The Central Great Plains High Tunnel Horticulture Project

Changing Employment Patterns on the Northern and Central Great Plains

The Great Plains are sometimes characterized as an economically lagging region. To shed some light on the region sprospects, the locational and structural changes in employment patterns in the northern and central Great Plains were examinedfor the 1980 to 1990 period. County-level data were drawn from CD-ROM census publications and matched with locational references using Atlas *GIS . Shift-sha...

Avian Response to Meadow Restoration in the Central Great Plains

Native grassland is one of the most heavily degraded of all North American ecosystems, and restoration of altered grasslands is a tool used to mitigate some of the biological ramifications of past land use practices. Providing habitat for grassland-dependent bird species often is one of the many goals of restoration. We evaluated the efficacy of meadow restoration for breeding birds in the Nebr...

The Ornithogeography of the Great Plains States

A Great Plains Presidential Primary?

This paper examines the feasibility of establishing a regional presidential primary for the Great Plains States. It reviews the introduction ofprimaries for selecting national convention delegates, and the slowness of these states to adopt this method. Further, it surveys the use of the primary in the region, noting the independence ofGreat Plains voters in both the prereform and post-reform pe...

Birds of the Great Plains: Three Decades of Change in Great Plains Birds: A 2009 Supplement to The Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution