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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Adler, Jerry. "Charles Darwin: Evolution of a Scientist." Newsweek 146 (22 2005): 50–58. Examines the personal life and views of Charles Darwin on the relationship between his evolutionary theories and religion. Written in context of the 2005 popular debate over evolution vs. "intelligent design."

Allison, R. Bruce. "Every Root an Anchor: Wisconsin's Famous and Historic Trees." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Autumn 2005): 42–45. Excerpt from book of the same title (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005) containing sketches of some of the state's noteworthy and historic trees, including giant elms dating from as early as the 16th century killed by Dutch Elm disease in the 1950s, and an oak at the Durand Courthouse which figured in an 1881 lynching.

Andersson, Rikard, Lars Östlund, and Erik Törnlund. "The Last European Landscape to be Colonised: A Case Study of Land-Use Change in the Far North of Sweden 1850–1930." Environment and History 11 (August 2005): 193–318. Examines the agricultural colonization of the interior of northern Sweden in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, analyzing the rapid land-use transition from nomadic to agricultural with particular focus on the late 1800s.

Anker, Peder. "The Bauhaus of Nature." Modernism/modernity 12 (2 2005): 229–251. Examines interactions between ecology and the Bauhaus school of design founded by Walter Gropius in early-twentieth-century Germany, arguing that both groups believed the human household should be modeled on the "household of nature." Discusses examples of overlap including the Bauhaus design at the London Zoo and the utopian visions of H. G. Wells.

Anker, Peder. "The Economy of Nature in the Botany of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712)." Archives of Natural History 31 (2 2004): 191–207. Examines the work and philosophy of Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712), the first curator of plants at The Royal Society, one of the chief supporters of the early-modern emergence of mathematical and mechanical reasoning as a means of understanding nature.

Anker, Peder. "The Politics of Ecology in South Africa on the Radical Left." Journal of the History of Biology 37 (2004): 303–331. Examines the entanglement of science and politics in South Africa's society and history, especially as seen through the works of ecologist and political activist Edward Roux (1903–1966).

Anker, Peder. "A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes." Philosophy & Geography 7 (August 2004): 259–264. Revisits Enlightenment ideas about human and animal rights to address the question of whether granting moral status to animals, plants, and landscapes de-legitimizes struggles for human rights. Focuses on a 1792 booklet of the same title which represents one of the first biocentric arguments for animal rights.

Ard, Patricia. "Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey's Image." Public Historian 27 (Summer 2005): 57–66. Discusses the Trash Museum which existed in Lyndhurst, New Jersey from 1989 to 1999, examining how that institution confronted head-on the state's history of unregulated garbage dumping while demonstrating its leadership in garbage disposal and land remediation.

Arno, Stephen. "Mimicking Nature's Fire: Guide to Restoring Sustainable Forests." Tree Farmer 24 (September/October 2005): 20–23. Summarizes author's 2005 book, Mimicking Nature's Fire: Restoring Fire-Prone Forests in the West, which explores the practice of "restoration forestry," or the process of restoring some semblance of historical forest structure and fire process. Profiles some restoration forestry projects in Montana.

Arnold, David. "Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848–1850." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 137–155 pp. Highlights botanist Joseph Hooker's contributions to scientific and public understanding of the tropics. Focus is on Hooker's travels to India, a region that is not in the tropics but possesses tropical vegetation.

Baigent, Elizabeth. "Mapping the Forests and Chases of England and Wales, c. 1530 to c. 1670." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 21–28 pp. Explores mapping of crown lands in England and Wales, including royal forests, c. 1530–1670.

Barnett, Leroy. "Turnouts That Turn On." Michigan History 89 (January/February 2005): 46–49. History of roadside rest stops and parks in Michigan, where the nation's first was opened in 1919.

Bell, Leonard. "Eyeing Samoa: People, Places, and Spaces in Photographs of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 156–174 pp. Examines colonial (1875–1925) European and American visions of Samoa as an "island paradise" through photography, comparing outsiders' views of Samoa with the image native Samoans had of their own country.

Benton-Cohen, Katherine. "Common Purposes, Worlds Apart: Mexican-American, Mormon, and Midwestern Women Homesteaders in Cochise County, Arizona." Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Winter 2005): 429–452. Case study of Anglo midwestern, Mexican-American, and Mormon homesteading women in Cochise County, Arizona in the early twentieth century. Reveals commonalities and differences obscured by promotional efforts to present homesteading as the "salvation of white America."

Branch, Michael P. "John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 249–264 pp. Explores the role of John Muir's international travels during the late nineteenth century in his life and work.

Brown, Kate. "A Historian in the Dead Zone." Chronicle of Higher Education 52 (5 2005): B6–B9. Account of the author's June 2004 visit to the Chernobyl Zone of Exclusion in Ukraine. Reflects on interpretation of the history left in the zone surrounding the scene of the 1986 nuclear accident.

Burgess, Carla. "Out of the Woodwork." N.C. Naturalist 13 (Fall/Winter 2005): 4–6. Discusses paleobotanist Elisabeth Wheeler's work with North Carolina State University Libraries cataloging thousands of microscopic images of modern and fossilized wood samples to create a global reference, research, and teaching tool called "Inside Wood" (insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search/).

Burnett, D. Graham. "Matthew Fontaine Maury's 'Sea of Fire': Hydrography, Biogeography, and Providence in the Tropics." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 113–134 pp. Examines the life, work, and scientific achievements of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873). Maury is renowned for his work in naval science, meteorology, oceanography, and cartography. Author interprets Maury's views on the tropics through his whale charts.

Camp, Gregory S. "Part Seven: The Journey Continues, Spring 1805: Leaving North Dakota Behind." North Dakota History 71 (3&4 2004): 19–26. Historical account of the spring 1805 portion of the Lewis and Clark expedition spent journeying from Fort Mandan, North Dakota to Lemhi Pass, Montana and searching for guide Sacajawea's tribe, the Shoshones.

Carruthers, David. "200th Anniversary of Papermaking in Canada." Pulp & Paper Canada 106 (September 2005): 10–12. Brief history of the two-hundred-year-old papermaking industry in Canada.

Cheeseman, Caroline. "Ownership and Ecological Change." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 67–74 pp. Examines landscape change in England's Cranborne Chase, especially the intersection of plants, deer, and people, late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries.

Clemens, Marilyn. "Maintaining the High Ground." Landscape Architecture 9 (September 2005): 46–53. Discusses the history since the nineteenth century and current preservation efforts of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill.

Clow, Richmond L. "'A Flagrant Outrage': James McLaughlin, Indian Country, and Illegal Bison Hunting." North Dakota History 71 (3&4 2004): 2–18. Explores nineteenth-century disputes over bison hunting in the Dakota Territory, especially the role of Indian agent James McLaughlin, best known for his role in the arrest and eventual death of Sitting Bull and for his negotiations to open western Indian reservations to white settlement.

Coates, Peter A. "Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California." California History 83 (1 2005): 8–27. Connects the social and environmental history of two different California landscapes, the New Almaden quicksilver mines in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains and the English-style landscaped estate created by one of the mine's owners at Menlo Park. Examines the relationship between places of leisure (a garden) and labor (a mine). Revised version of essay published in 2003's 'Nature's Nation' Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis.

Coder, Marcelle, et al. "Land-Use History of Three Colorado Plateau Landscapes: Implications for Restoration Goal-Setting." In The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research, edited by David J. Mattson and Charles van Riper, III. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 101–119 pp. Examines three case studies (Mesa Verde National Park, Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monuments, and the Jemez Mountains) that have diverse land use histories to highlight the importance of cultural and biological diversity. Authors demonstrate the potential benefit of understanding natural and cultural complexity when shaping restoration plans and how such diverse land use histories may have impacted the biodiversity and health of pine-dominated ecosystems in the western United States.

Coleman, Frank. "Picking the 'Locke' of 'Nature's Nation': Nature, National Landscape, and the Ad Industry." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (September 2005): 75–94. Examines triumphal constructions of the American landscape, especially in advertising. Considers the legacies of 17th-century philosopher John Locke and nineteenth-century reverence of national landscape.

Coleman, Jon T. "Animal Last Stands: Empathy and Extinction in the American West." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Autumn 2005): 2–13. Explores "last animal" stories of the early twentieth-century American West, or the legendary tales chronicling the deaths of exceptional animals that filtered into popular culture, as reflective of conflicting attitudes about modernism and the eradication of wilderness.

Collins, Cary C., and SuAnn M. Reddick. "Medicine Creek to Fox Island: Cadastral Scams and Contested Domains." Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Fall 2005): 374–397. Traces the story of the enactment of the 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty, a relocation agreement between western United States Indian superintendent Isaac Stevens and several Washington and Oregon Indian tribes. Examines how the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest were brought into a complex legal relationship with the U.S. government and the hostilities that followed.

Collins, William. "Bridges Are Landscape Structures." Landscape Architecture 95 (November 2005): 44–44. Discusses opportunities for collaboration between landscape architects and engineers in historic bridge restoration projects, providing a brief history of bridge design in America.

Coones, Paul. "The Process of Encroachment in the Forest of Dean to 1838: Settlement, Economy, and Landscape Change at the Margin." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 37–40 pp. History of the Forest of Dean, a plateau-like upland in west Gloucestershire, England, prior to 1838 focusing on the process of encroachment and the concept of marginality.

Cramer, Gary W. "Bridging Truths." Landscape Architecture 95 (November 2005): 40–51. Examines historic timber bridge restoration projects, including the nineteenth-century Tohickon Aqueduct on the Delaware Canal in Pennsylvania restored in the 2000s.

Davis, Daniel. "Elwood Mead, Arid Land Cession, and the Creation of the Wyoming System of Water Rights." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Summer 2005): 2–14. Examines the career of Elwood Mead, Wyoming's first territorial engineer, credited with inventing the influential "Wyoming System" of water rights in the late nineteenth century. Looks in particular at Mead's often-overlooked belief that the federal government should cede its public land to individual Western states.

De Belin, Mandy. "Transitional Hunting Landscapes: Deer Hunting and Fox Hunting in the Forests of Whittlewood, Salcey and Rockingham, 1600 to 1850." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 75–79 pp. Examines the transition from deer hunting to fox hunting in the forests of the seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries.

Desrochers, Pierre. "Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 297–324 pp. Examines the planning of eco-industrial parks, or communities of companies in a single region that exchange or make use of each other's energy and/or by-products. Provides case study of the Danish coastal city of Kalundborg, considered the first industrial recycling network, and historical context for the development of industrial symbiosis in the twentieth century.

