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Avian Associations Of The Northern Great Plains Grasslands, Harold A. Kantrud, Russell L. Kologiski
Avian Associations Of The Northern Great Plains Grasslands, Harold A. Kantrud, Russell L. Kologiski
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
The grassland region of the northern Great Plains was divided into six broad subregions by application of an avian indicator species analysis to data obtained from 582 sample plots censused during the breeding season. Common, ubiquitous species and rare species had little classificatory value and were eliminated from the data set used to derive the avian associations. Initial statistical division of the plots likely reflected structure of the dominant plant species used for nesting; later divisions probably were related to foraging or nesting cover requirements based on vegetation height or density, habitat heterogeneity, or possibly to the existence of mutually …
Book Review: Animal Population Dynamics, Douglas H. Johnson, James W. Grier
Book Review: Animal Population Dynamics, Douglas H. Johnson, James W. Grier
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
This booklet is one of a series offered by the publisher as an alternative to a single textbook in ecology. Each is intended to be a self-contained and concise summary of some topic in ecology. This one attempts to cover a major subject in a few small (13 x 22 cm) pages. It achieves but limited success.
Breeding Birds Of Wooded Draws In Western North Dakota, Craig A. Faanes
Breeding Birds Of Wooded Draws In Western North Dakota, Craig A. Faanes
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
Wooded draws represent a unique vegetative community within the northern Great Plains. Because of their limited extent over broad areas of grasslands, wooded draws offer potentially diverse breeding areas for a large array of birds and mammals. Seabloom et al. (1978) reported that although wooded habitats made up only 8.6% of their area sampled in southwestern North Dakota, nearly 33% of the observed vertebrate fauna occupied wooded habitats.
Little information is available on vertebrate communities in wooded vegetation of western North Dakota. Hopkins (1980) studied the breeding avifaunas of several habitat types in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Hiemenz and Cassel …
Survival Of Mallard Broods In South-Central North Dakota, Larry Talent, Robert Jarvis, Gary Krapu
Survival Of Mallard Broods In South-Central North Dakota, Larry Talent, Robert Jarvis, Gary Krapu
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
Survival characteristics of 25 broods of Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) were determined on a study area in the Missouri Coteau of south-central North Dakota in 1976-1977. Radio-equipped Mallard hens fledged at least one duckling in 7 of 16 (44%) broods produced in 1976, 5 of 9 (55%) in 1977, and 12 of 25 (48%) for both years combined. Of the 13 broods in which all young were lost, 11 (85%) were lost within the first two weeks after hatching. All losses of entire broods occurred in wetlands; few ducklings and no entire broods were lost during overland travel. Predation …
Canadian & American Agriculture: Competitors? Cooperators? Or Both?, Clayton K. Yeutter
Canadian & American Agriculture: Competitors? Cooperators? Or Both?, Clayton K. Yeutter
Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers
It is a pleasure for me to be in Toronto, for the first time ever. My wife and I honeymooned in Canada 30 years ago, so every return trip to your beautiful country is a nostalgic experience. With an 80 cent exchange rate, we really ought to come back for another honeymoon in June and stay the rest of the year! Marshall Loeb, one of our outstanding business journalists, delivered a speech a couple of years ago in which he predicted the winning nations in international economic competition for the next decade or two. His top category encompassed only five …
Stand Der Akklimatisation Von Ondatra Zibethica L., 1766 In Der Mongolei, N. Dawaa, P. Lchamsuren, Michael Stubbe
Stand Der Akklimatisation Von Ondatra Zibethica L., 1766 In Der Mongolei, N. Dawaa, P. Lchamsuren, Michael Stubbe
Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298
Die Bisamratte Ondatra zibethica ist auf dem Territorium der Mongolischen Volksrepublik in den Flußsystemen der Selenga, des Ulz und Onon sowie des Bulgan-gol selbständig eingewandert. Zu Einbürgerungen kam es 1967 und 1971 am Char-us-nuur sowie 1978 am Zergijn-caagan-nuur und Olon-nuur. Der weiteren Verbreitung dieses wertvollen Pelzlieferanten wird besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt.
