Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical EssaysThe first sustained study of Leopold's seminal book as well as a work of art, philosophy, and social commentary. |
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Page 31
Drawn at first by the intractable problem of soil erosion, Leopold devoted one inspection trip after another, in national forests across New Mexico and Arizona, to understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing, ...
Drawn at first by the intractable problem of soil erosion, Leopold devoted one inspection trip after another, in national forests across New Mexico and Arizona, to understanding the cause and effect that related erosion to overgrazing, ...
Page 33
The ideal of "clean farming" wreaked havoc not only with the farm economy (and, as would soon become clear, with the soil itself), but destroyed the coverts that small and upland game needed. Second, Leopold was now convinced that ...
The ideal of "clean farming" wreaked havoc not only with the farm economy (and, as would soon become clear, with the soil itself), but destroyed the coverts that small and upland game needed. Second, Leopold was now convinced that ...
Page 42
... its sands accentuating differences in moisture content and temperature, its low-lying glacial lake beds and river bottoms more prone to frosts, its nutrient-poor soils preventing any one species from taking over.
... its sands accentuating differences in moisture content and temperature, its low-lying glacial lake beds and river bottoms more prone to frosts, its nutrient-poor soils preventing any one species from taking over.
Page 43
The first comers claimed the better soils of the glaciated prairies and oak openings to the east; later arrivals had to make do with the successively sandier, less fertile lands farther west. Among the earlier arrivals were Daniel Muir ...
The first comers claimed the better soils of the glaciated prairies and oak openings to the east; later arrivals had to make do with the successively sandier, less fertile lands farther west. Among the earlier arrivals were Daniel Muir ...
Page 45
In the first years they got up to twenty-five bushels an acre, but within five years the soil was so exhausted that they got only five or six bushels even in the better fields. Yet Daniel Muir doggedly cleared more fields, planted them ...
In the first years they got up to twenty-five bushels an acre, but within five years the soil was so exhausted that they got only five or six bushels even in the better fields. Yet Daniel Muir doggedly cleared more fields, planted them ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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