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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Adams, Carol J. "Robert Morris and a Lost 18th-Century Vegetarian Book: An Introduction to Morris's A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation." Organization & Environment 18 (December 2005): 458–466. Introduces a little-known 1746 book written by architectural innovator Robert Morris in which he defends his abstinence from eating meat. Argues that Morris's book is a valuable addition to vegetarian history and to discussions of veganism, factory farming, and animal confinement debates. Text of book is included.

Alaimo, Stacy. "'Comrades of Surge': Meridel Le Sueur, Cultural Studies, and the Corporeal Turn." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 55–74. Ecocrital examination of the work of twentieth-century writer Meridel Le Sueur, in particular her use of imagery of the earth as a human body, and other innovative depictions of bodies and landscapes.

Alexander, Bill. "The First American Forest." American Forests 111 (Summer 2005): 7–10. Overview and history of forestry and forestry education at Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, known as the "birthplace of forestry," including the key roles played by George Vanderbilt, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, and Carl Alwin Schenck. Late nineteenth century through 2000s.

Anderson, J. L. "War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth-Regulator Herbicides." Technology and Culture 46 (October 2005): 719–744. Examines herbicides in American agriculture, using sources related to Iowa farmers in particular to suggest that farmers led the process of technological change, and in so doing, altered the ecological and technological conditions of farming in the years after World War II.

Andreasson, Stefan. "Accumulation and Growth to What End? Reassessing the Modern Faith in Progress in the 'Age of Development'." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (December 2005): 57–75. Examines the post-WWII "age of development," in particular the links between religious faith, progress, growth, and development. Concludes that global disaster is impending unless radical changes are made in humans' collective behavior and understanding of the "development" concept.

Andrews, Thomas G. "'Made by Toile'? Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858–1917." Journal of American History 92 (December 2005): 837–863. Framed by the letters of Colorado manual laborer John Watts, examines the paradox of why physical work and the people who performed it became increasingly invisible in modern American society. Explores how tourists represented labor in the Colorado landscape from the Pike's Peak gold rush of 1858–1859 through the 1910s, using this case study to examine shifts in politics, culture, technology, and landscape that combined to marginalize laboring people.

Anker, Peder. "The Closed World of Ecological Architecture." Journal of Architecture 10 (5 2005): 527–552. Explores how and why imagined and real environments in outer space, encouraged by space exploration, came to serve as models for ecological design of earthly landscapes and buildings in the 1970s. Reviews the work of leading ecological designers of the period, including Ian L. McHarg, John Frazer, Ken Yeang, and others.

Appell, George N. "Dismantling the Cultural Ecosystem of the Rungus of Sabah, Malaysia: A History of How the Ideology of Western Institutions Led to the Destruction of a Bornean Environment." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005, 213–243. History of the environmental crisis precipitated by the dismantling of the cultural ecosystem of the Rungus people of Sabah, Malaysia, 1881–2000s.

Armson, K. A. "Regeneration Standards: What Has the Past to Show Us?" Forestry Chronicles 81 (November/December 2005): 781–790. Reviews the twentieth-century historical development of forest regeneration surveys in Canada and the associated development of methodologies and standards.

Asbjornsen, H., et al. "Defining Reference Information for Restoring Ecologically Rare Tallgrass Oak Savannas in the Midwestern United States." Journal of Forestry 103 (October/November 2005): 345–350. Using a case study from central Iowa, explores the limitations of and potential for finding historic and contemporary reference information for ecological restoration of rare tallgrass oak savanna ecosystems.

Backhouse, Frances. "Survivor." Audubon 107 (November/December 2005): 18–23. Compares the fate of the piliated with that of the ivory-billed woodpecker in North America during the twentieth century, seeking to explain why one has flourished while the other faltered.

Bailey, James M. "Reconsideration and Reconciliation: Arizona's 'Brothers Udall' and the Grand Canyon Dam Controversy, 1961–1968." New Mexico Historical Review 80 (Spring 2005): 133–162. Examines the 1960s struggle surrounding the attempts of Arizona representative Morris Udall and his brother, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, to sandwich Grand Canyon National Park between two hydroelectric dams. Argues that the controversy forced a reconsideration of traditional ideas about reclamation and water use and a reconciliation of these ideas with 1960s preservationist values.

Barnett, Le Roy. "A Gift of Land from Uncle Sam." Michigan History 90 (January/February 2006): 7–13. History of the federal homestead program in Michigan, 1860s–1930s.

Bawtree, Alfred H. "A History of Range Use in British Columbia." Rangelands 27 (December 2005): 36–39. Overview and history of use of rangelands in British Columbia, Canada from the eighteenth century through the 2000s.

Binkley, Cameron. "A Cult of Beauty: The Public Life and Civic Work of Laura Lyon White." California History 83 (2 2005): 40–61. Biographical sketch of Laura Lyon White (1839–1916), a Progressive-era reformer who led the movement to create municipal parks in San Francisco and to preserve some of California's natural and historic landmarks, especially significant stands of old-growth redwoods.

Bliss, John C., and Conner Bailey. "Pulp, Paper, and Poverty: Forest-based Rural Development in Alabama, 1950–2000." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005, 138–158. Examines the impact of forest-based industry on the development of rural Alabama, 1950–2000, as a case study in the dynamics, limitations, and prospects for sustainable forest-based development in the South. Examines the relationships between rural communities, surrounding forests, forest industry, and the social, political, and economic context in which they interact.

Blum, Elizabeth D. "Women, Environmental Rationale, and Activism during the Progressive Era." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006, pp. 77–92. Examines the urban environmental activism of middle-class African American women during the Progressive Era, including their use of maternalistic rhetoric, reactions to race and gender stereotypes, and similarities with and differences from white female activists during this period.

Bogo, Jennifer. "Sugar Rush." Audubon 107 (November/December 2005): 67–71. Examines Vermont's generations-long tradition of maple sugaring.

Brandão, José António, and William A. Starna. "'Some Things May Slip Out of Your Memory and Be Forgott': The 1701 Deed and Map of Iroquois Hunting Territory Revisited." New York History 86 (Fall 2005): 417–433. Reconsiders original versions of a 1701 deed and map conveying Iroquois hunting territory in the New York area to the British Crown, and the events leading to their creation.

Brannstrom, Christian. "Was Brazilian Industrialisation Fuelled by Wood?: Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900–1960." Environment and History 11 (November 2005): 395–430. Tests scholar Warren Dean's "wood hypothesis," which proposed that industrialization in the first half of the twentieth century relied on wood fuel and charcoal, in the context of São Paulo, Brazil, 1900–1960. Argues that the city's industrialization depended on the interplay of biomass fuels, fossil fuels and hydroelectricity.

