Grasslands of the World.pdf - Disasters and Conflicts - UNEP

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Grasslands of central North America 247
Plate 6.21
Pasture sampling in the mixed -grass zone, Saskatchewan, Canada.
New Mexico, North and South Dakota; and with Agronomy in Nebraska,
Kansas and Oklahoma. The School of Forestry at the University of Montana
also has a range faculty offering degrees in Range Science (Bedell, 1999).
Colorado State University has a separate Range Science Department, as does
Texas Tech (with Wildlife Science) and Texas A & M University.
Research in grassland agriculture has also been conducted by the Agriculture
Research Service. Experimental stations have concentrated on range and livestock
problems in the Northern Great Plains in North Dakota; Sydney,
Montana (now closed); Central Plains in Colorado; and the Southern Great
Plains in Oklahoma. Research conducted at the universities and Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) experimental stations has been broad based, featuring
both basic and applied research.
Grassland research has also been conducted by ecologists in Biology or
Botany Departments in Great Plains states. The University of Nebraska was in
the forefront of ecological research under the direction of Dr John E. Weaver
during the 1930s and 1940s, although earlier scientists, including Dr Frederic
E. Clements, were instrumental in establishing ecology at the University of
Nebraska (Tobey, 1981). Drs Clair Kucera at the University of Missouri,
Warren Whitman at North Dakota State University, Lloyd C. Hulbert at
Kansas State University, William Penfound, Elroy Rice and Paul G. Risser at
Oklahoma State University and John Aikman at Iowa State University also
had strong grassland research programmes (Kucera, 1973; Tobey, 1981).