Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American WestUniversity of Washington Press, 23 בנוב׳ 2009 - 320 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. |
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... wheat fields of the Palouse and the Great Plains, the test sites and grazing lands of Utah's West Desert, the suburbs of Denver and Seattle, the oil refineries of Billings, the pulp mills of Puget Sound, and the irrigated fields of the ...
... wheat farming on the sunbaked and wind-blasted Dakota prairie. “The irrigated country is the next field for development,” Dick Garland told his son in 1893. “I'm going to sell out here and try irrigation in Montana. I want to get where ...
... wheat, and other cultivated plants. And where jackrabbits, coyotes, and deer once roamed, the farmers would seed pastures and fill them with cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses. A new world would replace an old. To the irrigators, this ...
... wheat farmers with an actual surplus of water. In the drought year of 1919, for example, farmers with matured wheat shared their excess water with neighbors whose crops were shriveling in the heat.25 Alfalfa and wheat were basic crops ...
... wheat and other crops collapsed after World War I, seed production took on special importance for Idaho irrigators, who became specialists in the production of alfalfa, clover, bean, pea, sugar beet, potato, and other vegetable seed. In ...
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Conflict Cooperation and Allocation on the Upper Snake River | 81 |
Irrigated Agriculture and Work | 117 |
Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape | 143 |
Myth Metaphor and the Irrigated Landscape | 171 |
A World in the Making | 203 |
Notes | 211 |
Selected Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 307 |
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Irrigated Eden: the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West <span dir=ltr>Mark Fiege</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1999 |