Russian abstract:
Заключение
На территсрии Монгольской Народной Республики ондатра Ondatra zibethica са мостоятельно заселила системы рек Селенга, Улз, Онон и Булган-Гол. Интро дукции происошли в 1967 и 1973 гг. на Хар-Ус-Нууре, а также в 1978 г. на Зер гийн-Цагаан-Нуурс и Олон-Нууре. Дальнейшему распространению этого ценного шушного зверя удс."l'ястся особое внимание. …
Zur Entwicklung Der Wildforschung Und Jagdwirtschaft In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, N. Dawaa, Ch. Suchbat
Zur Entwicklung Der Wildforschung Und Jagdwirtschaft In Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, N. Dawaa, Ch. Suchbat
Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298
1972 wurde an dег Mongolischen Staallichen Unveгsität Ulan-Bator mit der Ausbildung von Wildbiologen begonnen, um durch diese Fachkadeг die Aгbeit auf jagd wirtschaftlichem Gebiet qualitativ entscheidend zul veгbesseгn. Die Veгfasseг beгichten übег die wichtigsteп Forschuпgsaufgaben im Lehrstuhl füг Zoologie, Bereich Jagdwirtschaft, die sich auf Fгagen der Ökonomie und Organisation der Jagdwirtschaft, dег Erkundung dег Wildbiologie und Bejagungs- sowie Erfassungsmethoden der Wildbestäпde, dег Qualitätsverbesserung der Jagdprodukte und dег Akklimatisation bzw. Reakklimutisation von Wildtieren koпzentгieгen.
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Заключение
С 1972 г. в Монгольском Государственном Унинерситеге в Улан-Баторе обучаются охотоведы, чтобы с помощью этих кадров качественно заметно улучшить работу в области охотничьего хозяйства. …
Review Of Contexts Of Behavior: Anthropological Dimensions, By Robert J. Maxwell, Michael R. Hill
Review Of Contexts Of Behavior: Anthropological Dimensions, By Robert J. Maxwell, Michael R. Hill
Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications
This book is a massive disappointment. The well-designed dust jacket indicates that Maxwell, "Describes the interaction between humans and their environments, drawing upon a wide range of ethological and anthropological research to form a comprehensive, integrated picture of human cultural ecology." This is only partially true. Maxwell describes a substantial amount of research, but his review is neither comprehensive nor well-integrated.
Maxwell throws out a bibliographic fishing net and cleans his variegated catch in slip-shod fashion. Unfortunately, his net also has gaping, unexplained holes. The best that one can say about this book is that the bibliography would have been …
Human Adaptations In The Andes: A Look At Nutrition And Brain Function With Respect To Coca And High Altitude Physiological Adaptations, Barrett P. Brenton
Human Adaptations In The Andes: A Look At Nutrition And Brain Function With Respect To Coca And High Altitude Physiological Adaptations, Barrett P. Brenton
Nebraska Anthropologist
Throughout the span of human evolution the brain has allowed itself to be controlled by nutritional intake. This correlation between nutrition and the brain has led me to believe that the human brain has allowed itself to be manipulated and controlled by an individual's dietary intake in order to successfully adapt to the environment. In looking at the indigenous peoples of the South American Andes, I found surprising parallels between human physiological adaptations to high altitude hypoxia and cold stress and the correlating control of neurotransmitters to the brain by dietary intake.
In a study of this type it becomes …
African Influence In Mexican Folktales, Carla Mundt
African Influence In Mexican Folktales, Carla Mundt
Nebraska Anthropologist
Despite the fact that many African slaves were brought to the Jew World, there have been very few studies done on how their presence affected studies that have and influenced the indigenous cultures. The been done concentrate on the areas where there was an extremely large Black population like Cuba and Brazil. Very little has been done in places like Mexico or Chile and those that have been done are often inaccurate. This paper is an elementary attempt to take a close look at how the importation of African slaves affected the culture of the New World.
