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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| Arvidson, Adam Regn, and Frank Edgerton Martin. "Where History and Nature Collide: Can Historic Preservation and Ecological Constituencies Find Common Ground in Minnesota?" Landscape Architecture 97 (11 2007): 48–57. Discusses historic landscape preservation efforts at Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Bankoff, Greg. "Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines 1750–1898." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 285–306. Examines the extent of domesticated animal loss as a result of natural disasters and the impact of the animal deaths on human communities in the Philippines during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Bartlett, Robert V., Walter F. Baber, and Carolyn D. Baber. "Innovation in State Environmental Policy: A View from the West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 49–67. An examination of environmental policy innovation in the twentieth century western United States, looking at the forces responsible for both state and federal government policy innovation.Bieter, John. "Lorenzo's Letters: A Basque Immigrant's Experience in the American West." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 74–91. A history of and personal stories from a Basque immigrant sheep rancher to Idaho in the late 1800s to early 1900s.Boyer, Christopher R. "Revolución y Paternalismo Ecológico: Miguel Ángel de Quevedo y la Política Forestal in México, 1926–1940." Historia Mexicana 57 (July-September 2007): 91–138. "Revolution and Ecological Paternalism: Miguel Angel de Quevedo and Forest Policy in Mexico, 1926–1940." De Quevedo was an early proponent of forestry in Mexico and founded the Sociedad Forestal Mexicana (Mexican Forestry Society).Brown, Karen. "Poisonous Plants, Pastoral Knowledge and Perceptions of Environmental Change in South Africa, c. 1880–1940." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 307–32. Discussion of the effect of poisonous plants on livestock in South Africa between 1880 and 1940, and the resulting debates and research on topics of veterinary science, toxicology, and ecology.Brown, Robert D. "A Brief History of Wildlife Conservation in the United States." Fair Chase 22 (Winter 2007): 28–33. An overview of wildlife conservation in the United States from early European settlers through the end of the nineteenth century, including information on bison populations, hunting clubs, hunting laws and regulations, and land conservation.Cahn, Matthew A., Sheldon Kamieniecki, and Denise McCain-Tharnstrom. "Bureaucracy, Politics, and Environmental Policy in the American West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 19–47. An examination of the federal government bureaucracies that effect environmental protection, environmental regulation, and land management in the western United States, focusing on the period from the 1960s through the 2000s.Cawley, R. McGreggor, and John C. Freemuth. "Science, Politics, and Federal Lands." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 69–88. An examination of the relationship between science and politics in the management of U.S. federal lands, focusing on the early twentieth century Progressive movement's vision of science as way to resolve political arguments.Courtwright, Julie. "When We First Come Here It All Looked Like Prairie Land Almost": Prairie Fire and Plains Settlement." Western Historical Quarterly 38 (2 2007): 157–179. Efforts of settlers on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century to suppress the prairie fires that had been an environmental force on the area for centuries, and the lasting effect of the fires' disappearance.Cowan, Michael Kenneth. "Ancient Water Systems Provide Lessons for Today." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 62 (6 2007): 138A. Looks at ancient water systems in arid regions, such as the Mesopotamian water systems of the ancient Sumerians, and how these historical systems can provide solutions to early twenty-first century water resource challenges.Davis, Charles, and Sandra Davis. "The Politics of Hard-Rock Mining in the American West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 133–53. A discussion of hard-rock mining on western U.S. federal land from the 1872 Mining Act through the end of the twentieth century, and the relationship between environmental impact issues and federal policy.. . . |
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