Dettelbach, Michael. "The Stimulations of Travel: Humboldt's Physiological Construction of the Tropics." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 43–58 pp. Describes the journey of Alexander von Humboldt and his botanist, Aimé Bonpland, through the western ridge of the Andes via the Quindío Pass (Colombia) in 1801.

Dickinson, Nicholas, et al. "Community Forestry on Old Landfill Sites." Quarterly Journal of Forestry 99 (October 2005): 263–270. Discusses the success of England's Community Forest Programme, begun in 1989, in reforesting sites formerly used for waste disposal on the outskirts of cities.

Douglas, Starr, and Felix Driver. "Imagining the Tropical Colony: Henry Smeathman and the Termites of Sierra Leone." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 91–112 pp. Examines naturalist Henry Smeathman's termite sketches, based on his travels to Sierra Leone and the West Indies in the 1770s, presenting them as iconic representations of tropical nature.

Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins. "'The Struggle for Luxuriance': William Burchell Collects Tropical Nature." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 59–74 pp. Considers the experiences and collections of plant collectors in the tropics, especially naturalist William Burchell, in the early nineteenth century.

Drost, Charles A. "Vertebrates of Montezuma Castle National Monument: Present Status and Historical Changes." In The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research, edited by David J. Mattson and Charles van Riper, III. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 235–251 pp. Examines the inventory of flora and fauna that was collected in Montezuma Castle National Monument in central Arizona between 1991–1994. Provides information on current status, trends, and potential management concerns of the natural resources of the monument.

Duvall, Sam. "Charles Browder: A Life in Veneer." Alabama Forests 49 (Fall 2005): 8–11. Examines the life of Charles Browder and the impact of his family on veneer milling in early twentieth-century Alabama.

Eber, Ronald. "'Wealth and Beauty': John Muir and Forest Conservation." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 105–119 pp. Examines the evolution of and influences on the writings of John Muir about forest preservation management, 1876–1898.

Edmond, Rod. "Returning Fears: Tropical Disease and the Metropolis." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 175–194 pp. Examines the entanglement of the tropics and the metropolis at the end of the nineteenth century. Focus is on widespread belief that Europeans could not survive long periods of time in the tropics, the fear of tropical disease (especially leprosy) spreading to cities, and contemporary views of European cities as sharing some of the characteristics and effects of tropical areas.

Egan, Michael. "Organizing Protest in the Changing City: Swill Milk and Social Activism in New York City, 1842–1864." New York History 86 (Summer 2005): 205–225. Examines the difficulties of mid-nineteenth-century urbanization, in particular, problems of food production and distribution in New York City in the wake of rapid population expansion, and promotion and protest of the potential health hazards of urban-produced milk.

Eighmey, Rae Katherine. "'Food Will Win the War': Minnesota Conservation Efforts, 1917–18." Minnesota History 59 (Fall 2005): 272–286. Examines Minnesota's role in the 1917–1918 wartime campaigns to conserve food, including increasing production, limiting consumption, and shifting cooking and eating habits .

Elofson, Warren. "An Exceedingly Dicey Business: Frontier Horse Ranching on the Northern Great Plains." Agricultural History 79 (Fall 2005): 462–477. Examines the challenges and obstacles of establishing open range ranching systems on the northern Great Plains in the late nineteenth century. These conditions are explored through a study of a high-bred horse business ranch, the Walrond, in southern Alberta.

Foster, Anne L., and Wendi Lyons. "Caribou or Oil? Using the George L. Collins Papers to Document the Alaska Conservation Movement." Edited by Bill Alley. Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Summer 2005): 164–165. Introduction to the George L. Collins Papers, a collection held in the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Collins was one of the original surveyors of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the 1940s; his papers document a formative period in the Alaskan conservation movement and provide historic insight on current debates over oil drilling in the ANWR.

Froschauer, Karl. "Ontario's Niagara Falls, 1887–1929: Reversing the Privatization of Hydro." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Fall 2005): 60–84. Examines the conditions of regional "industrial backwardness" that occurred on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls between 1887–1929 as a result of the privatization of hydroelectric utilities that had been allocated public water rights to the falls. Attempts to demonstrate that Canada and the U.S. can overcome asymmetrical political and trade relations.

Fuentes, Alicia, Deborah Kennard, and Josh McDaniel. "Smokey the Tapir: Traditional Fire Knowledge and Fire Prevention Campaigns in Lowland Bolivia." Society and Natural Resources 18 (November–December 2005): 921–931. Examines research about Bolivia's Chiquitano Indians' traditional knowledge of fire behavior and the ecological role fire plays in shaping forest and savannah ecosystems. Describes current attitudes in the Chiquitano territory of Lomerio toward fire as a land management tool.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part Two: The Cabin on the Creek, Sue, West Virginia (2)." Log Train 21 (July 2005): 12–15. Second in a 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.

Gillett, Stephanie. "A Perfect Storm." Michigan History 89 (November/December 2005): 20–25. Account of a deadly storm that swept from western Lake Superior to Lake Erie from November 7–11, 1913.

Gisel, Bonnie Johanna. "'Those Who Walk Apart but Ever Together Are True Companions': Jeanne Carr and John Muir in the High Sierra." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 215–233 pp. Explores the evolution of the relationship between naturalist John Muir and mentor/benefactress/botanist Jeanne Carr during the late nineteenth century.

Greppi, Claudio. "'On the Spot': Traveling Artists and the Iconographic Inventory of the World, 1769–1859." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 23–42 pp. Explores the impact of Pacific voyages on European views of tropical landscapes in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focus is on a succession of traveling artists, in particular William Hodges and James Cook.

Griffin, Carl. "Resistance, Crime and Popular Cultures." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 49–53 pp. Examines the interplay between capital formation, subsistence regimes and social relations in the forests and chases of southern England, c. 1790–1831, especially as expressed through protest and criminal activities.

Griffith, James S. "Voices from Inside a Black Snake: Religious Monuments of Sonora's Highways." Journal of the Southwest 47 (Summer 2005): 233–248. Examines the tradition of roadside religious monuments and memorials along Mexico's Highway 15 between Santa Ana and Hermosillo in Sonora. Documents and describes roadside chapels, murals, and crosses and the events these memorials commemorate.

Hafild, Emmy. "Social Movements, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, and the Struggle for Democracy: Experiences from Indonesia." In Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005. 257–268 pp. Author shares experiences as a nongovernmental organization activist in Indonesia, including case studies of community-based natural resource management, 1980s–2000s.

Hall, Elton W. "The Rockport Granite Company." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 58 (September 2005): 124–125. Examines granite use in late nineteenth-early twentieth century America, particularly the quarries owned by the Rockport Granite Company on Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

Harvey, Doug. "Developing a 'Grand Lake' in Central Kansas: The Lake Koen Navigation, Reservoir, and Irrigation Company." Journal of the West 44 (Spring 2005): 81–89. Explores the manipulation of water along the Arkansas River in central Kansas, especially the history of the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, 1870s–1950s.

Herman, Daniel J. "Hunting Democracy." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Autumn 2005): 22–33. Examines the social and political meanings of hunting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, particularly the tension between hunting as democratic sport and aristocratic pastime as shown through examples of hunter-politicians like Theodore Roosevelt.

Huffman, Thomas R. "Enemies of the People: Asbestos and the Reserve Mining Trail." Minnesota History 59 (Fall 2005): 293–306. Analysis of the legal and political controversy surrounding Reserve Mining Company's industrial polluting of Lake Superior off the shore of Minnesota, 1940s–1970s, and its implications for American environmental law.

Hulme, Peter. "Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical Islands Compared." In Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 77–90 pp. Comparison of outsiders' views of the people and landscapes of Dominica and Tahiti, eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Examines explorers' "tropical visions" of these islands to illuminate the islands' similarities and differences.

Hurt, Douglas A. "'The Indian Home Is Undone': Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1867–1907." The Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Summer 2005): 194–217. Explores Native Americans in the Indian Territory nineteenth-century difficulties finding a "sense of place" due to the federal government's policies of allotment and the dissolution of tribal governments. Examines the case of the Creek Nation, 1867–1907, as its members resisted attempts at Anglo intrusion and colonization.

Iannuzzi, Timothy J., and David F. Ludwig. "An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Ecological History and Environmental Restoration Objectives in an Urban Landscape." Ecological Restoration 23 (September 2005): 157–166. Study of ecological impairments of an urban river ecosystem, New Jersey's Lower Passaic, arguing that degradation history and restoration potential are inextricably linked. Examines wetlands loss in the region since the nineteenth century.

Johns, Larry H. "Saints & Sinners in the Pinery: A Series of Short Accounts (Some of Which May Be Embellished)." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 54 (September 2005): 28–32. Explores accounts of logging camp life and work in the pinery left behind by loggers from Wisconsin's Big Pine Era, nineteenth century. First in a two-part series.

Johns, Larry H. "Saints & Sinners in the Pinery: A Series of Short Accounts (Some of Which May Be Embellished), Part II." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 54 (October 2005): 12–13, 28. Explores accounts of logging camp life and work in the pinery left behind by loggers from Wisconsin's Big Pine Era, nineteenth century. Second in a two-part series.

Johnson, Michael W. "Whiskey or Water: A Brief History of the Cache National Forest." Utah Historical Quarterly 73 (Fall 2005): 329–345. History of the Cache National Forest (now the Wasatch-Cache) from the events leading to its founding in the late nineteenth century through the 2000s.

Jones, Graham. "Swanimotes, Woodmotes, and Courts of 'Free Miners'." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 41–48 pp. Examines forest courts of first instance in early modern England.

Kaempfer, William H., and Anton D. Lowenberg. "The Ivory Bandwagon: International Transmissions of Interest-Group Politics." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 181–205 pp. Examines interest-group pressures that the authors argue led to the 1989 decision at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to make the African ivory trade illegal, despite evidence that a ban would exacerbate the decline of elephant populations. Provides twentieth-century historical context for the surrounding political debate.

Kasa, Sjur, and Lars Otto Nss. "Financial Crisis and State-NGO Relations: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia, 1998–2000." Society & Natural Resources 18 (October 2005): 791–804. Discusses consequences of the 1997–1999 "Asian-Brazil-Russia" financial crisis on environmental policies and state-nongovernmental organization (NGO) relations in Brazilian Amazonia.

