Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Palouse Cooperative River Basin Study
Author: United States. Soil Conservation ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Plowed Under
Author: Andrew P. DuffinPublisher: 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.
Agriculture and the Environment
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Environmental QualityPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Environmental Assessment
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region X.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
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EPA 910/9
Author: Conservation Farming in the United States
Author: Edgar MichalsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781420048834
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Conservation Farming in the United States: The Methods and Accomplishments of the STEEP Program explains the success of the multidisciplinary STEEP (Solutions to Economic and Environmental Problems) conservation project, currently in its third decade, which focuses on the Palouse and the western Pacific Northwest. Topics addressed include integrated pest management; equipment for conservation farming; and conservation farming technology transfer to producers.
Nutrients, Suspended Sediment, and Pesticides in Streams and Irrigation Systems in the Central Columbia Plateau in Washington and Idaho, 1959-1991
Author: Karen E. GreenePublisher:
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Category : Irrigation water
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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