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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY (fhs) maintains an extensive computerized data bank of published sources related to environmental history. The biblioscope section of this journal includes just a selection of the new information that the fhs library adds to that data bank each quarter. The library indexes all entries in the data bank by topic, chronological period, and geographical area. The library staff will gladly provide additional information about particular items you see in this section or information on other topics from the data bank. The library is happy to respond to requests for full bibliographies or lists of archival collections that may be useful for specific research projects. The unabridged version of this Biblioscope is available on our website at http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Publications/EH/ehbiblio.html.

The compiler also welcomes information about relevant publications that the staff may have missed, including books, theses, and dissertations. The compiler particularly welcomes photocopies of relevant articles. The use of brackets in the following citations indicates that although the publication did not include the information, the compiler has added it.

Contact us by mail at Biblioscope, Forest History Society, 701 Wm. Vickers Avenue, Durham NC 27701 USA, or by telephone at 919/682-9319.

BOOKS

Agnoletti, Mauro, et al., eds. History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005. Florence: Istituto di Studi sulle Societa del Mediterraneo—CNR; Universita de Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali e Forestali; European Society for Environmental History, 2005. 335 pp. References. Collects edited and revised versions of some of the papers presented at the third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, held in Florence, Italy in February of 2005. Papers deal with a wide range of subjects, including agriculture, climate, forests, conservation, urban environment, pollution, water resources, and wildlife—all focused on the notion of sustainability.

Anderson, Rolf, ed. We Had An Objective In Mind: The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest, 1905 to 2005: A Centennial Anthology. Portland, Ore.: Pacific Northwest Forest Service Association, 2005. x+571 pp. Illustrations, index. $16.00. Collection of more than three hundred first-person stories providing personal insight into the development of the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon and Washington, 1905–2005. Includes narratives chronicling early Ranger experiences, the Civilian Conservation Corps, natural disasters, and the evolu-tion of multiple-use management from World War II to the twenty-first century.

Moore, Roberta, and Scott Slovic, eds. Wild Nevada: Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xiii+171 pp. Maps. $15.95. Testimonies from twenty-nine writers on the often-overlooked but threatened beauty, wilderness, and cultural resources of Nevada's backcountry.

Alderman, LeAnna, and Eleanor Mahoney. Above the Smoke: A Family Album of Pocahontas County Fire Towers. Dunmore, W.V.: Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, 2005. 128 pp. Illustrations, map. $12.00. Oral histories from the men and women who worked the fire lookout towers in West Virginia's Pocahontas County, a wooded, mountainous community in the eastern Allegheny highlands, from 1915 to 1980. Examines the history, development, and key role of lookouts in suppressing and preventing forest fires.

Anderson, Katharine. Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x+331 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, index. $45.00. Analysis of the history of weather forecasting in mid-nineteenth-century Victorian Britain. Considering a variety of evidence including that from institutions, popular almanacs, statistics, astrology, and government records, uses the social context of weather forecasting to illuminate the history of the development of scientific disciplines, and vice versa.

Anderson, Terry L., and Peter J. Hill. The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2004. xii+263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.94. Examines America's frontier history from the perspective of the new institutional economics by looking at the social institutions, especially property rights, that people created for mutual benefit in the nineteenth century. Emphasizes cooperation over conflict on the American frontier.

Barles, Sabine. L'Invention des Déchets Urbains: France: 1790–1970. Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2005. 297 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. 25,00 EUR. "The Invention of Urban Waste, France: 1790–1970." Text in French. Examines the nature, production, and management of urban waste in French cities, particularly Paris, late eighteenth through twentieth centuries, arguing that the invention of urban waste is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Bermingham, Eldredge, Christopher W. Dick, and Craig Moritz, eds. Tropical Rainforests: Past, Present, and Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. vii+745 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, references, index. $45.00. Essays from more than sixty contributors examining the effects of evolutionary histories, climate change, and ecological dynamics on the origin and maintenance of tropical rainforests. Includes perspectives from paleoecology, climatology, geology, molecular systematics, biogeography, and community ecology, offering insights into the future of rainforest ecosystems.

Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. 448 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. $24.95. Examines the early nineteenth-century planning and construction of New York's Erie Canal, in particular how the canal reshaped the region's economic, social, and political landscapes.

