Why does land wear out? Hugh Hammond Bennett found out in Louisa County. The misunderstood problem of agricultural land use in early America led farmers who tilled the soil to ...

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-biography-hugh-hammond-bennett/ A picnic for tennant farmers of the Duke Power Co. near ...

Few people are gloomier, professionally and perennially, than the men who run the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Guests at Princeton’s Bicentennial Conference on Engineering and Human Affairs last ...

With soils rich for cultivation, most land in the Midwestern United States has been converted from tallgrass prairie to agricultural fields. Less than 0.1 percent of the original prairie remains. This ...

“The first office of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts (NASCD) was located in the Montgomery Building on N. Church Street from 1946 to 1947. Soil conservation, with its focus on ...