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
Key Words: freshwater fuctions, wetlands
Hydrologic Functions of Prairie Wetlands James W. LaBaugh, Thomas C. Winter and Donald O. Rosenberry 17
Key Words: freshwater values, hydrofunctions
The Groundwater Recharge Function of Small Wetlands in the Semi-Arid Northern Prairies Garth van der Kamp and Masaki Hayashi 39
Key Words: groundwater recharge
Nitrogen Transformation and Fate in Prairie Wetlands William G. Crumpton and L. Gordon Goldsborough 57
Key Words: nitrogent fate
Distribution and Environmental Fate of Pesticides in Prairie Wetlands L. Gordon Goldsborough and William G. Crumpton 73
Key Words: pesticides
Sedimentation of Prairie Wetlands Robert A. Gleason and Ned H. Euliss, Jr. 97
Key Words: sedimentation
Effects of Atmospheric Change and Agriculture on the Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology of Prairie Wetlands Richard D. Robarts and Marley J. Waiser 113
Key Words: atmospheric change, microbial ecology
Decision-making for Prairie Wetlands Restoration Susan M. Galatowitsch, Arnold G. van der Valk and Rachel A. Budelsky 137
Key Words: westland restoration
Functions and Values of Prairie Wetlands: Economic Realities Jay A. Leitch and Patrick Fridgen 157
Key Words: functions, values
Wetland Policy in Canada: A Research Agenda for Policy Reform Jonathan Scarth 169
Key Words: westland policy
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]
Key Words: Tallgrass Prairie, remnants, relicts
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
Key Words: greenhouse gas emissions</<br />
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
Key Words: grassland birds, habitat structure
Nuclear DNA Content and Chromosome Numbers in Switchgrass Ku Lu, Shawn M. Kaeppler, K. P. Vogel, K. Arumuganathan, and D. J. Lee 269
Key Words: switchgrass, nuclear DNA
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Regional Economic Development: Evaluation of a Local Initiative in North Dakota F. Larry Leistritz and Dean A. Bangsund 281
Key Words: rural economic development
Movie Theaters in the Maintenance of Rural Communities in Kansas Roy Christman 299
Key Words: movie theaters
The Economic Impact of Hockey in Saskatchewan: A Rural-Urban Comparison David A. Fennell 315
Key Words: hockey, Saskatchewan
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