Greening of Georgia: The

by Harold Brown

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In The Greening of Georgia: The Improvement of the Environment in the Twentieth Century, agricultural scientist R. Harold Brown argues that while there is much left to do in environmental preservation, Georgia's environment is better at the end of the twentieth century than any time in the previous 100 years, despite the industrial and residential development. Since the 1940s, topsoil erosion has been reduced to a minor problem, forests now cover at least three million more acres, and wetlands appear nearly as extensive as in colonial days. Industrial growth increased pollution of streams, but dumping of untreated waste has...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780865549821
  • Publish Date 30 May 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 July 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Mercer University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 372
  • Language English