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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Archibald, Robert R. "Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." History News 60 (Spring 2005): 20–23. The president of the Missouri Historical Society, which organized Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition, explores the legacy of, fascination with, and lessons from the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition in modern-day American society.

Arenson, Adam. "Ansel Adams's Eucalyptus Tree, Fort Ross: Nature, Photography, and the Search for California." California History 82 (4 2005): 10–24. Examines one of Ansel Adams's lesser-known photographs, Eucalyptus Tree: Fort Ross, California (1969) as illustrative of aspects both of California's history and of Adams's own personal history and emerging environmental consciousness.

Bankoff, Greg. "Horsing Around: The Life and Times of the Horse in the Philippines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 233 55. Explores the effects of horses on economics and the environment in Philippine society at the turn of the twentieth century, and their inverse effects on the life of the Philippine horse.

Barnett, LeRoy. "An American Need for a Russian Weed." Michigan History 89 (March/April 2005): 29–33. Describes Michigan's World War II-era experiments with latex extraction from the roots of kok-saghyz, a Russian breed of dandelion, to make up for America's loss of overseas rubber sources.

Barwegen, Martine. "Browsing in Livestock History: Large Ruminants and the Environment in Java, 1850–2000." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 283 305. Examines factors from 1850 to 2000 that influenced how and why certain breeds came into existence while others declined.

Beatty, Russell A. "Prescribed Grazing." Landscape Architecture 95 (March 2005): 50–57. Account of how early twenty-first century landscape managers, such as those at Sea Ranch in California, are rediscovering the traditional method of grazing to control vegetation. Nineteenth-century park designers, including Frederick Law Olmsted, used sheep to "mow" in places like Central Park.

Best, Allen. "A Divine Sanction: Manifest Destiny, Landscape and Religion in the Colorado Wilderness." Forest Magazine 7 (Spring 2005): 38–43. Explores the nineteenth-century fascination with a geographic feature in the Colorado Rockies known as the "Mountain of the Holy Cross" for the perpendicular fissures on its eastern face. After being documented by William Henry Jackson of the 1873 Hayden Survey, the cross became a subject of poems, paintings, and religious admiration. Many saw the feature as an embodiment of Manifest Destiny, or a divine sanction for westward expansion.

Bettelheim, Matthew. "Marmorata: The Famed Mud Turtle of the San Francisco Market." California History 82 (4 2005): 26–42. Examines the history of the terrapin (western pond turtle, or clemmys marmorata), from its utilization by California's Native American peoples, to its sought-after status as a soup ingredient the in the early twentieth-century San Francisco market, to its endangerment as of 2005 due in part to habitat loss.

Biel, Alice Wondrak. "The Bearer Has Permission: A Brief History of Research Permitting in Yellowstone National Park." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Winter 2004): 16–31. History of research permitting in Yellowstone National Park since the U.S. Geological Survey expeditions of the 1870s. Argues that this history reflects the larger story of the National Park Service's science program and the evolving debate over appropriate uses for national parks.

Binnema, Theodore, and Kevin Douglas Hutchings. "The Emigrant and the Noble Savage: Sir Francis Bond Head's Romantic Approach to Aboriginal Policy in Upper Canada, 1836–1838." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Winter 2005): 115 38. Explores how Sir Francis Bond Head (1793–1875), Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1836–1838, used Romantic notions exalting primitivism and the "noble savage" to justify his plan of relocating the Anishinaabeg peoples from their traditional territories in present-day southern Ontario to Manitoulin Island. Argues that many Romantic perceptions of Aboriginal peoples were consistent with colonial policies, which sought to segregate them.

Blackmar, Elizabeth. "Of REITS and Rights: Absentee Ownership in the Periphery." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 81–98. Examinees how new institutions and modes of absentee ownership in the United States have shaped real estate development at highway interchanges and suburban boundaries. Studies in particular shopping centers, a common marker of sprawl, from the 1940s through the 1990s.

Bonner, Robert E. "Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Spring 2005): 36–51. Examines the convergence of the lives and visions of Elwood Mead, the rising young Wyoming state engineer, and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody in mutual support of the 1894 Carey Act, the first federal effort to help western states develop their water resources. Details how Mead and Cody worked together on irrigation projects through the early twentieth century, including the failed "Cody Canal."

Boomgaard, Peter. "The Age of the Buffalo and the Dawn of the Cattle Era in Indonesia, 1500–1850." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 257–82. Discusses this history of livestock in the Indonesian Archipelago from 1500 to 1850, highlighting the transition from high proportions of buffalo or water buffalo to an economic focus on cattle.

Boomgaard, Peter. "Horses, Horse-Trading and Royal Courts in Indonesian History, 1500–1900." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 211–32. Explores the history of horse raising and trading in Indonesia since the pre-modern period, sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Box, Thad. "Listening to the Land: Drought and Sustainability." Rangelands 27 (April 2005): 42–43. Briefly examines the role of drought in American history from the late 19th century, stressing the importance of developing sustainable lifestyles and range management practices.

Bradley, Mike, and Andy Garner. "Kyoto and What it Means for the Forest Sector." Pulp & Paper Canada 106 (April 2005): 10–13. Examines the implications of global warming and the Kyoto protocol on climate change, which came into force as international law in 2005, for Canada's forest sector. Provides a brief history of the use of fossil fuels since the 18th century.

Bridge, S. R. J., K. Miyanishi, and E. A. Johnson. "A Critical Evaluation of Fire Suppression Effects in the Boreal Forest of Ontario." Forest Science 51 (February 2005): 41–50. Critically evaluates evidence that fire suppression has changed the natural fire cycle in the boreal forest, applying time-since-fire techniques to spatial fire data from 1921–1995 for the boreal regions of Ontario, Canada.

Brigham, Don, Jr. "The Couple Who Planted Trees." Landscape Architecture 95 (January 2005): 48–53. Describes the transformation since the 1930s by Ruth and Herman Ohme of a rocky ridge in central Washington into Ohme Gardens, now a popular state-run tourist attraction.

Brill de Ramírez, Susan Berry, and Edith M. Baker. "'There are Balances and Harmonies Always Shifting; Always Necessary to Maintain': Leslie Marmon Silko's Vision of Global Environmental Justice for the People and the Land." Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 213–228. Explores Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's messages about living in harmony with the environment, finding assurance in Silko's writings (1970s–1990s) of the inevitability of the cycles of the natural world to renew the earth and to restore global environmental justice.

Brown, Tracy. "Tradition and Change in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Indian Communities." Journal of the Southwest 46 (Autumn 2004): 463–500. Seeks to fill gaps in the ethnohistorical record of Pueblo Indian experiences of contact and colonization by the Spanish in the eighteenth century. Focuses on ethnic identity construction, manipulation, and hybridization.

Browning, John. "Continental Charm: The Mysterious Bunyip." Light Railways (February 2005): 12–14. Profile of a locomotive, known as Bunyip, used by the Gin Gin Central Sugar Mill in Wallaville, Australia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Brownlie, Robin Jarvis. "'Nothing Left For Me or Any Other Indian': The Georgian Bay Ahishinabek and Inter-War Articulations of Aboriginal Rights." Ontario History 96 (Autumn 2004): 116–42. Using letters from the 1920s and 1930s, examines the Georgian Bay Anishinabek's struggles to protect their Aboriginal rights during the inter-war years.

Brunson, Mark W., and Jessica Evans. "Badly Burned? Effects of an Escaped Prescribed Burn on Social Acceptibility of Wildland Fuels Treatments." Journal of Forestry 103 (April/May 2005): 134–38. Reports on a survey of residents of Utah counties affected by a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest that escaped in September 2003. Results suggest prescribed fire remains an acceptable tool, but citizens doubt agencies' ability to use it effectively.

Buecker, Thomas R., ed. "'The Even Tenor of Our Way is Pursued Undisturbed': Henry P. Smith's Diary During the Ghost Dance Movement, 1890–1891." South Dakota History 34 (Fall 2004): 197–236. Selections from the diary of Henry P. Smith, who established a ranch in 1899 on the White River directly across from the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota. Documents early ranch life, Smith's observations of the Lakota people and culture, the Ghost Dance conflict, and the Wounded Knee massacre of December 1890. A rare homesteader record which serves as a counterpoint to other records on which Wounded Knee history has been based.

Bunbury, Bill. "Cyclone Tracy: Voices on the Wind." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 165–73. Examines Cyclone Tracy, the worst storm in recorded Australian history which struck Darwin in 1974, as a social metaphor for dispersal and renewal. Made up of excerpts from a 1987 radio series and 1994 book compiled by the author, featuring first-person accounts of the storm and its effects.

Calhoun, Elizabeth Gray. "The Eakle-Calhoun Photo Collection." Log Train 80 (November 2004): 4–12. Introduction to and selections from the Eakle-Calhoun family photograph collection, documenting railroad logging in West Virginia around the turn of the twentieth century.

Carroll, Jane Lamm. "'Who Was Jane Lamont?': Anglo-Dakota Daughters in Early Minnesota." Minnesota History 59 (Spring 2005): 184–96. Examines the experiences of Anglo-Dakota children born in early-to-mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota, who were challenged with forging their cultural identities in the midst of rapidly-changing frontier society.

Cartwright, Walter E. "Alabama's Reforestation of Abandoned Mine Lands." Alabama's Treasured Forests 24 (Spring 2005): 14–17. Describes Alabama's process since 1977 of reforesting abandoned mine lands as part of the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation Program in the Department of Industrial Relations.

Castaneda, Christopher J. " From Manufactured to Natural Gas in California." Journal of the West 44 (Winter 2005): 18–26. Traces the history of California's gas demand and use, from early use of manufactured coal gas starting in the mid-nineteenth-century, competition from electricity and natural gas in the early twentieth century, and the dependence on out-of-state resources by 2001.

Charman, Haren. "The Shape of Forests to Come?" World Watch 18 (May/June 2005): 22–26. Discusses the current status and future prospects for genetically modifying trees, especially in the context of the early twentieth-century American chestnut blight plague.

Christie, Jan Wisseman. "The Agricultural Economies of Early Java and Bali." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 48–67. Overview of early foodcrops and livestock in Java and Bali, exploring rice cultivation, trade systems, and domestic markets from the first millennium BC through the first centuries AD.

