Re: GAS-L: Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years .. ha

[Peter Singfield <snkm@btl.net>]

Dear Tom Reed;

At 06:30 PM 1/19/2001 EST, you wrote: 
>>>>
Dear Keith, Steve  and all: 

I have long considered the booklet  


Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years 
by 
W. C. Lowdermilk 


one of the all time greats of renewable biomass literature.  He wrote it
just  
after the U.S. conquered the dustbowl, to our everlasting credit.  Thanks
for  
the reference to it at  

              
http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010113topsoilandciv/010113topsoil.toc.h
tm 
l 


The better Url is:

http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010119lowdermilk.usda/cls.html

And also advise stopping here for more articles along this same line:

http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/01aglibwelcome.html


And guess what -- I managed to down load the entire test in straight ASCII
using GETWEB by Email only -- took less than 30 seconds. Thanks for this
Gem Tom.

Peter -- in Belize

Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years
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by


W. C. Lowdermilk
----------------

U. S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
February 1948
S.C.S. MP-32


Foreword

In 1938 and 1939, Dr. W. C. Lowdermilk, who was an assistant chief of
the U. S. Soil Conservation Service at that time, made an 18-month
tour of western Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East to study
soil erosion and land use in those areas. This tour was sponsored by
the soil Conservation Service at the request of a congressional
committee. The main objective of the tour was to gain information
from those areas -- where some lands had been in cultivation for
hundreds and thousands of years -- that might be of value in helping
to solve the soil erosion and land use problems of the United States.

During the l938-39 tour, Dr. Lowdermilk visited England, Holland,
France, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli, Egypt, Palestine,
Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, Cyprus, Syria, and Iraq. Prior to that time,
he had spent several years in China where he had studied soil erosion
and land use problems.

After his return to this country, Dr. Lowdermilk gave numerous
lectures, illustrated with lantern slides, about his findings on land
use in the old world. Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand
Years is the essence of those talks. It was first published in l942,
in mimeograph form, as a lecture. It has been used extensively in
conjunction with lantern slides by many school teachers and other
lecturers. It proved to be so popular that it now has been slightly
revised and illustrated, and is published in its present form with
the hope that its usefulness will be greatly extended.

Most of the illustrations used in this publication were made from
photographs taken by Dr. Lowdermilk during his travels.


Introduction

Some time ago I heard of an old man dawn on a hill farm in the South,
who sat on his front porch as a newcomer to the neighborhood passed
bye. The newcomer to make talk said, "Mister, how does the land lie
around here?" The old man replied, "Well -- I don't know about the
land a-lying; its these real estate people that do the lying." In a
very real sense the land does not lie; it bears a record of what men
write on it. In a larger sense a nation writes its record on the
land, and a civilization writes its record on the land -- a record
that is easy to read by those who understand the simple language of
the land. Let us read together some of the records that have been
written on the land in the westward course of civilization from the
Holy Lands of the Near East to the Pacific Coast of our country
through a period of some 7000 years.

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