Save Iowa Soils
Author : Iowa State College. Extension Service
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1929*
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Author : Iowa State College. Extension Service
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1929*
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Author : Mark J. Minger
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Kathleen Woida
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1609387511
Sometimes called “black gold,” Iowa’s deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world’s grasslands—the tallgrass prairie. The soils are diverse and complex and hold within them a record not only of Iowa’s prehistoric past, but also of the changes that took place after settlers utterly transformed the land, as well as the ongoing adjustments taking place today due to climate change. In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia in the land between two rivers. Its soils are what make Iowa a premier agricultural state, both in terms of acres planted and bushels harvested. But in the last hundred years, large-scale intensive agriculture and urban development have severely degraded most of our soils. However, as Woida documents, some innovative Iowans are beginning to repair and regenerate their soils by treating them as the living ecosystem and vast carbon store that they are. To paraphrase Aldo Leopold, these new pioneers are beginning to see their soils as part of a community to which they and their descendants belong, rather than commodities belonging to them.
Author : Iowa State Soil Conservation Committee
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Soil conservation
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Author : John R. Nixon
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Iowa State College. Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Mark R. LaVan
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Iowa Conservation Needs Committee
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Land use
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Author : Iowa. Department of Soil Conservation
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Soil conservation
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Author : Iowa State Soil Conservation Committee
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Soil conservation
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