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase. "Horse Breeding in Mainland Southeast Asia and its Borderlands." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 189–210. Explores the development of livestock breeding and the contributions of horses, ponies, and mules to the history of mainland Southeast Asia since prehistoric times.

Coleman, Patrick. "A Rare Find: The Treaty of Washington, 1858." Minnesota History 59 (Spring 2005): 197–99. Describes events surrounding the 1858 Treaty of Washington, more commonly known as the Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, an original, handwritten copy of which was acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society in November 2004.

Connell, Daniel. "Managing Climate for the Murray-Darling Basin (1850–2050)." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 82–91. Explores the history since 1850 of interaction between landscape, climate, and society in the Murray-Darling Basin region of South Australia, from the perspective of the early twenty-first century. Examines the effects of human intervention in the landscape and climate since the European settlement, and their implications for future management in the region.

Connor, Sheila. "The Nature of Eastern Asia: Botanical and Cultural Images from the Arnold Arboretum Archives." Arnoldia 63 (3 2005): 34–44. Sampling and descriptions of eastern Asian photographs of plants, people, and landscapes from the Arnold Arboretum collection, the work of plant explorers who traveled there in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Correia, David. "From Agropastoralism to Sustained Yield Forestry: Industrial Restructuring, Rural Change, and the Land-grant Commons in Northern New Mexico." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (March 2005): 25–44. Case study of the Vallecitos Federal Sustained Yield Unit established by the Forest Service in New Mexico in the 1940s. Offers a political ecology of timber production that illustrates the social consequences of the commodification of nature and labor in New Mexico.

Coyner, Barbara. "Safety Through Mechanization." Timber/West 30 (March/April 2005): 40–43. Describes how late-twentieth-century innovations have led to more mechanized timber harvesting and a safer environment for loggers in the Pacific Northwest.

Crampton, William G. R., Castello, Leandro, and Viana, Joo Paulo. "Fisheries in the Amazon Várzea: Historical Trends, Current Status, and Factors Affecting Sustainability." In People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 76–98. Examines the fisheries of the Brazilian Amazon, particularly the várzea floodplain, arguing that with appropriate management they could make a major contribution to economic growth and rural development in the Amazon basin, as well as provide an incentive for conservation. Provides a history of human settlement in the várzeas from the sixteenth century onwards.

Crawford-Brown, Douglas J. "Forging a Place for Environmental Studies." Chronicle of Higher Education 51 (May 20,2005 2005): B15. Director of the Carolina Environmental Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers advice on key principles that must be upheld if environmental studies programs are to be successfully incorporated and justified at colleges and universities.

Dancho, Gregg. "Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo: Embraceable Zoo." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Spring 2005 ): 14–15. Overview and history of Connecticut's only zoo, Beardsley Park in Bridgeport, first opened in 1878 and redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1884.

Das, Pallavi. "Hugh Cleghorn and Forest Conservancy in India." Environment and History 11 (February 2005): 55–82. Examines the role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in nineteenth-century colonial India.

Daston, Lorraine. "Intelligences: Angelic, Animal, Human." In Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 37–58. Examines various understandings of animal intelligences and uses of anthropomorphism, especially in the writings of John Milton, Franz Kafka, and Charles Darwin.

Delgado, Grace PeDa. "Of Kith and Kin: Land, Leases, and Guanxi in Tucson's Chinese and Mexican Communities, 1880s–1920s." Arizona History 46 (Spring 2005): 33–54. Explores the economic, cultural, and social connections formed between Chinese newcomers to the Tucson, Arizona and its traditional Mexican-American inhabitants during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Deoppers, D. F. "Beef Consumption and Regional Cattle Husbandry Systems in the Philippines, 1850–1940." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 307–24. Examines the changing place of beef in the diet of the inhabitants of Manila and the operation and evolution of the systems that provided slaughter animals to the city, 1850–1940.

Diamond, Jared. "Collapse: Ecological Lessons in Survival." Natural History 114 (April 2005): 38–43. Explores factors contributing to societal collapse, including environmental damage, climate change, and social relations. Presents case studies of the Maya of Central America (ninth century A.D.), Japan during the Tokugawa Period (1603–1867), New Guinea, and Montana. Excerpted/adapted from Diamond's 2004 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Dodson, Belinda. "A Soil Conservation Safari: Hugh Bennett's 1944 Visit to South Africa." Environment and History 11 (February 2005): 35–54. Explores how the 1944 official visit to South Africa by Hugh Bennett, then Chief of the United States Soil Conservation Service, highlighted the sociopolitical context of racial segregation in the country.

Donahue, Debra. "A Critical Examination of Economic Incentives to Promote Conservation." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason A. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 147–71. Examines the use of an incentives-based approach for encouraging species protection on private lands since the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Argues that monetary incentives are not a panacea and that species conservation programs should be multifaceted, focusing on the development of a stewardship ethic.

Donahue, Debra. "The Endangered Species Act and Its Current Set of Incentive Tools for Species Protection." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason F. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 25–63. Examines the provisions of the Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973 and reinterpreted at various points since, relating to private property and explores how the enhanced use of incentives could promote conservation goals on private lands.

Doniger, Wendy. "Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial Than the Beasts." In Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 17–36 pp. Examines zoomorphism, or imagining humans as animals, in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts.

Dour, Gabe. "Ensuring Survival: Selective Breeding Helps Port Orford Cedar Beat the Odds." Forest Magazine 7 (Spring 2005): 20–24. Describes selective breeding programs in place since the 1980s designed to save Port Orford cedars in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California from the threat of the root disease phytophthora lateralis. Provides a brief history of the Port Orford cedar and of the spread of p. lateralis since 1923.

Drees, Dan, and Susan Flader. "Current River Natural Area." Missouri Conservationist 66 (May 2005): 4–7. Historical sketch of Current River Natural Area, Missouri's first designated natural area, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its designation in March 1955.

Drollette, Dan. "Fire Down Under." Natural History 114 (April 2005): 44–50. Examines the historical effects of drought, greenhouse gases, global warming, and El Niño on Australia's annual bushfire season since presettlement times.

Duff, Alan. "Special Places, Special Sites, and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard." Virginia Forests 61 (Spring 2005): 6–9. Describes the process of identifying, designating, and protecting "special" Virginia sites, including ecological, geological, historical, or otherwise significant areas, as part of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standards revised in 2005.

Duffin, Andrew P. "Remaking the Palouse: Farming, Capitalism, and Environmental Change, 1825–1915." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Fall 2004): 194–204. Explores the environmental evolution of the Palouse region of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho from an area perceived to have little commercial value (1825–1849), to the arrival of the first white settlers and the removal of the Paluse Indians (1850–1884), to the redefinition of the region through improved transportation and intensive agriculture (1885–1914).

Duffin, Stephen J. "The Environmental Views of John Locke and the Maori People of New Zealand." Environmental Ethics 26 (Winter 2004): 381–401. Compares the fundamental beliefs driving the environmental ethics of the Maori people of New Zealand with those of philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). Argues that because they reveal similarities, a greater appreciation can and should be developed between Western and indigenous views of the environment.

Dunlap, Thomas R. "Creation and Destruction in Landscapes of Empire." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 207–25. Explores the interaction between lands and dreams in the history of the "Anglo neo-Europes"—the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—primarily 18th through 20th centuries.

Eckersley, Robyn. "Translating Science and Restoring Our Sense of Wonder: The End of Nature as a Landmark." Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 193–97. Part of a symposium celebrating and critically revisiting Bill McKibben's 1989 book The End of Nature, noted for its warning about the onset of global warming, fifteen years after its publication. Argues that while the book remains an exemplary work of environmental journalism, McKibben's central claim that we have reached the "end of nature" is overstated and contradicted by his prescriptions for the future.

Edwards, G. Thomas. "Town Boosterism on Oregon's Mining Frontier: James Vansyckle and Wallula, Columbia Riverport, 1860–1870." Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Spring 2005): 76–97. Describes the 1860s efforts of James Milton Vansyckle, a California businessman and speculator, to promote the mining town of Wallula, Oregon as a profitable port on the Columbia.

Edwards, Jay D. "Open Issues in the Study of the Historic Influences of Caribbean Architecture on that of North America." Material Culture 37 (Spring 2005): 44–84. Examines the influence of Caribbean and West African architectural forms on North American culture and vernacular landscapes, specifically in the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, and Carolina Tidewater regions, sixeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Egan, Andrew. "Who Will Log in Maine's Northern Woods?: A Cross-Cultural Study of Occupational Choice and Prestige." Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 21 (December 2004): 200–208. Results of a study comparing the sense of occupational choice and prestige and familial attachment to logging held by two culturally distinct populations working in Maine's border counties with Quebec: Maine resident and Quebec resident loggers. Provides a history of French-Canadian workers in the region since the mid-nineteenth century.

Elkind, Sarah S. "Black Gold and the Beach: Offshore Oil, Beaches and Federal Power in Southern California." Journal of the West 44 (Winter 2005): 8–17. Examines the development of the oil industry in Los Angeles, California between 1920 and 1955, highlighting confrontations between industry, government, residential development, and recreation as illustrative of fundamental political debates in the 20th century American West.

Elkind, Sarah S. "Los Angeles's Nature: Urban Environmental Politics in the Twentieth Century." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 38–51. Examines conflicts between industrial interests, civic groups, and the chamber of commerce over air pollution in Los Angeles, California, primarily during the 1940s and 1950s.

Ellen, Roy. "The Distribution of Metroxylon sagu and the Historical Diffusion of a Complex Traditional Technology." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 69 105. Reviews the distribution and dispersal of palms utilized for their starch in prehistoric Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the means by which starch is extracted, examining how and why these complex traditional techniques originated and diversified. Focuses on the most important starch palm in the region, Metroxylon sagu.

Engstrand, Iris H. W. "Perception and Perfection: Picturing the Spanish and Mexican Coastal West." Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 5–21. Explores depictions of the Pacific coastal region's natural beauty, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants by late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century European and American artists and illustrators.

