Raymond LeBlanc 191
The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics by Michael H. Crawford, reviewed by Theodore G. Schurr 193
An Atlas of the Sand Hills (3rd ed. expanded) by Ann S. Bleed and Charles A. Flowerday, reviewed by y Walter H. Schacht 194
The Texas Red River Country: The Official Survey of the Headwaters, 1876 by T. Lindsay Baker, reviewed by John L. Allen 196
Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates edited by Fritz L. Knopf and Fred B. Samson, reviewed by Rolf R. Koford 197
Cowbirds and Other Brood Parasites by Catherine P. Ortega, reviewed by Paul Porneluzi 199
Swallow Summer by Charles R. Brown, reviewed by Paul A. Johnsgard 201
BOOK NOTES 203
NEWS AND NOTES 205
FALL 1999 VOL. 9/NO. 2
SPECIAL ISSUE : Great Plains Grasslands at the Millennium
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Background and Synopsis: Symposium on the Great Plains Grasslands at the Millennium John E. Mitchell, Svata M. Louda, and Bertha Gillam 211
FEATURE ARTICLE
Grassland Ecosystems in Central North America William K. Lauenroth, I. C. Burke, and M. P. Gutmann 223
NATURAL SCIENCES
Response of buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) to Fire Paulette L. Ford 261
Recent Biodiversity in Great Plains Grasslands: Implications for Restoration and Management Carolyn Hull Sieg, Curtis H. Flather, and Stephen McCanny 277 [1999 Charles E. Bessey Award]
Japanese Brome Impacts on Western Wheatgrass in Northern Great Plains Rangelands: An Update Marshall R. Haferkamp and R. K. Heitschmidt 315
Comparative Ecology of Bison and Cattle on Mixed Grass Prairie Allen A. Steuter 329
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Essay: A Wilderness Condition? Great Plains Ecology as Euro-Americans Found it Dan Flores 343
Response of Riparian Vegetation to Streamflow Regulation and Land Use in the Great Plains W. Carter Johnson 357
Prairie Grasslands: An Undervalued Resource Jill Vaisey and Peggy Strankman 371
Sustainability of Human Communities in Prairie Grasslands Cornelia Butler Flora 397
ERRATUM: Greater Prairie-Chicken Harvest in Kansas: Early vs. Regular Seasons Abstract and table Francis E. Durbian III, Elmer J. Finck, and Roger D. Applegate 421
BOOK REVIEWS
A Classification of North American Biotic Communities by David E. Brown, Frank Reichenbacher, Susan E. Franson, reviewed by Robert B. Kaul 423
Population Biology of Grasses edited by G. P. Cheplick, reviewed by Thomas B. Bragg 424
Agronomy of Grassland Systems, 2nd ed. by C. J. Pearson and R. L. Ison, reviewed by David Bade 427
Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Valley Region by Kim Alan Chapman, Adelheid Fischer, and Mary Kinsella Ziegenhagen, reviewed by Tom Domek 428
Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie edited by Alan K. Knapp, John M. Briggs, David C. Hartnett, and Scott L. Collins, reviewed by Mary Ann Vinton 430
The Evolving Science of Grassland Improvement by L. R. Humphreys, reviewed by William K. Lauenroth 432
Practical Approaches to the Conservation of Biological Diversity edited by Richard K. Baydack, Henry Campa III, and Jonathan B. Haufler, reviewed by Jon Paul Rodríguez 434
Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making, 2nd ed. by Allan Savory with Jody Butterfield, reviewed by Cliff Montagne 435
Ecosystem Management: Applications for Sustainable Forest and Wildlife Resources edited by Mark S. Boyce and Alan Haney, reviewed by Roger Suffling 437
Biology and Management of Noxious Rangeland Weeds edited by Roger L. Sheley and Janet K. Petroff, reviewed by Steven Radosevich 438
Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes edited by Richard K. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson, reviewed by Gordon Scholz 439
Nature Wars: People vs. Pests by Mark L. Winston, reviewed by Dennis Keeney 441
Bugs in the System: Redesigning the Pesticide Industry for Sustainable Agriculture edited by William Vorley and Dennis Keeney, reviewed by Robert J. Wright 443
Reducing Soil Water Evaporation with Tillage and Straw Mulching by S. K. Jalota and S. S. Prihar, reviewed by Gail A. Wicks 444
The Groundwater Atlas of Nebraska, Rev. ed. edited by C.A. Flowerday, reviewed by P. Allen Macfarlane 445
A Color Handbook of Diseases of Small Grain Cereal Crops by T.D. Murray, D.W. Parry, and N. D. Cattlin, reviewed by William W. Bockus 446
Encyclopedia of Rural America: The Land and People. 2 vols. edited by Gary A. Goreham, reviewed by Maurice Baker 447
Herbarium of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Vol. 12, The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition edited by Gary E. Moulton, reviewed by Stanley L. Welsh 448
BOOK NOTES
Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change edited by N. Walford, J. C. Everitt, and D. E. Napton 451
The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity by Debra L. Donahue 451
The Ecoregions of Saskatchewan by Donald F. Action, G. Padbury, and C. Stushnoff 451
Rattlesnake: Portrait of a Predator by Manny Rubio 452
Justice in Paradise by Bruce Clark 452