Birnbaum, Charles A., and Mary V. Hughes, eds. Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. viii+215 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.50 paper. Collection of eight essays by landscape historians revisiting planning studies, executed works, and critical writings in the field of American historic preservation from the years 1890–1950. Attempts to reveal the holistic stewardship ethic that motivated pioneering landscape preservation advocates like Charles Sprague Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.

Bray, David Barton, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry, eds. The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xiv+372 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, appendix, index. $40.00. Collection of essays and case studies assessing the successes and shortcomings of Mexico's community forest management programs, primarily late twentieth century. Explores community forest management from historical, policy, economic, ecological, sociological, and political perspectives.

Centner, Terence J. Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 189 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Addresses the effects of industrial agriculture, specifically the rise of the so-called factory farm involving intensive confinement of animals, on rural socioeconomics and environment in the twentieth-century United States.

Cermak, Robert W. Fire in the Forest: A History of Forest Fire Control on the National Forests in California, 1898–1956. Vallejo, California: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 2005. x+442 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographic note, index. $24.95. Provides a bottom-up view of ground-level fire control work in the U.S. Forest Service's Region 5 (the Pacific Southwest Region), late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Describes how nationally significant direction emerged from the region.

Colby, Bonnie G., John E. Thorson, and Sarah Britton. Negotiating Tribal Water Rights: Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xxiii+191 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $35.00. Synthesis of issues surrounding water conflicts in the American West, especially on Indian reservations. Reviews the history, current status, and case law related to water rights while outlining strategies for handling conflicts.

Cone, Marla. Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic. New York: Grove Press, 2005. ix+246 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.00. Examines reasons why the animals and people of the Arctic, as of the 1990s, carry more mercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in their bodies than any other living beings. Explains the concept of chemical drift, or how toxins from industrial centers are carried by wind, runoff, and ocean currents thousands of miles to accumulate dramatically in people through their traditional foods.

Conway, Erik M. High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvii+369 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $49.95 hardcover. Explores political and economic factors surrounding the rise and fall of American research in supersonic transport, mid-to-late twentieth century.

Cronin, William B. The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xiii+182 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, index. $35.00. A historical and scientific tour of the Chesapeake Bay Islands written by a retired oceanographer with the Johns Hopkins Chesapeake Bay Institute. Outlines erosion, marshland loss, and human experience on the islands. Includes the work of celebrated local photographer A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970).

Daniels, Jean M. The Rise and Fall of the Pacific Northwest Log Export Market. Portland, Ore.: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2005. 80 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography. Traces the rise of the United States' Pacific Northwest log export industry from its origins in the wake of the Columbus Day storm of 1962 to its decline in the 1990s due to three factors: reductions in harvesting, changes in Asian demand for logs, and the increasing globalization of wood markets. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-624.

Davis, Jack E., and Raymond Arsenault, eds. Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. xiv+420 pp. Maps, figures, notes, works cited, index. $59.95. Collection of essays surveying the environmental history of Florida from times of Spanish exploration through the early twenty-first century, examining in detail the relationship between humans and the state's unique peninsular ecology. Divided into four thematic sections: explorers and naturalists; science, technology, and public policy; despoliation; and conservationists and environmentalists.

Deverell, William, and Greg Hise, eds. Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. viii+350 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles from ancient times through the early twenty-first century, examining how changing perceptions of nature, urban growth, and cultural diversity have shaped the city. Essays by geologists, ecologists, and historians consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature, addressing topics including prairie ecology, watershed management, pollution, flood control, zoning, and cultural attitudes toward animals.

Donnelly, Maureen A., et al., eds. Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics: A Herpetological Perspective. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xv+675 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, indeces. $45.00. Essays by well-known herpetologists synthesizing the systematics, evolution, biogeography, history, and ecology of reptiles and amphibians in the tropics.

Fairley, Helen C. Changing River: Time, Culture, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Grand Canyon. Tucson, Ariz.: Statistical Research, Inc., 2005. xviii+179 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography. Using a landscape-anthropology framework, examines the geologic, cultural, and landscape history and current context of the area along the Colorado River in lower Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. A regional research design for the study and prioritizing of cultural resources in the Colorado River ecosystem prepared for the U. S. Geological Survey Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.

