An edition of The Big Marsh
(2016)
The Big Marsh
the story of a lost landscape
by Cheri Register
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"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now"--
"A rural community is changed forever when moneyed interests conspire to transform a treasured wetland"--
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Real estate developers, Environmental conditions, Landscape changes, Economic conditions, Businessmen, Marshes, Drainage, Landscape protection, Agriculture, Biography, History, Agriculture, environmental aspects, Agriculture, united states, history, Businesspeople, biography, Real estate development, Minnesota, biography, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & SwampsShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Table of Contents
Part I: The Lay of the Land
Hollandale : An Introduction
Freeborn County : Home, but No Biome
Looking for the Big Marsh
Part II: Life on the Big Marsh
No Empty Landscape
The Grid That Turned Land to a Commodity
Homing on the Marsh : The Speers
The Trip from Otranto Revisited
Claiming the High Ground : The Ostranders
Hazards
What Counts as a Lake?
The Evolution of the Drainage Ditch
A Watershed Year : 1877
A New Home on the Prairie : A Speculation
Fire on the Marsh
Part III: The Big Ditch
The Alleged Conniver : Putnam Dana McMillan
The First Drainage
The Middle Man : William A. Morin
Robert Speer Travels through Time
Eighteen Yoke of Oxen
"The Great Ricelawn Ranch"
A Change of Hands Bodes a Change of Lands
What's Black and White and Grazes All Over?
The Second Try
New Man About Town : John Felix Dryden Meighen
The People Protest
How to Read a Flying Bundle of Twine
A Lone Voice for the Environment : Fred McCall
Counterarguments
The Moscow Farm Prospers
Meighen in Court and Courting
The Winning Strategy
Rice Lake and the Big Marsh Go Down the Drain
The Swamp Angel Plays Cupid
The New Model Farmer
The Victor's History
The Mysterious Fall of Bryant Barber and Other Endings
Part IV: Restoration and Restitution
From Booty to Beauty
Wo Wacintanka
For the Birds.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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