Scientific hydrology research, not agency publicity, drove erosion legislation

Evidence

But the origins of the ordinance were atypical. Across the country, the public relations work of the SCS was less important in the passage of erosion-control legislation than the hydrological research of the Geological Survey. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 832

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s polyad thread that federal science, not activism alone, drove environmental regulation. — connects to: Scientific framing of sediment as pollution drove the definitional shift leading to regulation — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 822

Broader Connections

• Scientific framing of sediment as pollution drove the definitional shift leading to regulation #corroborates (0.85) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 822