Brown, Christine W. "Comet, Montana: The Architecture of Abandonment." Montana the Magazine of Western History 55 (Winter 2005): 60–62. Explores Comet, Montana. A highly productive mining town in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as of the 2000s it is a "ghost town" made up of rough and unpreserved residential and industrial remains.

Bull, Bary, and Olaf Schwab. "Communities and Forestry in Canada: A Review and Analysis of the Model Forest and Community Forest Programs." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005, pp. 159–175. Analyzes the potential role of community involvement in forestry, using the Canadian Model Forest and British Columbia's Community Forest programs as examples, 1990s–2000s.

Bush, Gregory. "Politicized Memories in the Struggle for Miami's Virginia Key Beach." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 164–188 pp. Examines racial politics, development, environmental consciousness, and the cultural meanings of public space through a study of Miami, Florida's Virginia Key Beach, a popular "colored" beach in the mid-twentieth century, preserved as an historic park in the 1990s–2000s with considerable involvement of and leadership by African Americans citizens. Includes a history of African Americans' relationship to public space in Miami since the 1880s.

Carroll, Matthew S., Robert G. Lee, and Rebecca J. McLain. "Occupational Community and Forest Work: Three Cases from the Pacific Northwest." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 159–175 pp. Examines community forestry through three examples of occupational communities whose members have traditionally worked at least part of the year in the forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest: as loggers, fruit harvesters, and mushroom harvesters, 1980s–1990s.

Chaney, Sandra. "Protecting Nature in a Divided Nation: Conservation in the Two Germanys, 1945–1972." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 207–243 pp. Examines changes and continuities in the tradition of conservation in East and West Germany, 1945–1972, analyzing policies, practices, and debates about "proper" treatment of nature.

Chips and Sawdust. "13 Forest Reserves & Forest Rangers." Chips and Sawdust 30 (Fall 2005): 9–10. Brief discussion of early USDA Forest Service reserves and employment practices in the United States, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Chips and Sawdust. "Mary Roddis Connor: First Woman Inducted into the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame." Chips and Sawdust 30 (Fall 2005): 8–8. Brief biographical sketch of Mary Roddis Connor (1909–2000), known for participating and appearing before Wisconsin and national legislative bodies concerning forest products industry issues and promoting multiple-use sustained yield forest management.

Christensen, Norman L. "Fire in the Parks: A Case Study for Change Management." George Wright Forum 22 (4 2005): 12–31. Author reflects on his experiences as chair of two reviews of National Park Service fire management programs in 1986 and 1988. Provides a history of fire management in the national parks from the 1870s, focusing on Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Sequoia-Kings Canyon.

Clausen, Rebecca, and Brett Clark. "The Metabolic Rift and Marine Ecology: An Analysis of the Ocean Crisis Within Capitalist Production." Organization & Environment 18 (December 2005): 422–444. Drawing on environmental sociology and historical materialism, develops a theoretical foundation for understanding the human influence on oceans and the resulting oceanic crisis as it relates to the depletion of fish stock and the expansion of aquaculture. Extends the Marxist concept of the metabolic rift to the marine environment.

Cohen, Benjamin R. "Escaping the False Binary of Nature and Culture Through Connection: Richard White's The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River." Organization & Environment 18 (December 2005): 445–457. Revisits the themes and structures of Richard White's 1995 book The Organic Machine, a study of human interaction with nature along the Columbia River in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that White has offered students and scholars of environmental history/studies with a framework for moving beyond binary approaches to nature and culture issues.

Danaher, Mike. "Reconciling Foreshore Development and Dune Erosion on Three Queensland Beaches: An Historical Perspective." Environment and History 11 (November 2005): 447–474. Examines the twentieth-century development, motivations behind the development, and subsequent implications for the preservation of dunes at Yeppoon Main beach, Kinka beach and Keppel Sands beach around Keppel Bay in Queensland, Australia.

Despain, S. Matthew. "From Menagerie to Modern Zoo: Nature, Society, and the Beginning of the Oklahoma City Zoo." The Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Fall 2005): 284–307. Explores the early history of the Oklahoma City Zoo, founded in 1903 at Wheeler Park, as a reflection of the growth of the city as well as of early twentieth-century perceptions of nature.

Deuffic, Philippe. "Les Forestiers et la Question du Paysage. Des Bois Marmeteaux à la Forêt 'Paysagée'." Revue forestière française 57 (September 2005): 349–362. "Foresters and the Question of Landscapes. From Ornamental Woods to the 'Landscaped' Forest." Considers the issue of landscape in forest management in nineteenth-century Europe, when a true, organized landscaping doctrine emerged and considerations of "forest aesthetics" gave way to "functional landscaping." Examines how landscaping issues are being revised in the 2000s.

DeWeerdt, Sarah. "Discovery Island." Columns 25 (December 2005): 36–39. Discusses a long-term marine ecology research project, led by University of Washington professor Robert Paine, on Tatoosh Island off the coast of Washington state. Since the 1960s, Tatoosh has served as a "living laboratory" where Paine has tested and refined his prominent theories of species interaction, especially the "keystone species" concept.

Dooley, Patrick K. "The Inhuman Metaphysics of Edward Abbey and Robinson Jeffers: 'To Travel Down the Strange Falling Scale'." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 11–30. Examines the epistemological, ontological and ethical positions of writer Edward Abbey (1927–1989) and poet Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), with an eye to articulating a distinctive and challenging metaphysics of inhumanism—an approach to nature that suppresses, prescinds, or brackets human references.

Doolittle, Amity A. "Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881–1996." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 159–181. Explores the ways in which the strategies of rule employed by colonial and post-colonial states in Sabah, Malaysia can be viewed as a sustained interaction. Highlights similarities and continuities between colonialism and post-colonialism as reflected in struggles over land and resource rights, late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Dosmann, Michael S., Thomas H. Whitlow, and Kang Ho-Duck. "The (Un)Natural and Cultural History of Korean Goldenrain Tree." Arnoldia 64 (1 2005): 16–30. Examines the history and distribution of the Goldenrain tree (koelreuteria paniculata), in particular how and when the species made its way to the Korean peninsula. Reports on authors' 2004 tour of existing Korean examples.

Drove, Michael R., and Carol Carpenter. "The 'Poison Tree' and the Changing Vision of the Indo-Malay Realm, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 183–210 pp. Examines changing perceptions of the upas "poison" tree of the Indo-Malay region (a primary source of poison for blowpipe darts) as reflective of evolving visions of state, people, and nature in the Indies, 17th through twentieth centuries.

Egan, Andrew F., and A. E. Luloff. "Exurban Migration: Implications for Forest Communities, Policies, and Practices." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 274–290 pp. Synthesizes the social science and forest science literature pertaining to the exurbanization of America's rural countryside, examining changes in attitudes towards the environment and forests since the 1970s.

