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David R. Montgomery

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David R. Montgomery is professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington and the author of the new book, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, from which this essay is adapted. An earlier work is King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon.

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