Author: Washington State Grange
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Washington State Grange
Author: Washington State Grange
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Journal of Proceedings ... Annual Session of the Washington State Grange
Author: Washington State Grange
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Proceedings of the Annual Session
Author: Washington State Grange
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry
Author: National Grange
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Journal of Proceedings of the Annual Session
Author: Colorado. State Grange of Patrons of Husbandry
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the California State Grange
Author: California State Grange
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Journal of Proceedings ... Annual Session of the Colorado State Grange
Author: Colorado State Grange
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Category : Agricultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Category : Agricultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Journal of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Colorado State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
Author: Colorado State Grange
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Proceedings of ... Annual Session...
Author: Washington State Pharmaceutical Association
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Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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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.