Eghenter, Cristina. "Histories of Conservation or Exploitation?: Case Studies from the Interior of Indonesian Borneo." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 87–107 pp. Uses contextual analysis to compare two examples of intense exploitation of natural resources in the region of the Apo Kayan, Indonesian Borneo: gutta-percha (natural latex) at the beginning of the 21st century, and gaharu (aloes wood) in the 1990s. Examines on one hand the conditions under which individuals can be expected to conserve and resist exploitation, and on the other, factors that might push them to overexploit resources for short-term gains.

Ellison, Aaron M., et al. "Loss of Foundation Species: Consequences for the Structure and Dynamics of Forested Ecosystems." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3 (November 2005): 479–486. Examines the effects on forest ecosystems of the loss of foundation tree species, often caused by human activities such as logging and the introduction of exotic pests. Includes discussion of the historic rise and fall of eastern hemlock, whitebark pine, and American chestnut.

Evans, Sterling. "Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880–1950." Agricultural History 80 (Winter 2006): 35–63. Examines the dependency of late nineteenth-early twentieth century North American grain production on binders made from Mexican agave plant.

Evenden, Matthew, and H. V. Nelles. "The Bow: Calgary's Sanitary River." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 30–37. Examines sanitation and sewage control on the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, late nineteenth through twentieth centuries.

Finley, James C., A. E. Luloff, and S. B. Jones. "Another Look at Private Forestlands: America's Forest Landowners." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 210–224 pp. Addresses central question related to management of private forestlands in the U.S.: can the forestry community abandon mythological perceptions of private landowners and help empower them to practice forest stewardship? Examines private forestland ownership from the 1970s–2000s.

Fisher, Colin. "African Americans, Outdoor Recreation, and the 1919 Chicago Race Riot." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 63–76 pp. Examines early-twentieth century black Chicagoans' attitudes towards nature and recreation, and their role in the 1919 Chicago race riot.

Ford, Dick. "St. Helens Tree Farm 25 Years After Eruption." Consultant 51 ( Winter 2006): 20–22. Describes reforestation and rehabilitation of Weyerhaeuser Company lands in the vicinity of Mount St. Helens after its 1980 eruption.

Fritz, Henry E. "Allotment of Mineral and Timber Lands on Indian Reservations and the Public Domain." The Historian 67 (Winter 2005): 645–663. Examines OIA (Office of Indian Affairs) mineral and timber land allotments to American Indians under the Dawes Act of 1887, contesting recent scholars' arguments of corruption and mismanagement within the OIA. Late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part Three: The Cabin on the Creek, Sue, West Virginia (3)." Log Train 21 (November 2005): 4–7. Third 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. Details everyday life during the logging era.

Giltner, Scott. "Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Antebellum South." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 21–36 pp. Explores how hunting and fishing were bound to the larger racial conflicts between blacks and whites in the nineteenth-century American south. Explores the importance of these activities to slave communities and argues that slaves and freedpeople resisted efforts to define them as inherently elite, white, and exclusionary.

Glave, Dianne D. "Black Environmental Liberation Theology." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 189–199 pp. Introduces a working model for black environmental liberation theology, a strand of black liberation theology based in the Christian self-empowerment teachings of Martin Luther King Jr.; describes the late-twentieth-century history of environmental justice by African American religious organizations; and proposes and environmental justice agenda.

Glave, Dianne D. "Rural African American Women, Gardening, and Progressive Reform in the South." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 37–50 pp. Examines the traditions and practices of African American women's rural gardening and their implications for early twentieth-century Progressive-era agricultural reform.

Glave, Dianne D., and Mark Stoll. "African American Environmental History: An Introduction." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 1–8 pp. Introduction to African American environmental historiography, or the exploration of race, ethnicity, gender, and class through an environmental lens in the narrative of African American lives.

Godden, Jack A. "The Great New England Hurricane of 1938: Forest Service Assistance in Time of Disaster." National Museum of Forest Service History Newsletter 17 (November 2005): 1, 3. In the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, describes the U.S. Forest Service response to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, largely directing Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration workers in timber salvage efforts.

Goebel, P. Charles, Thomas C. Wyse, and R. Gregory Corace, III. "Determining Reference Ecosystem Conditions for Disturbed Landscapes within the Context of Contemporary Resource Management Issues." Journal of Forestry 103 (October/November 2005): 351–356. Using a case study of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan, develops a framework for making decisions related to and to assess the potential influence of forest ecosystem restoration using historical reference landscapes.

Gorman, Hugh S. "Laying the Foundation for the Control of Industrial Pollution, 1930–1970: Two Canals, a Refinery, and Clarence W. Klassen." Journal of Illinois History 8 (Autumn 2005): 182–208. Examines efforts to reduce industrial pollution in Illinois, 1930–1970, in particular the changing interaction between first Illinois EPA director Clarence W. Klassen and one industrial facility, a refinery in the village of Romeoville.

Graham, Frank, Jr. "'Doing the Right Thing'." Audubon 107 (November/December 2005): 44–47. Account of the Rockefeller family's legacy and efforts in protecting America's natural heritage on the occasion of their being awarded the Audubon Society's 2005 Audubon Medal.

Graves, G. R. "The Rhetoric of Opposition: Anticonservation and the Early Forest Reserves." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 11–17. Discusses popular opposition to forest conservation and the creation of forest reserves in the American West during the 1890s and early 1900s, examining the motivations and activities of anticonservationists.

Gudermann, Rita. "Conviction and Constraint: Hydraulic Engineers and Agricultural Amelioration Projects in Nineteenth-Century Prussia." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 33–54 pp. Considers the involvement of hydraulic engineers in nineteenth-century Prussian agricultural reclamation projects, specifically in the provinces of Brandenburg and Westphalia.

Hart, John F. "Fish, Dams, and James Madison: Eighteenth-Century Species Protection and the Original Understanding of the Takings Clause." Maryland Law Review 63 (no. 2 2004): 287–319. In 1759, petitions from Orange and Culpeper counties led to a special act - the first of its kind in Virginia - requiring every dam owner on the Rapidan River to "make an opening or slope ... at least ten feet wide, sufficient to let fish pass over such mill-dams." The author compares this to the early history of the Takings Clause, which is the part of the Constitution that the Supreme Court uses in modern times to hold environmental laws unconstitutional.

Hauff, Steve. "Log Unloading: Whatever Goes On, Must Come Off." Tall Timber Short Lines 80 (Fall 2005): 50–54. Examines methods of log unloading in the Pacific Northwest, early twentieth century.

