| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration. By Marcus Hall. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xvi + 310 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)

Human efforts to recompense damages done to the earth provoke fierce controversy in the American West. Pacific bays, Rocky Mountain valleys, and southwestern canyons all stir difficult public discussions about managed change, future goals, and past duties. Amid fierce disagreements about what, if anything, our ancestors did wrong, and how, if at all, we should do better, Marcus Hall's book offers a timely guide to environmental restoration. Earth Repair not only arms disputants with better ammunition to fight smarter battles. Its historical account of land repair reminds westerners that much we deem novel itself has a past. Hall also encourages westerners who care about land health to seek inspiration and guidance from other places, often far outside the region.

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