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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Agrawal, Arun. "Environmentality: Community, Intimate Government, and the Making of Environmental Subjects in Kumaon, India." Current Anthropology 46 (April 2005): 161–190. Focusing on Kumaon, northern India, examines how and why rural residents come to care about the environment. Explores the relationship between government and subjects in the twentieth century, primarily 1980s–1990s, analyzing how involvement in environmental regulation facilitate new ways of understanding the environment.

Akerman, James R., and Daniel Block. "The Shifting Agendas of Midwestern Official State Highway Maps." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Spring 2005): 123–165. Examines the evolution of official state highway maps, published and distributed by state highway departments until the 1970s, in the Midwestern United States. Explores how tourism promotion competed with other agendas and practices in the creation of these maps.

Alban, Nicolas, and Caroline Berwick. "Forêt et Religion au Japon: D'Une Vision Singulière de L'Arbre à une Gestion Particulière de la Forêt." Revue foresticre française 6 (2004): 563–572. "Forests and Religion in Japan: From a Distinctive Vision of Trees to a Particular Type of Forest Management."

Examines how the view of trees from perspectives of Shintoism and Buddhism, Japan's two main religions, is emblematic of a distinctive vision of nature. Examines how the management of gardens and parks related to religious temples has changed in response to the country's economic development.

Alcantara, Christopher. "The Harmonization Accord: Stakeholder Influence on the Canada-Wide Standards for Dioxins and Furans." Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes 39 (Spring 2005): 156–178. Explores the effects of the 1998 Canada-Wide Accord on Environmental Harmonization on stakeholder participation in the creation of environmental standards, specifically whether there was significant public access to the process of creating the Canada-Wide Standard for Dioxins and Furans for waste incinerators.

Allemeyer, Marie Luisa. "Environment, Mentalities and Social Structures: The Northfrisian Coast in the Early Modern Era." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 141–143 pp. Examines the relationship between people and nature as demonstrated by the example of dike construction in the coastal community in Schleswig-Holstien, Germany, during the early modern period. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Andersen, Phyllis. "'If Washington Were Here Himself, He Would Be on My Side': Charles Sprague Sargent and the Preservation of the Mount Vernon Landscape." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 39–56 pp. Examines the role of Charles Sprague Sargent, then director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, in historic preservation efforts at Mount Vernon in Virginia from 1911 until his death in 1927.

Antinori, Camille. "Vertical Integration in the Community Forestry Enterprises of Oaxaca." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 241–272 pp. Discusses the twentieth century history and political organization of community forestry enterprises in Oaxaca, Mexico. Examines the results of a 1997–1998 survey analyzing how communities with common property forests approach market opportunities.

Aoki, Keith. "Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: Intellectual Property and the Law and Politics of Global Food Supply: An Introduction." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 19 (2 2004): 397–453. Introduction to papers presented at an April 2004 symposium on the topic, which arose from the present-day intersection of trends represented by the three Ms in the title: Thomas Malthus, a late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century economist who foresaw population outstripping food supply; Gregor Mendel, a nineteenth-century abbot whose early work in plant heredity laid the groundwork for hybrid crop development; and Monsanto, a St. Louis-based chemical company that became a dominant supplier of the so-called "Green Revolution" in the 1970s. Lays out the emerging global backdrop of treatment of Plant Genetic Resources (PGR).

Arsenault, Raymond. "The Public Storm: Hurricanes and the State in Twentieth-Century America." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 201–232 pp. Explores the transformation over the course of the twentieth century of perceptions of the character and meaning of hurricanes in Florida, turning them from "private" to "public" events.

Bailey, Paul. "Researching Tom Joad: John Steinbeck, Journalist, 1936." The Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Spring 2005): 68–83. Examines John Steinbeck's experiences in 1936 as a journalist investigating the lifestyle of California's migrant farm laborers, which helped inspire his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Barca, Stefania. "Water and Industrialization in Italy." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 171–175 pp. Examines the industrial use of water in Italian history, eighteenth-twentieth centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Barker, Mike. "In Pursuit of Lift!: Balloon Logging Systems Revisited: The Russian Connection." Loggers World 41 (August 2005): 10–17, 32–34. Examines logging operations using helium balloons in Oregon, Alaska, and Russia, 1960s to 2000s.

Barnett, LeRoy. "Doing Time on the Highway." Michigan History 89 (May/June 2005): 40–45. Discusses the use of state prisoner labor to upgrade Michigan's transportation network, 1840s to 1930s.

Barrett, Brenda. "National Heritage Areas: Places on the Land, Places in the Mind." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 10–18. Examines demographic and geographic patterns among the United States' congressionally designated national heritage areas assisted by the National Park Service. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale.".

Bateson, Emily M. "Two Countries, One Forest—Deux Pays, Une Forêt: Launching a Landscape-Scale Conservation Collaborative in the Northern Appalachian Region of the United States and Canada." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 35–45. Examines how scientists, conservationists, and funders have worked together since 2002 to launch a transborder conservation collaborative in the Northern Appalachian region of the eastern United States and Canada, offering insight into the value of landscape-scale and collaborative approaches. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale."

Beacham, Randy. "In the Footsteps of History." Forest Magazine (Summer 2005): 25–28. Profiles the historic Lolo Trail in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, where visitors can retrace part of the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition.

Beaman, Thomas E., Jr. "Morley Jeffers Williams: A Pioneer of Landscape Archaeology." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 57–82 pp. Examines the career of Morley Jeffers Williams, one of the first landscape architects to realize the potential contribution of historic archaeology to the study and restoration of historic landscapes. Williams' work centered on Stratford Hall and Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Tryon Palace, North Carolina, 1930s–1950s.

Bednarek, Janet R. Daly. "The Flying Machine in the Garden: Parks and Airports, 1918–1938." Technology and Culture 46 (April 2005): 350–373. Investigates the connection between airports and parks in early twentieth-century cities, including Chicago, Omaha, and Minneapolis, integrating histories of land use and technology.

Berenguer, José. "Five Thousand Years of Rock Art in the Atacama Desert: Long-term Environmental Constraints and Symbolic Devices." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 231–248 pp. Synthesis of the main styles of rock art in South America's Atacama Desert, combined with climatic, cultural, and historical changes experienced in the region during the last 5000 years.

Best, Allen. "Just Add Water." Forest Magazine (Summer 2005): 16–19. Examines the twentieth-century history and current prospects of water usage and management in the American West, especially Las Vegas, where explosive population growth has caused shortages. Part of a special issue on "Liquid Assets: Forests and the Future of Water."

Blaine, Mark. "This Message Brought to You By ..." Forest Magazine (Summer 2005): 33–37. Examines the history and current use of media publicity and public relations by the U.S. Forest Service. Discusses Gifford Pinchot's early awareness of its potential for furthering agency goals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bocquet, Denis. "Town Planning and Nature in Italy: Cities Between Visions of the Future, Technical Systems and Bureaucracy During the Second Half of Eighteenth Century." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. Florence: Istituto di Studi sulle Societa del Mediterraneo—CNR; Universita de Firenze, Dipart-imento di Scienze e Tecnologie Ambientali e Forestali; European Society for Environmental History, 2005. 199–203 pp. Using town planning in Italy in the late nineteenth century, explores interactions between nature and city through social and institutional procedures. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Boone, Christopher G. "Zoning and Environmental Inequity in the Industrial East Side." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 167–178 pp. A historical examination of the municipality of Commerce in Los Angeles County, exploring how it became a center for toxic facilities. Aims to reveal patterns of environmental inequity in the region and the creation of an industrial community in twentieth-century southern California.

Bowie, Mark. "In Stoddard's Footsteps." New York State Conservationist 60 ( August 2005): 15–19. Sketch of photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard (1843–1917), who documented key decades of New York state/Adirondack history, including settlement, the advent of tourism, and environmental destruction from rampant logging. The author has recreated many of Stoddard's original images a century later to show changes in the landscape since Stoddard's time.

Boyer, Christopher R. "Contested Terrain: Forestry Regimes and Community Responses in Northeastern Michoacán, 1940–2000." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 27–48 pp. Examines the community forestry experiences of the villages of El Rosario and El Asoleadero in the eastern highlands of Michoacán, Mexico, 1920s–2000.

Bragg, Don C. "Learning the Hard Way: The Beginnings of Forest Service Research in Arkansas." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 248–254. Overview of early USDA Forest Service forest-based research operations, particularly in Arkansas, from the late nineteenth century. Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Bray, David Barton, and Peter Klepeis. "Deforestation, Forest Transitions, and Institutions for Sustainability in Southeastern Mexico, 1900–2000." Environment and History 11 (May 2005): 195–223. Analyzes twentieth-century forest histories in Southeastern Mexico with the goals of contributing to a nuanced history of forest change in the region and exploring the role of institutional development in reducing deforestation rates. Challenges the popular and simplistic "deforestation narrative."

