| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West. By Timothy P. Duane. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xxviii + 595 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $50.)

Written from a sociological, but also a personal, point of view, Timothy P. Duane's Shaping the Sierra makes a significant contribution to an understanding of California's Sierra Nevada. Since many of the same forces and processes Duane highlights are at work around the West (and indeed, beyond), this work broadens our understanding of what it will mean to live and work in the region in the twenty-first century. Duane's is perhaps the best of the publications meant for public consumption to come out of the Sierra Nevada Ecosystems Project (SNEP). Consuming most of the 1990s, the project involved dozens of researchers in almost as many fields. It was an attempt, largely successful, to synthesize biologic, economic, environmental planning, geographic, geologic, historical, hydrologic, silvicultural, and sociological research into a coherent whole, offering in the process both a model for other regional studies, as well as prescriptions for the Sierra Nevada based solidly on sound research. Timothy Duane's work on SNEP from 1993 to 1996 formed the core of his interpretations in Shaping the Sierra. . . .

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