Kasun, Jacqueline R. "Doomsday Every Day: Sustainable Economics, Sustainable Tyranny." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 43–59 pp. Explores conceptions of the sustainable development concept, 1970s–2000s, from environmental theorists like Herman Daly and Steven Hackett.

Kelsch, Anne. "Reconstructing the Historical Landscape through Alexander Henry's Journal." North Dakota History 71 (3&4 2004): 31–42. Examination of the Great Plains landscape, especially the Red River Valley, as visible through the journal of fur trader Alexander Henry the Younger, kept 1799–1814. Henry traveled extensively through the western British Empire in North America in the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries.

Kohn, David. "The Historical Darwin: The Miraculous Season." Natural History 114 (November 2005): 38–40. Examines Charles Darwin's botanical experiments in the summer of 1860. Claims Darwin studied botany to advance his theory of evolution by natural selection rather than to dodge public controversy.

Levins, Richard. "How Cuba is Going Ecological." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (September 2005): 7–25. From a Marxist perspective, examines how Cuba has managed successful ecological development, including commitments to protected areas, organic agriculture, public and occupational health, and environmental education. Traces the roots of the movement to the country's history of colonial science, anti-imperialism, the emergence of a self-conscious community of ecologists, and transformations of Cuban society since 1959.

Lewis, Corey. "Meeting Muir's Mountains." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 235–247 pp. Argues for the use of interdisciplinary field-based methodologies to supplement traditional pedagogical approaches to literary analysis of environmental writing, using John Muir's work on the Sierra Nevada Mountains as a model.

Lewis, John L., and Stephen R. J. Sheppard. "Ancient Values, New Challenges: Indigenous Spiritual Perceptions of Landscapes and Forest Management." Society and Natural Resources 18 (November–December 2005): 907–920. Examines the research on the Cheam First Nation of British Columbia's spiritual perceptions of forested landscapes. Illustrates the importance for forest managers to understand such traditional spiritual.

Libby, W. J. "Setting the Stage for the Introduction of Forest Biotechnology." In New Century, New Trees: Biotechnology as a Tool for Forestry in America, edited by Susan McCord and Robert Kellison. Raleigh, NC: Institute of Forest Biotechnology, 2005. 21–29 pp. Argument for doing forest biotechnology, discussing advances in genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century and including case studies for California, Maine, and New Zealand.

Limbaugh, Ronald H. "California's Kindred Spirits: John Muir and William Keith." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 65–80 pp. Explores the late-nineteenth-century friendship between naturalist/conservationist John Muir and landscape artist William Keith in California.

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, and Robert Gottlieb. "A Road as a Route and Place: The Evolution and Transformation of the Arroyo Seco Parkway." California History 83 (1 2005): 28–40. Examines the history and goals of early U.S. urban parkways, focusing in particular on the Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first leg of which built in the 1930s to connect Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. Traces the changes of the parkway model over time and discusses whether or not this kind of roadway is feasible for accommodating contemporary traffic demands.

Lovin, Hugh. "Jackson Hole Water Resources, Federal Reclamationists, and Idaho Irrigationists." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Summer 2005): 15–25. Examines early-twentieth-century controversy over damming Wyoming's Jackson Lake for large-scale irrigation.

Mainwaring, Ross. "The Jewel in the Crown: Pasminco Rosebery Mine Railway." Light Railways 185 (October 2005): 3–14. Examines the development and operations of the Pasminco Rosebery Mine Railway in Tasmania, Australia from 1928–1970.

Martin, Frank Edgerton. "Rethinking Riverside: Can Change Be Good for Olmsted's Model Suburb?" Landscape Architecture 95 (October 2005): 44–55. History and current situation of Chicago's Riverside community, designed as a "suburban oasis" just after the Civil War by Frederick Law Olmsted. The community is threatened by a lack of consensus over its management and stewardship.

Martin, George, and Saskia Vermeylen. "Intellectual Property, Indigenous Knowledge, and Biodiversity." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (September 2005): 27–48. Explores the implications of extending intellectual property law to incorporate knowledge and traditions of indigenous peoples, concluding that it has negative consequences for biodiversity and for the peoples themselves. Examines the historical context for the political debate since the 1980s.

Matheka, Reuben. "Antecedents to the Community Wildlife Conservation Programme in Kenya, 1946–1964." Environment and History 11 (August 2005): 239–267. Examines the history of wildlife conservation in Kenya, particularly efforts to involve African communities in the effort before the 1970s.

McDaniel, David P. "Spring City and the Water War of 1892." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Autumn 2005): 28–41. Recounts the "water war" between residents of Waukesha, Wisconsin and organizers of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago who sought to run a pipeline from the town's Bethesda Spring, renowned for its "healing" waters. Provides historical context on Waukesha's mineral springs, 1860s–1900s.

McKinney, Gordon B. "The Fractured Land of the Sky: The Image of Western North Carolina during the 1986 Nuclear Waste Controversy." North Carolina Historical Review 82 (July 2005): 326–346. Examines the 1986 battle between the federal government and residents of western North Carolina over the potential location of a nuclear waste repository in the Appalachian Mountains. Describes how residents challenged the image of Appalachia by playing down the positive features of the landscape in an attempt to resist the siting of the repository in their backyard.