Bray, Kingsley M. "'We Belong to the North': The Flights of the Northern Indians from the White River Agencies, 1877–1878." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Summer 2005): 28–47. Explores events in 1877–1878 wherein a large group of surrendered Lakota Sioux broke away from the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies in the Dakota Territory and fled north to join relatives across the international boundary with Canada, demonstrating continuing resistance among the Lakota to enforced reservation life.

Brown, Karen. "Poisonous Plants, Veterinary Science and Grassland Ecology in Twentieth Century South Africa." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 226–231 pp. Examines the South Africa's scientific development of toxicological methodologies and environmental critiques to address agricultural concerns about the impact of poisonous plants on livestock during the first half of the twentieth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Brykala, Dariusz. "Watermills' Functioning Within the Skrwa River Catchment Area (Central Poland)." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 176–179 pp. Explores the development and economic role of watermills in Central Poland's Skrwa River Catchment Area, thirteenth-nineteenth centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Byram, R. Scott. "The Work of a Nation: Richard D. Cutts and the Coast Survey Map of Fort Clatsop." Oregon Historical Quarterly 105 (Summer 2005): 254–271. Examines surveyor-scientist Richard D. Cutts' 1852 map of Fort Clatsop at the Lewis and Clark River Station, which memorialized their expedition as well as laying the foundation for accurate charting of the waterway.

Bühn, Susanne, Rüdiger Glaser, and Enrico Vincelli. "Severe Climatic Events in Germany Since AD 1000 and their Perception." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 286–290 pp. Examines human perception and response to natural climate disasters in Germany since AD 1000, as shown through mythology, philosophy, and historical and literary texts. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Caldwell, Wayne, and Stewart Hilts. "Farmland Preservation: Innovative Approaches in Ontario." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 60 (May/June 2005): 66A-69A. Discusses efforts to prevent farmland loss in Ontario, Canada, 1970s–2004.

Calkin, David E., et al. "Forest Service Large Fire Area Burned and Suppression Expenditure Trends, 1970–2002." Journal of Forestry 103 (June 2005): 179–183. Critical review of trends in forest fires and fire suppression, 1970–2002, in light of early twenty-first century calls for reform of USDA firefighting policy.

Campbell, A. C. "The Rock Art of Africa's Southern Deserts." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 200–216 pp. Overview and chronology of rock art created largely by hunter-gatherer societies in the Southern deserts of Africa.

Carlson, Laurie. "Forging His Own Path: William Jasper Spillman and Progressive Era Breeding and Genetics." Agricultural History 79 (Winter 2005): 50–73. Examines William J. Spillman's career in agricultural genetics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, highlighting his contributions to the rural world of empirical thinking as well as the world of professional science.

Carpintero, Óscar. "Socio-Economic Metabolism and Dematerialization: The Case of Spanish Economy (1955–2000)." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 13–17 pp. Examines processes of socio-economic metabolism, a concept for explaining the physical interrelation between economy and nature, in the late-twentieth century Spanish economy. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Carr, Ethan. "The 'Noblest Landscape Problem': Thomas C. Vint and Landscape Preservation." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 157–177 pp. Examines the contributions of Thomas C. Vint, landscape architect for the National Park Service during its early years, to the field of national park planning and design, in particular how his approach shaped historic preservation theory and practice during the 1920s–1930s.

Carter, Lyn. "Legitimising Indigenous Knowledge in Sustainable Land Development and Use: Maori Participation in Eco-System Rehabilitation." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 18–22 pp. Seeks to demonstrate the relevance of Maori resource management systems to contemporary situations. Paper presented at 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Chapela, Francisco. "Indigenous Community Forest Management in the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 91–110 pp. Examines the history, nineteenth century through 2000s, and experiences of the communities in the Sierra Juárez, Mexico, that in the 1990s organized themselves into the Unión de Comunidades Zapoteco-Chinanteca (UZACHI), a regional body to support community forest management.

Chapman, Fred. "The Bighorn Medicine Wheel: Landscape Wars and Negotiating Native American Spirituality in the New West." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 159–174 pp. Examines contested Native American sacred landscapes and their interpretation through a case study involving the administrative history of the Bighorn Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark near Lovell, Wyoming, primarily 1980s–1990s.

Chester, Charles C. "From Conservation Diplomacy to Transborder Landscapes: The Protection of Biodiversity Across North America's Borders." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 27–34. Examines conservation initiatives on North America's two major borders, especially the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y). Provides a brief history of transborder conservation since the 1880s. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale."

Chirappa, Michael J. "Overseeing the Family of Whitefishes: The Priorities and Debates of Coregonid Management on America's Great Lakes, 1870–2000." Environment and History 11 (May 2005): 163–194. Examines the way in which coregonids (lake whitefish, lake herring, and chub), the principal target species of America's Great Lakes commercial fishery, have structured management priorities and debates among fisheries over the past 175 years.

Clark, Brett, and Richard York. "Dialectical Materialism and Nature: An Alternative to Economism and Deep Ecology." Organization & Environment 18 (September 2005): 318–337. Critically analyzes commonly held "economistic" and "deep ecology" views of nature, arguing for an alternative conception based in Marxism that favors dialectical, historical, and materialist views.

Clay, Karen, and Werner Troesken. "Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 52–66 pp. Examines the political circumstances leading to the 1851 California Land Act that governed the transition in property rights between Mexico and the United States, comparing the claims process in the Los Angeles area to other California land claims.

Coates, Peter. "Gum Tree Blues: The Eucalyptus Controversy in California." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 63–67 pp. Examines case study of 1970s–1990s controversy over "invasive" eucalyptus trees in California to address themes including the national identity of nature, ecological decolonization, and botanical xenophobia. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Colson, Ann T. "Beating the Bounds." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Summer 2005): 17–18. Discusses perambulation ("beating the bounds")—the tradition of marking boundaries while invoking religious blessings, as practiced since colonial times in New England, and the physical remnants it has left on the landscape.

Connell, Daniel. "Talking Sustainability But Dreaming Production." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 23–27 pp. Discusses the history of conflict over sustainability in the Murray-Darling river basin in southeast Australia since European settlement in the early nineteenth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Corona, Gabriella. "Sustainable Politics for Cities: Naples' Success Story." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 204–207 pp. Examines public policies adopted in Naples, Italy from the 1970s through 2004 as a case study of sucessful environmental politics and sustainable land management. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Cullen, Scott. "Tree Appraisal: Chronology of North American Industry Guidance." Journal of Arboriculture 31 (July 2005): 157–162. Twentieth-century chronology of North American methods for tree and plant appraisal. Also explains differences among methods, guidance, and standards.

Cushing, Elizabeth Hope. "'The Fading Landscape': Arthur A. Shurcliff's Evolving Perceptions of Landscape Preservation." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 83–102 pp. Examines the career and restoration ethic of Arthur A. Shurcliff, a landscape architect specialized in colonial gardens, best known for his early twentieth-century work at Colonial Williamsburg.

da Fonseca, Gustavo A. B., et al. "On Defying Nature's End: The Case for Landscape-Scale Conservation." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 46–60. Discusses the impending crisis in some of the Earth's last remaining biodiversity hotspots, encouraging a drastic increase in the scale of conservation work and an adjustment in strategy to address large-scale ecological, social, and economic realities. Describes some of the principal results from research conducted by the Center for Biodiversity Science (CABS) and Conservation International (CI) since 1999. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale." Based on "On Defying Nature's End," a chapter in Working Forests, D. Zarin, ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

Daly, Aoife. "Trade and Tree-Rings." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 68–72 pp. Discusses work with oak tree-ring data from Northern Europe. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Damstra, Carolyn. "Bringing Good Roads to Michigan." Michigan History 89 (May/June 2005): 6–13. Profile of Horatio Earle (1855–1936), Michigan's "champion of good roads," State Highway Department Commissioner, and 1902 founder of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association.

Danquah, Francis K. "Reports on Philippine Industrial Crops in World War II from Japan's English Language Press." Agricultural History 79 (Winter 2005): 74–96. Examines English language Japanese newspaper reports of Philippine industrial crops during Japan's 1940s occupation of Southeast Asia, arguing that in realigning Philippine agriculture to meet wartime needs, the invaders grossly under-utilized these resources.

Danzer, Gerald A. "Michigan: Cartographic Perspectives on the 'Great Lakes State'." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Spring 2005): 201–247. Survey of maps of the Michigan region from the earliest sixteenth-century examples through the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Dargavel, John. "Forestry." Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories (1 2005): 25–32. Overview of the history of forestry in Australia from initial early nineteenth-century calls for forest conservation, to the development of state-sponsored forestry, to the diversification of Australian forestry in the 1990s. "Short Overviews" is an occasional publication of the Australian Forest History Society, ed. John Dargavel.