The Relative Contribution To Meaning Of Verbal And Nonverbal Channels Of Communication: A Meta-Analysis, Jeffrey S. Philpott
The Relative Contribution To Meaning Of Verbal And Nonverbal Channels Of Communication: A Meta-Analysis, Jeffrey S. Philpott
Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The current study is grounded in the psychological approaches to the mechanics of communication, somewhere between cybernetics and attribution.
The integration of information available in different channels is the focus of the present study. To what extent do people rely on the different channels of communication to assign meaning to their world? More specifically, what is the relative importance of the verbal and nonverbal channels of communication in the meaning creation process?
This question of channel reliance is of central import to the study of the role of information in social/psychological systems. If it can be assumed that meaning is …
The Desegregated School And Status Relationships Among Anglo And Hispanic Students, Peter Iadicola, Helen A. Moore
The Desegregated School And Status Relationships Among Anglo And Hispanic Students, Peter Iadicola, Helen A. Moore
Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications
Desgregated elementary school students display verbal and non-verbal indicators of status relationships in a structured, videotaped interaction game. Both Hispanic and Anglo third grade student responses are analyzed across ten schools for a case study of factors that influence racial/ethnic integration outcomes. Variance in student outcomes are primarily explained by socioeconomic dimensions of the schools. These findings suggest that school desegregation poses a contradiction for Hispanic students.
Hispanic Women: Schooling For Conformity In Public Education, Helen A. Moore
Hispanic Women: Schooling For Conformity In Public Education, Helen A. Moore
Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications
The educational experiences of Latinas are tied to norms of an Anglocentric and androcentric school system. Based on a sample of 1,000 male and female Hispanic and Anglo elementary school students, we analyze teacher expectations for three dimensions: behavioral, social and academic achievements. Teachers do rate Hispanic females as more conforming to the behavioral norms of the school. Regression analyses indicate that higher teacher ratings are assigned to Hispanic females who combine high academic scores with low scores on behavioral conformity norms. These findings indicate that teachers reward assertiveness, leadership and action when considering future student success. The dilemmas of …
Wpa News 1 (1983), World Pheasant Association
Wpa News 1 (1983), World Pheasant Association
Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters
WPA News (January 1983), number 1
Published by the World Pheasant Association
A Survey Of Horticultural Employment Opportunities In Lincoln, Nebraska, Michael J. Mcdowell
A Survey Of Horticultural Employment Opportunities In Lincoln, Nebraska, Michael J. Mcdowell
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Proceedings, Second National Bobwhite Quail Symposium (September 13-15, 1982, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma), Frank Schitoskey Jr., Elizabeth C. Schitoskey, Larry G. Talent
Proceedings, Second National Bobwhite Quail Symposium (September 13-15, 1982, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma), Frank Schitoskey Jr., Elizabeth C. Schitoskey, Larry G. Talent
Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Conference Proceedings
Bobwhite quail and changing land use, W. D. Klimstra
Land use and bobwhite populations in an agricultural system in west Tennessee, J. R. Exum, R. W. Dimmick, and B. L. Dearden
Estimating bobwhite population size by direct counts and the Lincoln index, R. W. Dimmick, F. E. Kellogg, and G. L. Doster
Evaluation of bobwhite quail surveys in Kansas, R. Wells and K. Sexson
Efficiency of dogs in locating bobwhites, F. E. Kellogg, G. L. Doster, W. R. Davidson, and W. M. Martin
A 10-year study of bobwhite quail movement patterns, G. F. Smith, F. E. Kellogg, G. L. Doster, …
Father Absence And Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective, Patricia Draper, Henry Harpending
Father Absence And Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective, Patricia Draper, Henry Harpending
Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications
Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is established, which influences expression of reproductive strategy in adulthood. Male children born into matrifocal households exhibit at adolescence a complex of aggression, competition, low male parental investment, and derogation of females and feminity, while females show early …
Review Of Buffalo Bill And The Wild West By Peter H. Hassrick, Richard Slotkin, Vine Deloria, Jr., Howard R. Lamar, William Judson, And Leslie A. Fiedler, William H. Goetzmann
Review Of Buffalo Bill And The Wild West By Peter H. Hassrick, Richard Slotkin, Vine Deloria, Jr., Howard R. Lamar, William Judson, And Leslie A. Fiedler, William H. Goetzmann
Great Plains Quarterly
