"Thou shalt inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shalt safeguard thy fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from drying up, thy forests from desolation, and protect thy hills from overgrazing by the herds, that thy descendants may have abundance forever. If any shall fail in this stewardship of the land, thy fruitful fields shall become sterile stony ground or wasting gullies, and thy descendants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth."
"The Eleventh Commandment" by Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk, 1939.

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Cultivating Clean Water: State -Based Regulation of Agricultural Runoff Pollution (5.6 Mb publication from the Environmental Law and Policy Center)

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, the flagship periodical of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Keeping it on the Land, a newsletter from the Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control

Sustaining Our Soils and Society - A publication of the American Geological Institute (This is a 17 Mb pdf file)

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