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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies - Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Paperback)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies - Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Paperback)
Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series
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Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's "Little Grand
Canyon," preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly
caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It
is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental
disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a
modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters
attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park,
insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and
international soil experts and other environmental reformers used
Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly
southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the
unlikely story of Providence Canyon-and the 1930s contest over its
origins and meaning-to recount the larger history of dramatic
human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the
role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in
the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More
than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which
our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has
stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and
to understand the larger history of American conservation.
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