Davis, Frederick R. "A Naturalist's Place: Archie Carr and the Nature of Florida." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 72–91 pp. Explores the career and writings of naturalist/conservation biologist Archie Carr (1909–1987) dealing with the nature and culture of Florida.

Davis, Jack E. "Alligators and Plume Birds: The Despoliation of Florida's Living Aesthetic." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault . Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 235–259 pp. Explores the degradation of Florida's popular image and natural environment, primarily in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Davis, Jack E. "'Conservation is Now a Dead Word': Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Transformation of American Environmentalism." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 297–325 pp. Examines the life and work of environmental activist and writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890–1998), especially her devotion to the cause of saving the Florida Everglades from drainage and development in the mid-to-late twentieth century.

Dawson, Michael. "Folio Three: Transitions in Southern California Landscape Photography, 1900–1940." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 204–219 pp. Examines environmental transformation as shown through fine art landscape photography in the Southern California region, 1900–1940.

Dear, Michael. "Monuments, Manifest Destiny, and Mexico." Prologue 37 (Summer 2005): 32–41. Examines the survey of the United States-Mexico borderline following the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in particular the monuments erected during the process, which became critical points of reference in ensuing border disputes and in the 1890s boundary re-survey.

Dicke, Tom. "Red Gold of the Ozarks: The Rise and Decline of Tomato Canning, 1885–1955." Agricultural History 79 (Winter 2005): 1–26. Examines social and economic contexts for the rise and decline of tomato growing/canning in the rural Ozarks, from the 1880s through just after World War II.

Dickinson, Rachel. "[Re]discovery: The Best-Kept Secret." Audubon 107 (July–August 2005): 38–43, 82–83. Insider's account of the 2004 rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, believed extinct, in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Provides historical context for study of the species and its decline in the American South since the mid-nineteenth century.

Donner, Fred. "The Blodgett Mountain Fire: A Claim to the Most Smokejumpers Dropped on the Smallest Fire in Smokejumper History or The Tale of a Greedy Squadleader." Smokejumper (July 2005): 31–32. Author recounts his experience smokejumping the August 1959 Blodgett Mountain Fire on the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho.

Douglas, Lake. "Beyond Spring Break." Landscape Architecture 95 (July 2005): 87–99. Explores the twentieth-century history and reinvention of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from its early development in the 1920s to its promotion as a popular spring break destination in the 1950s, to its current status as an upscale residential and tourist area featuring innovative design projects.

Dransart, Penelope. "Living with Llamas at 23 Degrees South." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 281–291. Using archaeological evidence, examines the domestication of llamas and other camelids and their social role in the indigenous cultures of South America's Atacama Desert, primarily 6000–3000 BP.

du Pisani, Jacobus A. "Sustainable Development: Historical Roots and Evolution of the Concept." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 28–37 pp. Traces how the concept of sustainable development grew out of ideas of growth and progress which evolved in specific historical contexts over centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Duffin, Andrew P. "Vanishing Earth: Soil Erosion in the Palouse, 1930–1945." Agricultural History 79 (Spring 2005): 173–192. Examines agricultural activity and environment in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho during the Great Depression and World War II, particularly New Deal erosion control programs and why they were only minimally successful.

Duke, Philip, et al. "The Colorado Coalfield War Archaeological Project: Archaeology Serving Labor." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 32–43 pp. Discusses an archaeological project in the southern Colorado coal field, ongoing since 1997, designed to investigate the vernacular history of the coal miners' strike of 1913–1914 and the massacre of striking miners in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. Provides historical context for the strike, the Ludlow Massacre, and the involvement of the United Mine Workers of America.

Dumroese, R. Kasten, et al. "Forest Service Nurseries: 100 Years of Ecosystem Restoration." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 241–247. History and overview of the USDA Forest Service's nursery operations, providing locally-adapted, quality native plant materials for ecosystem restoration (1902–2005). Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Dunbabin, J. P. D. "Motives for Mapping the Great Lakes: Upper Canada, 1782–1827." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Spring 2005): 1–43. Explores the circumstances surrounding, motives behind, and audiences for late eighteenth-early nineteenth century maps created of the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.

Dundas, Robert G. "Heron Lumber Company: Flathead Indian Reservation Logging Operations." Tall Timber Short Lines (Summer 2005): 12–28. History of the Heron Lumber Company's railroad logging operations on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, primarily 1917–1930.

Durán-Medina, Elvira, Jean-François Mas, and Alejandro Velázquez. "Land Use/Cover Change in Community-Based Forest Management Regions and Protected Areas in Mexico." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 215–238 pp. Examines land use/forest cover change in Guerrero and Quintana Roo, Mexico, 1930s–2000s, supporting the hypothesis that areas under a common property regime maintain forest cover areas just as effectively as government-protected areas.

Duvall, Sam. "E. E. Hale: A Special Tribute." Alabama Forests 49 (Summer 2005): 8–11. Profile of Ernest E. Hale, co-founder of the Alabama Forest Products Association in 1949 (now the Alabama Forestry Associasion or AFA), and prominent figure in the history of forestry in Alabama.

Dwight, Eleanor. "Perennial Comfort." Preservation 57 (May/June 2005): 38–41. Sketch of Garland Farm on Maine's Mount Desert Island, the final home of Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), a well-known twentieth-century landscape gardener. Farrand lived at the farm from 1956 until her death; it was purchased in 2004 by the Beatrix Farrand Society which has plans to restore the grounds and establish an educational center for design and horticulture. Includes brief biography of Farrand.

Effland, Anne B. W. "Agrarianism and Child Labor Policy for Agriculture." Agricultural History 79 (Summer 2005): 281–297. Examines child labor and child labor reform in farm work, United States, 1910s–1970s.

Eitel, Bernhard. "Environmental History of the Namib Desert." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 45–55 pp. Explores the palaeoenvironmental history of the Namib Desert in Africa, including the effects of global warming and human occupation.

Eugster, J. Glenn. "The Right Direction: Imagining the Future of the Potomac." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 19–26. Examines preservation and restoration efforts on the Potomac River since the 1960s, and offers ways to ensure the future of these efforts. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale."

Evans, Peter S. "Milling Australia's Forests." Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories (1 2005): 17–24. Overview of the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth-century bush sawmilling era in Australia, including the establishment of powered mills; innovation in water, rail, and road transport; and the devel-opment of logging and milling technology. "Short Overviews" is an occasional publication of the Australian Forest History Society, ed. John Dargavel.

Fairfax, Sally K. "When An Agency Outlasts Its Time: A Reflection." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 264–267. Reflections on the history of the US Forest Service, arguing for its reorganization in the 21st century. Proposes combining the USFS, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Faricic, Josip, �eljka Siljkovic, and Martin Glamuzina. "Agrarian Changes in the Lower Neretvian Area from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century."

Agricultural History 79 (Spring 2005 ): 193–220. Examines agriculture and land improvement efforts in the Lower Neretvian of Croatia in relation to changing social, economic, and political contexts, eighteenth-twentieth centuries.

Feary, Sue. "Indigenous Australians and Forests." Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories (1 2005): 9–16. Examines the role of forests, forestry and forest-based industries in shaping the past and future for Indigenous Australians, especially how traditional and historical factors are informing early-tweny-first-century attitudes and decisions. "Short Overviews" is an occasional publication of the Australian Forest History Society, ed. John Dargavel.

Fell, James E., Jr. "Old Mines, New Developments: Preservation, the Environment, and Public History in the Mining West." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 381–388 pp. Examines the history of the mining industry in the western United States and its implications for environmentalism, historic preservation, and interpretation, mid-nineteenth-century through 2000s.

Firth, Ian. "The Blue Ridge Parkway: Road to the Modern Preservation Movement." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. 179–202 pp. Examines the role of landscape architect Stanley W. Abbot in the planning, design, and construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway in America's Appalachian Mountains beginning in the 1930s. Argues that Abbot's vision and ability to build cooperative alliances with diverse groups were largely responsible for the project's accomplishments.

Fischer, Carolyn, Edwin Muchapondwa, and Thomas Sterner. "Shall We Gather 'Round the CAMPFIRE?: Zimbabwe's Approach to Conserving Indigenous Wildlife." Resources No. 158 (Summer 2005): 12–15. Examines Zimbabwe as a case study of wildlife conservation (1920s–2000s), in particular the country's CAMPFIRE program, which directs shares of profits from hunting and tourism toward local communities, with the goal of reducing poaching activities.

