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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 11
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Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Program for the Great Plains
Author: Program for the Great Plains
Author: The Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Great Plains
Author: Michael ForsbergPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022668167X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endangered and least protected ecosystem in North America. But all is not lost on the prairie. Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole. Three broad geographic regions in Great Plains are covered in detail, evoked in the unforgettable and often haunting images taken by Michael Forsberg. Between the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2008, Forsberg traveled roughly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photographic fieldwork for this project, underwritten by The Nature Conservancy. Complementing Forsberg’s images and firsthand accounts are essays by Great Plains scholar David Wishart and acclaimed writer Dan O’Brien. Each section of the book begins with a thorough overview by Wishart, while O’Brien—a wildlife biologist and rancher as well as a writer—uses his powerful literary voice to put the Great Plains into a human context, connecting their natural history with man’s uses and abuses. The Great Plains are a dynamic but often forgotten landscape—overlooked, undervalued, misunderstood, and in desperate need of conservation. This book helps lead the way forward, informing and inspiring readers to recognize the wild spirit and splendor of this irreplaceable part of the planet.
Program for the Great Plains
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation and CreditPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Program for the Great Plains
Author: United States Department Of AgriculturePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260963574
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Excerpt from Program for the Great Plains: January 1956 Sustained agricultural production in the Great Plains States is vital to all the people of America. This vast region, spanning our Nation from north to south, normally produces '60 percent of our wheat and 35 percent of our cattle. The 10 Great Plains States con tain 37 percent of our Nation's land area and 40 percent of our crop land. The Great Plains helped mightily to feed our people and our allies during two world wars. The objective of the Program for the Great Plains is to assist farmers and ranchers to develop for themselves a land-use program which will help them avert many of the hazards that come with the recurring droughts common to the region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Great Plains Conservation Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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