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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Aiken, S. Robert. "From Forest Realm to Cultural Landscape: Economic Development, Forest Loss, and Conservation in Peninsular Malaysia, circa 1850–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 279–306. Looks at selected aspects of human interaction with the forests of Peninsular Malaysia during the period 1850–2000, outlining changes in the political economy and the ecological consequences of forest exploitation, and examining attempts to conserve forests and wildlife.

Allen, Barbara L. "Cradle of a Revolution?: The Industrial Transformation of Louisiana's Lower Mississippi River." Technology and Culture 47 (January 2006): 112–19. Examines land use change in the lower Mississippi region of Louisiana, eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, including the roles of plantation agriculture, petrochemical industrial pollution, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Allen, Robert C., and Ian Keay. "Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling Records." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 89–113. Examines species decline by comparing and contrasting four methods for estimating the population of Bowhead whales between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen prior to and during commercial exploitation by Dutch, German, and British whalers, 1611–1911.

Alley, Bill. "Crashing Timbers, Ice Floods, and Movie Stars: Universal Studios Comes to Klamath Falls." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Fall 2005): 181–186. Describes the shooting of logging scenes for the silent movie The Ice Flood in 1920s Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Andrews, Richard N. L. "Recovering FDR's Environmental Legacy." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 221–43. Attempts to recover the environmental legacy of FDR and the New Deal in the context of the 2000s, with the goals of reasserting its historical importance, considering its impacts on subsequent events and issues, and investigating whether FDR's initiatives offer any tools for addressing early-twenty-first-century environmental policy.

Antunès, Isabelle. "The Price to Pay for Political Sustainability: Sasi and Commercial Marine Resource Depletion in Kei Besar, Maluku, Indonesia." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 143–62. Geo-cultural case study of the trochus fishery in the village of Watlaar in Maluku, Indonesia.

Bankoff, Greg. "Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spain's Imperium in the Pacific, 1521–1898." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 65–88. Examines the relationship between weather systems, particularly prevailing winds and storms, and colonialism in Spanish possessions in the Pacific from the 16th through the end of the nineteenth century.

Banzhaf, Spencer et al. " Voting for Conservation: What is the American Electorate Revealing?" Resources 160 (Winter 2006): 7–12. Examines the results of over 1,100 referenda for the conservation of open space in the United States from 1997 to 2002, including an in-depth investigation of referenda in Colorado.

Barnett, Jim. "Second Harvest: Pine Stumps for Naval Stores." Forests & People 56 (1 2006): 20–21. Brief history of the naval stores industry in the Southern United States, highlighting the early-twentieth-century wood naval stores era in which products were extracted from longleaf pine stumps in cutover areas.

Bernstein, Anya. "Parameters of Legitimation and the Environmental Future of a Taipei Neighborhood." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 311–30. Examines a conflict ongoing since the late twentieth century between a Taipei neighborhood and the Taiwan Electric Company about the expansion of an electric substation, focusing on the ways that collective memory and personalized history of the local Taiwan environment has been mobilized to thwart future environmental degradation.

Black, Brian. "The Complex Environmentalist: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Ethos of New Deal Conservation." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 19–47. Explores the complex environmental ethic that governed FDR's New Deal conservation policy, arguing that the natural environment's significance to human welfare was one of his most basic convictions, growing from the Jeffersonian ideal that connection to the land and hard work made people "better Americans."

Black, Brian. "Referendum on Planning: Imaging River Conservation in the 1938 TVA Hearings." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 181–94. Argues that a close examination of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and river development in the 1930s reveals the extent to which FDR's environmental thinking influenced this new effort to rationalize and manage natural resources.

Boomgaard, Peter. "The Long Goodbye?: Trends in Forest Exploitation in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1600–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 211–34. Examines factors contributing to forest decline in Indonesia from a long-term historical perspective, 1600–2000, and suggests topics for future research.

Boomgaard, Peter. "Resources and People of the Sea In and Around the Indonesian Archipelago, 900–1900." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 97–119. Examines data on marine resources in the proto- and pre-statistical periods of the history of the Indonesian Archipelago, with a view to the depletion and sustainability of resources.

Box, Thad. "Listening to the Land: Smokey's Altered Habitat." Rangelands 28 (April 2006): 38–39. Briefly examines the roles of wildlife and fire in ecosystems, including a discussion the USDA's Smokey the Bear fire prevention program in the mid-twentieth century.