Ewan, Rebecca Fish. "Uncovered Landscape." Landscape Architecture 95 (February 2005): 88–93. Describes the cooperative project between the City of Phoenix, Arizona, and the Salt River Project, completed in 2003, to convert an historic hydroelectric plant into the WaterWorks at Arizona Falls, a power generator/art piece/educational facility/public open space. Presented as an example of innovative and successful re-use in a city known for sprawl problems.

Fiege, Mark. "The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape." Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 22 47. Examines the movement of weeds across human boundaries in Montana during the twentieth century, and how collective responses to that movement created common geographic space in which people adjusted land allocation to ecology. Argues for a shift toward cooperative management of the rural western landscape in the 1930s.

Forest Science Review. "Canary in the Coal Mine: A Short History of Northern Pennsylvania Forests and Their Deer Herd." Forest Science Review 1 (Winter 2004): 2–3. Short history of the forests of northwestern Pennsylvania, eighteenth through twentieth centuries, examining the effects of high deer populations on forest ecosystems.

Gelbspan, Ross. "Global Warming and Political Power: The End of Nature and Beyond." Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 186–92. Part of a symposium celebrating and critically revisiting Bill McKibben's 1989 book The End of Nature, noted for its warning about the onset of global warming, fifteen years after its publication. Argues that while the book remains a profound investigation of man's relationship with nature, McKibben underestimated the obstructive power of economic and political interests.

Gerald, Veronica D. "Turning the Tide." National Parks 79 (Spring 2005): 44–48. Describes efforts to preserve Gullah/Geechee culture and cultural sites along the southern coast of the United States. Provides a history of the Gullah/Geechee people since their ancestors were brought over in the 16th-century slave trade, and their relationship to rice cultivation in the region. As of 2005, legislation is pending in Congress to help protect Gullah/Geechee communities and culture.

Gillis, M. D., A. Y. Omule, and T. Brierley. "Monitoring Canada's Forests: The National Forest Inventory." Forestry Chronicle 81 (March/April 2005): 214–21. Overview of procedure for Canada's new National Forest Inventory, developed to monitor progress towards sustainable forest management. Discusses limitations of forest inventory approach used from 1981 until the new plan was developed in the 1990s–2000s.

Glaeseman, Kurt. "The Dolbeer Donkey Engine." Timber/West 30 (March/April 2005): 52–53. Describes the Dolbeer Donkey Engine, invented in 1881 to replace animals used to haul logs out of the woods. As of 2004, a refurbished Donkey Engine is operated regularly by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of American Foresters.

Goodan, Ginger. "Youth Forum: Forage Productivity of Rangeland Along the Santa Fe Trail in 1846." Rangelands 27 (February 2005): 37–40. Uses historical maps and other evidence to test hypothesis that range conditions along the Santa Fe Trail have improved since the pre-settler period (1830–1850).

Graham, Frank, Jr. "Showtime!" Audubon 107 (March/April 2005): 62–68. Describes the annual spring phenomenon when half a million sandhill cranes converge during their migration on Nebraska's Platte River, attracting visitors from around the world. Provides a history of human impacts on the cranes' migration, preservation efforts, and the cranes' relationship with the Platte from presettlement times.

Grewe-Volpp, Christa. "'The Oil Was Made From Their Bones': Environmental (In)Justice in Helena Maria Viramonte's Under the Feet of Jesus ." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12 (Winter 2005): 61–78. Examines the emerging awareness of environmental hazards, ecofeminism, and environmental justice in Chicano/Chicana literature using Helena Maria Viramonte's 1995 novel Under the Feet of Jesus. Provides an overview of environment in Chicano Studies since the 1960s.

Griffiths, Tom. "The Roaring Forties." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 152–64. Investigates the role of wind in Australian and Antarctic history, especially in exploration, imperialism, and colonization during the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. "The roaring forties," named for latitude, were the earliest and most famous southern winds.

Grove, Richard. "Revolutionary Weather: The Climatic and Economic Crisis of 17881795 and the Discovery of El Niño." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 128–40. Explores the effects of the El Niño phenomenon on social, political, and economic history, with particular attention to an event of exceptional strength and length from 1788–1795. Summarizes the effects of this event in Australia, the Pacific region, Africa, Europe, and North America.

Güémez Pineda, Arturo. "El Poder de los Cabildos Mayas y la Venta de Propiedades Privadas a Través del Tribunal de Indios, Yucatán (1750–1821)." Historia Mexicana 54 (3 2005): 697–760. "The Power of the Mayan Chiefs and the Sale of Private Property Through the Court of Indians, Yucatan (1750–1821)." Examines how land was sold during the period of transition of rule from the Mayan chiefs to the Spanish colonial powers. Text in Spanish.

Guterman, Lila. "Taking Aim at Bird Flu: Researchers Try To Prepare the World For a Possible Pandemic." Chronicle of Higher Education 51 (March 18 2005): A14–A18. Describes worldwide early twenty-first century efforts to learn about and prepare for a possible pandemic of Asian bird flu, a strain of which has been spreading since December 2003. Provides a brief history of pandemics since the 1918 spread of the "Spanish flu."

Hak, Gordon. "Note and Document: Bus Griffith's Now You're Logging: A Graphic Novel about British Columbia Coastal Logging in the 1930s." Labour/Le Travail 55 (Spring 2005): 167–85. Examines the 1979 graphic novel Now You're Logging by Bus Griffith as an historical document that sheds light on the work environment of coastal loggers in British Columbia during the 1930s.

Hammers, Roslyn Lee. "'How Can It Be that a Crow's Tail Can Hold Water?': The Square-Pallet Pump in Lou Shu's Pictures of Tilling and Weaving." Technology and Culture 46 (January 2005): 132–36. Examines the mixed legacy of the square-pallet pump as depicted in a pair of hand scrolls created around 1145 by Lou Shu, a minor magistrate from Mingzhou, China (present-day Ningbo), to portray methods of production of rice and silk.

Hardy, Charles, III. "The Watering of Philadelphia." Pennsylvania Heritage 30 (Spring 2004): 26–35. Detailed and illustrated history of water management in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the colonial period through the end of the twentieth century. Describes the 1801 founding of the first municipal water system in the nation and the ensuing expansion, pollution, mitigation, and improvement of the city's water supply and sewage treatment systems.

Hayes, John P., et al. "Environmental Consequences of Intensively Managed Forest Plantations in the Pacific Northwest." Journal of Forestry 103 (March 2005): 83–87. Reviews the environmental consequences of IMFPs (Intensively Managed Forest Plantations) in the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing influences on biodiversity, soils, and water resources. Provides background on the heated debate from the 1970s through the early twentieth century over IMFPs and how the region's forest resources should be used.

Henley, David. "Rizification Revisited: Re-Examining the Rise of Rice in Indonesia with Special Reference to Sulawesi." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 107 38. Critically re-examines the theory that the rise of rice as a major foodcrop in Indonesia has happened only since the 15th century, with special attention to Sulawesi and its outlying islands.

Henry, J. David. "Northern Exposure." Natural History 114 (February 2005): 26–32. Explores issues of whether the planet-encircling boreal forest, or taiga, can survive global warming and resource exploitation at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Discusses possible responses including the "ecomunicipality" movement born in Sweden and Finland during the 1980s.

Hettinger, Ned. "Allen Carlson's Environmental Aesthetics and the Protection of the Environment." Environmental Ethics 27 (Spring 2005): 57–76. Assesses the role that aesthetic value can play in environmental protection through the work of philosopher Allen Carlson in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Concludes that environmental ethics would benefit from taking aesthetics more seriously.

Heynen, Nik, and Harold A. Perkins. "Scalar Dialects in Green: Urban Private Property and the Contradictions of the Neoliberalization of Nature." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (March 2005): 99–113. Explores the globalized processes of neoliberalization through the distribution of urban trees in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Briefly discusses the history of Milwaukee's urban forests since the nineteenth century.

Hill, R. D. "Towards a Model of the History of 'Traditional' Agriculture in Southeast Asia ." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 19–45 . Attempts to address issues involved in constructing a coherent model for the history of agriculture in the Southeast Asian region, drawing from biology, linguistics, archaeology, and other sources.

Hines, Susan. "Contested Terrain." Landscape Architecture 95 (May 2005): 114125, 146–47. Examines two declining Seattle parks constructed in the 1970s and slated for renovation in the early twenty-first century to address the question of how the landscape architecture profession should respond when works of public significance are reimagined or altered.

Home, R. W. "Rainmaking in CSIRO: The Science and Politics of Climate Modification." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 66–79. Examines the post-World War II research programs in atmospheric physics conducted by Australia's chief scientific agency, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, later the CSIRO). Highlighting the application of science to national development, explores the CSIRO's attempts, primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, to modify Australia's weather by increasing rainfall in drier parts of the country.

Hooks, Gregory, and Chad L. Smith. "Treadmills of Production and Destruction: Threats to the Environment Posed by Militarism." Environment and Society 18 (March 2005): 19–37. Focuses on the environmental dangers posed by development of conventional weaponry and weapons of mass destruction during the 20th century, stressing the distinctive role of the state in creating a "treadmill of destruction." Argues that this treadmill operates separately from but intersects with the "treadmill of production," or the inherent dynamic that results in the relentless expansion of capitalism.

Horden, Peregrine. "Water in Mediterranean History." In Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002, edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 35–49. Exploration of water use in the pre-modern Mediterranean past, particularly medieval Italy and Spain. Encourages a religious, cultural, social, and ecological approach to studying the use of water resources.

Horsman, Reginald. "Oliver Spencer and Indian Life Along the Maumee, 1792–95." Timeline 22 (January/March 2005): 40–53. Describes the 1792 captivity experience of Oliver Spencer Jr., the nine-year-old son of Colonel Oliver Spencer, an early settler in the Cincinnati region. Spencer was kidnapped by Mohawk Indians and quickly adapted to their culture and methods of food production.

Howe, Edward T. "Vermont Incorporated Villages: A Vanishing Institution." Vermont History 73 (Winter/Spring 2005): 16–39. Examines the role of village governments in the history of Vermont, from their origins in the eighteenth century to their virtual disappearance in the early twenty-first century. Argues that they have been integral to the structure of local government units.

