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THIS ISSUE BEGINS the tenth year of the partnership of the American
Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society
in publishing Environmental History. By any standard, the
journal has been a success from the start. As I wrote in my first
editor's note in January 2002, the members of both societies owe
many thanks to the journal's inaugural editor, Hal Rothman.
I decided to mark the tenth-year
milestone by publishing a special section about the future of
environmental history. The section has an introduction, so you'll
have to turn to page 30 for details. I hope that you will want
to return to this section again and again!
The lead article in this issue
is by Donald Worster, who was honored by the ASEH last year for
lifetime scholarly achievement. The article comes from Worster's
biography-in-progress of John Muir. Worster also spoke on this
topic as the 2004 Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lecturer in Forest
and Conservation History–the lectureship is sponsored by
the Forest History Society, in collaboration with the Nicholas
School of the Environment and the Department of History at Duke
University. I am thrilled to be able to give this lecture a bigger
audience.
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