Word: grasslands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than 200,000. Crowding is almost nonexistent, and so the attendant evils of crime and hopelessness are minimal. The core of the population also has some link to those people who first halted on the tallgrass prairie and sank their plows. Writes Author John Madson, an eloquent native Iowan: "Grassland of such magnitude was wholly alien to the western European mind. It diminished men's works and revealed them to a vast and critical sky, and forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever...
Gradually, the riddle of how grassland becomes a desert unravels. It is most often believed to be ruined by overgrazing, but it can be abused by no grazing at all. "Grazing, like the use of rest, fire or technology, is only a tool applied by a human. You must look at the context, understand the landscape as a whole, observe keenly day by day and change your plans accordingly...
...supports and, as required by federal law, take 15% to 20% of their cropland out of production. In effect, range plowers break prairie land that may have little agricultural value and collect money for keeping it out of cultivation. Says Bernie Spanogle, district forest ranger at the Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado: "People are farming the federal crop programs, not the land...
That was four years ago, and those Wyoming "coal fields" are still virgin grassland. Last week eleven of the 13 men involved in promoting the deal appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston for arraignment on charges that they fraudulently induced investors to take the write-offs. The Government also charges that the deductions were in fact illegal...