Hunt, Stephen E. "'Free, Bold, Joyous': The Love of Seaweed in Margaret Gatty and Other Mid-Victorian Writers." Environment and History 11 (February 2005): 5 34. Taking an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, especially Gatty's British Sea-Weeds and George Eliot's "Recollections of Ilfracombe," illustrates broader perceptions of the natural world in mid-Victorian literature.

Ignatieva, Maria E. "Music for the Eyes: The Historical Restoration of the White Birch Area of Pavlovsky Park in St. Petersburg, Russia." Ecological Restoration 23 (June 2005): 83–88. Discusses the history of St. Petersburg's Pavlovsky Park, its landscape design and ecological aspects, and efforts beginning after World War II to restore the park to its original early-nineteenth-century design.

Irland, Lloyd C. "The Forest Industry in Maine, 1960–2010: The Effect on the Pine Tree State's Communities and People." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor (April 2005): 20–21, 33–35. Part one of a two-part series describing the development of Maine's forests and forest industries from the 1960s through the 2000s, focusing on the social effects of changes over time.

Irland, Lloyd C. "The Forest Industry in Maine, 1960–2010: The Effect on the Pine Tree State's Communities and People, Part II." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 53 (11 2005): 12–16, 52, 56. Part two of a two-part series describing the development of Maine's forests and forest industries from the 1960s through the 2000s, focusing on the social effects of changes over time.

Isenberg, Andrew C. "The Industrial Alchemy of Hydraulic Mining: Law, Technology, and Resource-Intensive Industrialization." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 122–37. Examines the practice, legal context, and environmental effects of hydraulic gold mining in California during the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

Jackson, Donald C., and Norris Hundley Jr. "Privilege and Responsibility: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster." California History 82 (3 2004): 8–47. In-depth account of the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam in the Santa Clara River Valley, considered the worst civil engineering disaster in California's history. Argues that the dam's designer, well-known Los Angeles engineer William Mulholland, should bear ultimate responsibility for the collapse.

Jackson-Smith, Douglas, and Gilbert W. Gillespie, Jr. "Impacts of Farm Structural Change on Farmers' Social Ties." Society and Natural Resources 18 (January 2005): 215–40. Analyzes data from nine dairy-farm-dependent rural communities in seven U.S. states to explore the impacts of agricultural restructuring on the dynamics of social life. Summarizes research on farm structure and rural community life since the early twentieth century.

Jacobsohn, Myra K. "Old World Influences on Pennsylvania Gardens." Pennsylvania Heritage 31 (Spring 2005): 16–25. Examines the history and influence of formal, colonial-era English-style gardens in Pennsylvania.

Janowski, Monica. "The Wet and the Dry: The Development of Rice Growing in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 139–62. Studies the history of rice cultivation in the Kelabit Highlands, at the headwaters of the Baram River in Sarawak, Borneo, using published information and fieldwork conducted in 1986–1988 and 1992–1993.

Jett, Stephen C. "Navajo-Modified Living Trees and Cradleboard Manufacture." Material Culture 37 (Spring 2005): 131–42. Examines Navajo use of living trees for the manufacture of cradleboards, combining visible landscape features of culturally modified trees (CMTs) dating from the early eighteenth through early twenty-first centuries with informant input.

Jordan, Terry G. "Antecedents of the Long-Lot in Texas." Material Culture 37 (Spring 2005): 18–36. Plots the distribution, diffusion, and influence of the long-lot settlement form in the cultural landscape of Texas as of the 1970s. Riverine long-lot surveys were employed in many parts of the state during the 18th and 19th centuries. Article reprinted from the Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 64, No. 1, March 1974 pp. 70–86.

Joseph, Pat. "'Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed': Looking to History for Today's Survival Strategies." Sierra (May/June 2005): 44–45. Interview with author/geographer Jared Diamond about his 2005 book Collapse, which explores the lessons modern societies can learn from history's failed civilizations.

Josephson, Paul R. "When Stalin Learned to Fish: Natural Resources, Technology, and Industry under Socialism." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 162–92. Explores the stages of transformation of the Soviet fishing industry to fit with socialist ideals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Kaika, Maria. "Water for Europe: The Creation of the European Water Framework Directive." In Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002, edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 89–116. Examines the social, political, economic, and historical contexts for the 2000 creation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD): how a new set of institutions and levels of governance have replaced traditional state-led approaches. Provides a history of European water policy and legislation since 1975.

Karayilmazlar, Selman. "Analysis of Turkey's Foreign Trade in Non-Wood Forest Products." Forest Products Journal 55 (April 2005): 78–87. Investigates the development of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in Turkey's foreign trade, based on data from the 1990s, arguing that NWFPs can be utilized to aid in economic development.

Kerasote, Ted. "The Big Flap." Audubon 107 (May–June 2005): 44–50. Examines the history of trumpeter swans in the United States since the eighteenth century, in particular biologist William J. Sladen's controversial late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century efforts to teach them the migration route he believes they once took to the Atlantic Coast.

Kloor, Keith. "Score One for the Desert." Audubon 107 (May–June 2005): 38–43, 64 65. Examines efforts to balance development with biodiversity in the Sonoran Desert surrounding Tucson, Arizona. Severely threatened by urban sprawl since the 1980s, portions of the desert and the species that reside within them are being saved as of 2004 by the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan.

Knerr, Douglas. "Lustron: How an Ohio Company Almost Changed American Housing." Timeline 22 (April–June 2005): 18–33. Describes the sensation created by the Lustron Company of Columbus, Ohio in the late 1940s and early 1950s when it introduced pre-fabricated, factory-built housing, and the ultimate failure of the company.

Knobloch, Frieda, and R. McGreggor Cawley. "Endangered Species Protection and Ways of Life: Beyond Economy and Ecology." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason A. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 131–145 pp. Discusses the debate over the use of economic incentives for species protection on private lands since the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act, arguing that environmental controversies are best understood in terms of ways of life rather than financial loss or gain. Offers suggestions for making the incentive approach more attentive to cultural factors.

Krieg, Eric J. "Race and Environmental Justice in Buffalo, NY: A ZIP Code and Historical Analysis of Ecological Hazards." Society and Natural Resources 18 (January 2005): 199–213. Analyzes toxic release inventories (TRI) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-regulated facilities in Buffalo, New York, failing to find evidence of environmental racism. Provides a history of labor and race in Buffalo since the early nineteenth century, arguing that segregation has insulated the African American population from disproportionate exposure to ecological hazards.

Labi, Aisha. "So Many Specimens, So Little Time." Chronicle of Higher Education 51 (April 8 2005): A48. History and overview of Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde, or natural-history museum, since its founding in the 1880s. Describes the history of the museum's building, still bomb-damaged sixty years after World War II, and the evolution of its extensive collection.

Langston, Nancy. "Floods and Landscapes in the Inland West." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 99–121. Studies how different groups of people, including staff, ranchers, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, responded to flooding at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

LaPierre, Seth, and René H. Germain. "Forestland Parcelization in the New York City Watershed." Journal of Forestry 103 (April/May 2005): 139–45. Examines the degree of parcelization on private forestland in four of the five counties within the Catskill/Delaware systems of the New York City Watershed between 1984 and 2000, with a focus on how changes in land use and development on private land threaten the quality of New York City's water supply.

Laughman, Jenny, and Lanny Freeman. "Four Generations Take Turns Harvesting, Managing Jewell Forestland." Forest Log 75 (January Winter 2005): 14–15. Story of the Olstedt family's history, from the early twentieth to the early twenty-first century, of harvesting land at Deep Creek near what used to be Jewell, Oregon.

Le Coq, J. F., G. Trébuil, and M. Dufumier. "History of Rice Production in the Mekong Delta." In Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard and David Henley. Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2004. 163–85. Explores the dramatic growth in rice production in Vietnam, especially the Mekong Delta, following the 1989 launch of the country's economic liberalization policy. Argues that the success of the policy is partly due to pre-existing local social and agricultural conditions dating back to the eighteenth century.

Loucks, Barbara Allen, and Christopher A. Nadareski. "Back From the Brink." New York State Conservationist 59 (April 2005): 19–23. Describes the remarkable comeback of New York's peregrine falcon population, decimated by the early 1960s, since restitution programs began in the 1980s.

Lu, W. "China's Growing Role in World Timber Trade." Unasylva 55 (4 2004): 27–31. Explores China's role as an increasingly important player in the world timber trade, examining data on the growth of the country's wood processing industry from 1993 to 2003.

Lucas, Adam Robert. "Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe." Technology and Culture 46 (January 2005): 1–30. Questions the thesis espoused by scholars like Marc Bloch that an industrial revolution occurred in Europe during the Middle Ages, citing precursors to medieval European industrial uses of waterpower in the Roman Empire, China, and Islamic countries.

Luke, Timothy W. "Collective Action and the Eco Subpolitical: Revisiting Bill McKibben and The End of Nature." Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 202–6. Part of a symposium revisiting Bill McKibben's 1989 book The End of Nature, noted for its warning about the onset of global warming, fifteen years after its publication. Provides a critical appreciation of McKibben's work, while highlighting the obstructional power of technological and institutional forces in the subpolitical organization of production and consumption in blocking individually based environmental improvements.

Margulis, Lynn. "Jointed Threads." Natural History 114 (June 2005): 28–32. Discusses the work of Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), a Philadelphia naturalist and the first scientist to describe symbiotic bacteria in their natural habitat, living in the intestines of animals. In the wake of the 2001 U.S. terrorist attacks, microbiological analyses have linked the bacteria with anthrax.

Martignoni, Jimena. "Bogotá Dresses in Green: The Transformation of a Latin American Metropolis." Landscape Architecture 95 (March 2005): 104–11. Discusses efforts begun in 1997 to control growth and reverse the decline of Bogotá, Colombia, by investing in public space, after a 1993–1996 environmental study showed direct connections between the degraded natural environment and deteriorating quality of life.

Martignoni, Jimena. "Restoring a Latin Landmark." Landscape Architecture 95 (February 2005): 106–13. Describes the 2004 restoration of el Jardín Xerofítico, an historic garden in Parque del Este, a public park in downtown Caracas, Venezuela. The park, completed in 1963, is now known as a model for Latin American urban landscapes. Provides a history of the park's establishment in the 1950s and 1960s.

