Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future

by Cornelia F Mutel and Cornelia F. Mutel

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609388739
• ISBN13: 9781609388737
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"