Course: SAT 110 Natural Resource Management

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Reading Assignment
Reading Assignment
"Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years" is Dr. Lowdermilk's personal report of a study he made in 1938 and 1939. He discovered that soil erosion, deforestation, overgrazing, neglect, and conflicts between cultivators and herdsman have helped topple empires and wipe out entire civilizations. At the same time, he learned that careful stewardship of the earth's resources, through terracing, crop rotation, and other soil conservation measures has enabled other societies to flourish for centuries.
Credits
from Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years by USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service, public domain

Lowdermilk, Walter Clay. Conquest of the land through 7,000 years. No. 99. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1975.

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