025 - Dewey, O’Brien, & Powell - Great Plains Weather, Bison, & Birds

A conversation with Kenneth F. Dewey, Dan O'Brien, and Larkin Powell about their books in the University of Nebraska Press "Discover the Great Plains" series, Great Plains Weather (2019), Great Plains Bison (2017), and Great Plains Birds (2019).

 

Ken Dewey is professor emeritus of geography and climatology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. He maintains the Lincoln Weather and Climate website and provides a regular Weather segment on local Nebraska radio station, KLIN.

 

Dan O'Brien is a wildlife ecologist, essayist, novelist, educator and rancher. He runs the Wild Idea Buffalo Company, raising buffalo in South Dakota with eye towards preserving and restoring Great Plains grasslands.

 

Larkin Powell is professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His research ranges from quantitative methods for determining wildlife demographics, wildlife and ecology policy and decision make, the environmental histories of Great Plains, and even poetry.

 Podcast Notes:

• Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
• Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
  
• Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
• Episodes are recorded via Skype or in person and amateurishly engineered and produced by Professor Rensink.
• To submit a book to be considered for a podcast episode, email writingwestwardpodcast@byu.edu.