Fite, Gilbert C. Peter Norbeck: Prairie Statesman. Pierre, S.D.: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2005. 227 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $21.95. Biography of Peter Norbeck, governor of South Dakota from 1916 to 1920 who then became a U.S. Senator focused on farm relief legislation and conservation issues. First published in 1948 by the University of Missouri as Volume 22, no. 2, The University of Missouri Studies, with a new introduction and afterword.

Francaviglia, Richard V. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xviii+231 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Studies how humans, from early Native Americans to twenty-first-century highway and air travelers, viewed, defined, and organized the landscape of the Great Basin of the American West, both psychologically and through the medium of cartography. Examines how the exploration and mapping of the Great Basin paralleled scientific development and reflected changing geopolitics.

Franke, Mary Ann. To Save the Wild Bison: Life on the Edge in Yellowstone. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xx+328 pp. Illustrations, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95. Analyzes the political and ecological contexts of the ongoing controversy over how to maintain bison in Yellowstone National Park, examining how the debate reflects changing attitudes toward wildlife. Offers a history of bison in Yellowstone since the mid-nineteenth century.

Fulford, Tim, Debbie Lee, and Peter J. Kitson. Literature, Science, and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvii+324 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $80.00 cloth. Examines the enormous impact of colonial exploration upon British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s—in particular the careers of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834).

Geraci, Victor, comp. The Lure of the Forest: Oral Histories from the National Forests in California. Vallejo, Calif.: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 2005. x+192 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. $15.95. Collection of oral history interviews conducted in 2004 with selected retired employees of the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region. Interview segments are synthesized into sections based on common themes, such as the motivations behind people's decisions to dedicate their lives to stewardship of forest resources, conservation, and everyday working conditions of Forest Service employees and their families from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Godfrey, Anthony. The Ever-Changing View: A History of the National Forests in California, 1891–1987. Vallejo, Calif.: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 2005. xvi+657 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, bibliography, index. $27.95. Provides an administrative history of the U.S. Forest Service's Region 5 (the Pacific Southwest Region) in a chronological, issue-oriented narrative unified by the theme of conservation, 1890s to 1980s.

Gould, Carol Grant. The Remarkable Life of William Beebe, Explorer and Naturalist. Washington, Covelo and London: Shearwater Books, 2004. xv+447 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00. Detailed and personal account of the life of naturalist and author William Beebe (1877–1962). Relying on Beebe's personal journals and correspondence, details how the curatorial position he secured in 1899 at the then-new Bronx Zoo became a launching pad for wildlife studies in Trinidad, British Guinea, the Galapagos Islands, and Bermuda, followed by his transformation into a pioneering deep-sea marine biologist.

Greenfield, Amy Butler. A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. viii+338 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $26.95. History of Europe's centuries-long search for cochineal, a dye capable of producing a desirable shade of red for textiles. Discovered by Spanish conquistadors in Mexico in 1519, the secret of cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) remained closely guarded until eighteenth-century microscopes revealed its source. Recounts attempts to cultivate both the cochineal insect and its host plant, nopal, beyond their native Mexico.

Gulliford, Andrew, ed. Preserving Western History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. vii+415 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $34.95. College-level reader on public history and historic interpretation in the American west, with contributions documenting their application to themes such as Hispanic identity, Japanese internment, the Little Big Horn Battlefield, and environmental topics including wildfires, and the Wilderness Act.

Guthman, Julie. Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2004. xv+250 pp. Maps, tables, references, index. $55.00. Study of organic farming in California,1970s–2000s, challenging popular ideas of organic agriculture as a small-scale family farm endeavor. Argues that organic farming in California has in many ways replicated what it was designed to combat.

Haenn, Nora. Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation, and the State in Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. xvi+229 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, bibliography, index. $45.00. Examines from multiple perspectives the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the southern Mexican state of Campeche, where government agents and local people collaborated on a program to improve locals' standard of living while preserving natural resources, considered in the 1990s a vital example of combining local management, forest conservation, and economic development.

Hale, W. G., and Audrey Coney. Martin Mere: Lancashire's Lost Lake. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. xvi+264 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $25.00. Geomorphologic, natural, and cultural history of Lancashire's Martin Mere, once the largest lake in England. Drained for the first time in 1697 in an effort to uncover usable land, the Mere has reappeared intermittently after heavy rainfall, as recently as the 1950s.

Hall, Frederick C. Emigrant Creek Cattle Allotment: Lessons From 30 Years of Photomonitoring. Portland, Ore.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2005. 37 pp. Illustrations, maps. Results of photomonitoring of the Emigrant Creek cattle allotment near Burns, Oregon, from 1975 to 2005, to examine dynamic riverine riparian environmental conditions. Encourages a "state-and-transition" approach to range management for the area. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-639. Available online at http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/9843.

Herring, Horace. From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares: Lessons From the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in the 1970s. Charlbury, England: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2005. viii+249 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. A14.99. Examines the mid-to-late-twentieth-century growth of the anti-civil nuclear power movement in the United Kingdom through the ecological messages contained in best-selling science fiction novels from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s.

Higgs, Robert, and Carl P. Close, eds. Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 2005. 457 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $22.95. Collection of essays examining environmental policy in the United States since the first Earth Day in 1970, contending that existing laws and regulations have fostered costly and largely ineffective bureaucracies. Economists, political scientists, and philosophers offer alternative methods for resolving environmental problems.

Hughes, J. Donald. The Mediterranean: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. xx+333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $85.00. Broad study of the complex relationship between the environment and the peoples of the Mediterranean from the time of its first human inhabitants through 2005. Explores the positive and negative effects of human activity over time, including agriculture, climate change, deforestation, disease, natural resource management, and industrialization.

Hunter, Robert. The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. 272 pp. Illustrations. $24.95. Personal memoir by one of the founders of Greenpeace recounting the 1971 adventure that led to the organization's formation: a small group of activists boarded a fishing boat in Vancouver, Canada, and traveled north toward the island of Amchitka, west of Alaska, in a failed attempt to halt U.S. government underground nuclear tests. Originally written shortly after the incident.

Jones, Landon. William Clark and the Shaping of the West. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00. Biography of William Clark, exploring especially his career as the highest-ranking Federal official in the American West in the decades following the 1804–1806 expedition with Meriwether Lewis. Details the Clark family's early life in colonial Virginia, Clark's involvement with Indian removal in the early West, and his relationship with Lewis.

Kingsland, Sharon E. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890–2000. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x+313 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $50.00. Explores the rise and development of ecology as a discipline in the United States from the 1890s through the twentieth century. Examines how factors in the study of American botany, taxonomy, and evolution combined to inspire the new field of study, the development of the ecosystem concept and human ecology over the course of the twentieth century, and the current challenges of applying these concepts to urban environments.

Leland, John. Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports into America. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. 235 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95. Study of the origins and impacts of various non-native plant and animal species throughout American history. Combines folklore and historical anecdotes with science to celebrate nature's resiliency, portraying the United States as an "environmental melting pot."

Lewis, Corey Lee. Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2005. xiv+241 pp. Illustration, bibliography, index. $24.95. Ecocritical examination of environmental literature written by three California authors: writer Mary Austin (1868–1934), environmentalist John Muir (1838–1914), and poet Gary Snyder (1930- ). Combining a discussion of their work with his own experiences as a hiker/backpacker and trail builder, Lewis proposes a field-based, interdisciplinary approach to literary study and outdoors experience.

Main, George. Heartland: The Regeneration of Rural Place. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. ix+286 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $39.95. Examines human engagements with Australia's rural, agricultural heartlands—how Australians have seen and defined themselves in particular relation to the southwest slopes of New South Wales. Explores the cultural and historical foundations of ecological change in the region, nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Maloof, Joan. Teaching the Trees: Lessons from a Forest. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xvi+156 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes. $24.95. Collection of natural-history essays based on the forests of the eastern United States, with each essay based around a species of tree and the organisms that live in relationship with it. Accompanied by eighteenth-century botanical illustrations by John Abbot.

Martin, Patricia Preciado, ed. Beloved Land: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Southern Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxiii+150 pp. Illustrations. $17.95. Compilation of oral history interviews concerning the cultural heritage of southern Arizona's Mexican-American pioneer ranching families. Includes stories about rural life, vaquero culture, settlement, culinary practices, and religious traditions of Hispanic settlers of Arizona.