Brehm, Joan M., and Brian W. Eisenhauer. "Environmental Concern in the Mormon Culture Region." Society and Natural Resources 19 (May-June 2006): 393–410. Reports on a 2001 survey conducted in communities in Wyoming and Utah examining connections between the Mormon religion and environmental attitudes, which indicates significant differences between Mormon and non-Mormon populations' environmental concern.

Brown, Valerie. "The Heat is On in the Northern Exposures." Forest Magazine 8 (Spring 2006): 14–19. Describes the effects of long-term climate change on the boreal forests stretching from eastern Alaska to Canada's Maritime Provinces, and the potential global consequences of their decline.

Budidarsono, Suseno, and Paul Burgers. "Forestry and Local Communities of Java in Times of Turmoil, 1942–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 351–71. Reports on changes in forest cover in the state-controlled lands of Java, Indonesia that have resulted from severe economic and social hardship in the period from 1942–2000, focusing in particular on the response mechanisms of local communities.

Bullard, Robert D. "Neighborhoods 'Zoned' for Garbage." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 43–61. Examines the connection between race, poverty and waste facility siting in Houston, Texas, providing sociohistorical context from 1850.

Bullard, Robert D., and Damu Smith. "Women Warriors of Color on the Front Line." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 62–84. Highlights the vital roles of women of color in the environmental justice movement, particularly in planning the Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held in Washington, DC in 2002, offering selected personal stories.

Bunting, Robert. "Michael Luark and Settler Culture in the Western Pacific Northwest, 1853–1899." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Fall 2005): 198–205. Examines the journal kept by a man named Michael Luark as a record of the white male settler/homesteader experience in Oregon, 1853–1899.

Burnett, Charles. "Perceiving Sounds in the Middle Ages." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 69–84. Examines what medieval European scholars, including Aristotle and Boethius, thought about the nature, causes, and medium of sound, the mode of its propagation, and the means by which it was heard and interpreted.

Butcher, John G. "The Marine Animals of Southeast Asia: Towards a Demographic History, 1850–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 63–96. Overviews marine animal populations of Southeast Asia in the mid-1800s and highlights some of the major changes that took place between 1850–1940 and between 1940–2000.

Clayton, Cary. "Harvesting Sunken Treasure." Timber/West 31 (January/February 2006): 84–87. Describes the Underwater Timber Salvage Corporation's practice, begun in the 1990s, of harvesting and processing logs from the bottom of the Columbia River in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Close, David, and Eric Mintz. "State Sponsorship and Community Environmental Groups: The Atlantic Coastal Action Program in Newfoundland." American Review of Canadian Studies 35 (Winter 2005): 621–39. Examines and compares the work of two ACAP (Atlantic Coastal Action Program) environmental groups in Newfoundland, Canada—the St. John's Harbour and Humber Arm ACAPs—in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, providing historical context for state sponsorship of interest groups in Canada since the 1960s.

Collin, Robin Morris, and Robert Collin. "Environmental Reparations." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 209–21. Examines anti-urban sentiment within twentieth-century mainstream environmentalism, which the authors say masks an unconscious racism, and argues for environmental sustainability and justice reparations to urban people of color.

Colombijn, Freek. "Dried-Up Dragon's Blood and Swarms of Bees Nest Collectors: Non-Timber Forest Products in Sumatra, 1600–1870." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 259–78. Examines the exploitation of non-timber forest products and their level of sustainability in Sumatra, Indonesia between 1600 and 1870 as part of a long-term research project on anthropogenic environmental change in the region.

Colten, Craig E. "The Rusting of the Chemical Corridor." Technology and Culture 47 (January 2006): 95–101. Examines the relationship between the petrochemical industry and the environment of the lower Mississippi region of the United States over the course of the twentieth century and in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the 2000s.

Corbin, Alain. "Identity, Bells, and the Nineteenth-Century French Village." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 184–204. Argues that the emotional impact of hearing a bell ringing helped create a territorial identity for nineteenth-century French villagers, providing a sense of being rooted in space that the emerging urban proletariat lacked.