McKinney, Ted, and James C. deVos, Jr. "Recent Trends in North American Mountain Lion Populations: A Hypothesis." In The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research, edited by David J. Mattson and Charles van Riper, III. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 297–307 pp. A review of historic and recent trends of predator and ungulate population abundance and distribution, habitat loss and fragmentation, predator control, changes in vegetative cover, and the ecology of large carnivores in North America to understand why the abundance and distribution of mountain lions has increased in some areas of the western U.S. and Canada.

McLoughlin, Stephen, and Vivi Vajda. "Ancient Wollemi Pines Resurgent." American Scientist 93 (November–December 2005): 540–547. After being "rediscovered" in Australia in 1994, an ancient tree species, named the Wollemi Pine for the national park in New South Wales in which it was founded, has attracted significant scientific and commercial attention.

McRoberts, Ronald E., et al. "The Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program of the USDA Forest Service: Historical Perspective and Announcement of Statistical Documentation." Journal of Forestry 103 (September 2005): 304–308. Provides a brief historical perspective on the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, announces publication of the statistical documentation supporting the program, and discusses areas where investigations are continuing.

Miller, Char. "With Friends Like These: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Drama of Environmental Politics." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 121–146 pp. Examines the tense relationship between John Muir and forester Gifford Pinchot, presenting it as a form of "political theater" and arguing that their sometimes heated ideological exchanges helped define the forming environmental movement.

Monte, Mike. "A Brief History of Skidding and Skidders, As Seen Through the Eyes (and Seat) of a Lake States Logger." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 54 (October 2005): 16–18, 32–33. History of the use and innovation of skidders for logging in the Lake States, 1960s–1990s.

Moore, Adam R. "Connecticut and the Forefront of Forestry." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Fall 2005): 15–17, 29. Connecticut Forest & Park Association Executive Director Adam Moore's speech at the Lockwood Farm of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in Hamden, August 3, 2005. Addresses the history of forestry and conservation in Connecticut, arguing that conservation-minded people must recognize both the economic and aesthetic value of forests.

Moore, Shirley Ann. "No Cold Weather to Grapple With: African American Expectations of California, 1900–1950." Journal of the West 44 (Spring 2005): 8–15. Examines the expectations of African Americans moving to California, especially from the Jim Crow South, in the first half of the twentieth century. Explores how anticipation of social and economic opportunity were encouraged by boosterism and advertising that merged the state's climate and agricultural bounty, in particular its citrus industry, with health and affluence.

Morgan, Holly. "U.S. Forest Service Celebrates 100th Birthday." Forests & People 55 (3 2005): 15–17. Brief history and current overview of the U.S. Forest Service on the occasion of its centennial in 2005.

Mossberg, Barbara. "If Trees Are Us: A Relativity Theory Showing the Genius of John Muir's Domestic Vision of Nature for Public Policy and the National Ethos." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 169–200 pp. Explores John Muir's vision of wilderness and national identity, arguing that his primary achievement is that in inspiring laws to protect trees and forests fundamentally changed Americans' view of the value of nature.

Murphree, Marshall W. "Congruent Objectives, Competing Interests, and Strategic Compromise: Concept and Process in the Evolution of Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE, 1984–1996." In Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005. 105–147 pp. Examines Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program, which directs shares of profits from hunting and tourism toward local communities.

Nelson, Daniel. "The Fight for Alaska's Wilderness." Forest Magazine (Fall 2005): 25–28. Examines the history of conservation efforts in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, created in the 1900s. Focuses in particular on the approach developed by environmentalist Jack Calvin which greatly influenced the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.

Nelson, Paul. "Spinning Gold: The Wire Grass Industry of St. Paul." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 58 (September 2005): 89–99. Explores the technological history of the wire grass industry, 1890s–1930s, particularly the American Grass Twine Company of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Nelson, Robert H. "Does 'Existence Value' Exist?: Environmental Economics Encroaches on Religion." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 395–416 pp. Examines the development since the 1960s of the concept of "existence value," or the assignment of economic value based on the fact that a wilderness, endangered species, or other natural object exists. Argues for the abandonment of the concept on the basis of "economic theology," or that it attempts to answer fundamentally religious questions in economic terms.

Nelson, Robert H. "Environmental Colonialism: 'Saving' Africa from Africans." In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 157–180 pp. Posits a new form of African colonialism in the second half of the twentieth century, operating as Western environmental protection.

Neumann, Roderick P. "Model, Panacea, or Exception? Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and Related Programs in Africa." In Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005. 177–193 pp. Examines Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program and other examples of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in late twentieth-century Africa, establishing broad spatio-historical and political-economic contexts for natural resource management policy.

Nowak, Erika M. "Movement Patterns and Natural History of Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnakes at Tuzigoot National Monument, Arizona." In The Colorado Plateau II: Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Cultural Research, edited by David J. Mattson and Charles van Riper, III. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005. 253–274 pp. Examines the life history traits, behavior, seasonal activity, movement patterns, habitat use, and activity range size of the Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake in Tuzigoot National Monument. Makes recommendations for future rattlesnake management at the monument.

O'Toole, Randal. "Is Urban Planning 'Creeping Socialism'?" In Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005. 281–296 pp. Examines the development of smart-growth urban planning policies in America, arguing that they are a natural extension of zoning laws adopted by cities since the 1920s, growing increasingly restrictive, prescriptive, and ultimately socialist.