Haught, Paul. "Hume's Projectivist Legacy for Environmental Ethics." Environmental Ethics 28 (Spring 2006): 77–96. Examines the applications of eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume's projectionist theory of value to discourse on environmental ethics.

Hayes, Samuel P., and Greg Clendenning. "Human Values and Forests: Changes in the Great Lakes Wildlands." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 77–95 pp. Analyzes the evolution of human choices about forested wildlands in the Great Lakes region, isolating three stages: 1850 to 1910, when wood production predominated; out-migration, declining property values, and the rise of public ownership from 1910 to 1945; and the revival of intense interest in the forest from 1945 to the 2000s.

Hecht, S. B., et al. "Globalization, Forest Resurgence, and Environmental Politics in El Salvador." World Development 34 (February 2006). Contests perceptions of rampant deforestation in El Salvador, asserting that relatively dense forest covers a large portion of the country and that it has experienced significant greening in the last decades of the twentieth century. Argues that globalization, civil war, and agrarian reform, have encouraged broad forest recovery.

Hughes, J. Donald. "Mosaic Landscape and the Human Organization of Space." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (December 2005): 77–82. Explores the concept of the landscape mosaic, or understanding the landscape as a series of sections resulting from natural conditions or changes caused by human use. Provides historical perspective and encourages the concept as an organizing principle to promote sustainability.

Hunt, Alex. "In Search of Anaya's Carp: Mapping Ecological Consciousness and Chicano Myth." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 179–206. Examination of the image of the golden carp in Rudolfo Anaya's 1972 book Bless Me, Ultima as an embodiment of the power and sentience of the earth, linking story to place in an exercise of "ecological literary cartography.".

Hurley, Andrew. "Aqueducts and Drains: A Comparison of Water Imperialism and Urban Environmental Change in Mexico City and Los Angeles." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 12–21. Comparative historical analysis of hydraulic engineering in Mexico City and Los Angeles, 16th through twentieth centuries, offering insight into the ecological underpinnings and consequences of rapid urban development.

Iaeger, James. "Tan Bark in Southern Humboldt." Tall Timber Short Lines 80 (Fall 2005): 34–47. Originally written in May 1967; provided by Pete Hurd. History of the tan oak bark industry in Southern Humboldt county, California, 1900s–1950s.

Imort, Michael. "A Sylvan People: Wilhelmine Forestry and the Forest as a Symbol of Germandom." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 55–80 pp. Examines the cultural construction of the forest into the national landscape of Germandom, the role of foresters in the subsequent interpretation of the forest ecosystem as a political analogy for the German nation, and the legacy of that interpretation for the actual forest landscape, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Jackson, C. R., et al. "A Southeastern Piedmont Watershed Sediment Budget: Evidence for a Multi-Millennial Agricultural Legacy." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 60 (November/December 2005): 298–310. Describes development of a sediment budget for the Murder Creek basin in Georgia's rural Piedmont watershed to estimate the relative importance of various sediment sources, particularly the contribution of agricultural sediments introduced into stream systems during the cotton-farming era (ca. 1820–1930). Study suggests that the unstable condition of modern Piedmont streams is largely a result of poor farming practices during this period.

Janowski, Monica. "Rice as a Bridge Between Two Symbolic Economies: Migration Within and Out of the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 245–269 pp. Examines the way in which, in the context of immigration both within and out of the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, rice and rice growing have provided the means to construct a bridge between old and new "symbolic economies" in the twentieth century. Includes long-term histories of settlement and rice cultivation in the region.

Johnson, Cassandra Y., and Josh McDaniel. "Turpentine Negro." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 51–62 pp. Examines African American experiences working in forests in naval stores and turpentine operations in the late nineteenth and twentieth-century South, and their possible implications for modern African American views of forested wildlands.

Jones, Kelly. "Forestry Study Tour: Costa Rica." Sylvanet 18 (Fall 2005): 6–10. Account of spring 2005 field trip to Costa Rica as part of North Carolina State University's Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources international study tour program. Provides a twentieth-century history of the management of forests and environmental resources in the country.

Jones, Robert W. "March of the Weevils." Natural History 115 (February 2006): 30–35. Account of the boll weevil invasion of the southern United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and continuing research into the species and its host plants into the 2000s.

Julin, Sezanne Barta. "Building a Vacationland: Tourism Development in the Black Hills during the Great Depression." South Dakota History 35 (Winter 2005): 291–314. Examines the success of the tourist industry in South Dakota's Black Hills during the 1930s, which created jobs, attracted visitors and population, and helped to create regional identity.

Kaufman, Harold F., and Lois C. Kaufman. "Toward the Stabilization and Enrichment of a Forest Community." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 96–111 pp. Condensed version of a report on timber-dependent communities Libby and Troy, Montana, prepared in 1946 as part of the Montana Study, an effort by the University of Montana to better understand rural communities and their development.

Kaufmann, Robert K. "Planning for the Peak in World Oil Production." World Watch 19 (January/February 2006): 19–21. Examines geologist M. King Hubbert's remarkably accurate 1960s model predicting a peak in United States oil production in about 1965–1970 followed by a decline. Attempts to translate the model into global terms, stressing the impending global peak and the need for development of alternative energy sources.

Kearns, Ethan. "Saving the 'Smiling' Face of Florida." American Forests 111 (Spring 2005): 32–35. History of alligator habitat and population decline in Florida, 1870–2000s.

Keenan, Hudson. "Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road: Michigan's First Designated State Swamp Land Road." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Fall 2005): 67–89. History of the development and construction of the Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road in Central Michigan, mid-to-late nineteenth century.

Kidner, David W. "Fraud, Fantasy, and Fiction in Environmental Writing." Environmental Ethics 27 (Winter 2005): 391–410. Examines fraudulent accounts of environmental wisdom in the twentieth century, arguing that they should be understood as symptomatic of valid feelings and awarenesses that are unable to find expression in the modern world, dominated as it is by technological and economic viewpoints.

Kirkwood, Scott. "Wolf (& Consequence)." National Parks 80 (Winter 2006): 28–33. Examination of the consequences of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park, 1995–2005.

Klingle, Matthew W. "Fluid Dynamics: Water, Power, and the Reengineering of Seattle's Duwamish River." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 22–29. Examines attempts to engineer Seattle's Duwamish River, mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth century, demonstrating how social power has shaped the form and function of the urban West.

Koshar, Rudy. "Organic Machines: Cars, Drivers, and Nature from Imperial to Nazi Germany." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 111–139 pp. Examines driving experiences and practices in Germany in the first third of the twentieth century as part of a broader history of driving in Europe and the United States. Specifically explores how driving and representations of driving revealed attitudes about the interaction between people and the natural environment.