Martin, Frank Edgerton. "Updating Olmsted: Preserving Detroit's Belle Isle Park for Learning, Life, and Nature." Landscape Architecture 95 (March 2005): 66 74. Describes early twenty-first century efforts to restore and preserve Detroit's Belle Isle Park, a 982-acre island attraction first designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1883. Provides a history of and current plans for park improvements.

McCafferty, Michael. "Where did Jean Nicollet Meet the Winnebago in 1634?: A Critique of Robert L. Hall's 'Rethinking Jean Nicollet's Route to the Ho-Chunks in 1634'." Ontario History 96 (Autumn 2004): 170–82. Uses geographic, linguistic, and documentary evidence to suggest that instead of meeting the Winnebago near present-day Chicago, as archaeologist Robert Hall has suggested, Jean Nicollet encountered them in 1634 on the southwestern shores of Lake Superior.

McCalman, Janet. "'All Just Melted With Heat': Mothers, Babies, and 'Hot Winds' in Colonial Melbourne." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 104–15. Examines infant mortality and climate adaptation among colonial immigrants to the southeastern seaboard of Australia primarily during the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

McCann, James C. "West Africa's Colonial Fungus: Globalization and Science at the End of Empire, 1949–2000." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 143–61. Uses the 1949–1950s West African "American rust" outbreak, or the destruction of vital maize crops by the fungus Puccinia sorghi, to examine the nature of science, political ecology, and globalization of power at the end of Europe's formal global empires and the beginning of the postcolonial world.

McDaniel, Josh, and Vanessa Casanova. "Forest Management and the H2B Guest Worker Program in the Southeastern United States: An Assessmet of Contractors and Their Crews." Journal of Forestry 103 (April/May 2005): 114–19. Discusses the U.S. Department of Labor's H2B Guest Worker Program, which has supplied many of the Mexican and Central American workers filling tree-planting jobs in Southeastern states since its inception in 1986. Explores advantages, disadvantages, and potential for expansion of the program.

McDonald, Steven John. "Bringing the Classroom to the Forest." Michigan History 89 (March/April 2005): 34–44. Documents Carl Alwin Schenck's summer forestry school held in Cadillac, Michigan, during the summers of 1910–1912. Includes a brief history of Schenck's career at the Biltmore Forestry School in North Carolina, his firing in 1909, and subsequent formation of a "traveling" forestry school, hosted in the 1910s by the Cummer-Diggins logging company in Cadillac.

McDowell, Marta. "Verdant Letters: Hawthorne and Horticulture." Arnoldia 63 (3 2005): 28–33. Explores author Nathaniel Hawthorne's fascination with horticulture in both his life and his mid-nineteenth-century writings.

McIntosh, Phyllis. "Pictures Worth a Thousand Acres." National Parks 79 (Spring 2005): 30–35. Explores the role of artists and photographers in advocating for the national parks, including the photography of William Henry Jackson from the U.S. Geological Survey expedition of 1871, the renowned painters of the Hudson River School, and Ansel Adams' mid-twentieth century use of photography to protest the development of wild areas.

McLeish, Todd. "Field Work: Uncovering the Secrets of New England's Stone Walls with Robert Thorson." Northern Woodlands 12 (Spring 2005): 34–35. Describes geologist Robert Thorson's work with with New England's historic stone walls, built beginning in the 1600s but primarily between 1750 and 1850. Thorson, an advocate for stone wall appreciation, preservation, and education since the 1980s, argues that the walls play a key role in bringing together land conservationists and historians.

McMichael, Tony. "Climate Change and Human Health: Looking Backwards, Planning Forwards." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 141–49. Explores the interconnections between climate and human health from 400 BC through the end of the twentieth century. Argues that as the global environment increasingly suffers from the effects of human domination, more interdisciplinary attention will need to be paid to direct and indirect threats to human health caused by climate change.

McNeill, J. R. "Yellow Jack and Geopolitics: Environment, Epidemics, and the Struggles for Empire in the American Tropics, 1650–1900." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 193–206. Examines the yellow fever epidemic in the American tropics caused by the sugar revolution. Attempts to join ecological and epidemiological history to international and military competition in the context of imperialist struggles between European and American interests, seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries.

McSwain, James B. "Urban Government and Environmental Policies: Regulating the Storage and Distribution of Fuel Oil in Houston, Texas, 1901–1915." The Journal of Southern History 71 (May 2005): 279–320. Examines Houston, Texas from 1900–1915 in the context of the oil boom on the Texas Gulf Coast, in particular the city's pioneering role in the production and utilization of fuel oil. Illustrates how southern cities devised policies to regulate a potentially dangerous new fuel supply and its consumption.

Miner, Curtis. "And They're Off!: Pennsylvania's Horse Racing Tradition." Pennsylvania Heritage 31 (Spring 2005): 26–35. History of horse racing in Pennsylvania, from colonial times through the 2004 winning streak of Smarty Jones, foaled in Chester County.

Minteer, Ben A., and Robert E. Manning. "An Appraisal of the Critique of Anthropocentrism and Three Lesser Known Themes in Lynn White's 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis'." Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 163–76. Critically appraises the essay "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis" by Lynn White, Jr., first published in 1967 and since considered a cornerstone in environmental studies literature. Explores how research in the natural and social sciences and environmental humanities since the 1960s challenges many of White's key assumptions and claims.

Monte, Mike. "When Horses Ruled Northwoods Skidding: A Former Logger Reminisces About a Different Way of Working." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor (April 2005): 28–31, 36. The author's reminiscences of logging and skidding with horses in northwest Wisconsin from 1965 to 1980, before the widespread adoption of mechanized methods.

Moran, Eugene V. "Ernest Hemingway in the Sunlight Basin of Wyoming." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Winter 2005): 28–32. Description of the visits between 1928 and 1939 of Ernest Hemingway and his family to the L-T Ranch, an invitational dude ranch on the Clark's Fork near Cody, Wyoming. Hemingway drew inspiration from and did much writing on his sojourns at the ranch.

Morsman, Jenry. "Securing America: Jefferson's Fluid Plans for the Western Perimeter." In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 45–83. Examines Thomas Jefferson's concerns over geopolitics when he took over as president at the turn of the nineteenth century. Looks in particular at his plans, of which the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition was part, to put commerce in the service of national defense on the western perimeter of the United States through the effective management of Indian trade.

Munger, Pat. "Grand Marais: Nature in Abundance." Michigan History 89 (March/April 2005): 5–9. History of Grand Marais, Michigan, on Lake Superior, since its first appearance on the map in 1744. Details the three "booms" in the city's past: the nineteenth-century lumbering boom, the following commercial fishing boom, and the tourism boom that began in the 1970s with the preservation of lakeshore land and historic buildings by the National Park Service.

National Woodlands. "Forest Service Celebrates 100 Years of Service." National Woodlands 28 (April 2005): 10–12. Description of 2005 events and projects celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States Forest Service in 1905, including The Centennial Congress held in Washington, DC on January 4–6 and the release of "The Greatest Good" documentary, which explores the history of the Forest Service.

NC State. "Out of the Woods: Home Depot's Merchandising Mastermind." NC State 77 (Spring 2005): 33. Describes the efforts of Ron Jarvis, vice president of merchandising for Home Depot, to improve the corporation's environmental practices in response to activists' claims in the 1990s that it was destroying forests and endangered regions. Provides overview of Jarvis' career from 1985 through 2004.

Nelson, David. "Belated Honors." New York State Conservationist 59 (April 2005): 26–28. Brief account of the career of Thomas McNeely Walker, 1903–1978, and his contributions to New York State's fish conservation efforts.

Nepyivoda, Vasyl. "Forestry in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone: Wrestling with an Invisible Rival." Journal of Forestry 103 (January/February 2005): 36–40. Examines the work of "Chornobyl Forest," an enterprise responsible for forestry management within the Exclusion Zone, the area most contaminated by the 1986 accident at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear power plant near Kiev, Ukraine. Explores the effects of the accident on surrounding forests, and the unique forestry knowledge accumulated in the two decades since about forest management under massive radiation impacts.

Nicandri, David L. "The Columbia Country and the Dissolution of Meriwether Lewis: Speculation and Interpretation." Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Spring 2005): 6–33. Examines the psychological effects of Meriwether Lewis' 1805–1806 experiences in the Pacific Northwest, arguing that this period marked a turning point that ultimately led to Lewis' presumed suicide in 1809.

Nicandri, David L. "Lewis and Clark: Exploring Under the Influence of Alexander Mackenzie." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Fall 2004): 171–181. Examines the imperial and literary contexts surrounding the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition, focusing on the work of Alexander Mackenzie. Argues that Mackenzie's explorations in support of British commercial interests in 1789 and 1793, and his narrative published in 1801, served as a methodological and literary model for Lewis and Clark.

Nicholls, Neville. "Climatic Outlooks: From Revolutionary Science to Orthodoxy." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 18–29 pp. Describes the gradual acceptance of the El NiDo phenomenon into Australia's meteorological mainstream from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century. Provides a brief history of Australian climatology and explores the affects of El NiDo events in the 1877–1878, 1982, 1997–1998, and 2002 on the development of the science of climate prediction.

Ober, Michael J. "Icy Reconnaissance: The Discovery of Pumpelly Glacier." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Winter 2004): 58–66. Explores the 1873 discovery by U.S. Army Lieutenant John Van Orsdale, and 1883 re-discovery by geologist Raphael Pumpelly, of Pumpelly Glacier, Montana's first glacier and the modern site of Glacier National Park.

Oliver, Christopher. "The Treadmill of Production Under NAFTA." Environment and Society 18 (March 2005 ): 55–71. Illustrates the role of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) since its 1994 establishment in the undermining of government attempts to regulate environmental conditions and public health. Argues that multilateral trade agreements (MTAs) can be indirectly implicated in the processes that lead to environmental disorganization.

Outka, Paul. "(De)composing Whitman." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.1 (Winter 2005): 41–60. Explores Walt Whitman's nineteenth-century vision of the natural world as exhibited through his writing, characterizing it as particularly urban, transitional, and restless.

