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Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 Prologue: Weekend Drive, Summer 2002 16 part i: Landscape Succession 1. Intended Consequences: Soil Conservation 21 2. A Midwestern Ranch 47 3. What the Real Estate Ads Don’t Tell You 61 part 2: A Community on the Land 4. Outsiders 85 5. An Amish Environment 104 part 3: Negotiating the Past and Future Landscape 6. A Dam for New Times 129 7. Deer Unlimited 154 8. (Re)Enter the Ho-Chunk 173 Conclusion: Claims on Paradise 195 Notes 207 Bibliography 247 Index 267 Contents ...

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