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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Environmental History and the American South Ser.)
Paul Sutter
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Hardcover. This study uses the unlikely story of Georgia's Providence Canyon to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. Series: Environmental History and the American South. Num Pages: 264 pages, 38 black & white photographs, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; RBGB; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 825.
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyeda modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularlysouthern, land abuse.
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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyeda modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularlysouthern, land abuse.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Environmental History and the American South
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820334011
SKU
V9780820334011
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About Paul Sutter
Paul S. Sutter is an associate professor of history at University ofColorado, Boulder. He is the author of Driven Wild: How the Fightagainst Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.
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