The 'Lone Tree' Destroyed

"On Damon's Point, at the entrance to Grays Harbor, stood an old spruce tree until the destructive gale of October 21, when it was thrown to the ground. It was alone on the sand and welcomed Captain Robert Gray when he discovered the harbor on May 7, 1792.

Etiquette Seminar on Golf and Players with Disabilities

National Center on Accessibility, Lone Tree Country Clu

Davis, Anne Pence, 1901-1982 (SC 2213)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2213. Letter from Anne Pence Davis to Dorothy Edwards Townsend responding to her request for biographical material, probably for inclusion in Kentucky in American Letters, vol. III, 1913-1975. Includes two news clippings about Davis\u27 book The Top Hand of Lone Tree Ranch

Table of Contents- Fall 1998

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY Volume 18/ Number 4 / Fall 1998 CARNIVAL AND CEREMONY AT WRIGHT MORRIS\u27S LONE TREE HOTEL GIANTS ON THE PLAINS: GRAIN ELEVATORS AND THE MAKING OF ENID, OKLAHOMA SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY AND MYTH BOOK REVIEWS NOTES AND NEWS INDE

Long-term water quality trend analysis in the Lone Tree Creek watershed and surrounding marine waters

The Lone Tree Creek watershed is located on the Reservation of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (SITC) and is an important area both ecologically and culturally. Lone Tree Creek and the surrounding Skagit Bay nearshore environment provide important salmon and shellfish habitats, as well as recreation areas, and therefore have been the focus for ongoing research since 1997. Water quality parameters in the creek, lagoon, and two bay sites have been monitored since the late 1990s and early 2000s, and an additional pocket estuary site was added to monitoring efforts in 2007. This study used Mann-Kendall analysis to determine how water quality (pH, DO, temperature, salinity, turbidity, and Fecal coliform bacteria) has changed at these sites over time. Seasonal Mann-Kendall was used at all sites with the exception of the intermittent creek. At creek sites Mann-Kendall analysis was run individually on seasons that had adequate flow for water quality data collection. Pettit’s Homogeneity Test was used to assess if there were any homogeneity breaks in trend where the time series analysis should be divided. Overall trend analysis at all stations suggests a shift toward decreasing water quality around 2010/-2011. Some sites show improving water quality from 2004-2010 prior to the 2010 shift. Restoration that occurred on Lone Tree Creek in 2006 and 2007 did not coincide with any homogeneity breaks in the data. Although the restoration did lead to water quality improvements, they were not significant on the time scale considered in trend analyses. Possible explanations for the shift in water quality occurring around 2010 include: changes in land-use and forestry practices, new management practices at the campground in the creek watershed, and effects related to climate stressors. Understanding such shifts in water quality are essential for effectively moving forward with monitoring programs and the development of future restoration projects

Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in Mennonite Communities from the Midwestern United States

We examined mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in six Mennonite communities from Kansas (Goessel, Lone Tree, Garden View, Meridian, and Garden City) and Nebraska (Henderson) to determine their genetic structure and its relationship to population history. Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup and haplotype information were obtained from blood samples from 118 individuals. Molecular genetic variation was analyzed using diversity measures, neutrality test statistics, spatial analysis of molecular variance (SAMOVA), and multidimensional scaling plots. The Mennonite samples exhibited eight western European mtDNA haplogroups: H, HVO, I, J, K, T, U, and X. Comparable to other populations of European descent, haplogroup H was the most frequent in all six communities and ranged from 35% in Lone Tree to 75% in Old Order Mennonites from Garden City. Fifty-eight different mtDNA haplotypes were found in these groups with only one shared among all six populations. Haplotype diversities varied from 0.81 in Goessel to 0.96 in Henderson and Garden View. Multivariate statistical analysis of these populations indicates that these Anabaptist communities formed new congregations by fissioning along familial lines. Population subdivision of these communities into congregations supports previously documented patterns of fission-fusion. These haploid molecular data provide a more accurate reflection of biological relationships between midwestern Mennonite communities than evidence based on classical genetic markers

Field Studies of the Archean in Grand Canyon

The oldest rocks of Arizona which form the precipitous walls of the inner or granite gorge of the Grand Canyon have never received the intensive study that has been given to their counterparts over the great northeastern plains of Canada, in the mountains of Scandinavia or on the rolling expanses of Finland. The metamorphosed rocks standing in places on end under the wedge of the Grand Canyon series of sediments (Algonkian) and elsewhere under the mantle of Paleozoic sediments are known as the Vishnu schist. To J.W. Powell these were known as the “Grand Canyon schists” of tentative “Eozoic” age. C.D. Walcott who proposed the term Vishnu from the occurrence beneath Vishnu temple in the Grand Canyon classified them as “bedded, sedimentary, unconformable, pre-Unkar (Lower Grand Canyon series) strata.

A rural social survey of Lone Tree Township, Clay County, Iowa

Agriculture is still our chief business, but the study and practice of agriculture should be something more than a mere study or examination of economic problems. It should be a study or examination of the educational, moral, political, religious and social conditions as well, for each of these has a vital relationship with all other activities of men in the open country. It is true that upon good farming wait all other institutions in the country, such as good homes, good schools, good churches, good roads, and the many other rural co-operative enterprises, but it is to foster and improve these that husbandry is itself fostered in the country. In other words, good farming is a means while good living is the end, which rural people rightly set as the goal of their achievement. This study is therefore not concerned especially with a study of husbandry in the country but rather with an investigation of the institutions that wait upon good business in farming. It aims at a true-to-life portrayal of the present status of these institutions as they are found in the township with a view to offering some constructive basis for their greater development and improvement