Desertification is defined by the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification as âland degradation in arid, semiarid and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities.â Land degradation is in turn defined as the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity of drylands.
Poynette, Wisconsin. Poynette is a village in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,528 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Welcome to our Website. The first settler, Cyrus Norton, arrived in the Scuppernong Valley in 1839. Three years later, a saw mill was built by the Powers brothers, who named the new settlement Palmyra after a city in the Syrian desert because of the abundance of sand they found in this area. In 1843, a general store and tavern opened, and later that year the land was surveyed and platted into lots by John Fish. he first town meeting took place in 1846, and the railroad arrived in the fall of 1852. By 1860 the population approached 1,000 residents. Palmyra was officially charted as a Village on May 5, 1874.