Author: Hugh Hammond Bennett
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Category : Soil erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Author: Hugh Hammond Bennett
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Category : Soil erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Hugh Hammond Bennett
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Category : Soil erosion
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1206

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Author: Donald R. Coates
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000046591
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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This book, first published in 1973, focuses on non-urban terrain, and presents a uniquely balanced historical treatment of both the land degradation induced by man and his efforts at conservation, preservation and reclamation.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1156

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1518

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Author: Douglas Helms
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105678466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 735

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This volume is a collection of the writings of Douglas Helms on topics ranging from the history of the cotton boll weevil and the soils of the South to the history of soil and water conservation programs in the United States. They were authored over a more than thirty year career as a historian in the public service at the National Archives and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Author: Benson H. Paul
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Category : Pine
Languages : en
Pages : 1026

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The pruning of young trees in sparsely and unevenly stocked stands will greatly improve the resulting lumber grades. In northern white and red pines, even in fully stocked stands, artificial pruning is essential for the production of any of the best grades of lumber in a reasonable time.

Author: Paul S. Sutter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.