Research Guides: Cache River, Illinois: Watershed Science and Policy: Agriculture

Books, Dissertations, Theses, & Research Papers

Brown, B. E. (1981). Toward an understanding of the values, goals, and attitudes of southern Illinois farmers. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 114 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. AGR 1981 B877
Ferguson, J. E. (1999). Assessing soil loss restrictions on farm practices in the Cache River watershed of southern Illinois: A representative farm approach. Master’s thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 136 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. AGR 1999 F352a
Gebhardt, D. D. (1986). Acceptability of easements by landowners: a study of the Cache River private landowners and their relationship with the state of Illinois. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 64 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. GE 1986 G293
Gillman, K. R. (1996). The political ecology of conservation policy in cornbelt agriculture. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 383 p. Print Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. GE 1996d G482
Kruse, B. S. (2000). An evaluation of bottomland hardwood reforestation on marginal agricultural lands within the Cache River Watershed, Illinois. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 89 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. FO 2000 K94e
Loftus, T. T. (2000). Predicting land-use: The CRP and environmental resources in a southern Illinois watershed. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Ray, C. (2001). Land use change in the Cypress Quadrangle, Illinois: 1807, 1938, and 1993. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. GE 2001 R263l.
Sengupta, R. R. (2000). A distributed intelligent geographical modeling environment for spatial decision support. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Print Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertatons. Call Number: q. GE 2000d S476d
Shcherbaniuk, M. K. (2006). Modeling land use and cover change: Predicting re-enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program using GIS and data mining procedures. Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 236 p. Print Location: Morris Library, 1^st Floor, Special Collections Research Center. Call Number: Diss. ERP 2006 S538m
Soman, S. (2008). Trade offs between environmental benefits provided by riparian buffers and agricultural production---implication for the Big Creek watershed. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 275 p. Print Location: Morris Library, Special Collections Research Center Call Number: Diss. 2008 [Requires 72 hours notice. Non-circulating.]
Weber, W. L. (2000). Contribution of the Conservation Reserve Program to upland wildlife habitat and general landscape structure in Illinois. Master’s thesis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 119 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. Z 2000 W376c [Includes Johnson County].

Articles, Papers, & Reports

Adams, J., Beaulieu, J., Bennett, D., Duram, L., Kraft, S., Lant, C., Loftus, T., Nicklow, J., & Ruhl, J. B. (2002). Ecological restoration in multiple-owner watersheds: The case of the Cache River in Illinois--social and economic issues. In A. M. Strawn, (Ed.) 2001 Governor's Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System: The Illinois River: Partnerships for progress, restoration, and preservation: eighth biennial conference, October 24, 2001, Holiday Inn City Centre, Peoria, Illinois: Proceedings (pp. 161-175). Special Report No. 27. Urbana, IL: Illinois Water Resources Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [See online reader page 174. Contains an extensive description of the participant interviews and focus group process.]
Allen, J. B., Bond, J. P., & Schmidt, M. E. (2005). Incidence of Meloidogyne incognita and development of resistant soybean germplasm in Illinois. Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-2005-0606-01-RS [Covers the counties in the Cache River, IL watershed] Retrieved from http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/pub/php/research/2005/soybean/
Chong, S. K., Klubek, B. P., & Weber, J. T. (1998). Herbicide contamination by the 1993 Great Flood along the Mississippi River. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34(3), 687-693. doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.1998.tb00965.x [Horseshoe Lake State Game Reserve, Alexander County]
Kraft, S. E., Roth, P. L., & Thielen, A. C. (1989). Soil conservation as a goal among farmers: Results of a survey and cluster analysis. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 44(5), 487- 490.
Lant, C. L. (2005, September). Water resources policy issues in Illinois. Occasional Papers, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Retrieved from http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ppi_papers
Lant, C. L., Kraft S. E., Beaulieu, J., Bennett, D., Loftus, T., and Nicklow, D. (2005). Using GIS-based ecological-economic modeling to evaluate policies affecting agricultural watersheds. Ecological Economics, 55(4), 467-484. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.12.006
Lant, C. L., Loftus, T., Kraft, S. & Bennett, D. (2001). Land use dynamics in a Southern Illinois watershed. Environmental Management, 28(3), 325-340. doi:10.1007/s002672426
Loftus, T. T., & Kraft, S. E. (2003). Enrolling conservation buffers in the CRP. Land Use Policy, 20(1), 73-84. doi:10.1016/S0264-8377(02)00046-7
Maxwell, S. K., Janus, A., & Wood, E.C. (2008). Comparison of the USGS 2001 NLCD to the 2002 USDA Census of Agriculture for the Upper Midwest United States. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 127(1-2), 141-145. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2008.03.012
Muir, D. P, Hite, R. L., King, M. M., Matson, M. R. (1995). An intensive survey of the Cache River Basin, summer 1992. Springfield, IL: State of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Water, Planning Section. IEPA/WPC/95-013 Location: McLafferty Annex Call Number: 363.739409773 I29in 1995.
Njiti, V. N., Myers, O., Schroeder, D., Lightfoot, D. A. (2003). Roundup ready soybean: Glyphosate effects on Fusarium solani root colonization and sudden death syndrome. Agronomy Journal, 95(5), 1140-1145. Retrieved from http://agron.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/95/5/1140 [One test site near Ullin, IL]
Schoonover, J., & Williard, K. Native riparian vegetation impacts on agricultural surface and subsurface water quality in the Cache River watershed. [Conference paper abstract]. In Illinois Water Resources Center, Illinois water 2000. Urbana, IL USA United States. Nov. 13-14, 2000 (p. 60). Urbana, IL: IWRC. IWRC Special Report 26. Retrieved from http://web.extension.illinois.edu/iwrc/pdf/SP26.pdf
Sengupta, R., Lant, C., Kraft, S., Beaulieu, J., Peterson, W., & Loftus, T. (2005). Modeling enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program by using agents within spatial decision support systems: An example from southern Illinois. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 32(6), 821-824. doi:10.1068/b31193
Shasteen, Scott et al. (2002). An intensive survey of the Cache River Basin, data summary: summer 1999. Springfield, Ill. : State of Illinois, Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Water. Location: Morris Library, 5th Floor. Call Number: QH96.8.B5 I58 2002.
Soman, S., Misgna, G., Kraft, S., Lant, C., & Beaulieu, J. (2008). An agent-based model of multifunctional agricultural landscape using genetic algorithms. Paper presented at the Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 27-29, 2008. Retrieved from http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/6142/2/463819.pdf
White, E. M., & Carver, A. D. (2003). Diversifying farm income through woodlot management: Characteristics of farmer-owned NIPF land in Illinois. In: J. W. Sambeek, J. O. Dawson, F. Ponder, Jr., E. F. Loewenstein, J. S. Fralish, 13th central hardwoods forest conference. St. Paul, MN: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station, (pp.382-389). General Technical Report NC-234. Retrieved from http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/ch/ch13/CHvolume13page382.pdf
White, E. M., & Carver, A. D. (2004). Modeling timber mill procurement influence effects on interstate sawlog exportation. Forest Policy and Economics, 6(6), 529-537. doi:10.1016/S1389-9341(03)00002-9
Yadav, V., & Malanson, G. (2008). Spatially explicit historical land use land cover and soil organic carbon transformations in Southern Illinois. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 123(4), 280-292. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2007.07.010 [Big Creek, Pulaski County, Union County, Hydrologic Unit Code no. 07140108]

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