ABSTRACT:Hutchinson, Kansas, is among the places most widely associated with salt mining in the United States. Lying above vast halite deposits laid down by an ancient Permian sea, the century-long association with this important economic mineral has earned Hutchinson the nickname "Salt City." Located more than 200 m (650 ft) below Hutchison is Strataca: Kansas Underground Salt Museum, the only underground salt mine available for tourists to visit in the country. Strataca receives approximately 50,000 annual visitors, making it a significant regional tourist attraction. Operated in cooperation between the local historical society and an active salt mining company working in nearby shafts, Strataca offers a distinctive geotourism and industrial heritage tourism experience in the Great Plains. By considering the interpretive material at Strataca and the representation of the museum in user-generated content (UGC) reviews on a prominent travel website, TripAdvisor, this study demonstrates the value of a mixed-methods approach. Interpretive material included in signs, videos, and narrated tours and the UGC are analyzed for recurring themes and notable absences. The discussed themes include geology, mining methods, and working in the mine.
{"title":"Revealing \"Salt City's\" Geological and Mining Heritage at Strataca","authors":"Catherine L. Ronck, W. Price","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0018","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Hutchinson, Kansas, is among the places most widely associated with salt mining in the United States. Lying above vast halite deposits laid down by an ancient Permian sea, the century-long association with this important economic mineral has earned Hutchinson the nickname \"Salt City.\" Located more than 200 m (650 ft) below Hutchison is Strataca: Kansas Underground Salt Museum, the only underground salt mine available for tourists to visit in the country. Strataca receives approximately 50,000 annual visitors, making it a significant regional tourist attraction. Operated in cooperation between the local historical society and an active salt mining company working in nearby shafts, Strataca offers a distinctive geotourism and industrial heritage tourism experience in the Great Plains. By considering the interpretive material at Strataca and the representation of the museum in user-generated content (UGC) reviews on a prominent travel website, TripAdvisor, this study demonstrates the value of a mixed-methods approach. Interpretive material included in signs, videos, and narrated tours and the UGC are analyzed for recurring themes and notable absences. The discussed themes include geology, mining methods, and working in the mine.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"137 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46198555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2019 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Winner: No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy","authors":"C. Dando","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"51 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46311223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caring for the Low German Mennonites: How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence Health Care by Judith C. Kulig (review)","authors":"Joseph B. Martin","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"174 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47778040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article argues that rural Americans' trust in Congress and the federal government may be partially conditioned by anti-immigrant attitudes. Surveying residents of four different Great Plains communities with growing immigrant populations, the authors find that respondents who feel threatened by Latino newcomers are less likely to trust Congress and the federal government. This research also finds that non-Hispanic whites who cite immigration as the most important issue facing the country, or who cite immigration as the most important issue to them personally, are less likely to trust Congress and the federal government. We argue this occurs because of rural white Americans' displeasure with the federal government to take action on this issue. The results also show that importance of immigration as an issue and perception of racial threat have no significant influence on levels of trust in state and local governments, indicating that rural residents may not necessarily be looking to these levels of government to address the issue, unless prompted by policy entrepreneurs.
{"title":"Immigration, Threat, and Trust in Government in Changing Rural Communities","authors":"Brian R. Hanson, Thomas A. Ringenberg, J. Urbano","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article argues that rural Americans' trust in Congress and the federal government may be partially conditioned by anti-immigrant attitudes. Surveying residents of four different Great Plains communities with growing immigrant populations, the authors find that respondents who feel threatened by Latino newcomers are less likely to trust Congress and the federal government. This research also finds that non-Hispanic whites who cite immigration as the most important issue facing the country, or who cite immigration as the most important issue to them personally, are less likely to trust Congress and the federal government. We argue this occurs because of rural white Americans' displeasure with the federal government to take action on this issue. The results also show that importance of immigration as an issue and perception of racial threat have no significant influence on levels of trust in state and local governments, indicating that rural residents may not necessarily be looking to these levels of government to address the issue, unless prompted by policy entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"106 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47825805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World's Largest Border ed. by Stephen Brooks and Andrea Olive (review)","authors":"P. Todhunter","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"176 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49657536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants by Hilary Parsons Dick (review)","authors":"Alyshia Gálvez","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"178 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42679641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
unpredictability of the trickster with the uncertainty represented in resilience theory, the authors reject prior narratives supporting the belief that humans can be in complete control, instead seeing a series of adaptive cycles of change illustrated with systems theory and complexity theory. Th ese somewhat theoretical concepts are illustrated through two case studies. Th e Rio Grande watershed in New Mexico illustrates the adaptive cycles of resilience and the potentially transformative change required whereby the system reconceptualizes and creates a fundamentally new system of integrated forest, water, and fl ood management. Here Indigenous people recognize they can’t stop fl oods, but they can slow them down. Th e second case study, of ocean changes, illustrates the trickster as chaotic change of sea temperature, fi sh stocks, sea level, among others, but also sadly the historical post– World War II tragedy narrative. Although a vision of transformative change is lacking in this book, ageold recommendations of thinking about the longterm implications of policy, incorporating the precautionary principle, and increasing conservation are proposed. Because the authors believe a fl uid relation exists where law and society inform and are informed by each other, the addition of the trickster and resilience narrative into society and lawmaking better informs the process of lawmaking in the context of climate change. In addition to this, the authors add to the mix principles of communitarianism (of humans together with humans and humans together with nature) as espoused by Aldo Leopold. Th e authors make a cogent case that these principles are already part of American law and illustrate this with specifi c case law surrounding the “Taking Clause” of the United States Constitution. Th is law recognizes that any state’s taking of private property for public purposes requires the state to pay compensation. Having established the legal precedent for communitarianism, the trickster, and resilience in American law, the authors promote the creation of legal space for adaptive responses to ecological change and provide specifi c ideas for legal reform, including to monitor and study everything, to eliminate nonclimate stresses, plan for the longterm coordinating sectors and interests, give meaningful weight to government and public rights and values in private property, and promote principled fl exibility in regulatory goals and natural resource management. Th is book is an important contribution to legal scholarship in the Anthropocene. Although the book does not have all the answers for regime shift s and transformative change, it off ers interesting ideas and suggestions for a new narrative for the Anthropocene and off ers case studies and policy recommendations that start the journey.
