{"product_id":"tending-iowas-land-cornelia-f-mutel-9781609388737","title":"Tending Iowa's Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future","description":"\u003cb\u003e2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the last 200 years, Iowa's prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa's land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa's premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state's human and wild residents. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornelia F. Mutel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.75w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023","brand":"Cornelia F. Mutel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073030222079,"sku":"9781609388737","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08a9fc91-ec82-49d0-99fc-d6df2a05de76.jpg?v=1685445388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tending-iowas-land-cornelia-f-mutel-9781609388737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}