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Page 134
... region , extending beyond the 99th meridian , and almost to the 100th in Kansas , is susceptible of cultivation throughout without irrigation , and is likely to yield abundant crops and large profits to the farmer . Not many miles west ...
... region , extending beyond the 99th meridian , and almost to the 100th in Kansas , is susceptible of cultivation throughout without irrigation , and is likely to yield abundant crops and large profits to the farmer . Not many miles west ...
Page 135
... region for purposes of sheep farming . Almost due west of Fort Wallace , a considerable spur from the mountains juts out into the plains . This spur is thickly covered with fine pine timber - a treasure almost beyond price in such a region ...
... region for purposes of sheep farming . Almost due west of Fort Wallace , a considerable spur from the mountains juts out into the plains . This spur is thickly covered with fine pine timber - a treasure almost beyond price in such a region ...
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... regions where there is water- power , that is speaking rather loosely , mountainous regions . . . . It may be guessed that it will be what I may call the mountaineers , who possess the most readily available energy , who will become ...
... regions where there is water- power , that is speaking rather loosely , mountainous regions . . . . It may be guessed that it will be what I may call the mountaineers , who possess the most readily available energy , who will become ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods