SPRING 1999 VOL. 9/NO. 1
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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
Key Words: prehistoric, High Plains, foragers
NATURAL SCIENCES
Nonagricultural Benefits of Windbreaks in Kansas Ted T. Cable 41
Key Words: windbreaks
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
Key Words: breeding birds
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
Key Words: winter wheat seeding, soil erosion
Greater Prairie-Chicken Harvest in Kansas: Early vs. Regular Seasons Francis E. Durbian III, Elmer J. Finck, and Roger Applegate 87
Key Words: prairie-chicken
SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Platte River Cooperative Agreement: A Basinwide Approach to Endangered Species Issues" Allan Jenkins 95
Key Words: Platte River Cooperative Agreement
Factors in Rural Community Survival: Review of Insights from Thriving Small Towns Milan Wall 115
Key Words: rural community survival
Critique: Geological Errors in Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains Stephen S. Hart 137
Key Words: geologic errors, Walter Prescott Webb
Is the Family Disappearing? Northern Great Plains vs. National Trends in Family Structure Larry R. Peterson 145 [1999 Leslie Hewes Award]
Key Words: family structure, Northern Great Plains
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
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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
Key Words: Great Plains, grasslands
FEATURE ARTICLE
Grassland Ecosystems in Central North America William K. Lauenroth, I. C. Burke, and M. P. Gutmann 223
Key Words: ecosystems
NATURAL SCIENCES
Response of buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides) and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) to Fire Paulette L. Ford 261
Key Words: buffalograss, blue grama, fire
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]
Key Words: biodiversity, restoration
Japanese Brome Impacts on Western Wheatgrass in Northern Great Plains Rangelands: An Update Marshall R. Haferkamp and R. K. Heitschmidt 315
Key Words: Japanese brome, Western wheatgrass
Comparative Ecology of Bison and Cattle on Mixed Grass Prairie Allen A. Steuter 329
Key Words: mixed grass prairie, bison, cattle
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Essay: A Wilderness Condition? Great Plains Ecology as Euro-Americans Found it Dan Flores 343
Key Words: wilderness ecology
Response of Riparian Vegetation to Streamflow Regulation and Land Use in the Great Plains W. Carter Johnson 357
Key Words: riparian vegetation, streamflow
Prairie Grasslands: An Undervalued Resource Jill Vaisey and Peggy Strankman 371
Key Words: prairie grasslands
Sustainability of Human Communities in Prairie Grasslands Cornelia Butler Flora 397
Key Words: human communities
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
NEWS AND NOTES 4536
INDEX 45