Land management

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 176. Chapters: Irrigation, Soil, Overgrazing, Conservation in the United Kingdom, Land use, Surveying, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Bureau of Land Management, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, The Fens, Bocage, National Park Service, Farm, Somerset Levels, Land reform, South Maury Island environmental issues, Base Cation Saturation Ratio, Paddy field, Royal forest, Jewish National Fund, South Central Farm, Irrigation of alluvial fans, SahysMod, Internal drainage board, Arborist, SaltMod, Operation Barga, Hydrology, Soil conservation, Irrigation management, Unrecognized Bedouin villages in Israel, Green belt, Management of Pacific Northwest riparian forests, Irrigation statistics, Surface irrigation, Moorland, Watertable control, Soil biodiversity, Runoff model, Soil carbon, Blueprint Negev, Variable retention, Soil policy (Victoria, Australia), Greenway, Well drainage, Land Arts of the American West, Heath, Purple moor grass and rush pastures, Groundwater recharge, Bhoodan movement, Mission Zamora, Leaching model, Dryland salinity, Vetiver System, Soil structure, Drain commissioner, Soil survey, Right to light, Firebreak, Soil water, Soil resilience, Drainage law, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Water scarcity in Africa, Resource management, Chalk heath, Genesee Valley Conservancy, Forest fragmentation, Károly Bund, Land drains, Commissioners of Woods and Forests, Land rehabilitation, Smallholding, Setback, Agricultural Land Reserve, Irrigation scheduling, Yard, Irrigation informatics, Soil health, Conservatoria delle Coste, Hay Swamp, Gezira Scheme, USDA soil taxonomy, Community Based Management, Masters of Resource Management, Bridle path, County surveyor, Farm water, Townsite, FAO soil classification, Linear park, Conservatoire du littoral, Waldrep Dairy Farm, Permaforestry, Soak dike, General plan, Foreshoreway, Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases, Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Heritage Council, Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, Exclosure, Physical water scarcity, Wallrow, Commissioners of Crown Lands, Economic water scarcity, Kerala State Land Bank, Micro-lot, Tidal irrigation, Ferrallitisation, Irrigation works in ancient Sri Lanka, Catchwater drain, Drainage district, Gentleman's farm, International Committee on Anthropogenic Soils, Land drainage, Smallholder, Special Landscape Area. Excerpt: The Somerset Levels, or the Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known, is a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, South West England, between the Quantock and Mendip Hills. The Levels occupy an area of about 160,000 acres (650 km), corresponding broadly to the administrative district of Sedgemoor but also including the south-eastern part of the Mendip district. The Somerset Levels are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are drained by the River Parrett, and the areas to the North by the rivers Axe and Brue. The Mendip Hills separate the Somerset Levels from the North Somerset Levels. The Somerset Levels consist of marine clay "levels" along the coast, and inland (often peat-based) "moors"; agriculturally, about 70 percent is used as grassland and the rest is arable. Willow and teazel are grown commercially and peat is extracted. One explanation for the county of Somerset's name is that, in prehistory, because of winter flooding h...