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Re: primal prairie records

Geoff,

How can I get a copy of the "Cattle Ranges of the Southwest" paper you cite?

Mike Gingrich
Dodgeville, WI

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey Stanford <gstanf@swbell.net>
To: Lynn PACE <lpace@camalott.com>; Arnold G DAVIS <agdprairie@aol.com>; Lee
(h) STONE <leeprairie@austin.rr.com>; Evelyn MERZ <elmerz@hal-pc.org>; Gene
HEINEMANN <Prairie65@aol.com>; Suzanne Tuttle <tuttles@ci.fort-worth.tx.us>;
Steve AREY <steve_arey@fws.gov>; Mary Thorpe PARKER
<mthrpprkr@xmail.utexas.net>; prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: primal prairie records


>
>About prairie rainfall uptake:  there are two references which I recall
>clearly, but for which I have lost the citations:
>
>1.  Up to the first two inches in the first hour of a heavy rainfall, on a
>prairie later in the season, did not reach the ground;  it was adsorbed
onto
>the leaf surfaces and into the cylinders that ensheath the culms (by
running
>down the blades and through the ligules).
>
>2.  The root mass above the soil surface was up to 2ins thick.  It was so
>tenacious of water that it remained soggy through August, and foot
>travellers had to wear boots to prevent water soaking into their shoes.
>
>
>And here is another request:
>
>3.  Do you know of any listings of papers that were written by
contemporary,
>original, observers of the prairies; those could be published reports, or
>unpublished theses.  And, if not
>
>4.  Do you know of any such papers.  Here, for example is one:
>  BENTLEY H L   1898?
> Cattle Ranges of the Southwest
>  USDA, Farmers’ Bull. No 72
>Under the subtitle  ‘a history of the exhaustion of the pasturage and
>suggestions for its restoration’ he describes the condition and flora of
the
>prairie when it was first invaded in 1860.  He was Special Agent in Charge
>of the Grass Station at Abilene, TX.  He records, and bemoans, its rapid
>destruction by overgrazing.  Gripping stuff, with species descriptions.
>
>Geoff
>
>
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