Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner

In the last 200 years, Iowa's 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's 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.

In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa's premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state's human and wild residents.


Author: Cornelia F. Mutel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 12/28/2022
Series: Bur Oak Book
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.75w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781609388737