Orsi, Jared. "Reclaiming the City: Water History in the Urban North American West." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 8–11. Examines water history in urban western North America through a study of the Cornfield, a fifty-acre parcel of abandoned and toxic railroad land that stretches from downtown Los Angeles to the Los Angeles River.

Patton, Thomas W. "When the Veterans Came to Vermont: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Winooski River Flood Control Project." Vermont History 73 (Summer/Fall 2005): 160–189. Examines the history of the Winooski River Flood Control Project in Vermont, especially the building of Waterbury Dam by the veterans division of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1920s–1930s.

Penkiunas, Daina. "University Hill Farms: A Project for Modern Living." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Autumn 2005): 16–27. Explores a precursor to "new urbanist" residential development, the 1950s-era University Hill Farms community on the edge of Madison, Wisconsin, a project of the University of Wisconsin and its Regents.

Philippon, Daniel J. "Domesticity, Tourism, and the National Parks in John Muir's Late Writings." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 149–168 pp. Explores the later writings of John Muir about the national parks, arguing that they reflect the domesticating influence of both his readers and his family, rather than an attempt to shield his true beliefs about wilderness.

Pinches, Sylvia. "Customary Rights and Charities." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 33–36 pp. Examines the creation of charity forest estates, or "Poor's Woods," as part of disafforestation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England.

Popp, Bob. "The Mystery of Pease's Mountain." Northern Woodlands 12 (Autumn 2005): 22–24. Recounts an attempt in July 2005 by three botanists in Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom to retrace the steps of Arthur Stanley Pease, an amateur botanist who in 1929 had collected rare plant samples there.

Post, Chris. "Company Town Culture: Sunflower Village, Kansas, in the 1940s." Material Culture 37 (Fall 2005): 42–59. Case study of Sunflower Village, Kansas, a town that was both a reflection of a typical "garden city," like those built during the post-World War I era, and a federally owned company town. Focuses on the material culture of the village and the sense of place that accompanied it.

Potter, James E. "Hunting in the Frontier Army: 'The Great Source of Amusement'." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Autumn 2005): 34–47. Examines the positive and negative impacts of hunting by officers and enlisted men of the U. S. Army on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier.

Preston, Alison, and William Preston. "Pictured Landscapes of the South San Joaquin Valley, California: Lithographs of the 1880s and 1890s." California History 83 (1 2005): 41–58. Analyzes themes of commitment, domesticity, and permanence unifying the lithographs of the southern San Joaquin Valley in the 1880s and 1890s. Author claims that the landscapes portrayed in these lithographs represent a unique period of valley history.

Rose, Marilyn, and Jeannette Sloniowski. "'Home Sweet Havoc:' Howard Engel's Niagara in Print and Film." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Fall 2005): 85–104. Examines the 1984 novel The Suicide Murders by Howard Engel (1931-) in light of contemporary theories of place, space, and post-coloniality, arguing that it portrays Niagara Falls as a "cultural nexus in which power and power relations are explored." Also analyzes a made-for-television film adaptation and asks whether the film retains the complexities and moral vision of the original.

Rowlands, Marie. "Forests and Religious Dissidence: Supremacy to Toleration." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 55–58 pp. Examines seventeenth-century English forests as centers of religious dissidence.

Ryan, J. C. "Loggers of the Past: 'Days of Real Horsepower'." Timber Bulletin 61 (September/October 2005): 23–24. Reprinted from an earlier issue of the Timber Bulletin, date unknown. Examines the use of horses in the early days of logging in northern Minnesota.

Schmidt, Karoline T. "Land of Plenty." Natural History 114 (December–January 2005/2006): 44–49. Examines history and current prospects for management of Austria's red deer population.

Schneekloth, Lynda H., and Robert G. Shibley. "Imagine Niagara." Journal of Canadian Studies 39 (Fall 2005): 105–120. Explores various "imaginings"/representations of Niagara Falls as part of the Niagara project, a collaborative partnership based at the Urban Design Project (University of Buffalo, State University of New York) attempting to rethink heritage tourism and to shift the region's fragmentation into an imagination of shared bi-national space, in part through the creation of an International Niagara Peace Park. Examines perceptions of the Niagara region since the 1800s.

Schroeder, Richard A. "Community, Forestry, and Conditionality in The Gambia." In Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005. 207–229 pp. Pursues a socio-economic analysis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) by setting such policies against the backdrop of structural adjustment programs prevalent in Africa in the 1980s–1990s, in particular the German-funded Gambian-German Forestry Project (GGFP).

Searles, Michael N. "Taking Out the Buck and Putting in a Trick: The Black Working Cowboy's Art of Breaking and Keeping a Good Cow Horse." Journal of the West 44 (Spring 2005): 53–60. Examines African-American cowboys in the United States South and West during the nineteenth century, in particular their ability to break horses. Describes the resistant practice of "putting a trick" in a horse, or training it to behave undesirably to keep white bosses or foremen from claiming it.

Shakerin, Said. "Water Fountains with Special Effects." American Scientist 93 (September–October 2005): 444–451. Examines fountains in human history, from about 4000BC through the present.

Smith, Alison K. "Public Works in an Autocratic State: Water Supplies in an Imperial Russian Town." Environment and History 11 (August 2005): 319–342. Explores Russian interest in water as a public health issue in the 1830s–1840s, focusing on struggles in the town of Kazan to improve water supply despite bureaucratic and financial obstacles.

