NORTH DAKOTA GEOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE MAGAZINE
Spring 2006, Volume 5, Number 3

FRONT COVER

Each year the North Dakota Forest Service’s Towner State Nursery supplies one million or more trees for replanting in North Dakota. This year the Forest Service is celebrating 100 years of service to North Dakota (see pages 17-22). This view at the Towner State Nursery shows tens of thousands of young trees that will help shape North Dakota landscapes over the next 100 years.

4 THE RED RIVER OF THE NORTH by Chloe Ondracek

6 TEACHING GEOGRAPHY by Phil Murphy

7 THE VALUE AND IMPORTANCE OF EXPANDING NORTH DAKOTA GEOGRAPHY
EDUCATION—AN EDITORIAL

8 IS THERE A FUTURE IN FARMING by Tom Hanson

10 A NORTH DAKOTA ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTRUCTOR DESCRIBES THE NORTHWEST NORTH DAKOTA DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE TOUR by Michelle Larson

12 PAPA’S PUMPKIN PATCH by Holly Perrin and Tara Jordan

17 NORTH DAKOTA FOREST SERVICE “Celebrating 100-years of Forestry” by Glenda Fauske

24 BRINGING NORTH DAKOTA AND THE WORLD INTO MANY DIFFERENT
NORTH DAKOTA CLASSROOMS by Jeff Beck

28 THE BISON OF THE GREAT PLAINS AS PART OF OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE
by Amy Myers and Johnny Coomansigh, PhD

30 DID YOU KNOW THAT… by Curt Eriksmoen. Read fascinating North Dakota success stories.
30 A NORTH DAKOTA BASEBALL TEAM IN 1934 WON THREE GAMES AGAINST MAJOR LEAGUE ALL STARS?
31 A NORTH DAKOTAN TRIED TO SAVE PRESIDENT KENNEDY?
32 NORTH DAKOTA HAS HAD 2940 PEOPLE SERVE IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE?
33 ALEXANDER MCKENZIE WAS THE FIRST NORTH DAKOTAN TO RECEIVE
A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON?
34 ONE OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S BODYGUARDS BECAME A NORTH DAKOTA
POLITICAL LEADER?
35 TWO HIGH PROFILE HOLLYWOOD MURDERS HAD NORTH DAKOTA CONNECTIONS?

BACK COVER

Cabin at the Denbigh Experimental Forest in April of 2006. See page 20 for a photo of the same cabin in the mid 1930s. The contrast between the two photos documents how trees are changing the North Dakota landscape. This year the North Dakota Forest Service is celebrating 100 years of North Dakota forestry (see pages 17-23).