Plains

The first wildlife management era was the era of abundance (1500 – 1849), in which wild game was numerous and the mindset of the people was that of sustained harvest of foods and furs. In this time period, there was almost an entire absence of any systematic natural resource management. Only some hunting restrictions were put in place, but hunters just expanded the areas in which they hunted because the game was still plentiful and unrestricted there. There was no need for game reserves or…

Some people call this time, the "Great Slaughter." The military had issued orders to kill the bison. The thought of the government was that if you killed the bison, you killed the Native Americans. The hides were also great for crossing the freezing Plains of the United States, when going West was the thing to do (Folwer 2003). There were no rules for killing the bison. In fact, it was encouraged. The hides would sell for large amounts of money. Between 1872 and 1874, the major railroad…

the species destroying the ecological balance of the whole region” (Steinbeck 468). He is describing the overfishing that was occurring in the Sea of Cortez. This situation has obvious parallels to Native American behavior. For example, the Great Plain Native Americans overhunted resulting in extreme declines in the population of Buffalo. Steinbeck also wrote, “Our curiosity was not limited, but was as wide and horizonless as that of Darwin or Agassiz or Linnaeus or Pliney. We wanted to see…

Pioneers settled in the Great Plains started in Kansas—Nebraska an went westward. The Dust Bowl and the Depression of the 1930s caused settlers to retreat. There was an abundance of land and pioneers were eager to go west to settle and claim the land. The land could be cultivated to raise crops. The two main problems that the settlers faced were weather and the distance. The weather was a big problem, with blizzards, hail, and high winds and cold temperatures. In the summer there were…

Wind is a fact of life here on the plains. It is with us all year round, from Amarillo to Albuquerque. This invisible force of nature can do significant damage. The roofers here at Quail Country Roofing have seen the effects of it all over the place. After a high-wind storm blows through, power lines go down, trees fall over, walls collapse, and signs go tumbling. And wind can do terrible damage to your roof also. We have seen whole sections of roof shingles stripped off of a roof deck.…

In 1991, the movie Dances with Wolves was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won seven of them, including Best Picture of the Year. This was originally a novel by Michael Blake in 1986 but became a movie in 1990 and was directed and produced by Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson. The main characters were Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner), Stands With a Fist (Mary McDonnell), and Kicking Bird (Graham Greene). This movie was set in 1864 and told the story of a soldier named John Dunbar who chose to…

How old do you think Pawnee Females have to be to get married? Most of the Pawnee people are found in Nebraska and Kansas. We are going to be talking about the Pawnee location , tradition, and facts of life. The Pawnee People were mostly located in Nebraska And Kansas, they lived in houses called Earthern houses. These are hut type houses they made out of large logs and covered but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in Oklahoma to…

Even a small thing like dust can affect an entire country or continent, especially if there are tons of it. The 1930s, better known as “the dirty thirties,” was a hard time for many people because of the Great American Dust Bowl. From 1934 to 1937 drought came and later dust struck the southern states and many other parts of America. The Great American Dust Bowl was one of the most catastrophic events in the world. Even though the Dust Bowl lasted four years, it felt like it could have lasted…

began to crash, sending the country into a depression that would last nearly a decade. Unemployment was rising and there were more housing foreclosures, which left people homeless. Food lines were common and bank closings were the norm. Out in the Plains, a drought started and the wind began to blow, kicking up dust, and causing catastrophic damage to the land and to the agricultural economy. The 1930s was a decade of strife and struggle that brought about major social reforms, new discoveries…

top spot on the list of infamous environmental calamities. One listed candidate is the catastrophic Dust Bowl of the 1930s, as described in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. The Dust Bowl choked the lands, animals, and people of the American plains, dislocating tens of thousands of people and…