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The war on weeds in the Prairie West :

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The war on weeds in the Prairie West :

[Book]

an environmental history /

Clinton L. Evans.

Calgary, Alta. :

University of Calgary Press,

©2002.

1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) :

illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index.

This book spans four centuries of weed history from sixteenth-century England to mid-twentieth century Canada. Features; Evans looks at topics such as weed biology/ecology, environmental history, herbicide development, noxious weed legislation, and the emergence of weed science as a distinct field of scientific inquiry; Provides an in-depth chronicle of the war on weeds that raged in Western Canada between 1800 and 1950 and the evolution of the relationship between humans and weeds; Provides an environmental history of weeds that covers the events in Upper Canada, the Prairies, and Northern United States; Gives a brief history of herbicides and their widespread acceptance by prairie farmers in the middle of the 1900s; Evans draws on extensive primary sources and considers the delicate connection between human culture and the natural world; The book is particularly timely because of debates on the use of pesticides and herbicide resistance crops, such as canola; Fills a need for a detailed survey of agricultural development and settlement on the Prairies.; In this provocative book, Evans suggests that herbicides have simply prolonged the war on weeds, and that by breeding herbicide resistance into crops, agrochemical companies are attempting to secure long-term herbicide and genetically-modified seed sales by forcing farmers to continue to fight a war that can never be won.

JSTOR

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War on weeds in the Prairie West.

1552380297

Weeds-- Control-- Ontario-- History.

Weeds-- Control-- Prairie Provinces-- History.

Mauvaises herbes, Lutte contre les-- Ontario-- Histoire.

Mauvaises herbes, Lutte contre les-- Provinces des Prairies-- Histoire.

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Agriculture-- General.

Weeds-- Control.

Ontario.

Prairie Provinces.

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PSQ

TEC-- 003000

Evans, Clinton L., (Clinton Lorne),1960-

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