[PDF.53ez] Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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

[PDF.ln91] Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)

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 | #1090168 in Books |  2000-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.81 x5.98l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A Balanced Account on the Controversial Subject of desert Irrigation|By Nancy Danielson Mendenhall|People interested in the history of western agriculture should read this. I found it very interesting to compare the Southern Idaho irrigation projects he describes with what was happening along the mid-Columbia with private small irrigation projects during that period, through m| |"Fiege suggests that, no matter how we try to alter the natural world, the unexpected consequences of our actions will always come back to haunt us. . . . He also offers new ways of thinking about the past and, possibly, new ways of thinking about how the futu

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 intend...

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