Author: Hugh Hill WootenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Land Utilization Program, 1934 to 1964
Author: Hugh Hill WootenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Agrarianism and the Good Society
Author: Eric FreyfoglePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813172500
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America’s core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats, and over-engineered rivers. These and other land-use crises, he contends, arise mostly because of cultural attitudes that made sense on the American frontier but now threaten the land’s ecological fabric. To support and sustain healthy communities, profound adjustments will be required. Freyfogle’s search leads him down unusual paths. He probes Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain for insights on the healing power of nature and tests the wisdom in Wendell Berry’s fiction. He challenges journalists writing about environmental issues to get beyond well-worn rhetoric and explain the true choices that Americans face. In an imaginary job advertisement, he issues a call for a national environmental leader, identifying the skills and knowledge required, taking note of cultural obstacles, and looking critically at supposed allies. Examining recent federal elections, he largely blames the conservation cause and its inattention to cultural issues for the diminished status of the environment as a decisive issue. Agrarianism and the Good Society identifies the social, historical, political, and cultural obstacles to humans’ harmony with nature and advocates a new orientation, one that begins with healthy land and that better reflects our utter dependence on it. In all, Agrarianism and the Good Society offers a critical yet hopeful guide for cultural change, essential for anyone interested in the benefits and creative possibilities of responsible land use.
The Hired Farm Working Force of 1963
Author: Gladys Kleinwort BowlesPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
This Land, This Nation
Author: Sarah T. PhillipsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This 2007 book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as long as its farmers remained poorer than its urban residents, and these politicians and policymakers set out to rebuild rural life and raise rural incomes with measures tied directly to conservation objectives - land retirement, soil restoration, flood control, and affordable electricity for homes and industries. In building new constituencies for the environmental initiatives, resource administrators and their liberal allies established the political justification for an enlarged federal government and created the institutions that shaped the contemporary rural landscape.
Directory of Federal Statistics for States
Author: One Third of the Nation's Land
Author: United States. Public Land Law Review CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Where and what are public lands? -- To whom the public lands are important -- Planning future public land use -- Public land policy and the environment -- Timber resources -- Range resources -- Mineral resources -- Water resources -- Fish and wildlife resources -- Intensive agriculture -- The Outer Continental Shelf -- Outdoor recreation -- Occupancy uses -- -Tax immunity -- Land grants to states -- Administrative procedures -- Trespass and disputed title -- Disposals, acquisitions, and exchanges -- Federal legislative jurisdiction -- Organization, administration, and budgeting policy -- Appendices.
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The National Grasslands
Author: Francis MoulPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803205465
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A guide to the American grasslands and the Grasslands National Park of Canada, this work presents a history of the region, including the establishment of the national grasslands as an important part of the New Deal's social revolution. It also provides a summary of the debates surrounding preservation and use.
Utilization and Cost of Labor for Ginning Cotton
Author: Cecil Curtis CablePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton gins and ginning
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description