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Re: primal prairie records

Mike: I believe, but have not confirmed, that a copy of all Government
Printing Office publications are lodged in a central library in each State,
usually the public library of the Capital, or in a designated State
University library.  Other libraries may also request that they receive all.
Your nearest public library or university library will tell you the
repository nearest you.

Or I can send you a hard copy if you tell me your postal address.  Have not
yet found out how much that will be, but probably below $5.00 for the 30
pages.

Envirocordial greetings    Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gingrich <gingrich@mhtc.net>
To: prairie@mallorn.com <prairie@mallorn.com>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 8:51 AM
Subject: 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unpublished theses.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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