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Geography School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska-Lincoln Geography School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://snr.unl.edu/geographygis/ Volume I1/ December 2010 Enrollments: Geography undergraduate and grad- Greetings from Lincoln uate degree programs (BA, MA and PhD) contin- Welcome to the second issue of the University of ued to expand in 2010. We now have over 40 un- Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Geography Alumni New- dergraduate majors and 30 graduate students. sletter. We‘re gratified that so many of you have Moreover, about 1300 UNL students per semester expressed support for this annual publication and enroll in Geography courses that support both un- that you have provided us news about yourselves dergraduate general education and specialized and your families. Please join me once again in programs in Natural Resources, Environmental extending thanks to Don Rundquist, Milda Vaitkus Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Latin and Joyce Hurst for their efforts in assembling and American Studies, International Studies, and Ele- editing the newsletter this year. mentary and Secondary Education. In spite of tight budgets, I am happy to report that Curriculum Development: This year, Dr. Gene Geography is thriving at UNL. As most of you Guan offered new courses in Advanced GIS and know, in 2008 the Department of Geography joined GIS programming, respectively, and Dr. Rebecca the UNL School of Natural Resources (SNR) and Buller developed and taught a new course on moved to new facilities in Hardin Hall on the UNL Women of the Great Plains. In addition, Dr. Cody East Campus. The School is a cross-campus, mul- Knutson and Dr. Paul Hanson began planning for a tidisciplinary enterprise that includes faculty from field methods course that we hope to offer for the both the UNL College of Arts & Sciences and the first time next summer. College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Re- sources. It‘s now clear that the integration of Geo- Strategic Planning: This year Geography faculty graphy and SNR has been mutually beneficial and prepared a strategic plan to help guide future de- has provided a firm foundation on which we are velopment. Our five key priorities are to: continuing to build our program. Please let me take • maintain/enhance teaching and research this opportunity to tell you about some highlights of strengths in human and historical geogra- this past year: phy and in GIScience; • expand/enhance programs in physical and environmental geography (e.g., biogeogra- phy and natural hazards) and human- environment interaction, including the hu- man dimensions of natural resources (e.g., land use, human behavior); • increase both ethnic and gender diversity of the faculty; • engage more tenure-line faculty in teaching undergraduate courses; and, • enhance collaboration with other SNR units and our external partners including the Cen- ter for Great Plains Studies, Women‘s Stu- dies, International Studies, Community and 1 Regional Planning, and the University of Nebraska Night at the AAG – In March 2010 Dr. Nebraska Medical Center. Cody Knutson and PhD candidate Paul Merani or- ganized and hosted a reception for over 50 UNL Publications: A new book, Great Plains: Ameri- faculty, students, alumni and friends at the AAG ca's Lingering Wild, coauthored by UNL Geogra- Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. We are phy alumnus planning on holding a similar event at the 2011 Michael Fors- AAG Annual Conference in Seattle, WA in April. berg and Pro- As you can tell, we‘re excited about Geography at fessor David UNL. We‘re looking forward to hearing from you, Wishart, was and we invite you to please let us know if you are honored with planning to visit Lincoln so that we can arrange a several time to welcome you back at UNL. awards, in- cluding the Best wishes, 2010 Prose Award/Americ Jim Merchant an Publishers [email protected] Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, and the 2010 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize con- ferred by the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies. Featured Article It was also named one of the Best of the Best by the Association of Understanding Nebraska: Pride, Geo- American University graphy and Self-Deprecation Presses and one of By Becky Gailey, SDN Undergraduate Intern the top 10 travel books in 2010 by What makes Nebraskans proud? What makes Booklist, the buying them stay, generation after generation, in what source for American some call "flyover country"? What makes them libraries. In July, we stay through long, cold winters and long, hot sum- look forward to publi- mers, often hearing someone say, "It could be cation of the Atlas of worse"? the Great Plains (University of Ne- Conquering geography braska Press) co- authored by Profes- "A Nebraskan...is attached to a place that many sors Steve Lavin and other