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  • Rolling terrain of the Sandhills of Nebraska. These hills are actually ancient sand dunes with a thin layer of topsoil supporting prairie grasses.
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  • Seven windmills pump water for cattle on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska
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  • Center pivot irrigation system watering corn in Nebraska.
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  • Carhenge is a replica of Stonehenge, but made of old automobiles.  It sits in a corn field outside Alliance, Nebraska.
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  • Cowboys watch an approaching thunderstorm in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Thunderstorm over the Sandhills of Arthur County, Nebraska.
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  • Ranch hands gather at the stock tank after a day of branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Ranchers watch approaching thunderstorm in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Racing to get the horses to the barn as a thunderstorm approaches in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Lone windmill pumps water for livestock in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Dogs riding across the Great Plains in the back of a pickup truck.
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  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska. A clever rancher put up seven windmills to pump shallow groundwater into a water tank so he could water his cattle.
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  • Cowboys coming back from branding gather around a stock tank to water their horses in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Cowboys gather for branding in Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Farmers in corn field at a combine harvester demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraska.
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  • Towering thunderstorm and horses in the Sandhills of Nebraska
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  • Carhenge is a replica of Stonehenge, but made of old automobiles.  It sits in a corn field outside Alliance, Nebraska.
    Carhenge_0034_II.jpg
  • Thunderstorm and lightning bearing down on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska
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  • Sunrise over the rolling grasslands of the Sandhills in Nebraska.
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  • Ranch hands gather for branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Roping horses for the days work on a ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
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  • Cowboys water their horses at a stock tank after a day of branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska
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  • Spring bubling up next to hay field in the Sandhills of Nebraka. Making haystacks with horses.
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  • Mothers hold up their babies on the main street of Funk, Nebraska.  All these babies, aged about three months, in the tiny town of Funk (Pop. 218) had to get bottled water since the town water was so polluted with nitrates from nitrogen fertilization of corn that they would otherwise get Blue Baby Syndrome.  Funk, and about 30 other towns across Nebraska, had to supply bottled water to any families with infants under six months as long as the towns drinking water exceeds 10 PPM of nitrates.
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  • Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.
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  • Sandhill Cranes take off from a field along the Platte River, Nebraska.  Water levels in the Platte River depend on the High Plains Aquifer to maintain flow in the river.
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  • Celebrating windmills at Windmill Country Days in Hyannis, Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220209.jpg
  • An approaching thunderstorm in the Sandhills of Nebraska brings rain and lightning bolts to the vast grasslands. Such storms dump water onto the porous sandhills, which store vast quantities of the High Plains Aquifer water.
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  • Rev. Jim Miller of the United Methodist Church of Ord, Nebraska recreates the first circuit riding ministers church service on Anderson Island on the shores of the North Loup River.  Several of the church members were baptized in the river. The North Loup is one of the rivers fed by the aquifer in the Sandhills and thus flows at a constant rate year round and from year to year.
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  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220172.jpg
  • Dave Searle, project manager for Marathon Oil Company, takes water samples from the companies contamination cleanup site west of Sidney, Nebraska.  Hydrocarbons contaminated the groundwater here porducing benzene concentrations of as high as 150 PPB.  Without acknowledging that their natural gas plant caused the problem, Marathon Oil has undertaken to clean up the groundwater by pumping from 14 wells in the pollution plume and braodcasting the water through a cneter pivot irrigation system.  The Hydrocarbons evaporate into the atmosphere.  Searly is collecting water samples at ground level.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
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  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
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  • The Platte River in Nebraska is very shallow with main braided channels and sandbars, excellent habitat for Sandhill Cranes making their annual migratin.
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  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220247.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • Children at a special educational summer camp in Lincoln, Nebraska watch a demonstration using an aquifer model. As water is pumped around and "pollution" (colored water) is injected into wells or leaks from lakes they can see how groundwater pollution occurs and spreads.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0040.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220181.jpg
  • Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer.  His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill.  Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique.  His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.
    Ogallala_20220115_0020.jpg
  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220194.jpg
  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220260.jpg
  • Ogallala formation near the Visitors Center in Ash Hollow State Park in Nebraska.  The long tubelike structures under the overhang are rodent burrows from the time when the fresh sands of the Ogallala, just washed down from the Rockies, were the topsoil of the region.  The smaller stringy formations are insect tunnels.  Beyond the formations can be seen Ash Hollow, the route of the Oregon Trail and beyond that the valley of the Platte River.
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  • Draft horse on the Haythorn Ranch, Nebraska
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  • Carhenge is an incredible collection of old cars arrange in the precise shape of Stonehenge in the field outsdie Alliance, Nebraska.
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  • Irrigation System watering crop, Nebraska
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220174.jpg
  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220071.jpg
  • A Nebraska farmer drives through irrigation water that was running across a road near his farm. Such runoff is waste of precisious aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220098.jpg
  • Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer.  His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill.  Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique.  His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220132.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220121.jpg
  • Children splash in a stock tank for watering horses on a hot day in Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220102.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0042.jpg
  • Ogallala Aquifer water springs forth from a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table.
    Ogallala_20220114_0030.jpg
  • Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220208.jpg
  • Storing grain on a street in rural Nebraska
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  • Water bubbles and gushes from a "Boiling Spring" on Birdwood Creek near North Platte, Nebraska in the Sandhills.  Water is welling up from the aquifer in the Sandhills.  In the vertical exposure of sand some 50 to 60 feed high above the spring you can see both water born sediments (below) and wind born sand dunes (above.)  In the background is Hydrologist Jim Goeke.<br />
Interstingly, the springs vary in the output depending on atmospheric conditions, dying down with high pressure and going wild with low preasure.
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  • Farmers watch a new combine demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraka.  Farmers are intrested in seeing how well the combine gets all the grain, deals with clogging, and handles chaf.
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  • Sandhill Cranes gather on the Platte River and in surrounding fields and set meadows during their annual migration north.   The habitat essential for the cranes survival is a mutual product of the Platte River and the High Plains Aquifer.  Some half a million cranes come to this 40 mile stretch of the Platte creating a magnificent spectacle.  The Platte is intimately tied to the High Plains Aquifer, feeding it in some places, drawing water from it in other places.  Additionally the aquifer creates the wet meadows that are essential to the cranes because they feed on invertibrates there.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220178...jpg
  • Farmers watch a new combine demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraka.  Farmers are intrested in seeing how well the combine gets all the grain, deals with clogging, and handles chaf.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220065.jpg