Islands On The Plains

Author : Marcel Kornfeld,Alan J. Osborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111848532

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Islands on the Plains by Marcel Kornfeld,Alan J. Osborn Pdf

Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of "islands" is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is. The contributors to this volume seek to illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds.

Author : Edward Raventon
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555663265

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Island in the Plains by Edward Raventon Pdf

Islands in the Plains is required reading for anyone who wishes to learn the fascinating story behind the rugged exterior of the Black Hills.

Author : Philippines. Census Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Philippines
ISBN : PSU:000017947046

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Census of the Philippine Islands Taken Under the Direction of the Philippine Legislature in the Year 1918 by Philippines. Census Office Pdf

Author : Trevor Herriot
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781550509328

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Islands of Grass by Trevor Herriot Pdf

From esteemed naturalist Trevor Herriot and acclaimed nature photographer Branimir Gjetvaj, Islands of Grass is a beautiful, well-researched call-to-action and a passionately wrought love letter to the prairie grasslands that are rapidly disappearing in the wake of modernity’s relentless push. Before the arrival of settlers, the Great Northern Plain sprawled across the centre of the continent and rivalled the African savannah for wildlife, with herds of bison and pronghorn antelope numbering in the millions. It was also the home for species of birds and animals that lived nowhere else. Today that range is threatened by human incursion and in some areas there are only pockets of unadulterated prairie grassland left, small islands of a unique environment. In those small plots of grasslands species cling to survival, unable to thrive in any other environment. In presenting the irreplaceable beauty and the complexity of the grasslands, Trevor and Branimir ask the reader to both admire its majesty and consider its value. Full of extraordinary photos supported by the thought-provoking prose of Trevor Herriot, this book will bring the wonder of the grasslands to a wider audience.

Author : Joseph M. Forshaw
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781486312603

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Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand by Joseph M. Forshaw Pdf

Although not closely related, quail, buttonquail and the Plains-wanderer have much in common. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand examines 14 species of these small, secretive ground-dwelling birds, including Old World and New World quail, the endangered Buff-breasted Buttonquail, the elusive Plains-wanderer and the extinct New Zealand Quail. Joseph Forshaw presents a comprehensive review of recent studies for these often hard to observe birds. Detailed species descriptions include key features, habitat, status, diet and breeding, along with information on eggs, calls and distribution. Each species is fully illustrated with exquisite colour identification plates by renowned wildlife artist Frank Knight. This is an essential reference for anyone fascinated by these elusive birds.

Author : Samuel Augustus Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Geography
ISBN : PSU:000004465812

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The New Primary Geography by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Pdf

Author : Theodore H. Fleming,Paul A. Racey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226253312

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Island Bats by Theodore H. Fleming,Paul A. Racey Pdf

The second largest order of mammals, Chiroptera comprises more than one thousand species of bats. Because of their mobility, bats are often the only native mammals on isolated oceanic islands, where more than half of all bat species live. These island bats represent an evolutionarily distinctive and ecologically significant part of the earth’s biological diversity. Island Bats is the first book to focus solely on the evolution, ecology, and conservation of bats living in the world’s island ecosystems. Among other topics, the contributors to this volume examine how the earth’s history has affected the evolution of island bats, investigate how bat populations are affected by volcanic eruptions and hurricanes, and explore the threat of extinction from human disturbance. Geographically diverse, the volume includes studies of the islands of the Caribbean, the Western Indian Ocean, Micronesia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Zealand. With its wealth of information from long-term studies, Island Bats provides timely and valuable information about how this fauna has evolved and how it can be conserved.

Author : Alexander Keith Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590544629

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Hand book of physical geography by Alexander Keith Johnston Pdf

Author : Sarah Windsor Tomlinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OXFORD:N10837527

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First Steps in General Knowledge by Sarah Windsor Tomlinson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433009799366

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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN519A

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Chambers' Encyclopaedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU06848249

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The International Cyclopedia by Harry Thurston Peck Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112113302365

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Library of Universal Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Wesley Coulter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:319510004150082

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Land Utilization in the Hawaiian Islands by John Wesley Coulter Pdf

Author : Louis Fairchild
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1585441821

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The Lonesome Plains by Louis Fairchild Pdf

Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including the empty expanses of West Texas. Most settlers lived in isolation broken only by occasional community gatherings such as funerals and religious revivals. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune--sickness, accident, and death--and at annual religious services. In fascinating detail, Fairchild describes the practices that grew up around these two focal points of social life. He recounts the building of coffins and preparation of a body for burial, the conflicting emotions of the pain of death and the hope of heaven, the funeral rite itself, the lost and lonely graves. And he tells the story of yearly outdoor revivals: the choice of the meeting site and construction of the arbor or other shelter, the provision of food, the music and emotionally-charged services, and tangential courting and mischief. Loneliness is most recognized as a feature of life in the time of the early West Texas cattle industry, a period of sprawling cattle ranches and legendary cattle drives, roughly from 1867 to 1885. But Fairchild shows that it also characterized the lives of settlers who lived in West Texas from the beginning of permanent settlement of the Texas Panhandle (around 1876) through the population shift that occured around the turn of the century, as farmers and their families supplanted ranchers and their cattle. Fairchild draws on primary materials of the early residents to give voice to the settlers themselves and skillfully weaves a moving picture of life in the open spaces of West Texas during the frontier-rural period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.