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  Catalog of the Coreidae, or Leaf-Footed Bugs, of the New World

  Richard J. Packauskas

  Studies on the New World Coreidae have languished for more than a century. Neglect of these often large, abundant, and occasionally economically important bugs has been due, I believe, to the lack of means to identify them. Most literature treating the New World Coreidae has been restricted to the North American fauna, except for the recent efforts of Brailovsky (1975 to 2007).

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  Homogenization of Fish Faunas and Concurrent Anthropogenic Impacts on Plains Streams in Western Kansas: 1854–2003

  Mark E. Eberle

  The fish faunas of the Kansas and Arkansas river basins in western Kansas were signifi cantly dissimilar at the time the Kansas Territory was established in 1854. The faunas were no longer dissimilar 150 years later. This homogenization of the faunas resulted primarily from extirpations, although additions of nonnative species, which now constitute 40% of extant faunas, also contributed. Two periods of changes in the faunas were associated with concurrent anthropogenic changes to the landscape that altered stream habitats. Early extirpations of native species (prior to 1920) occurred in clear, perennial creeks and were concurrent with rapid increases in human population and row-crop agriculture associated with increased demands on perennial water sources and increased sediment yields in streams. Late extirpations of native species and widespread additions of nonnative species (after 1960) occurred in formerly large, often turbid rivers with seasonally variable fl ows and were concurrent with increases in groundwater mining and construction of impoundments associated with dewatered stream segments, stabilized fl ows in other stream segments, reduced peak fl ows in all rivers during summer, increased lentic habitat, and reduced turbidity.

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  "The Eleventh Commandment" and A Land of Promise: Walter Clay Lowdermilk and the Middle East, 1937-1944

  Robert Rook

  This monograph will present only the barest details within the broadest of contexts. But even this brief overview clearly demonstrates the far-reaching power of American natural-resource development and management ideas both during and after World War II.

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  The Climate of Hays, Kansas, from 1867 to 1999: Variability, Trends, and Influences

  John Heinrichs

  Data for a number of possible regional and global climate influences were compared with Hays climate data to characterize the relationships. The analysis of possible influences on Hays climate provided a rich and complex pattern of relationships.

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  Retirement Plans, Attitudes, and Expectations of Kansas Board of Regents Faculty

  Carl Parker, Bill Rickman, Rory Terry, and Tom Johansen

  This data set enables the examination of investment choices of a mature group of faculty, where saving for retirement is a major investment objective. Consideration of future retirement-related policy proposals by universities should be evaluated with an understanding of the relative importance of economic and non-economic influences upon the retirement decision by university faculty.

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  Reflections of a Naturalist: Papers Honoring Professor Eugene D. Fleharty

  Jerry R. Choate

  Science and academia tend to be dominated by persons who are utterly brilliant, or who are proficient at self-promotion, or who are willing to sacrifice their personal lives and work twice as hard as their peers, or who exhibit some combination of these attributes. Occasionally, however, someone comes along who is just "ordinary" compared with academic overachievers but whose accomplishments far exceed reasonable expectations. Eugene D. Fleharty is such a person. Although he is extraordinarily bright, few would describe him as utterly brilliant. He has never been inclined to "toot his own horn" or otherwise promote himself. And, although he always works harder than most of his peers, he maintains a diverse personal life that includes family, sports, art, community affairs, and other leisure activities. In my opinion, the thing that sets Gene apart from many of his peers is "focus." Indeed, I know of no utterly brilliant academic overachievers who have become known internationally in several markedly different areas of science while becoming a cutthroat competitor in table tennis and racquetball, developing into an award-winning carver of duck decoys, advising community and state officials about environmental issues, mentoring an impressive list of productive graduate students, and providing the intellectual leadership needed by his academic department as it careened recklessly toward the Twenty-first Century.

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  The Center for Ethnic Studies: A Guide to the Collections

  Helmet J. Schmeller

  A Guide to the Collections of the Center for Ethnic Studies at Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University is a bibliographic listing of materials available for public access in 1998. The Center for Ethnic Studies was established in 1977 by Dr. James L. Forsythe and Dr. Helmut J. Schmeller. The focus of the collection grew to include information on Volga Germans from Russia, Bukovina Germans, Czechs, Scandinavians, Hispanics, and African Americans. The listing of materials is grouped by format and content. This document includes materials recorded in the card catalog for Forsyth Library, as well as individual Special Collections Finding Guides. This document represents a snapshot of the collections in time, and current access and retrieval methods should be utilized before or in conjunction with this document.

