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

[Keith Addison <keith@journeytoforever.org>]

They're two different books Peter.

http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010119lowdermilk.usda/cls.html
Lowdermilk: Conquest of the Land through Seven Thousand Years

http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010113topsoilandciv/010113topsoil.toc.html
Dale & Carter: Topsoil and Civilization

Best wishes

Keith


>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
>=================================================
>
>
>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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