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

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

Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiegeâ€™s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idahoâ€™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 forcesâ€•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.

Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999

Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000
Country USA
Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer University of Washington Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780295980133
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780295980133
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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