
By Douglas Helms, Anne B. W. Effland, Patricia J. Durana
ISBN-10: 0470376953
ISBN-13: 9780470376959
ISBN-10: 0813827590
ISBN-13: 9780813827599
Profiles within the heritage of the U.S. Soil Survey bargains a broad-ranging selection of essays chronicling the advance of the U.S. Soil Survey and its effect at the historical past of soil survey as a systematic self-discipline that specializes in mapping, research, and outline of soils.
- Appraises the impacts of key participants and associations at the institution of federal help for and coordination of U.S. soil surveys.
- Provides an account of existence within the box, detailing event shared by means of many soil scientists and survey processionals.
- Reviews the outlet of careers in soil survey to ladies and African-Americans.
- Relates facets of the application of the soil survey to different federal prone, to different fields of analysis, and to land-use planning.
- Discusses the way forward for the U.S. Soil Survey and the hot instructions either the survey and its makes use of will take.
Soil scientists and different soil survey pros will locate this assortment worthy either for the hot study it presents and for the thoughts it preserves of existence and paintings within the box and laboratory. Historians will more and more flip their consciousness to this significant earth technology because the fascinating connections among soils, the surroundings, and human background develop into extra obvious. lecturers, scholars, and agriculturalists also will savour this specified account of the Soil Survey.Content:
Chapter 1 Founding the USDA's department of Agricultural Soils: Charles Dabney, Milton Whitney, and the kingdom scan Stations (pages 1–18): Douglas Helms, Anne B.W. Effland and Steven E. Phillips
Chapter 2 Early Leaders of the Soil Survey (pages 19–64): Douglas Helms
Chapter three background of the Soil Survey Laboratories (pages 65–100): Klaus W. Flach and C. Steven Holzhey
Chapter four Memoirs of a Soil Correlator (pages 101–148): Joe D. Nichols
Chapter five commencing possibilities: girls in Soil technological know-how and the Soil Survey (pages 149–168): Maxine J. Levin
Chapter 6 Contributions of African?Americans and the 1890 Land?Grant Universities to Soil technological know-how and the Soil Survey (pages 169–189): M. Dewayne Mays, Horace Smith and Douglas Helms
Chapter 7 Soil Survey and the U.S. wooded area carrier (pages 191–214): Dennis Roth
Chapter eight A background of Soil Surveys and Soil technological know-how within the Bureau of Land administration (pages 215–231): James Muhn
Chapter nine Soil Survey and Soil?Geomorphology (pages 233–274): Vance T. Holliday, Leslie D. McFadden, E. Arthur Bettis and Peter W. Birkeland
Chapter 10 Soil Survey Interpretations: previous, current, and searching to the long run (pages 275–302): Patricia J. Durana and Douglas Helms
Chapter eleven the yank Soil Survey within the Twenty?First Century (pages 303–313): Horace Smith and Berman D. Hudson