_Acknowledgments_
We thank Dr. Frank Cross, Mr. Bernard Nelson and Mr. Wendell Minckley for their suggestions and data, and Mrs. James E. Deacon for a.s.sistance in preparation of the ma.n.u.script. We are grateful also to landowners in the Wakarusa Basin for permitting us to collect on their properties, to Mr. Melvon H. Wertzberger for varied a.s.sistance, and to The Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission for financial a.s.sistance to one of us. The Kansas State Board of Health and the Water Resources Board supplied pertinent information.
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