Ford, James. "Living With Climate Change in the Arctic." World Watch 18 (September/October 2005): 18–21. Examines how Inuit communities in Canada's Nunavut territory have experienced and are coping with climate change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Forests & People. "Forest History: Peter Koch: How Science Built an Industry." Forests & People (Second Quarter 2005): 10–11. Sketch of Peter Koch, prominent wood technology scientist at the Southern Forest Experiment Station at Pineville, Louisiana, 1960s–1980s.

Forsyth, Ann. "Evolution of an Ecoburb." Landscape Architecture 95 (July 2005): 60–69. Evaluates The Woodlands, a development outside Houston, Texas hailed upon its opening in the 1970s as a model of ecological planning for its innovative natural drainage system.

Franke, Mary Ann. "Captivity for Yellowstone Bison: Their Doom or Salvation?" Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Summer 2005): 2–13. Explores twentieth-century debates over managing bison populations in Yellowstone National Park.

Frawley, Kevin J. "Australian Forest History." Australia and New Zealand Forest Histories (1 2005): 41–47. Explores the late-twentieth-century study of Australian forest history in the context of ecological, fire, settlement, industrial, labor, social, economic, and environmental history. "Short Overviews" is an occasional publication of the Australian Forest History Society, ed. John Dargavel.

Freeland, Kathleen B. "Examining the Politics of Reclamation: The 1944 Acreage Limitation Debate in Congress." The Historian 67 (Summer 2005): 217–233. Examines the 1944 Congressional debate over federal reclamation law, as politicians tried to exempt California's Central Valley Project from the 160-acre limitation or excess land law. With supporters praising the family farm ideal and opponents deriding government imposition, the study provides insight into the social and political aspects of reclamation.

Gardner, Gary. "Hungry for More: Re-Engaging Religious Teachings on Consumption." World Watch 18 (September/October 2005): 26–30. Encourages the re-examination of the economic teachings of many of the world's religions—e.g., Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity—in controlling global consumption.

Garrett, Gary. "Blasting through Paradise: The Construction and Consequences of the Tamiami Trail." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 260–279 pp. Examines the ongoing environmental effects of the early-twentieth-century construction of the Tamiami Trail, a highway connecting Tampa and Miami, running through the middle of Florida's Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part One: The Cabin on the Creek, Sue, West Virginia." Log Train 21 (May 2005): 6–12. First in a planned series of excerpts from the writings of Hannah Yarnall Gaskill, a Philadelphia woman who in 1904 left the city with her husband and family to West Virginia to run a small lumber company and sawmill operation.

Gaumnitz, Lisa, and David L. Sperling. "A Generation of Shared Rights and Shared Responsibilities." Wisconsin Natural Resources 29 (August 2005): 8–13. Examines sustainable management of fish populations in northern Wisconsin two decades after the landmark 1983 Voigt decision, which determined that the Ojibwe people had retained rights to hunt, fish, and gather on lands they ceded to the federal government in nineteenth-century treaties.

Gautreaux, Tim. "How Sweet It Was: Louisiana's Sugar Mills are Sensual Reminders of a Region's Past." Preservation 57 (May/June 2005): 24–25, 79. Focusing on sugar mills, examines the history of Louisiana's sugar industry from its first cultivation in the 1750s through its decline in the late twentieth century.

Gerez-Fernández, Patricia, and Enrique Alatorre-Guzmán. "Challenges for Forest Certification and Community Forestry in Mexico." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 71–87 pp. Evaluates the development and current status of community forest certification in Mexico at the end of its first decade, from 1994 through 2003.

Gill, Nicholas. "Aboriginal Pastoralism, Social Embeddedness, and Cultural Continuity in Central Australia." Society and Natural Resources 18 (September 2005): 699–714. Examines Aboriginal pastoralism in Australia since the 1970s, identifying, describing, and ranking socio-cultural benefits of the practice and considering its socially embedded nature.

Gillespie, Robert Samuel. " A Streetcar Named Grand Rapids." Michigan History 89 (May/June 2005): 34–39. History of street railways/streetcars in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1865–1935.

Girel, Jacky. "Use of Town Liquid Wastes to Produce Hay and Green Manure within Alpine Floodplains: The Example of the City of Chambéry during 18th and nineteenth Centuries." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 239–244 pp. Examines the use of liquid waste as soil fertilizing agent in French agronomy, using the example of the city of Chambéry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Glaser, Rüdiger, and Sebastian Tyczewski. "Once Again it is Hermeneutics Versus Scientific Approaches—Or What Can We Learn About Climatic Change Since AD 1000 from Documentary and Natural Archives?" In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 281–285 pp. Compares research results of historic climatology approaches regarding temperature development since AD 1000 to scientific data derived from "natural archives." Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Glasser, Stephen P. "History of Watershed Management in the U.S. Forest Service: 1897–2005." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 255–258. Overview of watershed management activities in the USDA Forest Service from their beginnings in 1897, including discussions of the contributions of key individuals, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the barometer watershed program of the 1960s, and other national and state programs. Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Goddard, Nicholas. "'Pestilential Swamps'?: The Politicization of Victorian Sewage Farming." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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, pp. 245–249. Examines the ways in which the debate over the utility of sewage farming in Victorian Britain was politicized by conflicting interest groups. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Graybill, Andrew R. "Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman's Empire in Texas and Alberta, 1875–1900." Agricultural History 79 (Summer 2005): 253–280. Examines late-nineteenth-century conflict over access to resources between homesteaders and larger ranchers and cattle syndicates in the prairies of both Texas and Alberta, Canada, and the rural police responses to those conflicts.

Grosjean, Martín, Lautaro NúDez, and Isabel Cartajena. "Cultural Response to Climate Change in the Atacama Desert."

In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 156–171. Summarizes archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from sites in the Atacama Desert in the South-Central Andes, exploring the regional response of cultures to prolonged mid-Holocene drought.

Gruner, Hank J. "Reptiles Struggle." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Summer 2005): 13–16. Discusses the impact of development on reptile migration and biodiversity in Connecticut, nineteenth century through 2000s.

Gulliford, Andrew. "Fire on the Mountain: Wildland Firefighter Tragedies and Firefighter Memorials." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 239–252 pp. Examines memorials honoring smokejumpers who died fighting forest fires throughout the U.S. West since the early twentieth century, especially the monument honoring those who died on 6 July 1994 fighting a forest fire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain. Adapted from the article "Fire on the Mountain: Tragic Death and Memorialization of the Storm King Fourteen," Montana: The Magazine of Western History (April 1997).

Gumprecht, Blake. "Who Killed the Los Angeles River? " In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 115–134. Discusses various factors since the late eighteenth century that have contributed to the decline of the Los Angeles River, especially human perceptions of its physical environment and their historical emphasis on its economic rather than natural or aesthetic value.

Gómez, Art. "A Memorial to What?: The Vexing Question of Chamizal National Memorial between Texas and Mexico." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005; pp. 117–122. Examines issues and events surrounding the 1963 Chamizal Treaty between the United States and Mexico, a milestone in diplomatic relations, and the subsequent establishment of Chamizal National Memorial park in El Paso, Texas. Debate continues in the early 2000s on the issue of whether to erect an actual memorial structure at the site.

Haapala, John E., Jr. "Farmers' Rights." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 19 (2 2004): 467–474. Discusses the rise of intellectual property rights afforded to plant varieties and breeders as coming at the expense of farmers' rights. Paper presented at an April 2005 symposium on "Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: Intellectual Property and the Law and Politics of Global Food Supply.".

Haapala, John E., Jr. "Patent Pools and Antitrust Concerns in Plant Biotechnology." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 19 (2 2004): 475–493. Examines how plant patents pose antitrust concerns, and compares patent pools to other congressional, administrative, and self-help remedies. Paper presented at an April 2005 symposium on "Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: Intellectual Property and the Law and Politics of Global Food Supply.".

Hallock, Thomas. "Between Topos and the Terrain: A Brief Survey of Florida Environmental Writing, 1513–1821." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 25–46. Traces the history, 16th through early nineteenth centuries, and current study of Florida nature writing, suggesting a strategy for reading Florida as a literary subject.

Hanrahan, Brendan. "Just Another Day in Connecticut, 200 Million Years Ago." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Summer 2005): 8–11. Discusses evidence of dinosaur habitation of the Connecticut River Valley, providing a natural history of the region as well as a history of fossil exploration and discovery since the nineteenth century.

Harkness, Terry. "Folio Two: Lost Landscapes/Past Lives." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. pp. 71–77. Uses graphic representations to explore the agrarian expression of Southern California citrus culture, 1870–1940, in the uplands fronting the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and San Jacinto mountain ranges.

