Paul A. Johnsgard

Paul A. Johnsgard is foundation professor of biological sciences emeritus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was listed by the Lincoln Journal Star as one of “100 people who have helped build Nebraska... the past 100 years,” and also was chosen by the Omaha World-Herald as one of 100 “Extraordinary Nebraskans” of the past century. In 2005 he received the National Conservation Achievement Award in Science from the National Wildlife Federation. His 51st book, a revised edition of The Platte: Channels in Time, will appear as a University of Nebraska Press Bison Book in 2008. That revision includes an expanded and more documented version of this essay.