Erosion and drainage threaten plover habitat, foreshadowing human harm from the same

Evidence

In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 136

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: ‘the gully and the drainage ditch’ as shared enemies of bird and farmer — the drainage ditch as the quiet tool of ecological destruction, parallel to Marsh’s ‘Grafting & Growth’ and the reader’s disturbance-history thread.
• XREF: connects to: Unrestricted market hunting nearly extirpated the upland plover from Wisconsin farms — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 137; Geochemical cycles cause ecological harm at one place to spill over to others. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 53; Humans have lost the capacity to foresee and forestall damage — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2549 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Geochemical cycles cause ecological harm at one place to spill over to others. #expands (0.80) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 53
• Slope erosion after fire can prevent forest regrowth for centuries #exemplifies (0.80) — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 411
• Humans have lost the capacity to foresee and forestall damage #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2549
• Flood barriers that protect one area flood its neighbors instead #exemplifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2777
• Land-use harms regularly cross property boundaries #expands (0.75) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 947
• Fen drainage transformed both ecology and inhabitants’ livelihoods through struggle #qualifies (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 293
• Apparent farm solvency conceals ongoing topsoil loss to erosion #exemplifies (0.72) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 425
• Modern environmental assumptions may already have doomed the human species #expands (0.70)