{"title":"Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict by Raymond J. Orr (review)","authors":"Keith Richotte","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0031","url":null,"abstract":"unpredictability of the trickster with the uncertainty represented in resilience theory, the authors reject prior narratives supporting the belief that humans can be in complete control, instead seeing a series of adaptive cycles of change illustrated with systems theory and complexity theory. Th ese somewhat theoretical concepts are illustrated through two case studies. Th e Rio Grande watershed in New Mexico illustrates the adaptive cycles of resilience and the potentially transformative change required whereby the system reconceptualizes and creates a fundamentally new system of integrated forest, water, and fl ood management. Here Indigenous people recognize they can’t stop fl oods, but they can slow them down. Th e second case study, of ocean changes, illustrates the trickster as chaotic change of sea temperature, fi sh stocks, sea level, among others, but also sadly the historical post– World War II tragedy narrative. Although a vision of transformative change is lacking in this book, ageold recommendations of thinking about the longterm implications of policy, incorporating the precautionary principle, and increasing conservation are proposed. Because the authors believe a fl uid relation exists where law and society inform and are informed by each other, the addition of the trickster and resilience narrative into society and lawmaking better informs the process of lawmaking in the context of climate change. In addition to this, the authors add to the mix principles of communitarianism (of humans together with humans and humans together with nature) as espoused by Aldo Leopold. Th e authors make a cogent case that these principles are already part of American law and illustrate this with specifi c case law surrounding the “Taking Clause” of the United States Constitution. Th is law recognizes that any state’s taking of private property for public purposes requires the state to pay compensation. Having established the legal precedent for communitarianism, the trickster, and resilience in American law, the authors promote the creation of legal space for adaptive responses to ecological change and provide specifi c ideas for legal reform, including to monitor and study everything, to eliminate nonclimate stresses, plan for the longterm coordinating sectors and interests, give meaningful weight to government and public rights and values in private property, and promote principled fl exibility in regulatory goals and natural resource management. Th is book is an important contribution to legal scholarship in the Anthropocene. Although the book does not have all the answers for regime shift s and transformative change, it off ers interesting ideas and suggestions for a new narrative for the Anthropocene and off ers case studies and policy recommendations that start the journey.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"171 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45237989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small Cities, Big Issues: Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era ed. by Christopher Walmsley and Terrance Kading (review)","authors":"Mervyn Horgan","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"169 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46471793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herping Texas: The Quest for Reptiles and Amphibians by Michael Smith and Clint King (review)","authors":"J. Gibbons","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"177 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48549487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Caven, E. Buckley, Joshua D. Wiese, Bill Taddicken, Brice Krohn, Timothy J. Smith, Andrew Pierson
ABSTRACT:To adhere to the Kansas-Nebraska-Colorado Republican River Compact, the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, the Lower Republican Natural Resources District (NRD), and the Tri-Basin NRD proposed the first transbasin diversion in Nebraska history. The Central Platte River Valley supports diverse wildlife, including four federally listed and eleven state-listed species, as well as robust agricultural production. Periods of high flow in the Central Platte River Valley are necessary to maintain the basin's ecological structure, function, and groundwater recharge. Recent decades demonstrate that current water demands placed on the Platte River are not sustainable, and large portions are designated as "overappropriated." Over 90% of active river channel has been lost in some areas of the Platte. The project proposal fails to account for the ecological dynamics of the Central Platte River Valley when estimating the potential costs and benefits. Moreover, not all alternatives for water acquisition and/ or conservation appear to have been fully investigated, nor were stakeholders in the Platte River Basin involved in the decision-making process to pursue the current transbasin diversion. We recommend a more critical public and scientific evaluation of the current proposal before it moves forward, as well as the addition of a robust ecological impacts monitoring plan.
{"title":"Appeal for a Comprehensive Assessment of the Potential Ecological Impacts of the Proposed Platte-Republican Diversion Project","authors":"A. Caven, E. Buckley, Joshua D. Wiese, Bill Taddicken, Brice Krohn, Timothy J. Smith, Andrew Pierson","doi":"10.1353/gpr.2019.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpr.2019.0019","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:To adhere to the Kansas-Nebraska-Colorado Republican River Compact, the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, the Lower Republican Natural Resources District (NRD), and the Tri-Basin NRD proposed the first transbasin diversion in Nebraska history. The Central Platte River Valley supports diverse wildlife, including four federally listed and eleven state-listed species, as well as robust agricultural production. Periods of high flow in the Central Platte River Valley are necessary to maintain the basin's ecological structure, function, and groundwater recharge. Recent decades demonstrate that current water demands placed on the Platte River are not sustainable, and large portions are designated as \"overappropriated.\" Over 90% of active river channel has been lost in some areas of the Platte. The project proposal fails to account for the ecological dynamics of the Central Platte River Valley when estimating the potential costs and benefits. Moreover, not all alternatives for water acquisition and/ or conservation appear to have been fully investigated, nor were stakeholders in the Platte River Basin involved in the decision-making process to pursue the current transbasin diversion. We recommend a more critical public and scientific evaluation of the current proposal before it moves forward, as well as the addition of a robust ecological impacts monitoring plan.","PeriodicalId":35980,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"123 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/gpr.2019.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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