Reviewed by John Herron | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico. By Jake Kosek. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 380 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.95 (paper).

The deserts and high peaks of northern New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains contain some of the most extraordinary topographical diversity in the American Southwest. An impressive mix of flora and fauna thrive among free-flowing rivers and 14,000-foot summits thick with stands of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine. Thanks to this natural inheritance, especially the heavy forest, the region is also home to now-very-familiar battles over resource use and natural preservation. But here, on the northern fringe of Spain's once expansive North American frontier, debates about land use are part of a deep and complex history of interactions between humans and nature. Despite the pre-modern feel of this landscape, Understories is a chronicle of very modern political fights over the future of this environment.

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