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Re: primal prairie records

Geoffrey Stanford wrote:


Hi Geoff,

Please send me a copy, if you please.

Austin Moseley
3582 CR 2150
Caddo Mills, TX 
75135

> 
> 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unpublished theses.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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