Maser, Chris. Our Forest Legacy: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's Consequences. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve Press, 2005. 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, glossary. $19.95. Part philosophical, part scientific exploration of forests and forest management in the United States, offering a history of twentieth-century perceptions of forests and public lands, and recommendations for changes in management that reflect the author's concept of the forest as a "living trust."

Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. Seeing Yellowstone in 1871: Earliest Descriptions from the Field. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xv+85 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, suggested reading. $19.95 paper. Letters sent to the Philadelphia Press in 1871 by mineralogist Albert Peale, a member of the fabled Hayden Expedition to map the Yellowstone Basin—the first impressions of Yellowstone sent back from the field. Accompanied by historic photographs, illustrations by artists who were on the expedition, and an introduction by the editor.

Newman, Lance. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xv+255 pp. Bibliography, index. $65.00. Explores reasons why America's first literary circle in the 1830s-1840s focused on nature, arguing that they were in part reacting to intense class conflict in New England's industrializing cities. Discusses how environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature coevolved as part of the development of American capitalism. Examines works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others.

Rajala, Richard A. Feds, Forests, and Fire: A Century of Canadian Forestry Innovation. Ottawa: Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2005. 116 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Explores the dynamic history of Canadian forestry, 1880–2000s, including innovations in protection and management and the role of the federal government in shaping policy related to fire, inventory, and silviculture. Devotes particular attention to the development of fire prevention, detection, and suppression procedures.

Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee and Elders Cultural Advisory Council, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Salish People Describe Their Encounter with Lewis and Clark. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii+198 pp. Examination of the events and significance of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the perspective of a Native American community, the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana's Bitterroot Valley. Focuses largely on the ancient cultural landscape and ways of life that existed prior to the arrival of the expedition, highlighting the journey of Lewis and Clark as one of invasion rather than discovery.

Sharp, Charles Dee, and John O. Anfinson. The Mississippi River in 1953: A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x+222 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, selected bibliography. $29.95. Photographic record of the author's 1953 travels down the Mississippi to research a never-completed documentary film about the river, its communities, and its people. Also includes excerpts from Sharp's original trip journal, anecdotes from the people he encountered, and an environmental history of the river by historian John O. Anfinson.

Shelton, Napier. Natural Missouri: Working With The Land . Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2005. xii+262 pp. Illustrations, map, index. $19.95. Tour of Missouri's natural sites from the perspectives of people who work with the land, including professional resource managers, naturalists, engineers, biologists, conservationists, hunters, farmers, and others. Based on the author's visits and interviews conducted throughout the state in 2000-2003, provides some historical perspective on land-management philosophies and techniques.

Showers, Kate B. Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2005. xxix+346 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, bibliographic essay, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth. Investigates the natural, social, and political history, sixteenth through twentieth centuries, behind Lesotho, South Africa's contemporary extreme soil erosion problems, arguing that the country's unusual erosion chasms, often blamed on destructive land-use practices by African farmers, were in fact caused by colonial and postcolonial interventions. Calls for an observational, experimental, and participatory approach to address the issue.

Smith, Mike, and Paul Hesse, eds. 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. xi+436 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, references, glossary, index. $42.95. Historical and archaeological research from international scholars on the deep history of the great deserts of the Southern Hemisphere, including the Namib and Kalahari in Africa, South America's Atacama, and the continental deserts of the Australian interior. Prehistory through the twentieth century.

Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. xiv+347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Broadly explores the influence of eugenics in twentieth-century America, on phenomena such as race-based intelligence tests, segregation, Hispanic immigration, disease, and the environmental movement. Focuses primarily on California and the West.

Troyer, Will. Into Brown Bear Country. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005. xiii+152 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Introduction to the natural history of brown bears in Alaska written by a pioneer in the study of the species, examining biology, conservation, and bear-human interaction.

Vale, Thomas R. The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 292 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, index. $45.00. Explores the divide between American perceptions of nature and how Americans relate to protected landscapes. Examining protected areas such national parks, national wilderness, and national wildlife refuges, suggests nature protection as a way to bond people to the natural world.

Woodworth-Ney, Laura. Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. x+234 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $31.95. Examines the formation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho, 1840s–1890s, using sources such as congressional documents, Bureau of Indian Affairs records, Jesuit missionary reports, and tribal accounts. Argues that the in creation of the reservation, BIA officials and tribal leaders mapped boundaries not only of territory, but also of tribal identity.

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