Great Plains Research,a journal of Natural and Social Sciences, is published twice a year by the Center for Great Plains Studies.
Lincoln, NE
Joined February 2015
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"I photographed these ash trees at Chadron Creek Ranch Wildlife Management Area on what had to be their most attractive day of the year. You're welcome, trees." - @NEBland_Haag
📷: Justin Haag
ALT trees at chadron creek ranch wma
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FREE article on @ProjectMUSE
In the 19th c., thousands of migrants left their signatures on immense rocks in the American West. Conrad Rudolph and Jason Weems explore the cultural dynamics motivating this unique phenomenon. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
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FREE article on @ProjectMUSE Using case studies of several rural Great Plains communities, Andrew Husa reveals how these small towns have sustained their populations through various strategies. @HuskerHusa
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Check out our very own Dr. Chloupek's article on the use of landscape in the Bohemian Alps in Nebraska!!
Free article in GPR this week on @ProjectMUSE: "The Bohemian Alps as a Substantive Landscape" - Nebraska's Bohemian Alps serve as the focal point of this study on substantive landscapes by geographer Brett R. Chloupek. #GreatPlains muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
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The Winter 2023 issue of GPQ is now available on @ProjectMUSE ! Articles include the oldest maps of the Great Plains, 21st century Niitsitapi horse culture, US Army Signal Weather observers, creative nonfiction from Bernard Quetchenbach, & more. muse.jhu.edu/issue/50809
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The Fall 2022 issue of Great Plains Quarterly is now available on @ProjectMUSE ! Articles on Mormon missionary work in North Dakota, Willa Cather's "O' Pioneers", memory anchors, population sustainability in the rural Great Plains, and more! #GreatPlains
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Free article this week! "Imagining Skyscrapers in a Wheat Field: Regionalism and Cold War Development in the Texas High Plains" - as detailed by Brian Ingrassia, one man's attempt to build a new city shows deeper meanings of regional development. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
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The sandhill crane migration is truly one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles.
The best part about the sandhill crane migration is that Nebraska residents don’t have to travel far to experience it.
Read here: fal.cn/3wBuC
📷: Eric Fowler
#NEgameandparks
ALT Sandhill cranes roosting in the Platte River. View from a Crane Trust Blind.
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In the latest issue of Nature Conservancy magazine, Robyn James examines the gender gaps in conservation work and explains how bringing women into roles equal with men will make conservation more effective.
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Free article this week from our latest issue: "Aeschylus and the Frontier" in which Theodore Tarkow explores how Nebraska poet John G. Neihardt's project of translating parts of the Greek playwright Aeschylus’s 'Agamemnon' influenced his own work. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
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Check out the episode that just dropped by @UNLFarmBits on @KDozler’s research. Virtual fencing is revolutionizing how ranchers can optimize rangelands for cattle and wildlife. Learn more here: awesmlab.unl.edu/precision-l… @Panhandle_Range @UNLSNR @UNLExtension @UNL_CASNR @UNL_IANR
Episode 093: Smart Fencing, features @KDozler, part of @UNLincoln's @AWESMLab. Kaitlyn's research focus is precision livestock management on extensive rangelands via virtual fencing.
Interested? Be sure to check check out Episode 093 wherever you listen to podcasts!
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The latest issue of Great Plains Quarterly is now available on @ProjectMUSE ! Articles on John G. Neihardt, buffalo bone hunters, cold war development, and C.A. Sorensen. Cover art by the talented @robhollywood #GreatPlains
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Registration is now open for our 2023 Great Plains conference on food and culture in the region. Tickets are limited. Schedule and registration link: unl.edu/plains/2023-conferen… #UNL #LNK
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Pretty good day at the office - $1M grant for a new Law and Race Initiative led by @unlcas colleagues in history, supported by friends at @UNLCollegeofLaw - super important work right here in the Great Plains.
With a @MellonFdn grant, @wgthomas3, @drjagodinsky, @drjeannette1970, and @UNLCollegeofLaw collaborators will launch an academic project focused on U.S. law and race in American history!
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@UNLresearch @UNLHistory @UNLEthnicStu
ALT Nebraska historians (from left) Katrina Jagodinsky, William Thomas and Jeannette Eileen Jones, with collaborators from the College of Law Genesis Agosto, Jessica Shoemaker, Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis
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This will be an important discussion about the future of water in the Great Plains (and all the social/ecological/human layers implicated by aquifer depletion) - Thursday 1/26, @UNLCollegeofLaw, 4 o'clock.
ALT Land & Water: Rural Resources, Rural Livelihoods event flyer - Dr. Lucas Bessire, Author of Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, Jan. 26, 2023, 4:00 p.m. College of Law - Nebraska, Rural Reconciliation Project
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The Nebraska National Forest is the largest hand-planted forest in the Western Hemisphere. #UNL Dana Fritz joins Pat Leach to talk about her new book "Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape,” nebraskapublicmedia.org/de/s…
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STILL TIME TO ENTER!
The Center is accepting submissions for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. Each year the Center presents a $10K prize for the previous year's best book on the Great Plains. Deadline is Jan. 31. Guidelines:
unl.edu/plains/bookprize/boo…
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Great Plains Research (@GPR_Journal) is OPEN for submissions and we're looking for research on social and natural science topics in the Great Plains. Submission instructions: unl.edu/plains/publications/… #UNL
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Free article this week: "The Meaning of Standing Rock" - In this book review essay, Sebastian Felix Braun (@IowaStateU) contemplates the meaning of Standing Rock and indigenous resistance.
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