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Seminar
Time:
Canceled: Book release: The Best of Intentions
Date:
3:30 pm –
4:30 pm
Hardin Hall
Room: 107 South (Auditorium)
Target Audiences:
3310 Holdrege St
Lincoln NE 68583
Lincoln NE 68583
Additional Info: HARH
Contact:
Jacki Loomis, jloomis3@unl.edu
This event has been postponed until January 23, 2026
“The Best of Intentions: a story of landscape change in the heart of the Great Plains” is a new book by Larkin Powell, director of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
It is no surprise that Nebraska — at the heart of the Great Plains — has long served as a canvas for sweeping transformation. Once a prairie teeming with bison and Native maize, it has become a landscape of center pivot irrigation, herds of cattle and hybrid corn. How did these changes happen so quickly? And who were the people, policies and pressures that synchronized new uses of the land? Taking themes from his new book, “The Best of Intentions,” Powell explores the forces that have reshaped the Plains — our ethics that impact our decisions, the “conductors” that cause landscape transformations to occur quickly and our ability to shape the landscape through environmental design. Drawing on decades of research, Powell blends historical photographs, personal narratives and long-term ecological data to ask how the past might guide us toward a more resilient future.
“The Best of Intentions: a story of landscape change in the heart of the Great Plains” is a new book by Larkin Powell, director of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
It is no surprise that Nebraska — at the heart of the Great Plains — has long served as a canvas for sweeping transformation. Once a prairie teeming with bison and Native maize, it has become a landscape of center pivot irrigation, herds of cattle and hybrid corn. How did these changes happen so quickly? And who were the people, policies and pressures that synchronized new uses of the land? Taking themes from his new book, “The Best of Intentions,” Powell explores the forces that have reshaped the Plains — our ethics that impact our decisions, the “conductors” that cause landscape transformations to occur quickly and our ability to shape the landscape through environmental design. Drawing on decades of research, Powell blends historical photographs, personal narratives and long-term ecological data to ask how the past might guide us toward a more resilient future.
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