Kossuth, Robert S. "Spaces and Places to Play: The Formation of a Municipal Parks System in London, Ontario, 1867–1914." Ontario History 97 (Autumn 2005): 160–190. Examines the formation of London, Ontario's municipal park system, 1867–1914, providing insight into the struggle between champions of public recreation and political leaders concerned with the expense of public parks.

Köstering, Susanne. "Biology—Heimat—Family: Nature and Gender in German Natural History Museums around 1900." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 140–157 pp. Examines a paradigm shift in constructing and interpreting nature and gender at German natural history museums around 1900, focusing on the transition from taxonomic to ecological display and the themes of Heimat (homeland) and family represented in museums.

Kovel, Joel. "The Ecological Implications of the Iraq War." Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (December 2005): 7–17. Examines the Iraq war from an ecosystemic point of view, 2003–2005. Adapted from author's presentation at the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, Turkey, June 26, 2005.

Krishnaswamy, Ajit K. "The National Community Forestry Center: An Experiment in Institutionalizing Community Forestry in the United States." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 193–209 pp. Provides background on community forestry in the United States, 1980s–2000s, examining in particular the strategies of and challenges faced by the National Community Forestry Center (NCFC), founded in 2000.

Kunnas, Jan. "A Dense and Sickly Mist from Thousands of Bog Fires: An Attempt to Compare the Energy Consumption in Slash-and-Burn Cultivation and Burning Cultivation of Peatlands in Finland in 1820–1920." Environment and History 11 (November 2005): 431–446. Examines the use of fire-clearance husbandry in Finland's swamps and other peatlands, 1820–1920, arguing that the inclusion of emissions from burning cultivation of peatlands could substantially alter historical carbon dioxide emission estimates.

Langdon, John, and Martin Watts. "Tower Windmills in Medieval England: A Case of Arrested Development?" Technology and Culture 46 (October 2005): 697–718. Uses linguistic, iconographic, and archaeological evidence from medieval England to focus on the tower windmill as illustrative of the complexity of the dissemination of wind power at the time. Explores reasons why the diffusion of tower mills was limited.

Langston, Nancy. "Resource Management as a Democratic Process: Adaptive Management on Federal Lands." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 52–76 pp. Explores two twentieth-century historical case studies of conflict among different users of public land in the United States and their effects on resource management policy: disputes over old growth on National Forests which peaked in the 1980s–1990s, and continuing conflict over riparian management, especially at Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Larson, George A. "A CCC Recruit Looks Back: Claire Patterson's Black Hills Experience." South Dakota History 35 (Winter 2005): 335–346. Excerpts from the author's 2004 interview with Civilian Conservation Corps recruit Claire Patterson. Patterson recounts his personal experiences working in South Dakota's Black Hills in 1940–1941, including helping build a Forest Service fire lookout tower on Lookout Mountain.

Lee, R. Alton. "The Civilian Conservation Corps in Kansas." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 69–73. Overview of the Civilian Conservation Corps' projects in Kansas during the 1930s, highlighting problems with living and working conditions for Corps members.

List, Charles J. "The Virtues of Wild Leisure." Environmental Ethics 27 (Winter 2005): 355–373. Examines ways in which Aristotle's and Aldo Leopold's definitions of "wild leisure" converge, and the implications of this discussion for land citizenship and the transmission of environmental virtues.

London, Jonathan, Paul F. Starrs, and Louise Fortmann. "Power Plants and Forest Plans: Two Decades of Mobilization in a Mountain Forest Community." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 116–137 pp. Examines the mobilization of residents of rural Quincy, California to protect their access to forest resources on surrounding U.S. Forest Service-controlled Plumas National Forest, 1980s–2000s, particularly the conflict that developed over the construction of a wood-fueled power plant.

Louter, David. "Wilderness on Display: Shifting Ideals of Cars and National Parks." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 29–38. Traces shifts in American thinking about automobiles in the national parks throughout the twentieth century, especially during the transition, 1930s–1950s, from the optimism of Progressive Era-preservation to the complexities of postwar environmentalism. Focus on the Pacific Northwest. Largely excerpted from author's book Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads and Nature in National Parks, to be published in 2006.

Lupton, Richard. "The Eureka Lumber Company in Currituck Township." High Tides 26 (Fall 2005): 22–35. History of Eureka Lumber Company operations in the Currituck Township of Hyde County, North Carolina, begun in 1920 and sold in 1956. Includes local historical context and specific information on the company's largely African American workforce.

MacCleery, Douglas W. "America's Forests: Resilient and Productive." Consultant 51 (Winter 2006): 11–13. Examines forest policy, sustainability, and public perceptions of conservation in the twentieth-century United States.

Macham, Sandy. "MacMillan Bloedel & Powell River Limited's Nanaimo River Camp Bridge." Tall Timber Short Lines 81 (Winter 2006): 41–59. Illustrated history of the MacMillan Bloedel logging railroad bridge over the south fork of the Nanaimo River, British Columbia, 1940s–1980s.

Maine Folklife Center Newsletter. "Maine Humanities Council Supports Oral History Project with Former Eastern Fine Paper Mill Workers." Maine Folklife Center Newsletter 11 (Winter 2006): 1, 6. Describes a 2005–2006 project by the Maine Folklife Center and the city of Brewer entitled "The Writing on the Wall: The Twentieth Century Culture of a Maine Paper Mill" to collect oral histories from Eastern Fine mill employees, combine them with photographs and create an exhibit.

Marquis, Amy Leinbach. "The City that Lit the World." National Parks 80 (Winter 2006): 18–19. Profile of nineteenth-century whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the history of which is preserved at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park (created in 1996).

McDonough, Maureen H., and Kerry E. Vachta. "Community Empowerment and the Urban Forest." In Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2005. 228–248 pp. Examines the significance of trees and forests in urban communities, in particular their role in community-building. Focuses on the Urban Resources Initiative in Detroit, Michigan, where residents developed forestry projects to reclaim vacant land in their neighborhoods, 1980s–2000s.

McGivney, Annette. "Living History." Wilderness (2005–2006): 40–43. Overview of the National Landscape Conservation System, encompassing 26 million acres of the United States West, overseen by the Bureau of Land Management and established in 2001.

McGowan, Barry. "Class, Hegemony and Localism: The Southern Mining Region of New South Wales, 1850–1900." Labour History 86 (May 2004): 93–114. Discusses in detail a number of gold and base metal mining communities in the southern mining region of New South Wales during the nineteenth century. Considers the role of institutions such as progress associations, the nature of community debate and conflict, and the physical and economic environment.

McGurty, Eileen M. "Identity Politics and Multiracial Coalitions in the Environmental Justice Movement." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 133–149 pp. Examines debates over a chemical waste landfill siting in predominantly black Warren County, North Carolina, considered the "birthplace" of the environmental justice movement. Focuses on the period from 1993–2003 targeted at remediating environmental effects of the landfill ten years after its construction, highlighting interracial coalitions and racial tensions among the activists.

