| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
University of Chicago geography research paper ; no. 241
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University of Chicago geography research paper ; no. 241.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
How people perceive wetlands has always played a crucial role in determining how people act toward them. Hugh Prince examines literary evidence as well as government and scientific documents to uncover the history of changing attitudes toward wetlands in the American Midwest. As attitudes changed, so did scientific research agendas, government policies, and farmers' strategies for managing their land. |
| Contents |
Changing attitudes -- Physical characteristics of wet prairies and bogs -- Native American occupation -- Early nineteenth-century views of wetlands -- Landowners, cattlemen, railroads, and tenants on wet prairies -- Draining and agricultural change on wet prairies -- Occupying, draining, and abandoning northern bogs and swamps -- Utilizing and conserving wet prairies since 1930 -- Changing wetland images and values. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wetlands -- Middle West.
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Wetlands. |
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Middle West. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prince, Hugh C. Wetlands of the American Midwest. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226682838 (DLC) 97022226 (OCoLC)37043911 |
| ISBN |
0226682803 (electronic book) |
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9780226682808 (electronic book) |
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0226682838 (alkaline paper) |
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9780226682839 |
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