Brava! Brava, Linda!


Quoting Linda & Robert Scarth <[log in to unmask]>:

> For shame! Since when is conservation a sentimental activity? Language
> frames issues and sentimentality is certainly not an appropriate frame if
> the land is to be sustained. This is not the plot of a Victorian novel but
> more evidence that women land owners need to be helped rather than
> pigeonholed as 'sentimental.'
>
> <snip>"While most women still own farmland for income purposes, "almost 30
> percent of single female owners say they own it primarily for family or
> sentimental reasons, not income," says Michael Duffy, an economist at Iowa
> State University who does a regular survey of land ownership. (More farm
> wives are inheriting farmland as their husbands pass on.)
>
> Those "sentimental reasons" often translate into conservation concerns -
> with animal habitat, environment, and water quality high on the list. Women
> land owners care more about land preservation than about maximizing crop
> yield - with potentially large implications for farming practices, the
> findings show." </snip>
>
> End of tirade,
>
> Linda Scarth
> Cedar Rapids
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> http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/02/25/women-lead-a-farming-re
> volution-in-iowa/
>
>
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> Niagara Falls, and the upper Yellowstone and the like, afford the greatest
> natural shows, I am not sure but the Prairies and Plains, while less
> stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the aesthetic sense fuller,
> precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape."
> (Walt Whitman)
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