In many ways this is a most useful catalogue. It features six essays by distinguished scholars all intent upon reassessing Buffalo Bill's place in American cultural history. It also includes a cornucopia of splendid pictures, illustrating virtually every phase of Buffalo Bill's life. In addition it has a valuable chronology of events amounting to a short biography of Cody, a useful chronology of Buffalo Bill on film, and a significant bibliography. The main thrust of the essays in this volume is to resurrect Buffalo Bill and, as it were, to rescue the old scout from the damage done to him …
Review Of Deadwood: The Golden Years By Watson Parker, Gary D. Olson
Review Of Deadwood: The Golden Years By Watson Parker, Gary D. Olson
Great Plains Quarterly
Watson Parker has devoted most of his professional career to writing the history of the Black Hills of South Dakota, and those interested in that history are richer for it. In this, his latest effort, he has focused on Deadwood, the mining town of fame and fable, and examines what he calls its "golden years" of 1875 to 1920. Parker states in his preface that he has tried "to present Deadwood as a whole, a compound of people, business, technology, society, whoopee, and promotion, all intermixed and interacting to produce a small but prosperous city which to this day remains …
An Exploration Of Cather's Early Writing, Bernice Slote
An Exploration Of Cather's Early Writing, Bernice Slote
Great Plains Quarterly
Willa Cather has been fairly well studied as a novelist of the Nebraska pioneer, a writer whose books have a lyric nostalgia for other times that were nicer than ours. This maybe an oversimplification. One might say, for example, that she wrote about Nebraska no more than she wrote about Rome; that it was not man's retreat that concerned her so much as man's extension into other planes, other powers; that she may belong not with Sinclair Lewis and Edith Wharton but with Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Thomas Mann. I suggest these possibilities after several years of fortunate exploration …
O Pioneers! The Problem Of Structure, Bruce P. Baker Ii
O Pioneers! The Problem Of Structure, Bruce P. Baker Ii
Great Plains Quarterly
In her preface to the 1922 edition of Alexander's Bridge and in the 1931 essay "My First Novels: There Were Two," Willa Cather conveyed not only her dissatisfaction with Alexander's Bridge but also her awareness that with O Pioneers! she had touched matters closer to her "deepest experience," material that was distinctly derived from the Nebraska of her childhood. She had written the book with genuine enthusiasm: "O Pioneers! interested me tremendously because it had to do with a kind of country I loved, because it was about old neighbours, once very dear, whom I had almost forgotten in …
Review Of Beef, Leather And Grass By Edmund Randolph, Michael P. Malone
Review Of Beef, Leather And Grass By Edmund Randolph, Michael P. Malone
Great Plains Quarterly
Edmund Randolph is a New Yorker and a Princeton graduate who came west in the 1920s and took up ranching in southeastern Montana. In Beef, Leather and Grass, he presents an autobiographical account of his partnership venture during the 1940s and early 1950s in a big-time ranching operation on the Antler spread, which lay on the Crow Reservation in the Little Big Hom Valley. The book, as the preface tells us, "deals with this situation in a unique manner, not as a fictional account of a ranch, a would-be 'Western' or an autobiography, but from personal observation. It is …
Review Of Historic Sites Along The Oregon Trail By Aubrey L. Haines, Merrill J . Mattes
Review Of Historic Sites Along The Oregon Trail By Aubrey L. Haines, Merrill J . Mattes
Great Plains Quarterly
Of all western themes, none quickens the pulse or captures the imagination more than "the Oregon Trail." The Santa Fe Trail was more exotic. The California Gold Rush Trail had more feverish excitement and carried ten times the traffic. But the Oregon Trail remains the preeminent symbol of American pioneer virtues, evoking the image of the young family in a covered wagon braving hardships and dangers to seek a new home in the fabled Northwest. Aware of the sales value of this theme, publishers have been grinding out "Oregon Trail" books ever since Francis Parkman's classic of that name, about …
Review Of Populism, Progressivism, And The Transformation Of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915 By Robert W. Cherny, David S. Trask
Review Of Populism, Progressivism, And The Transformation Of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915 By Robert W. Cherny, David S. Trask
Great Plains Quarterly
Robert Cherny has made an important contribution to the social and political history of the Great Plains with his study, Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915. He not only explores the historiographic issues related to Populism and Progressivism, but also assesses changes within the Nebraska political system that were often the unintended by-products of the two movements. His approach relies on extensive statistical analysis including the use of collective biography.
