Author: Jeffrey L. Doke
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Category : Paradise Creek Watershed (Idaho and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Paradise Creek Watershed Characterization Study
Author: Jeffrey L. Doke
Publisher:
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Category : Paradise Creek Watershed (Idaho and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Paradise Creek Watershed (Idaho and Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Plowed Under
Author: Andrew P. Duffin
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought. During the twentieth century, the Palouse became synonymous with wheat, and the landscape was irrevocably altered. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, native vegetation is almost nonexistent, stream water is so dirty that it is often unfit for even livestock, and 94 percent of all land has been converted to agriculture. Commercial agriculture also created a less noticeable ecological change: soil erosion. While common to industrial agriculture nationwide, topsoil loss evoked different political and social reactions in the Palouse. Farmers all over the nation take pride in their freedom and independence, but in the Palouse, Duffin shows, this mentality - a remnant of an older agrarian past - has been taken to the extreme and is partly responsible for erosion problems that are among the worst in the nation. In the hope of charting a better, more sustainable future, Duffin argues for a candid look at the land, its people, their decisions, and the repercussions of those decisions. As he notes, the debate is not over whether to use the land, but over what that use will look like and its social and ecological results.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Plowed Under, Andrew P. Duffin traces the transformation of the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land thought unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating agricultural paradise, weighing the consequences of what this progress has wrought. During the twentieth century, the Palouse became synonymous with wheat, and the landscape was irrevocably altered. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, native vegetation is almost nonexistent, stream water is so dirty that it is often unfit for even livestock, and 94 percent of all land has been converted to agriculture. Commercial agriculture also created a less noticeable ecological change: soil erosion. While common to industrial agriculture nationwide, topsoil loss evoked different political and social reactions in the Palouse. Farmers all over the nation take pride in their freedom and independence, but in the Palouse, Duffin shows, this mentality - a remnant of an older agrarian past - has been taken to the extreme and is partly responsible for erosion problems that are among the worst in the nation. In the hope of charting a better, more sustainable future, Duffin argues for a candid look at the land, its people, their decisions, and the repercussions of those decisions. As he notes, the debate is not over whether to use the land, but over what that use will look like and its social and ecological results.
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
General Technical Report INT
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Preliminary Bibliography and Index of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Washington, 1991-1995
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Publisher: 3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph
ISBN: 0911385495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: 3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph
ISBN: 0911385495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Soil and Water Conservation Instruments
Author: D. A. Parsons
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Vegetation, Nesting Bird, and Small Mammal Characteristics--Wet Creek, Idaho
Author: Warren P. Clary
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Aquaculture Research
A Proposal
Author: United States. Forest Service. California Region
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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