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Traveling To Chile To Learn About Idaho's Water Resource Issues, Jerrold A. Long
Traveling To Chile To Learn About Idaho's Water Resource Issues, Jerrold A. Long
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Making "Conservation" Work For The 21st Century: Enabling Resilient Place, Jerrold A. Long
Making "Conservation" Work For The 21st Century: Enabling Resilient Place, Jerrold A. Long
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During the New Deal, as part of a larger effort implementing Progressive Era "conservation" regimes, the federal government authorized the structurally-invasive Flood Control Act of 1936. At the same time, the Standard State Soil Conservation Districts Law promoted the creation of local, place-based efforts to protect or restore locally-valued resources. "Conservation" thus came to signify both the invasive, structural, engineering approach of mid-20th Century flood control, and the local, more responsive and flexible nature of soil conservation districts. But our understandings of our place in the natural world have changed subtly but significantly over the past century. Any legitimate natural …