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  Geology, Paleontology and Biostratigraphy of Western Kansas: Articles in Honor of Myrl V. Walker

  Michael E. Nelson

  This work is a compilation of articles based on the geosciences of western Kansas.

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  The Bukovina Germans in Kansas: A 200 Year History of the Lutheran Swabians

  Irmgard Hein Ellingson

  Irmgard Hein Ellingson's account focuses on a relatively unknown group of settlers in the area around Ellis, Kansas. These settlers frequently (and mistakenly) labelled "Austrians," were in fact German colonists from Bukovina, a region of present-day Romania.

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  Mammals of Spanish Peaks State Wildlife Area, Colorado

  Ron S. Mellott, Jerry R. Choate, and Charles Loeffler

  Habitats and relative abundance of small mammals in the Spanish Peaks State Wildlife Area in western Las Animas Co., Colorado, were assessed. A total of 821 mammals of 20 species was collected in 2750 trapnights between 31 May and 19 August of 1981. Eight additional species of mammals were observed on the wildlife area but not documented. The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) and rock mouse (P. difficilis) were the most abundant small mammals, accounting for 63 and 16%, respectively, of the total catch. The deer mouse was the only species caught in every habitat sampled. Abert's squirrel (Sciurus abert,) previously has not been recorded in Colorado from as far southeast as the Spanish Peaks State Wildlife Area. The mammalian fauna of Colorado has been the subject of numerous studies since the late 1800s. Early studies were by Cockerell (1890), Warren (1906), Cary (1911), and Warren (1942, published posthumously). More recent investigations include the book by Lechleitner (1969), the exhaustive compilation by Armstrong (1972), and the latilong surveys by Bissell (1978, 1982). In spite of these studies, several regions of Colorado remain poorly represented in collections. Armstrong (1972) noted that "certain poorly surveyed parts of the western two-thirds of the state appear to me to be ... significant from the standpoint of zoogeography. Western Las Animas County--the Park Plateau and Culebra Range [of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains]--is such an area." In a later publication, Armstrong et al. (1973) noted that additional field investigations were needed in the vicinity of the Wet Mountains, a biogeographically important region where several species of grassland mammals reach altitudinal extremes and certain southern species reach northern limits. With this in mind, the Colorado Division of Wildlife initiated fieldwork in the Spanish Peaks State Wildlife Area to sample the vertebrate fauna in general and to assess habitat associations and relative abundance of small mammals in particular. This report documents the mammals collected and observed in the Spanish Peaks State Wildlife Area during summer of 1981 and summarizes biological data on mammals obtained at that time.

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  An Annotated List of the Butterflies of Kansas

  Charles A. Ely, Marvin D. Schwilling, and Marvin E. Rolfs

  This provisional list summarizes the information currently available on the distribution of the butterflies of Kansas. Presently, this information is widely scattered in the literature and numerous collections and is not readily available to many interested parties. The accompanying maps also demonstrate the many gaps in our present information and will hopefully stimulate further collecting and the production of a more complete list in the near future. This paper is based primarily on collections made by the authors during an intensive statewide survey begun in 1979. It is organized around the "county record," usually a voucher specimen housed at Fort Hays State University. These 4975 voucher specimens (1 specimen/species/county) are mapped as solid circles. Where FHSU voucher specimens are lacking we use literature records (usually, only the earliest) , reports from other collectors and specimens in public and private collections. Some 571 such records are mapped as open circles and each is cited in the text. Only one record per county is given except for rare and unusual species. However, additional records are on file at Fort Hays State University. Contributions by other collectors have greatly enhanced the value of this work.

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  Big Creek and Its Fishes

  Joe Tomelleri, Mark E. Eberle, and Guy Ernsting

  This book is a brief account of Big Creek: the stream, the life, the geology, the history. We hope that it will at least stimulate your appreciation of what Big Creek was and still is. Should you desire to learn more about the topics covered here, publications that served as our sources and those that cover the material in more detail are listed at the end of the book under the titles of the sections in the text.

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  The Handbook of Clinic Practice

  George A. Kelly, Thomas T. Jackson, Paul F. Zelhart, and Robert P. Markley

  The Handbook of Clinic Practice is a major surviving document that shows Dr. Kelly's early development as a clinician. The Handbook began as a guide for bachelor and master level students working in the Clinc. This was a major teaching tool for Dr. Kelly during his years at Fort Hays Kansas State College. It represents his early position regarding behavior in a clinical setting, and also provides a glimpse of the immense variety and scope of Dr. Kelly's talents.

