Author: Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388747
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.
Author: Iowa Rail Road Land Co
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Languages : de
Pages : 32
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Author: Iowa Railroad Land Company
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Kathleen Woida
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387503
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how Iowa's soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia. Its soils are what make Iowa a premier agricultural state, both in terms of acres planted and bushels harvested. But in the last hundred years, large-scale intensive agriculture and urban development have severely degraded most of our soils. However, as Woida documents, some innovative Iowans are beginning to repair and regenerate their soils by treating them as the living ecosystem and vast carbon store that they are.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Author: Jessie Merrill Dwelle
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Author: James J. Dinsmore
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609389263
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Much has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and trumpeter swan are becoming increasingly abundant. Iowa’s Changing Wildlife provides an up-to-date, scientifically based summary of changes in the distribution, status, conservation needs, and future prospects of about sixty species of Iowa’s birds and mammals whose populations have increased or decreased in the past three decades. Readers will learn more about familiar species, become acquainted with the status of less familiar species, and find out how many of the species around them have fared during this era of transformation.
Author: Iowa. Land Dept
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Wallaces' Farmer (Des Moines (Iowa)).
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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