Harrison, Bobby R. "Phantom of the Bayou." Natural History 114 (September 2005): 18–24, 52. Naturalist Harrison describes his work since the 1970s to locate the presumed-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, culminating in a sighting in Arkan-sas in February 2004, with a brief history of the study and habitat of the species.

Harvey, Gordon E. "'We Must Free Ourselves ... from the Tattered Fetters of the Booster Mentality': Big Cypress Swamp and the Politics of Environmental Protection in 1970s Florida." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 350–374. Examines the political controversy, primarily 1970s, surrounding the protection of Florida's Big Cypress Swamp from industrial development.

Hazelrigg, George. "A Canal Ran Through It." Landscape Architecture 95 (June 2005): 106–115. Discusses plans for Washington Canal Park, what will be the first park built in Washington, D.C. since the 1980s at a site on the Anacostia River that was part of a nineteenth-century canal system originally planned by Pierre L'Enfant.

Hemminger, Pat. "The Iraqi Drain." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 60 (July/August 2005): 86A-89A. Examines early twenty-first century efforts to restore Iraq's wetlands, which have experienced rapid decline especially since the 1970s.

Henrich, Elmar J. "Fire on the Mountain: Deliberate Environmental Damage in Intra-Communal Conflicts and Wars in the Early Modern Apennines." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 313–317. Examines resource-related conflicts between rural mountain communities in the Apuan Alps and the Garfagnana, Central Italy, during the early modern period. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Holter, Russell. "100th Anniversary: Tacoma Eastern Railroad's Train to the Mountains." Tall Timber Short Lines ( Summer 2005): 29–46. History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad's "Train to the Mountain," a passenger-excursion service which carried tourists to Washington's Mount Rainier National Park, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Highlights the events leading to and subsequent operation of the service in 1904–1905.

Howett, Catherine. "Grounding Memory and Identity: Pioneering Garden Club Projects Documenting Historic Landscape Traditions of the American South." In Design With Culture: Claiming America's Landscape Heritage, ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005; pp. 19–38. Examines the role of garden club women in various projects to protect, rescue, or restore historic landscapes in the American South, mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Argues that these projects offered a n opportunity for women to work outside customary domestic and social spheres.

Hunt, John E. "Fishing Clubs Along the Baptism River." Minnesota History 59 (Summer 2005): 228–236. History of the Baptism River Fishing Club near Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota, 1880s–1920s. Provides a brief history of recreational fishing in the United States since the eighteenth century.

Hurley, Amanda Kolson. "Industrial Strength: Can the Remnants of Bethlehem Steel be Reborn?" Preservation 57 (May/June 2005): 32–37. Discusses plans for and controversy over the preservation and redevelopment of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's main plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania into a National Museum of Industrial History, ongoing since the 1990s. Provides a brief history of the town and its eighteenth-century Moravian heritage.

Hédl, Radim. "Botanical Data as Sources for Assessment of Long-Term Environmental Changes." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 73–78. Discusses the potential for data on plant species occurence to help derive long-term environmental changes and trends. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Irby, Lee. "'The Big Ditch': The Rise and Fall of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 375–397. Examines controversy surrounding the plans for, construction, and impacts of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal, primarily during the early twentieth century.

Irland, Lloyd C. "Northeast Enjoys Strong Pulp Markets." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 54 (July 2005): 12–14. Summarizes changes in national pulpwood usage in the United States, 1960–2003, examining why the Northeast and Lake States enjoy strong markets while consumption declines nationally.

Jaeger, Sally. "History in Your Hometown: Flint." Michigan History 89 (May/June 2005): 54–58. History of Flint, Michigan from its early nineteenth-century ori-gins as a trading station, its development into a lumber town and, in the 1950s, an automotive industry town. Focuses on transportation development.

Jaeschke, Brian S. "Black Angels of the Ice." Michigan History 89 (May/June 2005): 14–20. Examines icebreaking vessels used from the late-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries to ferry freight across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, extending the Great Lakes shipping season and influencing worldwide icebreaking technology.

Jiménez, Alberto Corsín. "Landscaping History: Nitrate Mining in the Atacama Desert in the Twentieth Century." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 333–344. Anthropological interpretation of the history of nitrate mining in South America's Atacama Desert, late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, focusing on people's relationship with the desert and how it has affected miners' self-perceptions and identity.

Johnson, Daniel. "Pollution and Public Policy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century ." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 78–94. Examines public policy regarding pollution in Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century, arguing that it was focused more on encouraging economic growth than on preserving the city's environment, and primarily served the interests of the city's wealthy and powerful citizens.

Johnson, Leland R. "No Work, No Rations: Army Engineers' Work Relief in Southern States." Journal of Mississippi History 67 (Summer 2005): 106–133. Examines the United States Army Corps of Engineers' flood control and disaster relief campaigns in the South during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially controversy surrounding work relief and rations for refugees in 1916–1917.

Kelly, Marsha C. S. "Continuing Maricopa Identities: Gila River Reservation, Arizona." Journal of the Southwest 47 (Spring 2005): 47–56. Author recounts her research experiences in the 1970s, conducting oral histories with Maricopa peoples of Arizona, who share the Gila River and Salt River Reservations with the Pimas, to address the question of whether subornidate ethnic identities are maintained in spite of inclusion in a federal reservation.

Kelsey, Albert V. B. "C. C. Washburn: The Evolution of a Flour Baron." Wisconsin Magazine of History 88 (Summer 2005): 38–51. Biographical sketch of Cadwallader Colden Washburn (1818–1882), Civil War Colonel, politician, Governor of Wisconsin in the 1870s, and an important timber and flour milling entrepreneur in the state's early history. Washburn's flour mill firm later became General Mills.

Kimber, R. G. Dick. "'Because It is Our Country': The Pintupi and Their Return to Their Country, 1970–1990." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts , ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 345–356 pp. Explores the return of the Pintupi people, the last Australian Aboriginal group to make contact with Europeans, to their native homeland near Alice Springs from 1970 to 1990.

Kinahan, Jill. "The Archaeology of Historical Contact and Trade on the Namib Desert Coast." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. 294–307 pp. Investigates the history of the indigenous people of the Namib Desert coast in Southern Africa during the contact period, eighteenth through twentieth centuries, using a narrative approach to interpret and present archaeological evidence.

Kinahan, John. "The Late Holocene Human Ecology of the Namib Desert." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 120–131. Examines archaeological evidence of human adaptation to the arid environment of the Namib desert in southern Africa, including food production, pastoralism, land and water use, during the late Holocene.

Kinsey, Darin. "'Creating Fish in Illimitable Numbers': The Nineteenth Century 'Aquatic Revolution' in France and its Export to North America." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 264–268. Examines the origins of modern fish culture science in nineteenth-century France and its spread to North America, arguing that interest in conservation was only one part of a broader effort to bring the aquatic environment under human control. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Klooster, Dan, and Shrinidhi Ambinakudige. "The Global Significance of Mexican Community Forestry." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. pp. 305–334. Explores global interest in community forestry in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, surveys illustrative community forestry experiences, and proposes a typology of community forestry, using it to compare the Mexican model with other areas of the world.

Knoll, Martin. "Power and Sustainability: Elite Hunting Culture in Early Modern Germany." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 40–43. Discusses the socio-economic and ecological consequences of eighteenth-century game hunting in Europe. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Kraikovski, Alexei, et al. "The Study of Fisheries in the Eastern Baltic in the 15th–18th cc.—Preliminary Results and Further Perspectives." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 269–273. Preliminary results and discussion of a 2003 study of Baltic fisheries from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries using Russian documents. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Kwashirai, Vimbai. "Shifting Cultivation: Debating Deforestation and Conservation in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900–1915." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 79–84. Examines the investigation of shifting cultivation, a method practiced by the indigenous population, by the British South African Company in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), 1900–1915. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Landrum, Ney C. "Entrepreneurism in America's State Parks." George Wright Forum 22 (2 2005): 26–32. Explores the history of and issues surrounding privatization and commercialization in state park operations. Part of issue devoted primarily to privatization of the national parks.

Lassiter, Unna, and Jennifer Wolch. "Changing Attitudes toward Animals among Chicanas and Latinas in Los Angeles." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press , 2005; pp. 267–285. Examines attitudes toward animals and urban practices of keeping animals among Chicana and Latina women in Los Angeles, arguing that they reflect the assimilation of immigrants and their first-generation children and serve as a means of retaining cultural identity.

Lavier, Catherine, Christine Locatelli, and Didier Pousset. "De L'Artefact en Bois à la Nature Forestière: Quelques Histoires Parlantes." Revue forestière française 56 (2004): 17–29. "From Wooden Artefacts to the Nature of Forests—Objects That Speak for Themselves." Explores the use of trees as raw material for craftsmen in western Europe over 7 millinea. In of a special issue on "the future of wood."