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  Devils, Witches, Pagans and Vampires: Studies in the Magical World View (Dr. Caligari's Carnival of Shadows Halloween Festival Fort Hays State University)

  Robert Luehrs, Gerry R. Cox, Ronald J. Fundis, and Jeffrey Burton Russell

  This volume of Fort Hays Studies, then, does not appear in a vacuum; it is a contribution to a legitimate and growing corpus of works which explore a part of social history and literature too often ignored. The authors of the essays in this special collection have all participated in an interdisciplinary event at Fort Hays State University which, for lack of a more precise appellation, has been called the university Halloween Festival.

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  A History of the English Department of Fort Hays State University (1902-1978)

  Roberta C. Stout and Nancy Vogel

  This volume is comprehensive history of the Fort Hays State University English Department from it's inception until 1978. It includes histories on faculty, faculty works, and general University history.

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  Dental Evolution of the Meadow Vole in Mainland, Peninsular, and Insular Environments in Southern New England

  Gordon K. Weddle and Jerry R. Choate

  Accordingly, the objectives of this study were: 1) to compare the extent of variability (both quantitative and qualitative) in the dentitions of populations of Microtus inhabiting mainland, penisular, and insular environments; 2) to identify some of the selective forces that affect mainland and maritime populations of Microtus; 3) to examine Guthrie's hypothesis regarding the relationship between intensity of selection and variation.

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  Annotated List of Diatoms Reported From Kansas

  Mark E. Eberle

  This annotated list has been prepared to organize all of the available information in the literature on the diatoms of Kansas. The literature also has been reviewed to briefly summerize the history of research on diatoms in the state.

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  Explorations With Fixed-Role Therapy

  Robert P. Markley, Paul F. Zelhart, and Thomas T. Jackson

  Here then, are the first studies of the effectiveness of fixed role therapy. We hope that making these available, in their original unedited form, to the wider scientific community will fill a gap in the historical record and stimulate further work on this important technique on Kelly's approach to human adaptation.

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  Hannah A. Rosebrook: Community Journalist/Local Historian 'The Fairview News,' Kearny County, Kansas, 1918 - 1980

  Lee Pendergrass

  In reading these columns one should never assume that community life was submerged by important national events such as World War II. Rather community life remained surprisingly normal and one gains the impression that the people Mrs.Rosebrook knew were determined not to allow their everyday life to be disrupted by any catastrophe, including the Dust Bowl storms. Perhaps this was their way of coping.

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  Memoirs of Pioneers of Cheyenne County, Kansas: Ole Robert Cram, Georg Isernhagen, Nancy Moore Wieck

  Lee Pendergrass

  During the late nineteenth century American settlers and emigrants from Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and Sweden moved westward seeking a place to live in peace, raise their families, and better their lives. They slogged through the muddy trails of the Missouri and slowly progressed through the drier -but barely discernible trails of Nebraska until they arrived at what is now Cheyenne Cotmty, Kansas.

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  The Germans From Russia: A Bibliography of Materials In The Ethnic Heritage Collection At Fort Hays State University

  Helmut J. Schmeller

  While the collection contains a variety of materials pertaining to the history of diverse immigrant groups, the present bibliography focuses on the largest of these groups, namely the Germans from Russia whose economic, social, and cultural impact has been a major formative element in the shaping of a distinctive regional character. Unlike many other groups,the Germans from Russia have maintained a pronounced awareness of their ethnic identity, a fact which testifies not only to an inherent vitality but also to the quality of their social, cultural, and religious values.

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  Early Pioneer Families In Decatur County, Kansas

  Lillian Shimmick

  This account of some of the early pioneer families in Decatur County, Kansas and of their material and cultural contributions toward the development of a vigorous and distinctive community is derived from a series of newspaper articles written between 1966 and 1975 by Lillian Shimmick. Rather, her intent is to convey the unique flavor of the community in the late 1800's and to focus on the distinctive contributions made by the early pioneer families.

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  A History and Distributional List of Ellis County, Kansas, Birds

  Charles A. Ely

  This paper marks a century of Ornithology in Ellis County most of it centered around Hays and Ellis. This paper is an attempt to collect the scattered observations of numerous birders and to encourage others to record their observations for posterity.

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  Bibliography of Graduate Theses: Fort Hays Kansas State College 1930-1970

  Lawrence M. Reed and Robert D. Smith

  It is the hope that this publication will serve to inform the academic community, and the prospective graduate student in particular, of the range of research interest and opportunities in the graduate division at Fort Hays Kansas State College. The index is alphabetically arranged by author with a numerical reference to the thesis as listed under subject fields.