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THE LAND — FEBRUARY 5/FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Simon Winchester covers the high ground in “Land”
These days, you are very well-grounded. the decision-making ‘”Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World” which went into terriYep, two feet firmly planted on terra-firtories and town limby Simon Winchester ma and it’s all yours. Corner to corner, its, and the defending front to back, you’re a landowner, carec.2021, Harper of both. taker of lawn and loam, holder of an $29.99 / higher in Canada estate of some small measure. It’s the Readers will also 464 pages American dream, and in “Land” by Simon delight in, and be Winchester, find out why we yearn for a astounded by, the who’ve lived on it for centuSwedish idea of a hike unencumbered by few hundred yards of dirt. THE BOOKWORM ries. property lines but governed by hemfridzon, SEZ Up until relatively recently in history, and the Finnish attitude toward “No And if we leave it be, says humans blithely went where they were By Terri Schlichenmeyer Trespassing” signs. Winchester, it might just save going with nary a thought about who itself. In the end, as Winchester points out, might feel possessive of the sod on which most of us wind up in a plot of land six they trod. The idea that someone might lay claim to Conventional wisdom says that one feet by three feet, six feet under. Long before the land was absurd. No, it was a wide-open world, should invest in land because it’s the only you get to that, though, you should read this book and it belonged to everybody. thing that lasts, the only thing that stays put. But because “Land” is rock-solid. Back then, the Earth looked quite different than it Winchester shows how that’s not entirely true now (if it ever was). The one thing that can be stated, Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a did now, says Winchester. Islands came and went. and proven inside “Land,” is that things are ... well, library near you. You may also find the book at Shores extended out farther. There was more flora online book retailers. and fauna, no concrete or condos, no problems until complicated. white European explorers arrived in North America We humans have made it so throughout history — The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has and decided the people who’d lived here for millensometimes necessarily and sometimes, as been reading since she was 3 years old and never nia really needed to go. Winchester suggests, not. That’s just one of the sur- goes anywhere without a book. She lives in prises inside this book. Another is the extensive his- Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v For their model, the explorers looked back home: tory behind the acquisition of large tracts of land, Great Britain and Europe had been held in ownership by someone for generations. But before land could be held completely, everyone needed to know its boundaries and borders, whether local or national, and that meant knowing the size of ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of water supply wells. the planet itself. Land had to be platted and mapped Agriculture has issued updated maps which will help Restriction of fall fertilizer applications, in vulneras precisely as possible and governments had to be farmers across the state comply with the Groundwater ready to defend its perimeters. Even island residents Protection Rule. The Groundwater Protection Rule able groundwater areas, begins on Sept. 1 each year. Farmers can visit the MDA website to view the vulneeded to know where their maritime edges lay. aims to reduce the risk of nitrate from fertilizer nerable groundwater areas map and determine Judging by peculiarities in boundary-making, impacting groundwater in areas of the state where whether the restriction applies to their land. Winchester guesses some of that official measuresoils are prone to leaching and where drinking water This article was submitted by the Minnesota ment was done with the help of an adult beverage. supplies are threatened. Department of Agriculture. v Land can erode. It can be created by moving other The rule restricts fall application of nitrogen fertilland — or even trash. It can be improved and izer in areas vulnerable to contamination and it outdestroyed, seized, sold, shared, stockpiled, struggled lines steps to reduce the severity of contamination in on, surrounded by fence, and stolen from people areas where nitrate is already elevated in public
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