Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.)

Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.)

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Book Description
Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege's fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho's 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 forces-one 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.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author
Mark Fiege is assistant professor of history at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book.),Mark Fiege,William Cronon,University of Washington Press,0295980133,Agriculture - Agronomy,Ecology,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Idaho,Irrigation,Irrigation farming,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash,Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.),United States - State & Local - General,Water-supply

English Books:

1. Island Farm
2. Landscape Ecology in Agroecosystems Management
3. Mainline Farming for Century Twenty-One
4. Microorganisms in Foods 6 : Microbial Ecology of Food Commodities (Microorganisms in Foods)
5. Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics for Soil Management
6. Molecular Host Plant Resistance to Pests (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)
7. Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry) (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry)
8. Molecular Mechanisms of Insecticide Resistance : Diversity among Insects (ACS Symposium Series)
9. Nematology : Advances and Perspectives Volume 2: Nematode Management and Utilization (CABI Publishing)
10. Nitrogen Isotope Techniques (Isotopic Techniques in Plant, Soil, and Aquatic Biology)

English Books

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