Description
2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner In the last 200 years, Iowa's prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa's land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa's premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state's human and wild residents.
Author: Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 12/28/2022
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.75w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781609388737
ISBN10: 1609388739
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
- Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats | Plains & Prairies
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | General
Author: Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 12/28/2022
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.75w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9781609388737
ISBN10: 1609388739
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
- Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats | Plains & Prairies
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | General
About the Author
Cornelia F. Mutel is author of The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (Iowa, 2008) and A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland (Iowa, 2016). She is the former senior science writer at IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Mutel lives in Iowa City, Iowa.