McIlwraith, Thomas F., and Mark Hummer. "Grave and Nave: An Architecture of Cemeteries and Sanctuaries in Rural Ontario." Ontario History 97 (Autumn 2005): 139–159. Explores the design of Christian church sites and burying grounds established throughout rural Ontario in the early nineteenth century.

Meints, Graydon M. "The Fruit Belt Line: Southwest Michigan's Failed Railroad." Michigan Historical Review 31 (Fall 2005): 117–148. Account of the rise and fall of Michigan's interurban Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago Railway (KLS&C), locally known as the Fruit Belt Line, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Melosi, Martin V. "Environmental Justice, Ecoracism, and Environmental History." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 120–132 pp. Reviews American environmental historiography since the 1960s and discusses the increasing emphasis on race in the field, including ecoracism and the environmental justice movement.

Meyer, William B. "The Poor on the Hilltops? The Vertical Fringe of a Late Nineteenth-Century American City." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95 (4 2005): 773–788. Study of upland residential patterns in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1891, showing that working-class residents predominated on the city's highest land, in opposition to modern American cities where affluence of residents generally increases with elevation.

Miall, David S. "Representing the Picturesque: William Gilpin and the Laws of Nature." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 75–93. Reinterprets the late-eighteenth-century picturesque movement, arguing that William Gilpin should be taken seriously as a writer about nature, and that his sensitivity to natural processes and forms represents a precursor to the ecological vision that emerged in the following century.

Mighetto, Lisa. "The Strange Fate of the Black River: How Urban Engineering Shaped Lake Washington and the Duwamish River Watershed." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 47–57. Examines the disappearance of Seattle's Black River as reflective of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century attitudes toward the natural world.

Miller, Char. "Running Dry: Water and Development in San Antonio." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005 ): 44–51. Long-range history of water development in San Antonio, Texas, shedding light on debates in the early 2000s over plans to build a large golf resort near the city.

Mittelhammer, Ron C., et al. "Effects of Changing Technology and Wood Quality on Washington's Sawmill Industry in the Pre-Spotted Owl Period." Forest Products Journal 55 (December 2005): 105–112. Examines the economic behavior of the Washington sawmill industry over the pre-spotted owl period, 1968–1990, constructing an explicit model of how technological change has effected the industry.

Mom, Gijs. "Roads without Rails: European Highway-Network Building and the Desire for Long-Range Motorized Mobility." Technology and Culture 46 (October 2005): 745–772. Examines the emergence of the limited-access highway in mid-twentieth century Europe, presenting it as a turning point in the history of transportation. Draws on the results of a project that studied two hundred years of Dutch mobility history as part of the larger story of European road building.

Moran, Michael. "Forestry Report from 1923—The Graham Tract on Little Clear Creek." Log Train 21 (November 2005): 8–12. Describes and includes the text of a 1923 forestry report by forestry engineer C. K. Waits, of a tract of land in the head of Little Clear Creek in Greenbriar County, West Virginia. Report describes the terrain and virgin timber as well as a plan and cost breakdown for logging and milling the timber.

Mumme, Stephen P. "The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, and the Municipal Development of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 38–43. Twentieth-century history of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), responsible for managing the U.S.-Mexico border and the allocation of boundary waters, and its significant role in municipal development of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, especially the orchestration of the 1963 Chimizal settlement..

Nelson, Chris B. "Life Along the Road: The Tourist Camp in South Dakota." South Dakota History 35 (Winter 2005): 315–334. Explores the early-twentieth-century development and decline of the tourist camp—predecessor to the motel—in South Dakota as a response to the rise of automobile travel and of the tourism industry in the state.

Nowak, David J., et al. "The Increasing Influence of Urban Environments on US Forest Management." Journal of Forestry 103 (December 2005): 377–389. Examines patterns of urban expansion in the United States from 1990 to 2000, postulating the implications and challenges for forest management and sustainability due to increasing urbanization.

O'Dair, Sharon. "The Tempest as Tempest: Does Paul Mazursky 'Green' William Shakespeare?" ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 139–164. Ecocritical examination of Paul Mazursky's 1982 film Tempest, a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, questioning whether and how Mazursky "greens" Shakespeare, and the literary significance of such an exercise.

Ogg, Clay. "The Vanishing Prairie." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 61 (January/February 2006): 18A–21A. Examines programs to protect prairie landscapes in the United States and Canada, 1970s–2000s, including the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Swampbuster, and Sodbuster Programs. Patakfalvi, Zsolt. "Tembec Skookumchuk: A Strong History of Making Pulp." Pulp & Paper Canada 106 (December 2005): 21–22. History of forestry and pulp production at Tembec Skookumchuk in Cranbrook in the Columbia Valley, British Columbia, Canada, nineteenth century-2000s.

Peden, Robert. "'The Exceeding Joy of Burning': Pastoralists and the Lucifer Match." Agricultural History 80 (Winter 2006): 17–34. Examines the burning of rangelands on the South Island of New Zealand by pastoralists, 1850 to 1890, using archival sources to argue that burning was an important and effective management tool.

Potter, Lesley. "Commodity and Environment in Colonial Borneo: Economic Value, Forest Conversions and Concerns for Conservation, 1870–1940." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 109–133 pp. Examines two aspects of Borneo's environmental history from 1870 to 1940: economic benefits derived from natural and planted forests, and the ideas held by colonial writers concerning the value of the forest estate.

Preston, David L. "George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land, Legitimacy, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley." New York History 86 (Fall 2005): 472–499. Examines late-eighteenth-century land disputes involving George Klock, Sir William Johnson, and European and Iroquois communities in the Mohawk Valley, New York, arguing that the disputes illuminate broader themes of colonial cultural interaction and struggles for political legitimacy.

Probst, Katherine N. "Superfund at 25: What Remains to Be Done." Resources (159 (Fall) 2005): 20–23. Evaluation and review of the Superfund program (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or CERCLA), designed to address sites contaminated with hazardous substances, since it was signed into law in 1980.

Radkau, Joachim. "Germany as a Focus of European 'Particularities' in Environmental History." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 17–32 pp. Examines perceived particularities regarding the German relationship between society and nature. Argues for an institutional approach to environmental history, which suggests that the differences between national attitudes and policies toward the natural environment are not as sharp as has been assumed.

Rees, Amanda. "'A Classless Society': Dude Ranching in the Tetons, 1908–1955." Annals of Wyoming 77 (Autumn 2005): 2–21. Case study of twenty-one dude ranches operating between 1908 and 1955 in what is now Grand Tetons National Park, exploring the history of dude ranching as a business activity through the prism of class.