Lazzarini, Antonio. "Hydrogeological Instability Problems in the Nineteenth Century in Veneto." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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. 295–299 pp. Examines concern over deforestation and its effects on the hydrogeological system in Veneto, Italy, during the nineteenth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Lenka, Uhlírová, and Tomás Klír. "Spatial-Temporal Analyses of Landscape Changes in Kosmonosy District (Central Bohemia)." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 331–335. Attempts to demonstrate the importance of historical maps for the reconstruction of landscape, using the example of spatial-temporal analyses of the Kosmonosy district of Central Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Levasseur, Olivier. "The Birth of the 'Culture of Water': the Development of Oyster Culture in France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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 . 259–263 pp. Explores the evolution of marine aquaculture, particularly oyster culture, in France over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Lewis, James G. "The Applicant Is No Gentleman: Women in the Forest Service." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 259–263. Examines the admission and roles of women employees in the US Forest Service, from the earliest female fire lookouts in the 1910s to continuing staffing disparities in the 2000s. Adapted from the book The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History (Forest History Society, 2005, Durham, NC). Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Linehan, Peter E. "Strategies for Forestry Success: Examples from the Early Years of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 224–229. Examines some of the successful conservation strategies derived from the first twenty years of Forest Leaves, the journal of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. The PFA was founded in 1886 to educate the state and its people about the dangers of forest destruction.

Liphschitz, Nili. "Man's Impact on the Past Landscape as Evident from Dendroarchaeological Research." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 85–89. Discusses evidence of man's impact on the environment as seen through sutides of preserved botanical remains gathered in archaeological excavations, especially in Israel. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Lodrini, Sara. "The Housing and Health Survey System: An Instrument for the Knowledge of the City and Support for Urban Planning." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 208–213. Examines the use of the Housing and Health Survey System in Paris beginning at the end of the nineteenth century as a useful instrument for improving disease rates and directing urban planning efforts. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Luebken, Uwe. "'A Dangerous Business': Flood Insurance in Historical Perspective." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 300–304. Examines the history of flood insurance in Europe since the mid-nineteenth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

López-Arzola, Rodolfo. " Empowering Community-Based Forestry in Oaxaca: The Union of Forest Communities and Ejidos of Oaxaca, 1985–1996." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005; pp. 111–24. Examines the rise and fall of the Unión de Communidades y Ejidos Forestales de Oaxaca (UCEFO), a pioneering organization in Mexico designed to help created a new form of forest organization for local communities, 1980s–1990s.

Macfarlane, Ingereth. "A Water History of the Western Simpson Desert, Australia." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 308–23. Explores the history of the relationship between inhabitants of Australia's Simpson Desert and water and "water places," considering the natural resource itself as an historical actor and cultural object.

Maclean, Norman. "Guardians of the Forest: The Protectors: An Excerpt from Young Men and Fire." Timberlines (Spring 2005): 15–18. First in a three-part series heralding the heroes of American forestry, consisting of an excerpt from Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), which chronicles the Mann Gulch Fire, Montana, 1949, and the role of Forest Service smokejumpers.

Majchrowska, Anna. "Spatial Distribution of Ancient and Recent Woodlands in Central Poland, the Implications for Nature Conservation." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 90–94. Uses spatial analysis to identify tracts of ancient woodland in Central Poland and compare them with the location of nature reserves, with a view to improving the conservation of ancient forests. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Manning, Richard. "Prairie Crossroads." OnEarth 27 (Summer 2005): 14–23. Examines a proposed, unprecedented conservation project in the Montana plains, planned as of 2005 by the American Prairie Foundation, to assemble the largest temperate-grassland reserve in North America. Provides historical context for the region from the late nineteenth century, including settlement and the legacies of industrialization and New Deal-era relief projects.

Marston, Ed. "Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Centennial Forum: Summary Essay." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 3–5. Report on the Rocky Mountain Regional Centennial Forum held in November 2004, which explored the first one hundred years of the U.S. Forest Service's Region 2. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Forest Service.

Marxsen, Craig S. "Prophecy de Novo: The Nearly Self-Fulfilling Doomsday Forecast." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, ed. Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 2005; pp. 23–42. Critically evaluates the prophecy set forth in the 1972 book The Limits to Growth, which prescribed an abrupt halt to global economic and population growth to avoid cataclysmic effects in the 21st century. Argues that ecocatastrophism severely weakens economic growth and performance, creating the potential for a global decline similar to the one feared by the catastrophists.

Mathis, Charles-François. "Victorian England as an Industrial Nation: A Sustainable Identity?" In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 152–57. Discusses how Victorians in England used conservationism, environmentalism, and preservationism to cope with their new industrial identity. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

McCally, David. "The Everglades and the Florida Dream." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 141–59. Critically analyzes the 1998 Central and Southern Florida Project Comprehensive Review Study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a new conservation plan for Florida's freshwater supply that was used as the blueprint for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project passed by Congress in 2000.

McClung, William A. "Folio One: Southern California, 1900." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005, pp. 16–22. Examines a 1900 boxed set of photographs entitled Art Work on Southern California, arguing that it attempts to attract real estate purchasers and developers by portraying the Los Angeles area as having achieved balance between nature and landscape design.

McKillop, Bob. "Mining Railways of Cobar: 8. The New Occidental Revival, 1932–1952." Light Railways No. 183 (June 2005 2005): 7–14. Discusses mining companies' railway operations in New South Wales, Australia from 1932 to 1952, in particular at the New Occidental, New Cobar, and Chesney mines.

McKinney, Matthew, and Will Harmon. "Resolving Natural Resource Disputes: A Historical, Analytical, and Prescriptive Framework." Renewable Resources Journal 23 (Summer 2005): 16–22. Examines the problem of competing interests in natural resources via a twentieth-century case study of disputes over water allocation in Oregon's Klamath Basin, offering suggestions for resolving similar disputes.

McNeely, Jeffrey A. "Protected Areas in 2023: Scenarios for an Uncertain Future." George Wright Forum 22 (1 2005): 61–74. Discusses scenario planning, a tool for helping protected area managers deal with the uncertainty of the future. Provides a brief global history of protected areas since the nineteenth century. Part of a theme issue on "Conservation Practice at the Landscape Scale."

McPhee, John. "Los Angeles Against the Mountains." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 179–200. Examines the geological phenomenon of debris flows in developed residential areas of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles and the historical environmental and human-caused factors that contribute to them.

Meindl, Christopher F. "Water, Water Everywhere." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 113–37. Examines the environmental history of wetlands and policy issues surrounding wetland conservation in Florida, primarily mid-nineteenth century through 2000s.

Merino-Pérez, Leticia, and Gerardo Segura-Warnholtz. "Forest and Conservation Policies and Their Impact on Forest Communities in Mexico." In The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes, ed. David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez, and Deborah Barry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005, pp. 49–69. Analyzes forest policies implemented by various Mexican governments over the second half of the twentieth century. Comments on the impact of government interventions and resulting community responses.

Meyer, William B. "Why Did Syracuse Manufacture Solar Salt?" New York History 86 (Spring 2005): 195–209. Rise and fall of the salt industry in and around the present city of Syracuse, New York, 1780s–1920s, examining in particular historical context of the solar evaporation method of salt production used at the site.

Miller, Char. "Crisis Management: Challenge and Controversy in Forest Service History." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 14–18. Frames the 100-year history of the U.S. Forest Service through a discussion of four key challenges faced by its leadership: Gifford Pinchot's struggle to found the agency in the 1890s–early 1900s; conflicts over the agency's mission in the 1920s; its fight for survival during the Great Depression; and its attempts to remain relevant in the second half of the twentieth century. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the Forest Service.

Miller, Char. "Liquid Assets." Forest Magazine (Summer 2005 ): 14–15. Examines the history since the late nineteenth century and current prospects of water usage in the United States, especially as it concerns irrigation, urbanization, and the national forest system. Urges a reinvigorated commitment to the crucial issue of water resource stewardship in the early twenty-first century. Part of a special issue on "Liquid Assets: Forests and the Future of Water.".

Miller, Char. "Past Forward." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 215–17. Introduction to special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the USDA Forest Service devoted to historical examinations of American forestry. Examines the context and events leading up to the agency's founding.

Mills, Roger. "Are You Still Alive? I Thought You Were Closed Down Years Ago ..." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 95–99. Case study of the development of the Oxford Forest Information Service, a data resource for forest science, over the twentieth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Mitchell, John E., Peter F. Ffolliott, and Marcia Patton-Mallory. "Back to the Future: Forest Service Rangeland Research and Management." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 19–28. Explores the origins and history of rangeland research and management within the U.S. Forest Service, 1890s–2005. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the agency.

