This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain

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t h i s d e l t a , t h i s l a n d This page intentionally left blank m i kko saik k u This Delta, This Land An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain The University of Georgia Press | Athens and London © 2005 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 All rights reserved Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Set in Sabon by Bookcomp, Inc. Printed and bound by Maple-Vail The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 05 C 5 4 3 2 1 09 08 07 06 05 P 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Saikku, Mikko. This delta, this land : an environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi ÀRRGSODLQ / Mikko Saikku. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8203-2534-1 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8203-2673-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Delta (Miss. : Region)—Environmental conditions—History. I. Title. GE155.M57S35 2005 333.7'09762'4—dc22 2004013923 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Parts of chapters 2 and 7 originally appeared as “Down by the Riverside: The Disappearing Bottomland Hardwood Forest of Southeastern North America” in Environment and History 2 (February 1996): 77–95; and “‘Home in the Big Forest’: Decline of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Its Habitat in the United States,” in Encountering the Past in Nature: Essays in Environmental History, edited by Timo Myllyntaus and Mikko Saikku (Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1999) 87–119, © 1999 by Mikko Saikku and Helsinki University Press. ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-8203-4069-2 To the memory of Dr. Thomas Wendel (1924–2004) This page intentionally left blank Joka tapauksessa, tietysti kaiken alla, viimeiseen hengenvetoon, kytee typerästi ja epätoivoisesti hennon hento toive, että maailma sittenkin minun kirjoittamisestani nitkahtaisi untuvan verran pehmeämmäksi. —pentti linkola, “Itke rakastettu maa,” Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun This page intentionally left blank ...