Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American WestUniversity of Washington Press, 1999 - 323 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
Water Earth and Irrigation Systems | 11 |
The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota | 42 |
Conflict Cooperation and Allocation on the Upper Snake River | 79 |
Irrigated Agriculture and Work | 115 |
Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape | 141 |
Myth Metaphor and the Irrigated Landscape | 169 |
A World in the Making | 201 |
Notes | 209 |
Selected Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 305 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West <span dir=ltr>Mark Fiege</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
Irrigated Eden: the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West <span dir=ltr>Mark Fiege</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1999 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aberdeen-Springfield Canal Company acres Agricultural Experiment Station Alfalfa Weevil American West April August Biennial Report Blackfoot Boise Project Boise Valley Bulletin Bureau cooperative crops dams Department of Agriculture desert Drainage early ecological engineers environmental Falls Canal Company fields garden myth Gem State Rural Government Printing Office Greenwood headgates hydrological Idaho Agricultural Experiment Idaho Falls Idaho Farmer Idaho Register Idaho Republican Idaho Statesman Idaho Yesterdays Idahoans industrial insects irri Irrigation District irrigation systems Jackson Lake Jackson Lake dam labor land March metaphor Minidoka Irrigation Project Minidoka Project Moscow natural flow Pioneer Irrigation plants prior appropriation problem production Reclamation Record Reclamation Service reservoir Rexburg Sagebrush Sagebrush Folks seed seepage settlers Snake River Basin Snake River Plain Snake River valley soil Southern Idaho stored water stream sugar beet Teton tion Twin Falls Canal Twin Falls County U.S. Department University of Idaho upper Snake River Washington water rights Water Users weeds