Monson, Jamie. "Common Citizens or Citizens of the Commons? Negotiating Rights to Resource Use in Southern Tanzania, 1930–2000." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 318–22. Examines how political and demographic changes have affected governance of natural resources in the Kilombera Valley of Tanzania, Africa from 1930 to 2000. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Moon, David. "The Dokuchaev Expedition to the Steppes and Sustainability in the 1890s." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 47–50. Considers a plan for sustainable agriculture drawn up in 1892 by soil scientist Vasilii Dokuchaev for the steppe region of Russia. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

More, Thomas A. "From Public to Private: Five Concepts of Park Management and Their Consequences." George Wright Forum 22 (2 2005): 12–20. Examines the historical context of the privatization of public land in America since the late nineteenth century, evaluating consequences and outlining alternatives. Part of issue devoted primarily to privatization of the national parks.

Naylor, Chris. "Those Early Americans: Public Lands and Claims in the American State Papers, 1789–1837." Prologue 37 (Summer 2005): 54–61. Overview of and examples from the American State Papers, a published compilation of executive and legislative records from 1789–1837 held by the National Archives, highlighting their potential for genealogical and other types of research.

Nelson, Dave. "'Improving' Paradise: The Civilian Conservation Corps and Environmental Change in Florida." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 92–112. Examines the New Deal-era work relief program the Civilian Conservation Corps, in the state of Florida, 1933 – 1941. Argues that though the program spurred preservation and environmental awareness, it also dramatically altered many of the state's ecosystems.

Neset, Tina-Simone Schmid, and Ulrik Lohm. "Historical Metabolism of Food Consumption and Production—Sweden, 1870–2000." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 51–54. Case study of the city of Linköping in southeastern Sweden for 1870–2000, considering the area needed for the production of food using the local yield, comparing the potential production in 2000 with the actual share of a global food import. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Nichols, Jeffrey. "'These Waters Were All Virgin': Finis Mitchell and Wind River Wilderness, Wyoming." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005; pp. 263–71. Sketch of conservationist Finis Mitchell, best known for stocking the lakes of Wyoming's Wind River range with trout species during the 1930s. Discusses controversy over ecological consequences of introducing non-native species. Part of a special issue on the history and significance of angling in the American West. Also published as "'These Waters Were All Virgin': Finis Mitchell and Wind River," Annals of Wyoming (Spring 2004).

Nordlund, Christer. "How the Coast Became High: An Historical Introduction to the High Coast (Höga kusten) World Heritage Site in Sweden." Environment and History 11 (May 2005): 113–38. Investigates the High Coast in northeastern Sweden, the first site in northern Europe to earn a spot on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2000 purely on account of its natural environment. Examines the "career" of this landscape: the process by which its value has been articulated, especially through tourism and scientific, artistic, and environmentalist activities that have taken place there in the twentieth century. Also compares the High Coast to the United States' Grand Canyon.

Norris, Jim. "Growing Up Growing Sugar: Local Teenage Labor in the Sugar Beet Fields, 1958–1974." Agricultural History 79 (Summer 2005): 298–320. Examines the Youth Beet Program, established in the 1950s in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota to address perceived threats of Mexican labor by replacing migrant workers with local teenagers.

Núñez, Lautaro, Martín Grosjean, and Isabel Cartajena. "The Expansion of the Inka Empire into the Atacama Desert." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 324–32. Explores the effects of the fifteenth-sixteenth century expansion of the Inka empire southward into South America's Atacama Desert on existing local economic and social regimes.

Nye, Charles W. "Gray's Gables: Laramie's First Recreation Center." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Spring 2005): 30–37. Historical sketch of Gray's Gables, Laramie, Wyoming's first recreation center, dedicated in 1929 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Olberding, Susan Deaver, John E. Mitchell, and Margaret M. Moore. "'Doing the Best We Could With What We Had': USFS Range Research in the Southwest." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 29–36. Examines the U.S. Forest Service's Southwest rangeland research program from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the 1970s. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the agency.

Orsi, Jared. "Flood Control Engineering in the Urban Ecosystem." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 135–51. Discusses political issues surrounding institutionalized flood control in Southern California since its foundations in the Progressive Era.

Pagels, Brad. "Tracks from the Past: Camp 12 Spur." Chips and Sawdust 30 (Summer 2005): 3–6. Discusses a section of logging railway known as the Camp 12 Spur, built in 1916 near Boulder Lake, Wisconsin by the Oconto Lumber Company and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.

Pagels, Brad. "Tracks from the Past: The Flanders Spur." Chips and Sawdust 30 (Spring 2005): 5–8. Discusses a section of logging railway known as the Flanders Spur, built in 1923 near Carter, Wisconsin and still in existence. Includes a map and guide for visitors.

Palmieri, Walter. "Hydrogeologic Instability in Nineteeth-Century Southern Italy." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 305–9. Examines how land use practices contributed to hydrogeological instability in the continental south of Italy during the nineteenth century. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Patakfalvi, Zsolt. "St. Marys Paper: Papermaking's 110 Year Relationship with the City of Sault Ste. Marie." Pulp & Paper Canada 106 (May 2005): 22–23. Overview of Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario and its 110-year relationship with St. Marys Paper Ltd., with a history of papermaking in the city since the 1880s.

Paterson, Alistair. "Historical Interactions Between Aborigines and European Pastoralists in Australia's Drylands." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 267–80. Investigates contact/conflict between European pastoralists and indigenous hunter-gatherers in the Australian drylands, 1790s through the early twentieth century, using an archaeological approach to synthesize different types of evidence.

Patin, Thomas. "Western Views and Eastern Visions: National Parks, Manifest Destiny, and American Identity." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005; pp. 66–73. Discusses the nineteenth-century translation of the American natural landscape, through the creation of national parks, into cultural heritage and national identity using verbal, pictorial, and museological rhetoric.

Patterson, Gordon. "The Trials and Tribulations of Amos Quito: The Creation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 160–76. Explores Florida's antimosquito movement, 1910s–1920s.

Patton, David K., Amy K. Lobben, and Bruce M. C. Pape. "Mapping Cities and Towns in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Look at Plat, Sanborn, and Panoramic Mapping Activities in Michigan." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Spring 2005): 93–122. Examines the development of three forms of cartographic products—plat maps, fire insurance maps, and panoramic views—in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Michigan, and how these map types can be used as tools for the modern researcher.

Pedley, Mary Sponberg. "Louis Charles Karpinski and the Cartography of the Great Lakes." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Spring 2005): 167–99. Biographical sketch of Louis Charles Karpinski (1878–1956), focusing on his substantial contributions to the history of cartography of Michigan, most notably his Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, first published in 1931.

Peterson, Pete. "Finding Hope and Building a Legacy at Crater Lake." NACCCA Journal 28 (August 2005): 1, 11–12, 14. Examines CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) operations at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, from 1933 to 1941.

Petroski, Henry. "Engineering: The Bay Bridge." American Scientist 93 (May–June 2005): 202–206. Examines efforts since 1989 to update the design of San Francisco's Bay Bridge, severely damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake, to make it more earthquake-resistant. Provides a history of the planning and construction of the bridge since the mid-nineteenth century.

Platt, Carolyn V. "Ohio's Scenic Rivers: Preservation and Perils." Timeline 22 (July–September 2005): 2–17. Overview of the designated scenic rivers of Ohio and efforts to preserve them, primarily since the 1970s.

Pollack, Malla. "Originalism, J.E.M., and the Food Supply, or Will the Real Decision Maker Please Stand Up?" Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 19 (2 2004): 495–534. Examines the rise of utility patents on basic food crops and the dangers they pose to the global food supply. Paper presented at an April 2005 symposium on "Malthus, Mendel, and Monsanto: Intellectual Property and the Law and Politics of Global Food Supply."

Porter, Charlotte M. "An Eighteenth-Century Flower Child: William Bartram." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 47–71. Explores the life and writings of botanist/naturalist William Bartram (1739–1823), especially his experiences in and observations of Florida from his travels there between 1773 and 1777.

Prickett, Connie Schaffer. "Protecting the High Ground." New York State Conservationist 60 (August 2005): 12–13. Discusses efforts since the 1960s to conserve and restore vegetation in alpine meadows of the Adirondacks in New York state, including the 1989 founding of the Summit Stewardship Program.

Puyo, Jean-Yves. "Les Conséquences de la Première Guerre Mondiale pout les Forets et les Forestiers Français." Revue foresticre française 6 (2004): 573–84. "The Consequences of the First World War on French Forests and Foresters." Examines the impact of World War I on French forest science, especially in terms of overlogging done by German and Allied troops in France and casualties suffered by the Water and Forestry Services.

