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From:The Historian (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTRAVELING ALONG the Missouri River in 1796, trader James McKay learned of local Indians' problems with infectious diseases and remarked that "of all those Scourges and Plagues, the most Terrible is the Small Pox, truly...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI delight in the things I discover right within reach. --Ted Kooser Mark Vinz, Summer 2005 Try to think of one more imagination game to keep you going--as if this endless car trip were some job you hate but...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 40, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedVarious items of horse tack are some of the most important accoutrements illustrated in Plains Indians' biographic art, with such things as elaborate bridle bits, headstalls, saddles, brands, and various decorative...
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From:Science (Vol. 230) Peer-ReviewedGreat Plains' Salvation: Coal-Based Fighter Fuel? The beleaguered Great Plains Coal Gasification project, which industrial sponsors abandoned last August in the face of White House opposition to providing price...
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From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 100, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT. Western Kansas has an historical identification with cattle, with a focus on cattle ranching and more specifically since the 1950s, beef-cattle feedlots. Since the mid-1990s large dairy operations have moved...
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From:Earth System Dynamics (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Low-level jets (LLJs) can be defined as wind corridors of anomalously high wind speed values located within the first kilometre of the troposphere. These structures are one of the major meteorological systems in the...
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From:The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (Vol. 129, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT.--Many species of songbirds in the United States have shown widespread declines in population numbers during the last five decades. To understand ongoing declines and plan for conservation, researchers need...
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From:Whispering Wind (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeptember 19, 2014 to January 11, 2015 The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky unites the finest Plains Indians works of art from European and North American collections, giving visitors a rare opportunity to...
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From:Science (Vol. 224) Peer-ReviewedThe Moon Influences Western U.S. Drought Cyclicity is the bugaboo of climate studies. Many cycles are reported, few are confirmed. The dubious reputation of most cyclicity studies makes the recent discovery of th...
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From:Science (Vol. 229) Peer-ReviewedIndustry Abandons Synfuels Project The nation's only commercial-scale synthetic fuels plant, the Great Plains Coal Gasification Project, is likely to be shut down by the federal government less than a year after...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 58, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHigh-quality cryptocrystalline silicates from the Oligocene-age White River Group of the central Great Plains (referred to here as White River Group Silicates |WRGS~) were widely used prehistorically for chipped-stone...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 95, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCentral Great Plains precipitation deficits during May-August 2012 were the most severe since at least 1895, eclipsing the Dust Bowl summers of 1934 and 1936. Drought developed suddenly in May, following near-normal...
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From:Endangered Species Bulletin (Vol. 29, Issue 1)The first explorers to cross the "Great American Desert," the area we now call the high plains, observed large flocks of mountain plovers (Charadrius montanus). These birds laid their eggs on the ground in prairie dog...
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From:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (Vol. 102, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedA familiar saying among agricultural producers of the U.S. northern Great Plains region comprising Montana, the Dakotas, and the adjacent Canadian Prairies is, "We're always in a drought. It just depends on how bad it is...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 47, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedExisting models of forest dynamics may provide a starting point for assessing the responses of forests to climatic changes but are not wholly suitable for the Great Plains. A modeling framework which modifies existing...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 10, Issue 1)White owl wound his head round and back standing straight center of Old Road, before the T to Points. Before long grass turns to horse pasture. Before Place of Peace wanes to raucous. Southeast of Rap about two...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 41, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAn ecosystem simulation model is used to measure the effects of short and long-term climate variability on the production and carbon balance of the Central Great Plains and Central Lowlands grassland ecosystems....
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From:Ecology (Vol. 80, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduced plants can have negative effects on native species and diversity, but their impacts on ecosystem function are less apparent. At the northern edge of the Great Plains, we examined five stands in each of...
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From:The Geographical Review (Vol. 105, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe American Great Plains is a region dominated by a flat, treeless, semiarid environment that has challenged population settlement for over 140 years. As railroad companies successfully attracted pioneers to settle the...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 159, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNative fishes of the Great Plains are at risk of decline due to disturbances to physical habitat caused by changes in land and water use, as well as shifts in species assemblages driven by the invasion of introduced...