Profiles In The History Of The Us Soil Survey Douglas Helms by Douglas Helms, Anne B. W. Effland, Patricia J. Durana 9780470376959, 9780813827599, 0470376953, 0813827590 instant download after payment.

• Appraises the influences of key individuals and institutions on the establishment of federal support for and coordination of U.S. soil surveys.


• Provides an account of life in the field, detailing experience shared by many soil scientists and survey processionals.


• Reviews the opening of careers in soil survey to women and African-Americans.


• Relates aspects of the utility of the soil survey to other federal services, to other fields of research, and to land-use planning.


• Discusses the future of the U.S. Soil Survey and the new directions both the survey and its uses will take.

Soil scientists and other soil survey professionals will find this collection valuable both for the new research it provides and for the memories it preserves of life and work in the field and laboratory. Historians will increasingly turn their attention to this crucial earth science as the intriguing connections between soils, the environment, and human history become more apparent. Teachers, students, and agriculturalists will also appreciate this detailed account of the Soil Survey.Content:
Chapter 1 Founding the USDA's Division of Agricultural Soils: Charles Dabney, Milton Whitney, and the State Experiment 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 3 History of the Soil Survey Laboratories (pages 65–100): Klaus W. Flach and C. Steven Holzhey
Chapter 4 Memoirs of a Soil Correlator (pages 101–148): Joe D. Nichols
Chapter 5 Opening Opportunities: Women in Soil Science and the Soil Survey (pages 149–168): Maxine J. Levin
Chapter 6 Contributions of African?Americans and the 1890 Land?Grant Universities to Soil Science and the Soil Survey (pages 169–189): M. Dewayne Mays, Horace Smith and Douglas Helms
Chapter 7 Soil Survey and the U.S. Forest Service (pages 191–214): Dennis Roth
Chapter 8 A History of Soil Surveys and Soil Science in the Bureau of Land Management (pages 215–231): James Muhn
Chapter 9 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: Past, Present, and Looking to the Future (pages 275–302): Patricia J. Durana and Douglas Helms
Chapter 11 The American Soil Survey in the Twenty?First Century (pages 303–313): Horace Smith and Berman D. Hudson