Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather

Author: Christopher C Burt

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780393330151

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Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.

The Nature of Home
The Nature of Home

Author: Lisa Knopp

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803227545

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For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home didøshe recover. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or Arbor Day as the misguided attempt of Eastern settlers to ?correct? a perceived deficiency in the Great Plains landscape. Here is a writer who has read widely and judiciously and for whom everything resonates within the intricately structured definition of home.

Nebraska
Nebraska

Author: Kelly J. Haack

Publisher: Enslow Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780766051454

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Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the state of Nebraska. Includes Internet links to Web sites.

Global Warming and Population Responses among Great Plains Birds
Global Warming and Population Responses among Great Plains Birds

Author: Paul Johnsgard

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 160962064X

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"Based on an analysis of 47 years (1967-2014) of Audubon Christmas Bird Counts (CBC), evidence for population changes and shifts in early winter (late December) ranges of nearly 150 species of birds in the Great Plains states is summarized, a region defined as including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and the Texas panhandle. The rationale for this study had its origins in Terry Root's 1988 Atlas of North American Wintering Birds. ... The present analysis includes all of the 40 annual CBC surveys from the 1967-8 to the 2006-7 counts, plus the results of the most recent 2013-14 CBC. The present summary quantitatively describes the early winter abundance for 147 of the most commonly encountered regional species, illustrating their temporal changes in geographic distributions and relative abundance between 1967 and 2014"--Publisher description.