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Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South

baby直播app the book:听Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia鈥檚 鈥淟ittle Grand Canyon,鈥� 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 enjoyed a 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 particularly southern, land abuse.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies听uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon鈥� and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning鈥攖o 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. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.

baby直播app the author:听Paul S. Sutter听is a听professor of history at University of baby直播app, Boulder. He is the author of听Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement.

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Paul Sutter finds in these thousand acres of backwoods Georgia a powerful and complicated story of humans on the land. He is a wonderful storyteller, but more, he digs deeply into the past to explain how and why this place became both a 鈥榩ark鈥� and a 鈥榟orrible example鈥� of soil erosion. This is one of the finest local environmental histories we have, and it offers important insights for all of us today.鈥�

鈥擠onald Worster, author of听A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

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In this sweeping and powerful environmental study, Paul Sutter uses Georgia鈥檚 Providence Canyon both as a cautionary tale of erosion and the opportunity to explore soil science, geology, southern farming practices, misguided experts, and boosters鈥� fantasies of marketing the mammoth gulley as a lesser Grand Canyon.鈥�

鈥擯ete Daniel, author of听Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post鈥揥orld War II South