Ebook: The Big Marsh: the story of a lost landscape
Author: Register Cheri
- Tags: Agriculture--Environmental aspects, Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Minnesota--Freeborn County--History, Businessmen, Businessmen--Minnesota--Freeborn County, Drainage--Economic aspects, Drainage--Economic aspects--Minnesota--Freeborn County--History, Drainage--Environmental aspects, Drainage--Environmental aspects--Minnesota--Freeborn County--History, Ecology, Economic history, HISTORY--United States--State & Local--Midwest (IA IL IN KS MI MN MO ND NE OH SD WI), Landscape changes, Landscape
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
- City: Freeborn County (Minn.);Minnesota;Freeborn County
- Language: English
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An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.;The lay of the land -- Life on the Big Marsh -- The big ditch -- Restoration and restitution.
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