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42 direct water to particular place
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44 by the color of dirt eroded from
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46 out the region, he concluded tha
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four Graveyard of Empires To Protec
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the constitution, proposed a ban on
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Figure 7. Parthenon. Albumen print
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est soils from hillsides disturbed
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Figure 8. Map of Roman Italy. follo
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the Roman heartland became increasi
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ically let a piece of ground lie fa
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foot thick, it probably took at lea
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into densely planted olive farms—
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families a few centuries earlier. T
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classic, supporting three editions
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on the edge of the Arabian Desert a
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When Moses and company arrived, Can
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urned before the onset of the rains
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sion in the Mayan of the Petén not
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Archaeological records from this pe
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The contrast between how the Pueblo
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84 forest soils as it went, agricul
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86 to a thousand years. Soil profil
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88 land and birch forest. Following
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90 Figure 10. Miniature from an ear
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92 the early 1300s to about two mil
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94 the Danes improved their sandy d
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96 layers, ’till we arrive to the
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98 recipe for degrading soil fertil
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100 vived on vegetables, gruel, and
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102 French Alps lost a third to mor
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104 Despite such profiteering, by 1
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106 from the smallest rill to the g
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108 A potato blight that arrived fr
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110 uries such as sugar, coffee, an
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112 Subsequent foreign investment o
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six Westward Hoe Since the achievem
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A few miles in from the forest edge
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wherein one man by his owne labour
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Particularly in the South, the read
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worn out, and washed and gullied, s
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explained that American farmers had
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marle County Agricultural Society i
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purchased a farm in the 1820s. A de
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Figure 14. Charles Lyell’s illust
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Traveling through much of the South
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Tensions came to a head after the S
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But this still doesn’t explain th
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Figure 16. North Carolina gully sys
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more than three thousand years and
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settlements for several thousand ye
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seven Dust Blow One man cannot stop
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land-hungry settlers. From 1878 to
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without the least reference to the
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Figure 18. Breaking new land with d
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Figure 19. Dust storm approaching S
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taxes, and other unavoidable expens
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Figure 21. Plowing a steep hillside
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tion of heavy machinery and agroche
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Soil erosion rapidly became a major
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egion. There are few reliable measu
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ing with the Germans, Kalmyks were
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grazing animals doubled; the human
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years. Present rates of erosion, ho
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land was being exhausted. Although
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In 1958 the Department of Agricultu
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eplacing water-holding capacity los
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180 our way in that the backyard wo
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182 Figure 23. Chinese farmers plow
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184 less, he experimented with agri
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186 Figure 24. Lithograph of mounta
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188 fiscated the remaining lands th
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190 Hilgard rightly dismissed the p
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192 important was the mix of silt,
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194 ping would exhaust the natural
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196 atmospheric nitrogen. On July 2
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198 increases in crop production.
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200 Estimates for when petroleum pr
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202 ground—turning our dirt into
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204 greater tonnage of machinery pe
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206 may prove our best hope for mai
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208 tilizers, hosts the longest ong
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210 soil fertility and exporting po
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212 No-till farming is very effecti
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214 It is no secret that if agricul
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216 some consumed their future and
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218 Pollen preserved in lake sedime
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220 washed off the slopes now bury
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222 ply. So topsoil loss retarded f
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224 different fates. Tikopia develo
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226 where vegetation stabilizes the
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228 0 50 100 km inhabitants. Two ce
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230 pushes peasants from hillside s
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232 gardens grew up throughout the
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234 Credible scientists also disagr
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236 notice the problem. Like a dise
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238 asters. Larger societies, with
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240 before plants have all they can
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242 faster than it is replaced dest
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244 figuring the downstream end of
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246 Meeting this challenge would al
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248 10. Marsh 1864, 9, 42. 11. Lowd
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250 6. USDA 1901, 31. 7. Whitney 19
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252 Schwartzman, D. W., and T. Volk
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254 Beach, T., S. Luzzadder-Beach,
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256 and human response. In Environm
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258 Lang, A. 2003. Phases of soil e
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260 Cronon, W. 1983. Changes in the
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262 Bennett, H. H., and W. R. Chapl
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264 Saiko, T. A. 1995. Implications
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266 Jackson, W. 2002. Farming in na
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268 ———. 1925. Soil and Civil
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270 and economic costs of soil eros
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272 agricultural practices (continu
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274 Columella, Lucius Junius Modera
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276 farm subsidy programs: conventi
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278 Joppa Town, Maryland, 140 Judso
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280 nitrogen fertilization (continu
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282 Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret),
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