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. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999 Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-13
9780295995830
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216784448
Product Key Features
Author
Mark Fiege
Publication Name
Irrigated Eden: the Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
703g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mark Fiege
Series Title
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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