Reynolds, Terry S. "'Quite an Experiment': A Mining Company's Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915." Agricultural History 80 (Winter 2006): 64–98. Examines reasons for, activities, and outcomes of the involvement of the Cleveland-Cliffs Mining Company in promoting agricultural development on Michigan's Upper Peninsula between 1895 and 1915.

Rogers, Jedediah S. "'One vast 'contiguity of waste'': Documents from an Early Attempt to Expand the Mormon Kingdom into the Uinta Basin, 1861." Utah Historical Quarterly 73 (Summer 2005): 249–264. History of the establishment of a Mormon Kingdom in the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado in 1861. Examines the journal of L. John Nuttall, a member of the expedition team.

Ronda, James P. "Troubled Passages: The Uncertain Journeys of Lewis and Clark." Oregon Historical Quarterly 106 (Winter 2005): 526–541. Seeks to restore uncertainty, chance, and contingency to 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark expedition, arguing that historians have "smoothed it over" and/or portrayed it as predetermined.

Ross-Bryant, Lynn. "Sacred Sites: Nature and Nation in the U.S. National Parks." Religion and American Culture 15 (1 2005): 31–62. Examines the United States' National Parks from the Civil War to the present as "sacred" pilgrimage sites, and as unifying symbols of American values, identity and culture. Suggests the usefulness of a heterogeneous, spatialized model for sacred places and seeks to show how the meanings of the National Parks as symbols are being transformed in the present, especially in the wake of 9/11.

Rumsey, Walter. "Walter Rumsey's Statement Twelve Years After Mann Gulch." Smokejumper 50 (January 2006): 5–7. Statement written in February 1961 of smokejumper Walter Rumsey's recollections of the August 5, 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana.

Rupley, Richard M. "Lumber Kings to Strawberry Queens." Michigan History 89 (July/August 2005): 54–61. History of the town of Chassell, Michigan, founded in 1888 as a timber town and later specializing in farming, fishing, and strawberry exporting. Details Chassell's early history as a company town for the Sturgeon River Lumber Company.

Ryan, J. C. "Loggers of the Past: 'Who Logged Here'." Timber Bulletin 61 (November/December 2005): 21–25. Reprinted from an earlier issue of the Timber Bulletin, date unknown. Discusses how lumber companies decided where to locate their logging camps in the early logging era, and the artifacts that can be found on those sites.

Savage, Candace. "Prairie: Long-Range Forecast." Forest Magazine 8 (Winter 2006): 38–43. Third 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.

Schlosser, Kolson L. "U. S. National Security Discourse and the Political Construction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge." Society and Natural Resources 19 (January 2006): 3–18. Explores the late-twentieth-early 21st century controversy over oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska, focusing on the effects of the invocation of national security discourse by the George W. Bush administration on the refuge, both as a place and as a subject of national debate.

Schmoll, Friedemann. "Indication and Identification: On the History of Bird Protection in Germany, 1800–1918." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 161–182 pp. Reconstructs various motivations for bird protection and explores how they reflected different cultural meanings attached to nature in Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Schyler, Krista. "The Legacy of Virginia McClurg." National Parks 80 (Winter 2006): 34–39. Account of journalist Virginia McClurg's political battle to preserve the landscape of Colorado's Mesa Verde which led to the creation of Mesa Verde National Park in 1906.

Sellato, Bernard. "Forests for Food, Forests for Trade—Between Sustainability and Extractivism: The Economic Pragmatism of Traditional Peoples and the Trade History of Northern East Kalimantan." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 61–86 pp. Examines conceptions of economics and forest resources held by the traditional peoples of Borneo, specifically the northern part of East Kalimantan in the 17th through twentieth centuries. Submits a reconstruction of the history of extractivism, or the systematic extraction of certain products for trade.

Sellers, Christopher. "Nature and Blackness in Suburban Passage." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 93–119 pp. Examines the views of the black, suburban middle class towards nature, housing, environmentalism, environmental justice, and civil rights using oral history interviews conducted in 1999 and 2004 with Eugene and Bernice Burnett, veterans of Long Island's civil rights movement.

Shaul, Richard D. "Northern Passage at the Soo: The Locks at 150!" Michigan History 89 (July/August 2005): 28–38. History of the founding and construction of the Soo Locks, a canal connecting Lakes Huron and Superior at Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan/Ontario, Canada, 1837–1896.

Sokol, Marienka. "Reclaiming the City: Water and the Urban Landscape in Phoenix and Las Vegas." Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 52–61. Examines attitudes towards desert, water and city in Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, especially Southwesterners' tendency to favor water-intensive landscapes despite severely limited supply.

Sowards, Adam M. "Modern Ahabs in Texas: William O. Douglas and Lone Star Conservation." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 39–46. Examines the contributions of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898–1980) to environmental causes, especially his work in Texas in the 1950s and 1960s.

Stephens, Scott L., and Lawrence W. Ruth. "Federal Forest Fire Policy in the United States." George Wright Forum 22 (4 2005): 57–77. Explores the problem of wildland fire in the United States and presents specific ideas to reform and improve fire policy and management. Provides a history of federal fire management from the 1880s through the 2000s.

Stewart, Mart A. "Slavery and the Origins of African American Environmentalism." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 9–20 pp. Argues that environmental justice and African American environmentalism in the South is intricately bound up with and has origins in the history of slavery, and that scholars of these topics should seek an understanding of the political culture made and remade by African Americans since times of slavery.

Stoll, Mark. "Religion and African American Environmental Activism." In 'To Love the Wind and the Rain': African Americans and Environmental History, edited by Dianne D. Glave and Mark Stoll. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 150–163 pp. Addresses issues of distance and animosity between environmentalists and African Americans in the late twentieth century, arguing that they are tied up with the black historical experience, in particular the history of the African American church. Examines the centrality of religion to African American environmental activism.

Stoykovich, Eric C. "Bridge over Troubled Waters: Dover v. The Proprietors of Portsmouth Bridge and the Changing Economic and Legal Landscape, 1815–1845." Historical New Hampshire 59 (Fall 2005): 92–112. Examines nineteenth-century conflict over Dover, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Bridge, in particular the extent to which local government tried to influence transportation development throughout New England.

Strickler, Breyan. "Sex in the City: An Ecocritical Perspective on the Place of Gender and Race in Othello." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 119–137. Ecocritical and postcolonial interpretation of Shakespeare's Othello which attempts to read place against typical dichotomies (the masculine urban space against the feminized wilderness).