Smith, David. "Gypsies, Tinkers, Travellers and the Forest Economy." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 61–66. Introduction to proposed research on the role of gypsies, tinkers, and travelers in the forest economy and community of sixteenth through nineteenth-century England.

Smith, Kimberly K. "What is Africa to Me? Wilderness in Black Thought, 1860–1930." Environmental Ethics 27 (Fall 2005): 279–297. Explores the concept of wilderness in the black American intellectual tradition, 1860–1930, examining its social and cultural dimensions and providing insight into why the wilderness celebrated by preservationists can be problematic for racial minorities. Focuses on the writings of black elites like W. E. B. Du Bois and Alexander Crummel.

Smith, Richard Chase. "Can David and Goliath Have a Happy Marriage? The Machiguenga People and the Camisea Gas Project in the Peruvian Amazon." In Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, edited by J. Peter Brosius, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Charles Zerner. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005. 231–255 pp. Examines community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the late twentieth century as part of an ongoing historical process with changing actors, contexts, and stakes, focusing on the impact of modern oil and gas development on the efforts of the Machigeunga people of Peru's lower Urumbaba valley to manage their territory.

Stange, Mary Zeiss. "Women & Hunting in the West." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Autumn 2005): 15–21. Examines women hunters in the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century, both frontier women and the middle- and upper-class easterners who journeyed west for recreation and adventure.

Tankard, Judith B. "Gardening on the Rock." Landscape Architecture 9 (September 2005): 54–62. Examines the history of gardening at Alcatraz island off the coast of San Francisco, California, begun during its years as a military post in the nineteenth century, continued in the twentieth century during its years as an active prison, and maintained in the 2000s by the Garden Conservancy.

Ulam, Alex. "Garden of Elitist Dreams." Landscape Architecture 9 (September 2005): 130–139. History of and controversies over the 1990s–2000s restoration of the 1920s-era Keshar Mahal Garden of Dreams in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Van Kosky, William. "Snowy Trails and Waggin' Tails." Michigan History 89 (January/February 2005): 18–26. History of sled dog racing in Marquette County, Michigan, 1860s–2000s.

Warde, Paul. "Woodland Fuel, Demand and Supply." In Forests and Chases of England and Wales c.1500–c.1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis, edited by John Langton and Graham Jones. Oxford: St. John's College Research Centre, 2005. 80–86 pp. Examines the pre-industrial fuel economy in England, especially wood consumption and the rise in the use of coal, 17th through nineteenth centuries.

Warren, James Perrin. "Near and Far: Burroughs and Muir on the Harriman Alaska Expedition." In John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures, edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 203–214 pp. Examines the differences and commonalities between writer-naturalists John Muir and John Burroughs, focusing on the Harriman Alaska Expedition in May–June 1899, of which they were both members.

Weaver, Bruce J. "David Defeats Goliath on the Banks of the Delaware: Rhetorical Legitimacy and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area Debate." In The Environmental Communication Yearbook, Volume 2, edited by Susan L. Senecah. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. 133–162 pp. Examines the role of communication in the 1960s–1970s controversy over the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area and Tocks Island Dam and Reservoir Project, in particular the printed materials and speeches of highly effective grassroots opposition groups.

Whitehorn, W. Clark. "Pine Butte Swamp Preserve and the Rocky Mountain Front." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Autumn 2005): 66–69. History of Montana's Pine Butte Swamp Preserve, operated as a dude ranch from 1930 and sold to the Nature Conservancy in 1979, which continues to run a guest ranch there in the 2000s.

Williams, Jacqueline B. "Picturing Food and Power at the Treaty Councils." Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Fall 2005): 462–467. Historical interpretations of Gustav Sohon's drawing of the Walla Walla Council dinner (1885) entitled "Chiefs at Dinner." Sohon, a member of the U.S. Army, traveled with Isaac Stevens to record treaty negotiations in the Pacific Northwest.

Wonders, Karen. "Hunting Narratives of the Age of Empire: A Gender Reading of Their Iconography." Environment and History 11 (August 2005): 269–291. Explores the hunting-and-collecting mania of sportsmen from northwestern Europe and the eastern United States through hunting narratives recounting trips to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1875–1914, and its relation to imperialism.

Wood, Christopher K., M. Karl Wood, and Tyler W. Wood. "Early Rangeland Partners: Water and Wind, Windmill Pioneering in the American West." Rangelands 27 (October 2005): 43–47. Traces the history of windmill use in the American West, nineteenth through early-twentieth centuries. Examines early windmill manufacturing, design, and uses in both pumping water and well drilling.

Woods, Fronda. "Who's In Charge of Fishing?" Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Fall 2005): 412–441. Examines the legal disputes and hostilities that resulted from the Isaac Stevens and Joel Palmer Treaties of 1854–1855. Focuses on Pacific Northwest tribes' request for traditional food-gathering practices outside reservations, and the legal actions that followed between the U.S. Government and the Washington and Oregon Indian tribes.

Woodside, Christine. "Great Mountain Forest." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Fall 2005): 13–14. History of Connecticut's Great Mountain Forest from its purchase by Starling Winston Childs in 1909 to its current status as a protected area under the federal government's Forest Legacy Program.

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