叠测听Connie Mutel聽(MBio'73)
(University of Iowa Press, 288聽pages; 2022)
In the last 200 years, Iowa鈥檚 prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa鈥檚 land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change.聽
In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa鈥檚 premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state鈥檚 human and wild residents.