The most optimistic Populists, according to Cherny, sought to establish a cooperative commonwealth in which the government owned the railroads and other corporations. Although they failed …
Review Of The Modem Cowboy By John R. Erickson, Nellie Snyder Yost
Review Of The Modem Cowboy By John R. Erickson, Nellie Snyder Yost
Great Plains Quarterly
John R. Erickson researched The Modem Cowboy in a working laboratory that extended from horizon to horizon in his particular section of the Great Plains, the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. He writes from personal experience, gained in years of working as a cowboy on modern ranches. He makes plain the fact that the cowboy of today must master many skills unknown to the cowboy of the colorful open range before the era of tractors, vaccination, controlled breeding, and "calfpullers." The modern cowboy should be a mechanic and something of a veterinarian and horticulturist as well. Although he still rides horses …
Index- Fall 1982
Great Plains Quarterly
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Willa Cather And Nebraska: An Introduction, John J. Murphy
Willa Cather And Nebraska: An Introduction, John J. Murphy
Great Plains Quarterly
The essays in this issue were presented at the seminar "Willa Cather and Nebraska" held at Hastings College and Red Cloud, Nebraska, June 14-20, 1981. The week-long program involved one hundred registered participants from twenty-five states and Canada in a series of discussions, lectures, films, and performances on the topic of Willa Cather's Nebraska fiction. Both the attendance and the reactions to the program were highly encouraging and indicate that Cather is a writer with universal appeal. Although I did not attempt to direct the lecturers except to indicate the general topics to be treated, their essays are complementary in …
One Of Ours As American Naturalism, John J. Murphy
One Of Ours As American Naturalism, John J. Murphy
Great Plains Quarterly
I n a comment to Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway ridiculed the war scenes in Willa Cather's One of Ours (1922) and implied the general inferiority of her effort: "Look at One of Ours," he wrote, complaining about the frivolity of the American reading public. "[Pulitzer] Prize, big sale, people taking it seriously. You were in the war weren't you? Wasn't that last scene in the lines wonderful? Do you know where it came from? The battle scene in Birth of a Nation. I identified episode after episode, Catherized. Poor woman she had to get her war experience somewhere." …
Willa Cather's A Lost Lady: Art Versus The Closing Frontier, Susan J. Rosowski
Willa Cather's A Lost Lady: Art Versus The Closing Frontier, Susan J. Rosowski
Great Plains Quarterly
When A Lost Lady appeared in 1923, readers immediately recognized Willa Cather's achiever ment. T. K. Whipple wrote, "with A Lost Lady, Miss Cather arrived at what can only be called perfection in her art'; Joseph Wood Krutch termed it "nearly perfect." Later readers continued the praise, calling it "perfectly modulated" and "a flawless classic" and generally judging it the finest of Cather's novels. While acknowledging its art, however, critics have stressed its themes in their interpretations, reading it as telling of the frontier's downfall, of the noble pioneer's passing, of materialism's onslaught, of woman's plight in a patriarchal …
Marriage And Friendship In My Antonia, David Stouck
Marriage And Friendship In My Antonia, David Stouck
Great Plains Quarterly
Three events or circumstances in Willa Cather's life seem directly related to the writing of My Àntonia. In 1916, the year the novel was begun, Isabelle McClung married, and the great friendship of Cather's life was profoundly altered. Second, by 1916 Cather was in her forty-third year and had written five books; she was no longer enjoying youth and first success but entering middle age, with its attendant disillusionments and disaffections. Third, she spent much of that year at home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, where she visited many of the people and places of her childhood. I think these …