Plowed Under: Agriculture and Environment in the Palouse (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Andrew Duffin - Paperback 2010 | Sustainable Farming Practices & Pacific Northwest Ecology | Perfect for Environmental Studies & Agricultural History Research

Duffin traces the transformation fo the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho from land though unusable and unproductive to a wealth-generating industrial agricultural paradise, weighing the consequenses of what this progress has wrought. During the 20th century, the Palouse became synonymous with wheat, and the landscape was irrevocably altered with soil erosion problems among the worst in the nation. Andrew P. Duffin is adjunct professor of history at Washington State University, Pullman.