people might not be attached to because of Clark Archer. its wide horizons, what is perceived as a lack of detail in landscape by many people," said David Geography Awareness Week: The Geography fa- Wishart, a University of Nebraska- Lincoln geogra- culty and the UNL Geography Student Organiza- phy professor and editor of the Encyclopedia of the tion (GSO) sponsored several very successful Great Plains. events to celebrate Geography Awareness Week, November 14-20, 2010. These included a two-day visit and seminar by Dr. May Yuan, Director of the Many of Nebraska's settlers found the wide hori- Center for Spatial Analysis at the University of Ok- zons lonely and difficult to cultivate. So many of lahoma, a Best Photo Contest, focusing on the them left that Wishart called 19th century Ne- GAW theme ―Freshwater,‖ that had more than 50 braska a place of "chronic impermanence." entries, and the annual Geography Bowl that at- tracted over UNL 100 students. But some people stayed. They stayed through the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and the farming crisis of the 1980s. They stayed and helped culti- 2 vate the Great Plains, a region Wishart described rants, conversation often stops because he is as "the most successful agricultural region in the someone different. world over the last 100 years." "People are not unfriendly; people are almost shy," "The self-deprecating boast" Wishart said. "Whereas it might be difficult to get a conversation going there, if I were to get in my car Despite the dependence of America and other and break down a mile down the road, any one of countries on Great Plains agriculture, many people those people would stop and fix it... so I see it as a view Nebraska as one of those flat states some- generous place." where in the middle of America. A sense of place Wishart said that in the Great Plains "there is a sense of perhaps inferiority, a sense of feeling ru- Nebraskans' humorous response to being thought ral and maybe out of the stream of life that's going of as "rural" is partly due to their strong attachment on in New York and San Francisco and the bigger to the land. According to Wishart, it is much easier metropolitan [areas]." for people to develop a strong sense of place in a rural area where chain restaurants and gas sta- Wishart believes, however, that this feeling of infe- tions have not taken over Main Street, where fami- riority also creates a sense of pride in Nebraskans, ly businesses still thrive. which is one of their major characteristics. They are proud to live in this land that was too harsh for "It's difficult to have a sense of place where houses others, and out of this pride comes an interesting all look the same, the lawns look the same and it's reaction - the "self-deprecating boast" - a way of all so modern. Sense of place, I think, takes time, showing pride in the concept of being unpopular, of generations perhaps, on the land," Wishart said. being proud of traits others would not find attrac- tive. But studies show that the newest generation of Nebraskans is leaving the land behind. A 2009 Instead of struggling to "fit in" with the rest of study by UNL sociology professor Randy Cantrell America, Wishart said Great Plains people react to for the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative re- America's view of their geography with a sense of ported that 73 of Nebraska's 93 counties expe- humor. Wishart found an example of a self- rienced population loss between 2000 and 2007. deprecating boast when he visited a bar in Yates Douglas, Sarpy (the Omaha metropolitan area) Center, Kansas. The pub, Earl's Tavern, was one and Lancaster county (including Lincoln) all expe- of the most ramshackle looking places Wishart had rienced growth during this time period, so rural ever seen, and hanging on the side was a sign population loss can perhaps be explained by im- saying, "We only look expensive." migration to urban areas. Wishart, who was born More young people may be leaving rural Ne- and raised in northeast braska, but Wishart said they still retain their at- England, has visited tachment to the land. In Lincoln and Omaha, unlike several restaurants in many other American cities, numerous residents rural Nebraska. Rural are only one or two generations removed from ru- Nebraska still has in- ral communities. Nebraskans still return to their sular characteristics, rural roots to visit family for holidays, and their despite the fact that sense of place, their attachment to the land, still new communication exists. technology is bringing the world to rural Loss of the Reproductive Population communities, Wishart said. When he enters Nebraska's rural youth leave home for a variety of one of these restau- reasons, but they leave behind the same two things: peers who have fewer options for life part- 3 ners and an elderly population that does not want "There are a lot of similarities around the state, not to leave.
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