03920nam 2200793Ia 450 991080810300332120200520144314.0978029598974702959897422027/heb33016(CKB)2560000000055916(EBL)3444244(OCoLC)698590896(SSID)ssj0000485317(PQKBManifestationID)11307134(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485317(PQKBWorkID)10604051(PQKB)11772219(MdBmJHUP)muse6966(Au-PeEL)EBL3444244(CaPaEBR)ebr10436156(CaONFJC)MIL810662(MiAaPQ)EBC3444244(dli)HEB33016.0001.001(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000188(DE-B1597)725389(DE-B1597)9780295989747(EXLCZ)99256000000005591619981117d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIrrigated Eden the making of an agricultural landscape in the American West /Mark Fiege ; foreword by William Cronon1st ed.Seattle ;London University of Washington Pressc19991 online resource (363 p.)Weyerhaeuser environmental booksDescription based upon print version of record.9780295977577 0295977574 9780295980133 0295980133 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-305) and index.Contents; Foreword by William Cronon; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Discovering the Irrigated Landscape; 1. Genesis: Water, Earth, and Irrigation Systems; 2. Habitat: The Irrigated Landscape and Its Biota; 3. Dividing Water: Conflict, Cooperation, and Allocation on the Upper Snake River; 4. Labor and Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture and Work; 5. From Field to Market: Agricultural Production in the Irrigated Landscape; 6. Industrial Eden: Myth, Metaphor, and the Irrigated Landscape; Conclusion: A World in the Making; Notes; Selected Bibliography; IndexIrrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces-one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology.Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000Weyerhaeuser environmental book.Irrigation farmingSnake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)Irrigation farmingIdahoIrrigationSnake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)IrrigationIdahoWater-supplySnake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)Water-supplyIdahoIrrigation farmingIrrigation farmingIrrigationIrrigationWater-supplyWater-supply333.91/3/097961Fiege Mark1124486MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808103003321Irrigated Eden4062707UNINA