Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing AttitudesUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 Apr 2008 - 410 halaman How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. In this readable and objective account, Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes toward wetlands in the American Midwest. As attitudes changed, so did scientific research agendas, government policies, and farmers' strategies for managing their land. Originally viewed as bountiful sources of wildlife by indigenous peoples, wet areas called "wet prairies," "swamps," or "bogs" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were considered productive only when drained for agricultural use. Beginning in the 1950s, many came to see these renamed "wetlands" as valuable for wildlife and soil conservation. Prince's book will appeal to a wide readership, ranging from geographers and environmental historians to the many government and private agencies and individuals concerned with wetland research, management, and preservation. |
Isi
| 1 | |
| 27 | |
3 Native American Occupation | 75 |
4 Early Nineteenthcentury Views of Wetlands | 117 |
5 Landowners Cattlemen Railroads and Tenants on Wet Prairies | 159 |
6 Draining and Agricultural Change on Wet Prairies | 203 |
7 Occupying Draining and Abandoning Northern Bogs and Swamps | 237 |
8 Utilizing and Conserving Wet Prairies since 1930 | 287 |
9 Changing Wetland Images and Values | 337 |
Bibliography | 349 |
Index | 383 |
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes Hugh Prince Pratinjau terbatas - 2008 |
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes Hugh Prince Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 1998 |
Istilah dan frasa umum
acres Agric agricultural Amer Annals Assoc areas beaver Black Swamp bogs Bogue Bull Census central Wisconsin Chicago Conservation corn belt County crops cultivation cutover ditches drainage districts drainage enterprises E. R. Jones ecology environmental Expt family farms farmers federal fire Fish and Wildlife flood forest Geog Geol Grand Prairie grasslands habitats Hist historical geography Ibid Illinois Central Railroad Indiana Iowa John Journ Juneau County lakes Land Office land survey landowners Madison marshes McLean County Michigan Midwest miles Mitsch native Americans natural nineteenth century North America northern Ohio peat peatlands plants population production public land railroad region Report Resources River settlement settlers soils speculators Story County surface Surv Swamp land tenants tile draining timber tion tracts trade U.S. Department U.S. Fish United University of Minnesota University Press upland valley vegetation Washington waterlogged wet prairies wetlands Wildlife Service Wisc Wood County York
Bagian yang populer
Halaman 117 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Halaman 121 - A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away : cleared here and there for the space of a few yards ; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones...
Halaman 124 - A great part of the territory is miserably poor, especially that near lakes Michigan and Erie and that upon the Missisippi and the Illinois consists of extensive plains which have not had from appearances and will not have a single bush on them, for ages.
Halaman 114 - No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Halaman 14 - The term wetlands means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
Halaman 9 - We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Halaman 15 - Wetlands are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water.
Halaman 125 - Looking toward the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground ; unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank, until it met the glowing sky, wherein it seemed to dip, mingling with its rich colors, and mellowing in its distant blue. There it lay, a tranquil sea or lake without water, if such a simile be admissible...
Halaman 16 - A wetland is an ecosystem that depends on constant or recurrent, shallow inundation or saturation at or near the surface of the substrate. The minimum essential characteristics of a wetland are recurrent, sustained inundation or saturation at or near the surface and the presence of physical, chemical, and biological features reflective of recurrent, sustained inundation or saturation. Common diagnostic features of wetlands are hydric soils and hydrophytic vegetation.
Halaman 136 - But it is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land.