Ozinga, S. "Time To Measure the Impacts of Certification on Sustainable Forest Management." Unasylva 55 (4 2004): 33–38. Evaluates the concept and methods of forest certification in the United States ten years after its development in 1993.

Palmer, Scott. "Why Go Straight? Stepping Out with Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and Edward Thomas' The Icknield Way." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12 (Winter 2005): 1150129. Explores the act of walking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century writings of Henry David Thoreau and Edward Thomas, on whom Thoreau was a powerful influence, as essential to the process of understanding and communicating with the natural world.

Parham, Claire. "The St. Lawrence Seaway: A Bi-National Political Marathon, A Local and State Initiative." New York History 85 (Summer 2004): 359–85. Describes the intense political debate between 1895 and the 1950s over the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, a waterway constructed 1954–1958 between Lake Ontario and Montreal, linking U.S. industrial hubs on the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Argues that the debate illustrated the transition of the United States and Canada from isolationist nations to post-World War II democratic superpowers.

Parkes, Graham. "Nietzsche's Environmental Philosophy: A Trans-European Perspective." Environmental Ethics 27 (Spring 2005): 77–91. Explores the implications of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) for environmental ethics, in particular his understandings of optimal human relations to the natural world.

Parkhurst, Gregory M., and Jason F. Shogren. "An Economic Review of Incentive Mechanisms to Protect Species on Private Lands." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason F. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 66–27. Examines from an economics perspective a variety of incentive mechanisms used since the 1973 passage of the Engangered Species Act for species protection on private lands. Argues that to be successful, incentives should encourage landowners to practice good stewardship.

Parry, William T. "The Mill Creek Canyon Wooden Pipelines." Journal of the West 43 (Fall 2004): 58–65. Discusses the use and construction of wooden hydroelectric pipelines in mountain areas of Utah, especially the Mill Creek Canyon Pipelines built in the early twentieth century by the Mill Creek Power Company.

Parsons, Ronald, Jr. "California Energy Choices." Journal of the West 44 (Winter 2005): 55–61. Brief overview of the development of alternative energies in California since the 1973 oil shock, including geothermal, biomass, wind power, and solar energy, in light of 2001's energy crisis. Discusses factors that have created the popular misconception that these sources were failures in changing state and national power paradigms.

Patakfalvi, Zsolt. "Norampac: Red Rock Division Proudly Looks to the Future with a Co-operative Town Spirit that Ensures Success." Pulp & Paper Canada 106 (April 2005): 15–17. Historical sketch of the township of Red Rock in northern Ontario, Canada, a paper-industry community since the 1940s.

Penland, Shea. "Taming the River to Let In the Sea." Natural History 114 (February 2005): 42–47. Discusses coastal land loss in Louisiana as a result of hundreds of years of natural resource exploitation and modifications to the flow of the Mississippi River. Includes overview of flood control in the area since the early 19th century, and efforts to combat land loss during the 1980s and 1990s.

Perryman, B. L., et al. "Range Readiness is an Obsolete Management Tool." Rangelands 27 (April 2005): 36–41. Critically evaluates the practice of range readiness, or identifying the precise point in spring at which plants have developed beyond grazing animals' ability to detrimentally affect them. Tracks its development as a range management practice since the early twentieth century, arguing that it has become outdated and damages natural resources.

Pite, Rebekah E. "The Force of Food: Life on the Atkins Family Sugar Plantation in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1884–1900." Massachusetts Historical Review 3 (2005): 58 93. Historical overview of the Atkins family's late nineteenth-century sugar operations, led by Edwin F. Atkins, at Soledad Plantation near the city of Cienfuegos on the southern coast of Cuba. Argues that disputes over food between managers and laborers at Soledad reflected the political, social, and economic changes drastically affecting the amount of food on the plantation and in the country as a whole; Atkins' business acumen and strict management of food production and provisioning ensured the estate's survival.

Platt, Carolyn V. "'Three Cheers for the Cracker Line!': William Gates Le Duc and the Relief of Chattanooga." Timeline 22 (April–June 2005): 36–49. Examines efforts led by Lieutenant Colonel William Le Duc to equip and transport Confederate armies during the 1863 seige of Chattanooga, Tennessee during the Civil War. Describes how Le Duc seized and established sawmills to keep the army supplied with lumber.

Platz, Lorraine. "The Backtracks of High Wheel Logging." Tall Timber Short Lines 77 (Winter 2005): 31–37. Account of the invention and use of high logging wheels in the late nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest.

Preston, Christopher J., and Steven H. Corey. "Public Health and Environmentalism: Adding Garbage to the History of Environmental Ethics." Environmental Ethics 27 (Spring 2005): 3–21. Explores the story of garbage and sanitation in North American urban areas, primarily New York City, during the nineteenth century. Argues that it should be given a more central role in the history of North American environmental philosophy.

Prewitt, Kenneth. "A Nation Imagined, A Nation Measured: The Jeffersonian Legacy." In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 132–18 . Highlights Thomas Jefferson's often-overlooked accomplishment of conducting the first modern census in world history as Secretary of State in 1790, and the conflicted legacy of that measurement.

Quivik, Frederic L. "New Deal Oasis on the High Plains." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Winter 2004): 69–74. Describes Fort Peck, Montana, a town built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide housing and community for workers who flocked to the area for the 1933 New Deal construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Little remains of the town in the early twenty-first century.

Redclift, Michael. "'A Convulsed and Magic Country': Tourism and Resource Histories in the Mexican Caribbean." Environment and History 11 (February 2005): 83–97. Explores the role of space in social relations, using the case of the development beginning in the 1920s of the Mexican Caribbean coast into an area for mass tourism. Argues that rather than having been an empty space prior to its "discovery," much of the area played an important role in the global economy. Traces exploration of the region back to the mid-nineteenth century.

Rehder, John B. "Hensley, Kentucky: A Twentieth-Century Pioneer Folk Settlement." Material Culture 37 (Spring 2005): 107–39. Historical sketch of Hensley, Kentucky, a twentieth-century pioneer folk settlement located in Bell County and as of 2001, part of the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park.

Reichwein, PearlAnn. "Holiday at the Banff School of Fine Arts: The Cinematic Production of Culture, Nature, and Nation in the Canadian Rockies, 1945–1952." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Winter 2005): 49–69. Explores the Canadian Film Board's 1945–1952 production of Holiday at School, a documentary about the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, as an expression of the construction of liberal democratic Canadian citizenship after World War II. Argues that the Banff school and Banff National Park promoted Canadian nation-building by serving as a symbolic landscape for leisure and tourism consumption.

Rennie, Richard. "The Historical Origins of an Industrial Disaster: Occupational Health and Labour Relations at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933–1945." Labour/Le Travail 55 (Spring 2005): 107–42. Explores the historical origins of an industrial disaster that caused the deaths of some 200 workers who contracted silicosis and lung cancer from working in the fluorspor mines, on the remote south coast of Newfoundland, 1930s–1970s. Examines the struggles of St. Lawrence miners to have workplace health hazards addressed and the corporate responses to those efforts, with special attention to the period from 1939 to 1942.

Replinger, Peter J. "Hama Hama Logging Company." Tall Timber Short Lines 77 (Winter 2005): 10–30. History of the Hama Hama Logging Company, founded in 1922 on the Hood Canal near Eldon, Washington, and its railroad logging operations in the region.

Reuss, Martin. "The Development of American Water Resources: Planners, Politicians, and Constitutional Interpretation." In Managing Water Resources Past and Present: The Linacre Lectures 2002, edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 51–71. Examines the effects of social and political values and governmental institutions on water resource development throughout American history.

Rhoden, Laura Barbas. "Greening Central American Literature." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12 (Winter 2005): 1 17. Explores environmental consciousness in Central American literature, particularly two novels from the 1990s: La Loca de Gandoca by Anacristina Rossi (1992), and Waslala by Gioconda Belli (1996). Looks at the novels' depictions of environmental struggles in developing regions and the links between ecological awareness and social justice.

Ring, Ray. "Where Were the Environmentalists When Libby Needed Them Most?" High Country News 37 (February 21 2005): 8–13, 19. Story of environmental and human-health disaster in Libby, Montana, where more than 1,500 residents are suffering or have died from asbestos-related ailments, and the inadequate response of government agencies and environmentalists. Libby residents began to get sick in the 1960s due to exposure from a vermiculite mine on nearby Zonolite Mountain, which operated from 1924 to 1990. Argues that this example calls into question the overall health of the environmental movement.

Risjord, Norman K. "From the Plow to the Cow: William D. Hoard and America's Dairyland." Wisconsin Magazine of History (Spring 2005): 40–49. Account of the efforts of William Dempster Hoard, businessman and later governor of Wisconsin, to promote the dairy industry in the state from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Robbins, Paul, and April Luginbuhl. "The Last Enclosure: Resisting Privatization of Wildlife in the Western United States." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (March 2005): 45–61. Examines efforts to privatize public wildlife in the United States in the context of changing political economy of the west, especially the Elk economy of Montana. Shows the ways in which labor and nature resist efforts at enclosure. Discusses the history of enclosure in the west since the nineteenth century.

Robin, Libby. "Migrants and Nomads: Seasonal Zoological Knowledge in Australia." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 42–53. Reviews migratory and nomadic strategies of birds in Australia in relation to seasons, and reflects on how such avian strategies might have implications for the ways settler societies live with climatic variability, as well as for Australia's position in the global discourse. Describes efforts since the mid-eighteenth century by naturalists and ornithologists to understand bird behavior.

Roeder, James A. "The One Hundred and Second Congress and the Niobrara Scenic River: Old Arguments, New Compromises." Nebraska History 85 (Fall 2004): 116–25. Describes the late-twentieth century debate over the designation of Nebraska's Niobrara River as a federal scenic river, situating it within the larger conflict in western history between those who view natural resources as an asset to be exploited, and those who believe it should be protected for its inherent value.

Roise, Charlene K. "When the Last Siren Wails." Landscape Architecture 95 (April 2005): 118–23. History and endangered status of the iron ore docks at Agate Bay, Minnesota, the first of which was put into service in 1884. Addresses questions of what will happen to obsolescent nineteenth-century industrial landscapes across the country.

