The Big Marsh
Subtitle: the story of a lost landscape
By: Cheri Register
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780873519953
Subjects: Real estate developers; Environmental conditions; Landscape changes; Economic conditions; Businessmen; Marshes; Drainage; Landscape protection; Agriculture; Biography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Lay of the Land; title: Hollandale : An Introduction; title: Freeborn County : Home, but No Biome; title: Looking for the Big Marsh; title: Part II: Life on the Big Marsh; title: No Empty Landscape; title: The Grid That Turned Land to a Commodity; title: Homing on the Marsh : The Speers; title: The Trip from Otranto Revisited; title: Claiming the High Ground : The Ostranders; title: Hazards; title: What Counts as a Lake?; title: The Evolution of the Drainage Ditch; title: A Watershed Year : 1877; title: A New Home on the Prairie : A Speculation; title: Fire on the Marsh; title: Part III: The Big Ditch; title: The Alleged Conniver : Putnam Dana McMillan; title: The First Drainage; title: The Middle Man : William A. Morin; title: Robert Speer Travels through Time; title: Eighteen Yoke of Oxen; title: "The Great Ricelawn Ranch"; title: A Change of Hands Bodes a Change of Lands; title: What's Black and White and Grazes All Over?; title: The Second Try; title: New Man About Town : John Felix Dryden Meighen; title: The People Protest; title: How to Read a Flying Bundle of Twine; title: A Lone Voice for the Environment : Fred McCall; title: Counterarguments; title: The Moscow Farm Prospers; title: Meighen in Court and Courting; title: The Winning Strategy; title: Rice Lake and the Big Marsh Go Down the Drain; title: The Swamp Angel Plays Cupid; title: The New Model Farmer; title: The Victor's History; title: The Mysterious Fall of Bryant Barber and Other Endings; title: Part IV: Restoration and Restitution; title: From Booty to Beauty; title: Wo Wacintanka; title: For the Birds.