Dale, Lisa. "Wildfire Policy and Fire Use on Public Lands in the United States." Society and Natural Resources 19 (March 2006): 275–84. Examines twenty-first-century wildfire management policy in the United States, in particular the potential environmental and economic benefits of Wildland Fire Use (WFU) which uses fire to improve ecosystem health.

De Laruelle, Scott. "Lumber for Leopold's Legacy." Springboard 26 (February 2006): 4–5. Describes the 2006 removal of pine trees planted by Aldo Leopold (1886–1948) and his family starting in 1936 to build the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, designed as an educational and interpretive center with displays and archives storage, in Fairfield (Sauk County), Wisconsin.

Ducre, K. Animashaun. "Racialized Spaces and the Emergence of Environmental Injustice." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 109–24. Examines the theoretical framework of racialized spaces in application to situations of environmental injustice, with particular focus on African American and Native American communities in the 20th century.

Duvall, Sam. "Dwight Harrigan and the Sawmill Business." Alabama Forests 50 (Spring 2006): 8–11. History of the Harrigan family's Scotch Lumber Company in Fulton, Alabama from the late nineteenth century to the 2000s.

Ebach, Malte C., and Daniel F. Goujet. "The First Biogeographical Map." Journal of Biogeography 33 (May 2006): 761–69. Discusses the first biogeographical map, published in 1805 by Lamarck and Candolle, arguing that it marks the beginning of a descriptive biogeography focusing on the study of biota rather than the distributional pathways of taxa.

Ewert, Eric C. "From Hinterland to Bellwether: A Century of Demographic and Economic Change in the Pacific Northwest." Journal of the West 45 (Winter 2006): 41–51. Examines the roles of population growth, federal investment, and economic evolution in the rapid development of the three-state Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho) over the course of the twentieth century.

Flaspohler, David J., and Curt Meine. "Planning for Wildness: Aldo Leopold's Report on Huron Mountain Club." Journal of Forestry 104 (January/ February 2006): 32–41. Examines Aldo Leopold's 1938 Report on Huron Mountain Club, at the time a novel synthesis of emerging ideas in forestry, wildlife ecology, protected area design, and landscape-scale planning, arguing that current study of the report provides new insight into the evolution of Leopold's thinking and the development of applied conservation science.

Fleming, William, and William Forbes. "Following in Leopold's Footsteps: Revisiting and Restoring the Rio Galivan Watershed." Ecological Restoration 24 (March 2006): 25–31. Summarizes Aldo Leopold's observations about the health of the Rio Galivan watershed in northern Chihuahua, Mexico in 1936–1938 and compares them with conclusions by Starker Leopold in 1949, Robert Smith in 1983 and 1990, the U.S. National Riparian Service Team in 1999, and the results of an aquatic science and soil erosion study in 2002. Explores the prospects for restoring the area.

Forest Focus. "Focus on Tree Species: American Elm." Forest Focus 30 (Winter 2006): 19–20. Spotlight on the American Elm, including the devastation caused by Dutch Elm disease, introduced in 1930.

Forest Focus. "Hurricanes and Forests." Forest Focus (Fall 2005): 3–6. Examines the effects of 1989's Hurricane Hugo on South Carolina forests and foresters.

Forest Service Staff. "Our National Asset: USDA Forest Service Research & Development." Tree Farmer 25 (March/April 2006): 6–10. Describes the research and development activities of the USDA Forest Service since its inception in 1905, including dealing with natural disasters and invasive species, studying the impacts of recreation, biomass and bioenergy programs, and forest inventory and analysis.

Four Arrows (a.k.a. Don Trent Jacobs). "Plight of the Rara'muri: Crises in Our Backyard." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 245–53 . Examines human rights and environmental injustices against the Rara'muri people of north-central Mexico, seventeenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Fox, James J. "In a Single Generation: A Lament for the Forests and Seas of Indonesia." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 43–60. Describes the depletion of forest and marine resources in Indonesia since the 1960s, and focuses on two case studies of the development of specific Indonesian communities whose livelihood has been associated with particular resources.

Friederici, Peter. "American Revival." Audubon 108 (March-April 2006): 27–35. Examines the late 20th-early 21st century efforts of the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF) to restore the almost-vanished tree species. Provides a history of the nineteenth-century heyday and early-20th century decline of the American Chestnut due to blight.