Rose, Deborah. "Rhythms, Patters, Connectivities: Indigenous Concepts of Seasons and Change." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 32–41. Explores Aboriginal understandings of ecology, weather, and climate change on the Australian continent, advocating cross-cultural dialogue with western science.

Ryan, J. C. "Loggers of the Past: 'Early Fire Control'." Timber Bulletin 61 (March/April 2005): 26–29. Reprinted from a fall 1976 issue of the Timber Bulletin. Recounts the history of fires and early fire control efforts in northern Minnesota, 1840s–1930s.

Saxman, Michelle C. "To Better Oneself: Sully County's African-American 'Colony'." South Dakota History 34 (Winter 2004): 319–28. Describes the history of an African-American community that developed in the 1880s in Sully County, South Dakota (partially as a result of the Homestead Act of 1862), through its decline in the 1960s.

Schank, Susan Staves. "Nah ne bah wee qua (Standing Upright Woman) and Native Land Rights." Ontario History 96 (Autumn 2004): 109–15. Describes the efforts of Catherine Brown, a.k.a. Standing Upright Woman, during the nineteenth century to resist government plans to relocate all natives living in Southern Ontario to Manitoulin Island.

Schnell, Steven M., et al. "Old West & New West in Garden Park, Colorado." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Winter 2004): 32–47. Explores the shift throughout the American West from commodity-producing landscapes to those focused on aesthetics and recreation, using Garden Park, a small valley in central Colorado, as a case study. University of Kansas geography field school students investigated the viability of ranching in Garden Park in the 1970s, and the valley was reexamined in 2001.

Schulten, Susan. "How to See Colorado: The Federal Writers' Project, American Regionalism, and the 'Old New Western History.'" Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 2005): 49–70. Examines travel guide for Colorado created by the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project. Highlights the state's geographic and cultural distance from the national editorial office, resulting in remarkable differences between local and national views of Colorado and the American West.

Scott, George W. "The Culmination of the Great Columbia Power War: The CVA, Governor Arthur B. Langlie and Eisenhower's 'Partnership'." Journal of the West 44 (Winter 2005): 27–37. Discusses political and ideological struggles over control of hydroelectric power resources on the Columbia River during the early-to-mid-twentieth century.

Seefeldt, Douglas. "Creating Kearny: Forging a Historical Identity for a Central Arizona Mining Community." Arizona History 46 (Spring 2005): 1–32. Examines Kearny, Arizona, a mining company town converted to private ownership in the 1950s, as reflective of the climate of Arizona's mining industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Analyzes the shaping of historical identity and the subjective nature of public memory in the rise and decline of communities.

Seefeldt, Douglas. "Oñate's Foot: Histories, Landscapes, and Contested Memories in the Southwest." In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 169–209. Explores late twentieth-early twenty-first century controversies surrounding the interpretation of the sixteenth-century colonization of the American Southwest, especially the making of public memories, landscapes, and identities, and the need to create histories that capture the complexity of the Southwest's cultural heritage. Encourages combining academic study of history with public history to embrace the fluidity of the past and the constructed nature of historical interpretation.

Shea, Lois R. "Losing Ground, or Keeping Pace?" Forest Notes (Spring 2005): 2–8. Results of a 2005 Forest Society report detailing the extent, impact, and future trends of rapid growth and population increase in New Hampshire. Provides a brief history of human impact on open space and natural resources in the state since the 1700s.

Sheldrick, Janis. "Goyder's Line: The Unreliable History of the Line of Reliable Rainfall." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 56–65. Explores the life and work of George Woodroffe Goyder, Surveyor-General of South Australia from 1861 to 1894. Goyder's studies of rainfall variability resulted in what became known as "Goyder's Line," a feature of maps marking the border at which rainfall became too great to sustain European-style agriculture.

Sheley, Chuck. "Interviews with Smokejumpers from the 1940s." Smokejumper 46 (January 2005): 42–47. Short interviews conducted by the author at the 2005 National Smokejumper Reunion in Missoula, Montana, with men who served as pioneer smokejumpers during the 1940s.

Sherratt, Tim. "Human Elements." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 1–17. Overview of and introduction to a series of essays on the history of human interactions with climate and weather in Australia. Discusses the ways in which Australians throughout history have learned to understand and live with the country's notoriously variable climate.

Shogren, Jason F. "Introduction." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason F. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 1–22. Introduction to a series of essays on the challenges of and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting endangered species found on private lands. Provides and overview of the book and discusses the role of economics in the enforcement of the Engangered Species Act since its passage in 1973.

Shogren, Jason F., Rodney B. W. Smith, and John Tschirhart. "The Role of Private Information in Designing Conservation Incentives for Property Owners." In Species at Risk: Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands, edited by Jason A. Shogren. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 217–32. Explores how information asymmetries between landowners and the government has affected the design of economic incentives to protect endangered species on private land. Discusses examples of contracts to protect species on private lands from 1890 through the twentieth century.

Shores, Leslie. "A Look Into the Life of Thomas Twiss, First Indian Agent at Fort Laramie." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Winter 2005): 2–12. Sketch of Thomas Twiss, a New York native who left in 1855 to serve as the first Indian agent at the Upper Platte Indian Agency in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Explores his great empathy for and defense of his Indian charges, and his relationship with well-known educator Emma Willard.

Shovers, Brian. "Diversions, Ditches, and District Courts: Montana's Struggles to Allocate Water." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Spring 2005): 2–15. Historical account of the struggles of Montana farmers, ranchers, and legislators with issues of water rights since the 1860s.

Sickels-Taves, Lauren B., and Philip D. Allsop. "Making a Mark in America: The Architectural Ingenuity of Germanic Settlers." Material Culture 37 (Spring 2005): 85–106. Examines the impact of Germanic cultures on the vernacular architecture of the United States, 17th through 20th centuries.

Smart, Alexander J., Barry Dunn, and Roger Gates. "Historical Weather Patterns: A Guide for Drought Planning." Rangelands 27 (April 2005): 10–12. Presents historical precipitation data from western South Dakota, 1909–2004, to derive expectations of drought and show how this can be used in drought planning.

Smidt, Matthew, Mark R. Dubois, and Bruno da Silveira Folegatti. "Costs and Cost Trends for Forestry Practices in the South." Forest Landowner 64 (March/April 2005): 25–31. Presents the results of a 2004 survey of cost estimates of practicing forestry in the American South, describes current costs for ten common southern forestry practices, and tracks cost changes since 1952.

Smith, M. A. "Palaeoclimates: An Archaeology of Climate Change." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 176–86. Sketch of ideas about palaeoclimates that expanded or reduced the opportunities for human settlement in Australia, from the perspective of archaeology. Encourages a long-term view of climate change.

Sober, Elliott. "Comparative Psychology Meets Evolutionary Biology: Morgan's Canon and Cladistic Parsimony." In Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 85–99. Examines the attitudes of science towards anthropomorphism, highlighting the work of nineteenth-century comparative psychologist C. Lloyd Morgan.

Sorvig, Kim. "Landscapes Below the Surface: Interpreting the Past at Pio Pico State Historic Park." Landscape Architecture 95 (March 2005): 112–23. Describes collaborative effort between landscape architects, archaeologists, and preservationists to recreate the ranch and residence of the last governor of Mexican California at Pio Pico State Historic Park in Los Angeles. Provides a brief history of the park site, at which Governor Pio de Jesús Pico IV lived from 1848 until 1892.

Sparks, Richard M. "The Old Cass Shop." Log Train 81 (February 2005): 4–16. Historical sketch of the "old" Cass locomotive shop (1922–1972), built by the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company to serve its extensive rail logging operations, including historic photographs and floor plans. The site became part of the Cass Scenic Railroad in 1962, and the shop was rebuilt in 1973.

Stanton, Lucia. "'A Little Matter': Jefferson's Moldboard of Least Resistance." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 58 (March 2005): 3–11. Describes Thomas Jefferson's efforts in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to perfect the design of the plow, or more specifically, the moldboard. While his designs were ultimately unsatisfactory in practice, his theories proved highly influential.

Sweet, Tim. "Keepers of the Flame." Wisconsin Natural Resources 29 (April 2005): 25–28. History and 2004 restoration of the 1830s Pottawatomie lighthouse and lighthouse keeper's house, and the role of the lighthouse keeper on Rock Island, Wisconsin.

Swyngedouw, Erik. "Dispossessing H₂0: The Contested Terrain of Water Privatization." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (March 2005): 81–98. Uses the privatization and de-collectivization of urban water resources around the world to consider how tactics of "accumulation by dispossession" have become central to contemporary global accumulation dynamics. Lays out different phases of the organization of urban water supply systems since the second half of the nineteenth century.

Talbert, Cheryl, and David Marshall. "Plantation Productivity in the Douglas-Fir Region Under Intensive Silvicultural Practices: Results from Research and Operations." Journal of Forestry 103 (March 2005): 65–70. Reviews major plantation silvicultural practices used in the westside Douglas-fir region of Oregon and Washington. Provides historical context of forest management in the region since it was begun by Frederick Weyerhaeuser and others in the early 1900s.

Taraborrelli, Tomás F. " The Conquest of the American Western Frontier in Sarmiento's Imaginary." Journal of the West 43 (Fall 2004): 15–23. Explores Argentine writer Faustino Sarmiento's 1847 visit to the United States. His observations of the conquest of the American West served to convince the rising Argentine liberal elite to sponsor a campaign against hostile indigenous peoples on the Argentine frontier.

Tarr, Joel A. "The Metabolism of the Industrial City." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 15–37. Explores the relationship between the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the natural environment, particularly issues relating to the resources of water, air, and land, from 1880 to 2000. Considers how the city has moved from a general lack of concern for environmental issues toward a level of sustainability.

Taylor, Alan. "Jefferson's Pacific: The Science of Distant Empire, 1768–1811." In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 16–44. Situates the 18041806 journey of Lewis and Clark within a broad international and historical context of European geographic and commercial expeditions in the Pacific. Explores how Thomas Jefferson specifically perceived and was motivated by the threat of British competition over access to the Pacific region during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Taylor, Charles A., Jr. "Prescribed Burning Cooperatives: Empowering and Equipping Ranchers to Manage Rangelands." Rangelands 27 (February 2005): 18–23. Identifies problems and opportunities related to a prescribed fire rangelands management program by ranchers on private lands in the Edwards Plateau of Texas. Provides a brief history of the use of fire in the region.

