Boom & Bust In Bone Valley: Florida’s Phosphate Mining History 1886-2021 and The Looming Ecological Crisis

by Ted Ehmann

IN BOOM & BUST IN BONE VALLEY , bio-regionalist Ted Ehmann presents an almost unknown part of the history of Florida and of American ecological damage. For more than 135 years, up to the present, Florida land has been strip-mined for agricultural phosphates — a process that has covered almost one-third of the State.

In the spirit of Wendell Berry and Kirkpatrick Sale, Ehmann tells the history of this phenomenon and the fairly recent opposition to the damage which is likely irreparable and threatening.

200 pages, Paperback

Published July 28, 2021

Reviews

[Gary Drake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hope for more, fair history of the consolation of industry. Limited use of primary sources.