Quigley, Thomas M. "Evolving Views of Public Land Values and Management of Public Resources." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 37–44. Examines rangeland and natural resource management in the history and future of the U.S. Forest Service, late nineteenth century through 2005. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the agency.

Raab, L. Mark. "Political Ecology of Prehistoric Los Angeles." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 23–37. Examines prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies in the greater Los Angeles area, arguing against common cultural stereotypes promoted by political ecologies, and for an understanding that reflects change and adaptation to challenging and complex social and natural environments.

Rai, Suman K. "Managing Chinese Grasslands: Adversities of Individual Lease." Rangelands 27 (August 2005): 33–42. Examines the Chinese practice of parceling grasslands into individual leases, arguing that it can adversely impact the livelihoods of traditional pastoral groups and result in environmental degradation. Provides a history of Chinese grassland management policy, 1940s–2000s.

Reed, Floyd, David Bradford, and Justin McConkey. "A Century of Managing Rangelands on National Forests: Or It Ain't Easy Being a Range Con in the New West." Rangelands 27 (June 2005): 45–49. Examines missions, objectives, and challenges for rangeland management in the 100-year history of the U.S. Forest Service. Part of a special issue on the 100th anniversary of the agency.

Reynolds, William W. "Thomas Jefferson's First Threshing Machine." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 58 (June 2005): 54–65. Discusses Thomas Jefferson's and George Washington's efforts in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Virginia to develop an efficient wheat-threshing machine.

Ricard, Robert M. "Shade Trees and Tree Wardens: Revising the History of Urban Forestry." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 230–33. Examines the origins of urban forestry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in particular tree warden laws and the early emphasis on and public sentimentality for public shade trees in New England.

Rienzo, Maria Gabriella. "The Harnessing of Water: The Environmental Consequences of Dam Construction in the Italian South ." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; 182–85. Deals with water management in history of the Italian South, primarily nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Riley, Nano. "Lake Apopka: From Natural Wonder to Unnatural Disaster." In Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, ed. Jack E. Davis and Raymond Arsenault. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005; pp. 280–93. Examines the transformation of Lake Apopka in Orange County, Florida, over the course of the twentieth century from one of the state's largest and most pristine bodies of water to its most polluted. Also details early twenty-first century cleanup efforts.

Roger, Bob. "The Bear Mill." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 58 (June 2005): 70–77, 79. Historical sketch of the Bear family's woodworking industry near Churchville, Virginia, in place since 1812 and still operational. Includes detailed information about machinery in the Bear Mill.

Ross, June. "Rock Art of the Red Centre." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 217–30. Overview and interpretation of rock art created by Aboriginal Australians in the continent's central desert region.

Rotherham, Ian D., and David Egan. "The Economics of Fuel Wood, Charcoal and Coal: An Interpretation of Coppice Management of British Woodlands." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 100–4. Explores data sources for examining utilization of Britain's medieval coppice woods and the parallel development of other fuels, including charcoal, coal, and peat. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Rowe, Jonathan. "The Common Good." Sierra 90 (July/August 2005): 54–57, 60. Discusses the concept of "the commons," or common ownership of resources, including its historical background in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe, and its current applications for the environmental movement and environmental policy.

Runte, Alfred. "The Greater Realities of Privatization: A Historian's Perspective." George Wright Forum 22 (2 2005): 21–25. Examines historical and cultural contexts for the privatization movement in America. Part of issue devoted primarily to privatization of the national parks.

Sabin, Paul. "Beaches Versus Oil in Greater Los Angeles." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 95–114. Examines debates over coastal oil drilling in the Los Angeles area in the early twentieth century, especially the oil industry's relationship with beachfront recreation, home ownership, and tourism.

Sackman, Douglas C. "A Garden of Worldly Delights." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 245–66. Explores Victorian popular fascination with horticulture and gardening in the Los Angeles region, 1870s–1910s, arguing that gardens helped to naturalize social inequality and conquest.

Safford, Jeffrey J. "Mapping Montana: The Federal Land Surveys of 1867–1868." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Summer 2005): 54–63. Examines the process of selecting an initial survey point in the Montana Territory during the Federal Land Surveys of 1867–1868, led by surveyor general Solomon Meredith.

Samojlik, Tomasz. "Utilization and Protection of Bialowiea Primeval Forest (Poland) in the 15th–16th Centuries and their Traces in the Contemporary Forest Ecosystems." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 106–8. Reviews utilization of the Bialowiea Primeval Forest in Poland during Jagiellonian dynasty rule (1386–1572 AD) and its influences on forest ecosystems. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Sample, V. Alaric, and Char Miller. "A Transformative Place: Grey Towers and the Evolution of American Conservationism." Journal of Forestry 103 (July/August 2005): 237–40. Historical sketch of Grey Towers in Milford, Pennsylvania, originally the estate of founding USDA Forest Service chief Gifford Pinchot (1895–1946). Explores Pinchot's legacy in American conservationism, especially the role of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies which was founded at Grey Towers since 1963. Part of a special issue on the 2005 centennial anniversary of the Forest Service.

Sanesi, Giovanni, Francesca Bottalico, and Raffaele Lafortezza. "Historical Evolution of the Mediterranean Forest Landscape with Prevailing Quercus trojana Webb, in the Putignano Municipality, Southern Italy." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 109–14. Study analyzing the evolution of the forest landscape over centuries in the Apulia Region, Southern Italy. Paper presented at 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Santoro, Calogero M., et al. "Hunter-gatherers on the Coast and Hinterland of the Atacama Desert." In 23 Degrees S: Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts, ed. Mike Smith and Paul Hesse. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005; pp. 172–85. Examines prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations of the Atacama Desert in South America, concluding that they managed stability of culture and subsistence under extreme and dynamic climatic conditions.

Savage, Candace. "Prairie: Where is Here?" Forest Magazine (Summer 2005): 38–43. First in a three-part series of excerpts from Savage's 2005 book Prairie: A Natural History, which explores the human and physical geography, environmental history, and ecology of prairie landscapes and ecosystems in the United States' Great Plains region.

Schiffer, Michael Brian. "The Electric Lighthouse in the Nineteenth Century." Technology and Culture 46 (April 2005): 275–305. Addresses the differential adoption of electric lights in nineteenth-century lighthouses, primarily in Europe and the United States, using performance matrix and life-history framework techniques for studying the behavior of technology adoption.

Schiffman, Paula M. "The Los Angeles Prairie." In Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles, ed. William Deverell and Greg Hise. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005; pp. 38–51. Examines the ecological processes and historical circumstances, primarily during the eighteenth century, that caused the rapid disappearance of the prairie ecosystem that existed prior to pervasive European settlement in the Los Angeles region of Southern California.

Schmid, Martin A. "Magic and Power as Topics in Environmental History: A Case Study from Austria about 1600." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 158–62. Using a case study from a ca. 1600 Austrian agricultural manual, argues for the examination of magical/symbolic practices and power relationships in studying interactions between society and nature. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Schmidt, Uwe Eduard. "Coppices in the Low Mountain Ranges of Germany." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 115–99. Examines the history and ecological effects of coppicing and agro-forestry in the low mountain ranges of Germany. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Schnepf, Max. "Soil Conservation and SWCS: A Forty-Year Retrospective." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 60 (May/June 2005): 60A–65A. Discusses the founding, history, and future prospects of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, 1940s–2000s.

Schulte, Steven C. "'Where Man Is a Visitor': The Wilderness Act as a Case Study in Western Public History." In Preserving Western History, ed. Andrew Gulliford. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 272–281 pp. Examines the implications of the 1964 Wilderness Act for modern public historians and historical interpretation on the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, arguing for the recognition of controversy surrounding its passage and enforcement.

Selin, Henrik, and Stacy D. Vandeveer. "Canadian-U.S. Environmental Cooperation: Climate Change Networks and Regional Action." American Review of Canadian Studies 35 (Summer 2005): 353–78. Examines growing United States state level and Canadian provincial environmental cooperation in the early twentieth century, using the case study of the NEG-ECP (New England Governors-Eastern Canadaian Premiers) climate change action.

Serneri, Simone Neri. "Urbanization and the Environment in Contemporary Italy, 1950–1970." In History and Sustainability: Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History Proceedings, Florence, Italy, February 16–19, 2005, ed. Mauro Agnoletti, et al. 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; pp. 214–18. Examines social and economic development in Italy, 1950–1970, including the growth of industry, urbanization, de-ruralization, and natural resource utilization. Paper presented at February 2005 Third International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History.

Shands, Henry L. "Current Status of Access and Availability of Plant Genetic Resources." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 19 (2 2004): 455–62. Discusses the history, nineteenth-twentieth centuries, a