Thomas, David Hurst. "Thomas Jefferson's Conflicted Legacy in American Archaeology." In Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America, edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 84–131. Explores the conflicted legacy of Thomas Jefferson, from the 18th through 21st centuries, to the fields of American anthropology and archaeology, highlighting three themes: the role of science in territorial expansion, the inclusion of American Indians in the study of natural history, and the use of anthropological theory in state-sponsored directed cultural change experiments.

Thompson, Dennis Blake. "Remembering Bear Harbor." Tall Timber Short Lines (Spring 2005): 12–56. Illustrated history of Bear Harbor in northern Mendocino County, California, an area now referred to as "The Lost Coast." Traces the site's earliest business use a wharf in the 1880s, to railroad logging operations conducted there by the Bear Harbor Lumber Company beginning in the 1890s, abandonment in the 1910s after a series of tragic accidents, and efforts to preserve the site and equipment starting in the 1970s.

Thompson, Sally. "Historical Maps of Montana and the Stories They Tell." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Spring 2005): 65–71. Explores historical maps of Montana as representative of their makers' understanding of place, from an 1806 map created by a Nez Pearce leader for Lewis and Clark to an 1898 Rand-McNally map showing the effects of the railroad.

Thomson, Robert W. "'This Wicked Family': A Biography of the Deschamps Family of Fort Union: Their Feuds, Fights, and Violent Demise." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Winter 2004): 2–15. Sketch of the Deschamps family, among the Métis peoples employed in the nineteenth-century fur trade on the upper Missouri River near Fort Union, North Dakota. Notorious as spies and enforcers for rival fur companies, the Deschamps made a major imprint on the history of fur trading.

Thorson, Robert M. "Stone Walls Disappearing." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Winter 2005): 13–15. Overview of the history of New England's seventeenth-through nineteenth-century stone farm walls, and early twenty-first century efforts to preserve them.

Trout, Steven. "Seeing the Rattlesnake in Willa Cather's My Ántonia." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12 (Winter 2005): 99 114. Examines the scene of Jim Burden's battle with a Prairie Rattlesnake in Willa Cather's 1918 book My Ántonia as an exploration of man's separation from and incomprehension of the world of wild animals.

Tubtim, Nattaya, and Philip Hirsch. "Common Property as Enclosure: A Case Study of a Backswamp in Southern Laos." Society and Natural Resources 18 (January 2005): 41–60. Examines the enclosure of a common pool resource, a backswamp in southern Laos that has traditionally been fished by many villages but which since 1997 has been claimed exclusively by one. Explores reasons why the enclosure has caused relatively little conflict.

Ulloa, Astrid, Heidi Rubio-Torgler, and Claudia Campos-Rozo. "Conceptual Basis for the Selection of Wildlife Management Strategies by the Embera People in Utría National Park, Chocó, Colombia." In People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America, edited by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, and José M. V. Fragoso. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 11–36. Examines wildlife protection areas in Colombia, particularly those that overlap with indigenous territories. Focuses on the ongoing process of reaching an agreement on wildlife management strategies in the overlap zone, 1980s through 2000s.

Van Driel, Hugo, and Johan Schot. "Radical Innovation as a Multilevel Process: Introducing Floating Grain Elevators in the Port of Rotterdam." Technology and Culture 46 (January 2005): 51–76. Examines the rapid mechanization of the process of unloading grain at the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands in the early twentieth century. Argues that a multilevel model is necessary for explaining radical technological change.

VanDeMark, Suzanne McDaniel. "From Barge Canal to Heritage Corridor." Landscape Architecture 95 (January 2005): 24–33. Describes the establishment of the Erie Canal Heritage Corridor, with special attention to Tonawandas Gateway Harbor Park in Tonawanda, New York, completed in 1998. Provides a history of the Erie Canal from the early nineteenth century.

Vannijnatten, Debora L. "Canadian-American Environmental Relations: Interoperability and Politics." American Review of Canadian Studies 34 (Winter 2004): 649–64. Argues that despite tensions in other areas of the Canada-United States relationship in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the "environmental interoperability" between the two countries has actually expanded during this period.

Viani, Lisa Owens. "Where The River Came Last." Landscape Architecture 95 ( February 2005): 46–55. Explores issues surrounding the Guadalupe River Flood Control Project, begun in the early 1990s in San Jose, California. The project was derailed by environmental groups in the mid-1990s for its emphasis on recreation and park aesthetics over the natural flow of the river.

von Petz, Ursula. "The Environmental Transformation of the Ruhr." In City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History, edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 52–76. Examines the history of industrialization, regional planning, and environmentalism in the Ruhr region of Germany from the mid-nineteenth century through the 2000s.

Walker, David. "The Curse of the Tropics." In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, and Libby Rodin. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005 : 92–101. Explores changing perceptions of the tropics of Northern Australia as an area for settlement by white Europeans from the 1900s to the 1950s. Includes discussion of scientific ideas about the relationship between climate and racial character from the mid-nineteenth century.

Wallaert, Josh. "The Ecopoetics of Perfection: William Carlos Williams and Nature in Spring and All." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.1 (Winter 2005): 79–98. Examines William Carlos Williams' 1923 Spring and All as a work of environmental ethics that predicts early twentieth-century post-structuralism. Suggests that Williams' ecopoetics can contribute to a better understanding of how language shapes the relationship between humans and their environment.

Wellock, Thomas. "Atomic Power in the West." Journal of the West 44 (Winter 2005): 45–54. Reviews some of the regional barriers to the construction of atomic power in the West, general problems faced by the industry, and the prospect of new technological innovations in the wake of California's 2001 energy crisis. Discusses public reaction to nuclear power issues since the 1950s.

Wetherell, Donald Grant. "Making New Identities: Alberta Small Towns Confront the City, 1900–1950." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Winter 2005): 175–97. Studies how town corporate identity was constructed in response to the challenge of the city between 1900 and 1950, based on a sample of nine towns.

White, Paul S. "The Experimental Animal in Victorian Britain." In Thinking With Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Lorraine Daston and Gregg Mitman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 59–81. Examines the emergence of the experimental animal and resulting changes in human-animal relationships in British Victorian society, linked with the professionalization of the life sciences and the rise of the laboratory.

Williams, Ted. "Something's Fishy." Audubon 107 (May–June 2005): 26–35. Explores the early twenty-first century political context surrounding fish hatcheries in the United States and the dangers of using them as substitutes for protecting habitat. Provides historical background since the early twentieth century.

Williams, Ted. "That Sinking Feeling." Audubon 107 (March/April 2005): 42–50. Discusses the environmental impacts of and responses to longwall mining, a destructive coal extraction method begun in the 1970s, in southwestern Pennsylvania. Longwalling causes the ground to cave in dramatically, damaging or destroying structures and wildlife habitats.

Wolski, Kathleen, and William Wawrzyn. "River on the Rebound: Restoring the Lifeblood that Flows Through the Heart of Milwaukee." Wisconsin Natural Resources 29 (April 2005): 20–24. Describes the role of the Milwaukee River in the city's history from the early nineteenth century, and an early twenty-first century project to clean and restore the river and surrounding neighborhoods.

Wood, Paul M. "Intergenerational Justice and Curtailments on the Discretionary Powers of Governments." Environmental Ethics 26 (Winter 2004): 411–28. Challenges the assumption traditionally made by governments that they possess full discretionary policy-making powers over the lands and waters within their geopolitical boundaries, arguing that short-term benefits should be weighed against long-term effects on biodiversity.

Woodside, Christine. "Facing Up to Development in the Age of Diminishing Forests and the Realities of the American Marketplace." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Winter 2005): 8–12. Evaluation of the effects of development on the Connecticut landscape since 1950 and assessment of the need for an possibilities of "smart growth" in the state.

Woodside, Christine. "Pleasure — For Whom? — On Pleasure Beach." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Spring 2005): 10–13. Examines the history and prospects of Pleasure Beach, a former amusement park off the coast of Bridgeport, Connecticut that enjoyed its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s. The park is essentially abandoned as of 2005, but proposals are being made to rehabilitate the area for a new amusement park, causeway, wildlife refuge, or other purpose.

Woolworth, Stephen. "'The Warring Boards': Sanitary Regulation and the Control of Infectious Disease in the Seattle Public Schools, 1892–1900." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Winter 2004/2005): 14–23. Examines how public health regulations of sanitation and infectious disease control in the Seattle public schools was achieved at the end of the 19th century through jurisdictional disputes between the boards of health and education. Looks at the context of the development of self-governance in Seattle, urban modernization, and efforts to establish social order through regulation.

Worthley, Tom. "Forester's Notes: Managing What's Left of the Fragmented Forest." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Winter 2005): 21–21. Brief historical overview of human interactions with forests in Connecticut since pre-settlement times, stressing that the resiliency of forest cover can no longer be assumed.

Wuerthner, George. "Spotty Coverage: Vegetation, Grazing and the Media." Forest Magazine 7 (Spring 2005): 44–47. Using a 2004 report about the long-term effects of grazing in the Great Basin as an example, examines local and regional media bias in reporting negatively on what are perceived to be locally important economic interests. The study on which the media reports were based concluded that grazing has done little to no harm to Great Basin ecosystems since the 1930s; the author argues for alternative interpretations of the research findings.

Yearley, Steven. "The 'End' or the 'Humanization' of Nature?" Organization & Environment 18 (June 2005): 198–201. Part of a symposium celebrating and critically revisiting Bill McKibben's 1989 book The End of Nature, noted for its warning about the onset of global warming, fifteen years after its publication. Argues that McKibben's work offers a fresh basis and phenomenology for social scientific research, which has sufferred from a narrowing of focus.

Yochim, Michael J. "Kayaking Playground or Nature Preserve?: Whitewater Boating Conflicts in Yellowstone National Park." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Spring 2005): 52–64. Explores the late twentieth-century controversy over whether to allow whitewater boating in Yellowstone National Park, as representative of the Park Service's struggle to determine what forms of recreation are appropriate in the parks. Provides a history of boating in Yellowstone since the 1870s.

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