Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

Through field surveys, comparative records, a skillful eye for subtle landscape features, and a geographer’s interdisciplinary understanding of landscape processes, this volume uses maps, diagrams, and photographs to illustrate how an initially simple alteration of land cover can set off a train of unanticipated changes to runoff, erosion, and sedimentation processes that spread through a landscape over decades. This story of what occurred in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country raises questions of whether and how people can be alerted early to their potential for environmental disturbance, but also for learning and adopting restorative practices.