Category: Geography

agriculture,”Mechanization has reduced the number of jobs in agriculture andencouraged the consolidation of ownership. Increasingly,corporations own the farms of the Great Plains.• These days the only Great Plains rural counties with increasingpopulations are those with significant numbers of Native Americans.• Native Americans lead a revival of sustainability: Mike Faith, a Siouxtrained in animal science, manages a large bison herd at StandingRock Reservation, not far from where Sitting Bull was killed in 1890.Bison meat, which is low in cholesterol, may help control obesity

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the bee trade,”• Cattle ranches and grain farms still prevail in the middle and southern plains, but inthe northwestern plains, many farmers have been putting their land into the FederalConservation Reserve program, which is aimed at stopping soil erosion and savingwater by paying farmers to take land out of production.• It is the return of native grasses and wildflowers that brought beekeepers and theirhives to the northern plains. For some years now, beekeepers have “”parked”” theirbeehives in this area so that their bees can produce honey by feeding on the nectarand pollen of prairie wildflowers.• During a few lucrative weeks in February, when the almond groves near Fresno inthe Central Valley of California are in bloom, the beekeepers truck their thousandsof beehives (containing as many as a billion bees) to pollinate California’s CentralValley almond flowers (Figure 2.48).• California produces two-thirds of the world’s almonds; without the bees topollinate, there would be no almonds. When the almond bloom is over

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strong human resources,”New England today thrives on service- and knowledge-based industries thatrequire skilled and educated workers.• The Boston area has capitalized on its supply of university graduates to becomeNorth America’s second-most-important high-technology center, afterCalifornia’s Silicon Valley.• Although cities (such as Boston, Providence, and Hartford) have long beenimportant in the region

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Quebec,”is the most culturally distinct subregion in all of North America.• The Québécois are sensitive to discrimination in Canada and periodically lobbyactively for sovereignty.• In Québec there is disagreement between the First Nation population (Cree) andthe Québécois over development of the subregion’s rich oil and mineralresources, but there is large public support for energy independence.• In the seventeenth century, France encouraged its citizens to settle in Canada.By 1760, there were 65,000 French settlers in Canada.• Through the first half of the twentieth century, Québec remained a land offarmers eking out a living on poor soils similar to those of New England and theAtlantic Provinces, growing only enough food to support their families. AfterWorld War II, Québec’s economy grew steadily, propelled by increasing demandfor the natural resources of northern Québec, such as timber, iron ore

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The Quiet Revolution,”• The Québécois resisted the disparagement of French culture andefforts to block access to education and economic participation. Inthe 1970s, the Québécois pushed for more autonomy from Canadaand then for outright national sovereignty (separation from Canada).• By 2009, a new, more articulate and less radical movement hademerged among young adults, seeking Québécois control over allmanner of social policies and even over foreign policy. Specifically

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