Walter Lowdermilk

A Little Dirty History

January 20, 2015
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
Conquest of the Land Through 7000 Years, David Montgomery, Dirt: Erosion of Civilizatons, Dust Bowl, George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature, soil erosion, UN International Year of Soils, Walter Lowdermilk

The United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2015 the International Year of Soils. That’s fitting, given how reliant the entire world is on keeping our soil in place, as well as…