The Bookworm Sez

These days, you are very well-grounded. Yep, two feet firmly planted on terra-firma and it’s all yours. Corner to corner, front to back, you’re a landowner, caretaker of lawn and loam, holder of an estate of some small measure. It’s the American dream, and in “Land” by Simon ‘”Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World” by Simon Winchester c.2021, Harper $29.99 / higher in Canada 464 pages the decision-making which went into territories and town limits, and the defending of both. Readers will also delight in, and be Winchester, find out why we yearn for a astounded by, the few hundred yards of dirt. THE BOOKWORM who’ve lived on it for centu- Swedish idea of a hike unencumbered by Up until relatively recently in history, humans blithely went where they were going with nary a thought about who SEZ By Terri Schlichenmeyer ries. And if we leave it be, says Winchester, it might just save property lines but governed by hemfridzon, and the Finnish attitude toward “No Trespassing” signs. might feel possessive of the sod on which itself. In the end, as Winchester points out, they trod. The idea that someone might lay claim to Conventional wisdom says that one most of us wind up in a plot of land six the land was absurd. No, it was a wide-open world, should invest in land because it’s the only feet by three feet, six feet under. Long before and it belonged to everybody. thing that lasts, the only thing that stays put. But you get to that, though, you should read this book

Back then, the Earth looked quite different than it Winchester shows how that’s not entirely true now because “Land” is rock-solid. did now, says Winchester. Islands came and went. (if it ever was). The one thing that can be stated, Look for the reviewed book at a bookstore or a Shores extended out farther. There was more flora and proven inside “Land,” is that things are ... well, library near you. You may also find the book at and fauna, no concrete or condos, no problems until complicated. online book retailers. white European explorers arrived in North America and decided the people who’d lived here for millennia really needed to go. We humans have made it so throughout history — sometimes necessarily and sometimes, as Winchester suggests, not. That’s just one of the surThe Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and never goes anywhere without a book. She lives in

For their model, the explorers looked back home: prises inside this book. Another is the extensive his- Wisconsin with three dogs and 10,000 books. v Great Britain and Europe had been held in owner- tory behind the acquisition of large tracts of land, ship by someone for generations. But before land could be held completely, everyone needed to know its boundaries and borders, whether Groundwater Rule maps available 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 as precisely as possible and governments had to be ready to defend its perimeters. Even island residents needed to know where their maritime edges lay. Judging by peculiarities in boundary-making, Winchester guesses some of that official measureAgriculture has issued updated maps which will help farmers across the state comply with the Groundwater Protection Rule. The Groundwater Protection Rule aims to reduce the risk of nitrate from fertilizer impacting groundwater in areas of the state where soils are prone to leaching and where drinking water Restriction of fall fertilizer applications, in vulnerable groundwater areas, begins on Sept. 1 each year. Farmers can visit the MDA website to view the vulnerable groundwater areas map and determine whether the restriction applies to their land. ment was done with the help of an adult beverage. supplies are threatened. This article was submitted by the Minnesota

Land can erode. It can be created by moving other The rule restricts fall application of nitrogen fertilDepartment of Agriculture. v land — 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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