The Farm as Natural Habitat is a vital new contribution to the debate about agriculture and its impacts on the land. Arising from the conviction that the agricultural landscape as a whole could be restored to a healthy diversity, the book challenges the notion that the dominant agricultural landscape - bereft of its original vegetation and wildlife and despoiled by chemical runoff - is inevitable if we are to feed ourselves. Contributors bring together insights and practices from the fields of conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, and environmental restoration to link agriculture and biodiversity, farming and nature, in celebrating a unique alternative to conventlonal agriculture. Rejecting the idea that "ecological sacrifice zones" are a necessary part of feeding a hungry world, the book offers compelling examples of an alternative agriculture that can produce not only healthful food, but fully functioning ecosystems and abundant populations of native species. Contributors include Collin Bode, George Boody, Brian DeVore, Arthur (Tex) Hawkins, Buddy Huffaker, Rhonda Janke, Richard Jefferson, Nick Jordan, Cheryl Miller, Heather Robertson, Carol Shennan, Judith Soule, Beth Waterhouse, and others. The Farm as Natural Habitat is both hopeful and visionary, grounded in real examples, and guided by a commitment to healthy land and thriving communities. It is the first book to offer a viable approach to addressing the challenges of protecting and restoring blodiversity on private agricultural land and is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of land or blodiversity conservation, farming and agriculture, ecological restoration, or the health of rural communities and landscapes.
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oIt is wonderfully well-written, with compelling ideas and stories-about restoration, synergy and integration. In these narratives is a future for farming. It will not be easy, but the thoughts need to be set out before others may follow." --Natural Resources Forum
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Dana L. Jackson is associate director of the Land Stewardship Project in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Laura L. Jackson is associate professor of biology at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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The Farm As Natural Habitat: Reconnecting Food Systems With Ecosystems edited by Dana L. Jackson (Associate Director of the Land Stewardship Project, White Bear Lake, Minnesota) and Laura L. Jackson (Associate Professor of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa) is a thoughtful, extensively researched and meticulously presented compendium of essays by a variety of learned and expert authors focusing on the interaction between agriculture and the environment. Emphatically rejecting the idea that "ecological sacrifice zones" are required to feed the hungry, The Farm As Natural Habitat reaches out to explore how agriculture and biodiversity can exist in harmony. A first-rate, eye-opening book for farmers around the world, The Farm As Natural Habitat is a strongly urged addition to academic reference collections (especially for agricultural colleges), governmental policy makers and department of natural resources/farm bureau administrative personnel, and the personal reading list for anyone engaged in agriculture ranging from the "family farm" to agribusiness.
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We should be having our summer board meeting on a farm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agroecological restoration, conservation biocontrol, management intensive rotational grazing, ecological partnerships, long crop rotations, whole farm planning, tame hay, sustainable table, biotic regulation, sustainable farmers, watershed districts, farm goals, farmland birds, conservation targets, watershed project, prairie hay, soil biota, farming landscapes, sacrifice zone, grassland birds, holistic management, chalk grassland, nutrient runoff, wetland management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aldo Leopold, United States, Department of Agriculture, Mississippi River, Coon Valley, Land Stewardship Project, Red River Valley, New York, Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, University of Minnesota, Gulf of Mexico, Beaver Creek, Klamath Basin, Conservation Reserve Program, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Platte River, United Kingdom, University of Wisconsin, Coon Creek, French Creek, Bureau of Reclamation, Des Moines, North America, River Friendly Farm, Sand County Almanac New!
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We should be having our summer board meeting on a farm. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agroecological restoration, conservation biocontrol, management intensive rotational grazing, ecological partnerships, long crop rotations, whole farm planning, tame hay, sustainable table, biotic regulation, sustainable farmers, watershed districts, farm goals, farmland birds, conservation targets, watershed project, prairie hay, soil biota, farming landscapes, sacrifice zone, grassland birds, holistic management, chalk grassland, nutrient runoff, wetland management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Aldo Leopold, United States, Department of Agriculture, Mississippi River, Coon Valley, Land Stewardship Project, Red River Valley, New York, Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, University of Minnesota, Gulf of Mexico, Beaver Creek, Klamath Basin, Conservation Reserve Program, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Platte River, United Kingdom, University of Wisconsin, Coon Creek, French Creek, Bureau of Reclamation, Des Moines, North America, River Friendly Farm, Sand County Almanac New!
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- A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold on 9 pages
- Round River (Galaxy Book, 372) by Aldo Leopold on 6 pages
- The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold by Aldo Leopold on 5 pages
- Protection of Global Biodiversity: Converging Strategies by Lakshman D. Guruswamy in Front Matter, page 52, and page 153
- The History of the Countryside: The Classic History of Britain's Landscape, Flora and Fauna by Oliver Rackham on page 125, and page 135
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- Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works (Our Sustainable Future) by Leslie A. Duram in Back Matter
- Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity by Future Harvest in Back Matter
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