García, Robert, and Erica S. Flores. "Anatomy of the Urban Parks Movement: Equal Justice, Democracy, and Livability in Los Angeles." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 145–67. Discusses the urban parks movement in Los Angeles, California in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, providing case studies from grassroots struggles in which people of color and low-income communities have partnered with public interest lawyers, gaining access to parks, beaches, and other open space.

Gardner, Gene. "Golden Anniversary Wetland Initiative." Missouri Conservationist 67 (March 2006): 9–15. History of wetland conservation in Missouri in the twentieth century.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part Three: The Cabin on the Creek, Sue, West Virginia (4)." Log Train 22 (February 2006): 5–10. Fourth 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 and events in Laneville from 1907–1912.

Gaumnitz, Lisa. "A Fluid Situation." Wisconsin Natural Resources 30 (February 2006): 10–14. Explores Wisconsin's practice of requiring hydropower plants to undergo reviews every thirty to fifty years, providing opportunities to negotiate operating conditions, water flow, recreation and environmental enhancements. Provides a history of hydropower and dam building in the state from the nineteenth century.

Gedicks, Al. "Resource Wars against Native Peoples." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 168–87. Examines three late-twentieth-century cases where oil investments have encroached upon resource-rich native lands, and where native communities have organized in opposition, in the Philippines, Colombia, and Wisconsin.

Gibbs, Lois. "Citizen Activism for Environmental Health: The Growth of a Powerful New Grassroots Health Movement." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 3–16. Examines how the successful efforts of the Love Canal community in Niagara Falls, New York, to relocate working-class families away from a toxic dump in the 1970s-1980s sparked a nationwide grassroots environmental justice movement. Written by the president of the Love Canal homeowner's association.

Glick, Daniel. "Leader of the Pack." Audubon 108 (March-April 2006): 66–72. Account of the restitution of the Mexican gray wolf in Arizona, spearheaded in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries by the White Mountain Apache tribe. Provides historical context from the nineteenth century for the tribe's tradition of land management and for the near-extinction of the wolf species.

Goodall, Heather. "Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism, and Memories of Environmental Injustice." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 73–95. Outlines a framework for identifying sources of tension as well as commonalities between indigenous and non-indigenous communities in their experiences of and reactions to environmental injustice, examining themes of dispossession, colonialism, and globalization with a particular focus on Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Goodall, Heather. "Main Streets and Riverbanks: The Politics of Place in an Australian River Town." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 255–70. Examines expressions of race relations and injustice in both the built and natural environments of the river town of Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia, from British settlement in the mid-19th century through the 2000s.

Gordon, Stephen C. "Rustic Repose: Spring Grove and the Rural Cemetery Movement." Timeline 23 (April/June 2006): 2–19. Illustrated history of Cincinnati, Ohio's Spring Grove Cemetery and its influence in nineteenth-century landscape design, parks, and rural cemeteries.

Gosson, Renée. "What Lies Beneath? Cultural Excavation in Neocolonial Martinique." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 225–43. Examines the effects of French colonialism on the people, culture, and ecological landscape of the island of Martinique, seventeenth through twentieth centuries.

Gouk, Penelope. "English Theories of Hearing in the Seventeenth Century." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 136–50. Explores English ideas on hearing in the 17th century as exhibited through the writings of theorists including Francis Bacon (1561–1621) and Thomas Wright (1561–1623), and the relationship of their ideas to those of natural philosopher René Descartes.

Gragson, Ted L., and Paul V. Bolstad. "Land Use Legacies and the Future of Southern Appalachia." Society and Natural Resources 19 (February 2006): 175–190. Reviews land use research of the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project to examine the legacies of 19th- and 20th-century extractive practices in Southern Appalachian forests. Provides overview of land use history in the region from 8000BC to the 2000s.

Hartzell, Hal. "A Good Job for Some." Forest Magazine 8 (Spring 2006): 44–47. The author, a founding member of the 1970s Oregon tree-planting cooperative the Hoedads, reflects on his experiences and on conditions in the 2000s for piDeros, or Hispanic woods workers who find employment in the United States under the guest worker program.

Hays, Finley. "Finley's Rigging Shack." Loggers World 42 (April 2006): 4–6. The author reminisces about logging techniques in the United States in the 1930s.

