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Award Announcements

Great Plains Research presents two annual awards for the best articles published during a volume year: The Charles E. Bessey Award for natural science and the Leslie Hewes Award for social science. The awards are announced at the annual Fellows Luncheon of the Center for Great Plains Studies and include a cash stipend of $250.

The 2018 Charles E. Bessey Award for best natural science paper in Volume 27 of Great Plains Research was awarded to Daniel S. Licht for his paper, “Bison Conservation in Northern Great Plains National Parks: No Need to Panic,” which appeared in the Fall 2017 issue.

The 2018 Leslie Hewes Award for best social science paper in Volume 27 of Great Plains Research was awarded to Joan M. Blauwkamp for her paper, “Free Exercise and the Fashion Police: Nebraska’s Ban on Religious Dress,” which appeared in the Spring 2017 issue.

Conferences

The 79th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference will be held January 27–30, 2019, at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. The theme of the meeting is “Communicating Science to Fan the Flames of Conservation.” This annual event will attract nearly 800 biologists, students, and scientists from local, state and provincial, federal, and tribal natural resources agencies, universities, and private companies across the 12 midwestern states and provinces. Highlights include nearly 400 technical presentations, poster displays, plenary sessions, networking opportunities and social events. Website: http://midwestfw.org/index.html.

The Society for Range Management’s 72nd Annual Meeting, Technical Training, and Trade Show will be held February 10–14, 2019, at the Hilton, Minneapolis, MN. The theme for the 2019 conference is “Gateway to the Prairie.” Conference Co-Chairs are Jeff Duchene, USDA-NRCS Regional Grazing Specialist, and Shawn DeKeyser, NDSU Natural Resources Management Program Leader. Website: http://rangelands.org/events-abstracts/.

The 6th Annual High Plains Organic Farming Conference will be held February 26–27, 2019. Topics include organic production, economics, and marketing, and other aspects relevant to organic farming or ranching, such as livestock management, tillage, cover crops, weed management, and soil fertility and health. Venue to be announced. For more information: https://www.highplainsorganic.org/.

The North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference will be March 4–9, 2019, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown in Denver, CO. Website: https://wildlifemanagement.institute/conference.

Join the Association of American Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting held at the Marriott Wardman Park and the Omni Shoreham in Washington, DC’s Woodley Park neighborhood April 3–7, 2019. As one of the largest geographic conferences in the world, the AAG Annual Meeting and Exhibition will host as many as 8,500 geographers, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists from around the world. Website: www.aag.org/annualmeeting.

The 2019 Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium will be on American Indian Health and will be held in Omaha, NE, April 23–24, 2019. This conference will [End Page 227] bring together biomedical scientists, academics, and physicians, along with community members, whose cultural traditions are too often ignored or minimized by health practitioners. Advocates and elders will have their voices added to the discussions to help ensure that the end results will benefit those whose health and wellness are paramount. Specific topics will include fetal alcohol effect and syndrome, sociocultural determinants of health, diabetes, eldercare, youth risk and protective factors, behavioral health including the suicide epidemic, telemedicine, and cancer health disparities. Significant and lasting change can only happen when people who represent these communities successfully enter the biomedical research and clinical areas. This conference is intended to bridge this gap between academics, scientists, physicians, and the communities impacted by these issues. For more information: https://www.unl.edu/plains/seminars/seminars.shtml.

The Native American Fish and Wildlife Society serves as a communication medium for self-determined Native American fish and wildlife managers. The NAFWS hosts a national conference each year. The society is divided into seven regional areas in the US, which includes the Pacific, Great Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Alaska Regions. Each year, on a rotating basis, one of these regions will host a national conference (in cooperation with a tribe from that region). The...

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