Author: United States. Great Plains Committee
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Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: United States. Great Plains Committee
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: United States. Great plains committee
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Norman J. Rosenberg
Publisher: Advances in Global Change Research
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The North American Great Plains is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat, damaging winds, soil erosion and declining ground water resources. Biomass production and processing on the Plains would partially restore a perennial vegetative cover and create employment opportunities. This book explores the possibility that the ecology and economy of the Plains region, and similar regions, would benefit from the introduction of perennial biomass crops.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: United States. Great Plains Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Sherry L. Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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In The Future of the Southern Plains, scholars bring the region to the forefront by asking important questions about its past and suggesting prospects for its future. The contributors, some of them natives of the region, bring to their work a blend of scholarship and personal experience. They match intellectual sophistication with deep affection for a place defined primarily as western Texas, Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico. Within this volume is a story about America, a story about limits, and a story about challenging those limits. Seven historians, one geographer, and a paleoclimatologist contribute a wealth of observation, analysis, and commentary on the environmental characteristics and history of the Southern Plains. They address such themes as failing communities, scarce water, endangered species, and disappearing ways of life—and the possible results of these developments not only in the Southern Plains but elsewhere on the globe. Based on presentations at a symposium sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, these essays treat the most important aspects of life on the Southern Plains today, from climate, politics, and religion to business and environmental renewal. Contributors and topics include: Sherry L. Smith: Introduction Dan Flores: Environmental destruction and preservation John Miller Morris: Corporations and family farms Diana Davids Olien: Oil production John Opie: Water management Jeff Roche: Political history Yolanda Romero: Political history Elliott West: Exploration Connie Woodhouse: Droughts

Author: S.R. Johnson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401104395
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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A multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach is employed to identify principal ecosystems and natural resources in the U.S. Great Plains that are at risk and that should receive priority for protection. The authors are drawn from a variety of disciplines and approaches, their ideas being presented as a pooling or harvest, rather than as a consensus. The 25 chapters provide background and in-depth discussion of multiple issues/problems related to Great Plains stewardship for future generations. The status and trends of major resources of the Great Plains within an historical, ecological and management framework are categorized according to common goals across the disciplines and can be used to make recommendations for public policy, research and development, and institutions. The challenge for residents of the Great Plains is to merge multiple ecosystem concepts to improve the environment and to improve economic vitality.