Irrigated Eden e-bog
253,01 DKK
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Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fieges fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idahos Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivatio...
E-bog
253,01 DKK
Udgivet
23 november 2009
Længde
320 sider
Genrer
TVR
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780295989747
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fieges fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idahos Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forcesone that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000