| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation. By Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach. (Washington: Resources for the Future, 2003. xvi, 320 pp. Cloth, $32.95, ISBN 1-891853-59-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-891853-60-0.)

In the last decade Robert Gottlieb's Forcing the Spring (1993), Hal Rothman's The Greening of a Nation? (1998), and Paul Sutter's Driven Wild (2002) have traced the history of modern environmentalism. Each combines case studies with sweeping synthesis, but none completely answers the lingering question of why the movement fractured after Earth Day. Richard W. Judd and Christopher S. Beach offer a compelling answer in Natural States by tracing environmentalism's internal tensions in Maine and Oregon. The two states have long been linked to environmental values, but Natural States complicates such associations. Both were hotly contested battlegrounds, often divided by residence, political culture, and material interests. National trends devolved into idiosyncratic tales, and the law of unintended consequences convoluted expectations. Protection abetted gentrification, and planning unleashed degradation. Little was predictable.

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