Sunseri, Thaddeus. "Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflicts over Forest Use in German East Africa." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 81–107. Examines German imperial forestry in East Africa, focusing specifically on the forests of the Rufiji River Basin in Tanzania and tying them to the social history and political economy of German colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Sunseri, Thaddeus. "Working in the Mangroves and Beyond: Scientific Forestry and the Labour Question in Early Colonial Tanzania." Environment and History 11 (November 2005): 365–394. Using the mangroves and dry lowland forests of Tanzania as a case study, argues that colonial forestry in German East Africa was forced to accommodate itself to a scarcity of labor. Examines the effects of this scarcity on the development of scientific forestry in the region, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Tagliacozzo, Eric. "Onto the Coasts and Into the Forests: Ramifications of the China Trade on the Ecological History of Northwest Borneo, 900–1900 CE." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 25–59 pp. Analyzes the ramifications of commerce on the ecological history of north and west Borneo, particularly the Great China trade that started in the last years of the first millennium and reached its peak in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Tennesen, Michael. "A River Runs Through Them." National Parks 80 (Winter 2006): 40–45. History and current status of management of the Colorado River, which runs through six national parks and recreation areas but suffers from a shortage of water, 1860s–2000s.

Tropical Forest Update. "Timber and the Rebuilding of Liberia." Tropical Forest Update 15 (3 2005): 3–6. Examination of the effects of Liberia's late-twentieth-century civil wars on forestry and forest resources in the country and possibilities for sustainable reconstruction, including the Liberia Forest Initiative.

Trotter, Lesley. "100 Years of the Quarterly Journal of Forestry." Quarterly Journal of Forestry 100 (January 2006): 28–30. Reviews the first issue of the Royal Forestry Society's Quarterly Journal of Forestry, published in 1907, on the occasion of its centennial anniversary. Highlights the concerns of English forestry at the turn of the twentieth century.

van de Logt, Mark. "'The Land Is Always With Us': Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism." The Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Fall 2005): 326–341. Explores three major developments between 1877 and 1930 that threatened Oklahoma's Ponca tribe's relationship with the land: removal, which separated them from their ancestral homelands; allotment, which undermined traditional concepts of communal land; and the development of the oil and gas industry on and near Ponca land.

Verbyla, Paul S. "Forestry in Gloucester County, Virginia: Past, Present and Future." Consultant 51 (Winter 2006): 24–26. History, overview, and future prospects of forestry and the forest products industry in Gloucester County, eastern Virginia, especially challenges caused by ice storms and hurricanes.

Waage, Frederick O. "Shakespeare Unearth'd." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12.2 (Summer 2005): 139–164. Encourages and discusses a "topical" approach to ecocriticism of Shakespeare's canon.

Wadley, Reed L. "Boundaries, Territory and Resource Access in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1800–2000." In Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity, edited by Reed L. Wadley. Leiden, the Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2005. 137–157 pp. Explores the history of boundary-making and territorialization and their implications for resource access under both colonial and national regimes in the borderlands of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1800–2000.

Walsh, A. E. "The Birth of Fair Chase." Fair Chase 20 (Winter 2005): 24–27. Examines the context and legacy of President Theodore Roosevelt's famous 1902 Mississippi bear hunt, during which the standard of "fair chase" was defined.

Wernet, Mary Linn. "The United States Senator Overton Collection and the History it Holds Relating to the Control of Floods in the Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi, 1936–1948." Louisiana History 46 (Fall 2005): 449–464. Examines the life of U.S. Senator John Holmes Overton (1875–1948) as shown through his papers, held by Louisiana State University. Relates primarily to Overton's work with the Committee on Flood Control, a subcommittee of the Committee of Commerce, 1935–1948.

Weyeneth, Robert R. "The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past." Public Historian 27 (Fall 2005): 11–44. Examines racial segregation as a spatial system and proposes a framework for assessing its significance for historic preservation. Analyzes the influence of white supremacy on the American landscape and African American responses to confinement in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

White, John H., Jr. "Let Us Cross Over the River: Cincinnati's Ferryboats." Timeline 23 (January/February 2006): 44–57. Illustrated history of ferryboat operations on the Ohio River in Cincinnati, 1790s-nineteenth century.

White, Kevin, and David J. Mattingly. "Ancient Lakes of the Sahara." American Scientist 94 (January–February 2006): 58–65. Discusses research using remote sensing into climate change and human prehistory in Libya's Fazzan at the center of the Sahara desert, once a savannah dotted with lakes.

Williams, John Alexander. " Protecting Nature between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925–1935." In Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, edited by Thomas Lekan and Thomas Zeller. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 183–206 pp. Examines German conservationism from 1925 to 1935.

Wilson, Mary Jane. "Benjamin Bussey, Woodland Hill, and the Creation of the Arnold Arboretum." Arnoldia 64 (1 2005): 2–9. Biographical sketch of businessman and philanthropist Benjamin Bussey (1757–1842), on whose land holdings Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum was established in 1872.

Wilson, Randall K. "Collaboration in Context: Rural Change and Community Forestry in the Four Corners." Society and Natural Resources 19 (January 2006): 53–70. Examines the proliferation of community-based collaborative approaches to resource conservation and management in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest, 1990s–2000s, conducting a comparative analysis of four community forestry initiatives on national forests.

Wilson, Thomas Murray. "Post-Pastoral in John Fowles's Daniel Martin." Organization & Environment 18 (December 2005): 477–488. Reevaluates John Fowles's 1977 book Daniel Martin from an ecological perspective, in particular his use of satirical anti-pastoralism or post-pastoralism.

Winchester, Juti A. "'So Glad God Let Me Be an Outdoor Woman': The Conservationist Writing of Sharlot Mabridth Hall." Journal of the West 44 (Fall 2005): 18–25. Biographical sketch of Arizona pioneer Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870–1943), highlighting her experiences and writings related to nature conservation and landscape.

Woodside, Christine. "Life on the State Farmland Preservation Waiting List." Connecticut Woodlands 70 (Winter 2006): 9–13. Explores the benefits and limitations of Connecticut's Farmland Preservation Program from its founding in 1978 through the 2000s.

Woodward, Joan. "Lessons From a Feral Landscape." Landscape Architecture 95 (December 2005): 52–59. Examines the Stuart Company plant and headquarters property in Pasadena, California, designed in 1958 and shut down in 1993, as a case study for how imported landscapes adapt to urban forces when they have been released from intended irrigation and maintenance.

Wurman, Leonard H. "B&C Conservationists: Frank Michler Chapman (1864–1945)." Fair Chase 20 (Winter 2005): 20–22. Overview of the career of conservationist and early Boone & Crockett Club member Frank M. Chapman, bird explorer and curator for the American Museum of Natural History.

Zybach, Bob. "Forests of the Pacific Northwest: Sustainable Use and Resiliency." Consultant 51 (Winter 2006): 14–18. History, overview and prospects of the forests of the United States' Pacific Northwest.

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