Wildlife Management as a Part of Soil Conservation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Wildlife Management as a Part of Soil ConservationAlthough widespread public interest in soil Conservation and concerted National action against accelerated soil erosion in the United States is a very recent development, the depletion of soil resources accompanying our use of agricultural land is nothing new. In 1749 Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist traveling in New Jersey, observed wasteful tillage methods and wrote that the late rain had in many places washed away great pieces of the ground sown with wheat and rye (kalm.l937, v. 1, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.