Henley, David. "Of Sago and Kings: Sustainability, Hierarchy and Collective Action in Precolonial Sulawesi." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 235–57. Argues against the stark categorization of state and non-state (community or "indigenous") natural resource management in Indonesia by examining the extent to which hierarchy, inequality, and centralized enforcement of property and access rights were already in place in precolonial Sulawesi.

Hise, Greg. "Sixty Stories in Search of a City." California History 83 (3 2006): 8–26. Explores stories about, descriptions, and representations of the city of Los Angeles, California from the mid-19th century through the 2000s, examining how these shape popular conceptions of the city's past and what it could or ought to be in the future. Argues that rhetorical themes of modernity and progress has obscured the city's history of manufacturing and industrialism.

Holsten, Theodore. "B&C Books: John Guille Millais—A Man of Many Talents." Fair Chase 21 (Spring 2006): 14–14. Brief sketch of author and illustrator John Guille Millais (1865–1931, son of Victorian painter John Everett Millais, 1829–1896), whose works reflected his fascination with plants, wildlife, birds, and hunting, especially in Africa.

Howard, Jennifer. "Revising the Suburbs." Chronicle of Higher Education 52 (March 24 2006): A16-A20. Explores the work of interdisciplinary researchers who in the 1990s-2000s have begun complicating traditional views of urban sprawl and its history.

Hunt, W. Grainger, Tom J. Cade, and Angel B. Montoya. "Home Above the Range." Natural History 115 (May 2006): 48–54. Examines the historical habitat, decline, and recent recovery of the aplomado falcon in the American Southwest and Mexico, mid-19th century through the 2000s.

James, Peggy. "'Taking Us for Village Idiots': Two Stories of Ethnicity, Class, and Toxic Waste from Sydney, Australia." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 271–84. Examines anti-pollution activism in Sydney, Australia, 1980s-1990s, encouraging recognition of environmentalism in diverse, working-class communities.

Katona, Jacqui. "The Mirrar Fight for Jabiluka: Uranium Mining and Indigenous Australians to 2004." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 285–98 . Explores the effects of uranium mining on the land and people of northern Australia, 1950s-2000s, focusing on a struggle by the Mirrar to oppose the location of a mine at Jabiluka.

Kennedy, Roger G. "A New Deal for Nature—And Nature's People." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 245–60. Explores how the view of man's relationship to nature embodied by FDR and the New Deal can be put to use in the early-twenty-first-century.

Kummer, David M. "Deforestation in the Philippines, 1950–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 307–23. Examines forest cover change in the Philippines, first from 1950 to 1987, then from 1987 to 2000.

Lambert, Kirby. "Forest Images by K. D. Swan: Pictures Needed in the Telling." Montana the Magazine of Western History 56 (Spring 2006): 60–64. Illustrated biographical sketch of U.S. Forest Service photographer K. D. Swan (1887–1970), known for his images of the Northern Region (Montana and portions of Idaho, North and South Dakota) from the 1920s-1930s.

Lawson, Bill E. "Racist Property Holdings and Environmental Coalitions: Addressing Memories of Environmental Injustice ." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 97–108. Examines the African American experience of housing and property discrimination in the nineteenth-twentieth century United States, including zoning restriction practices and restrictive covenants.

Leach, William D. "Public Involvement in USDA Forest Service Policymaking: A Literature Review." Journal of Forestry 104 (January/ February 2006): 43–49. Brief history of public participation in the USDA Forest Service from 1960 to the 2000s, reviewing twenty0five of the most significant empirical studies on the topic.

Leahy, Maura K., and Ann E. Camp. "Making Way for Terns: Restoration at Great Gull Island." Ecological Restoration 24 (March 2006): 36–40. Examines an early-twenty-first-century restoration project of roseate tern (Sterna dougalii) habitat on Great Gull Island off the Connecticut coast. Reviews the history of the island from the late 19th century forward, including the ecologically disruptive occupation by the U.S. Army in the early twentieth century.

Leahy, Todd. "'Beef Instead of Bayonets': Cultural Mores and the Failure of Assimilation on the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation." Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Winter 2005–2006): 490–499. Explores failed attempts by Indian agents at the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to assimilate Kiowas and Comanches by introducing cattle ranching, 1875–1900.

Leshy, John. "FDR's Expansion of Our National Patrimony: A Model for Leadership." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 177–80. Examines FDR's instrumental but often overlooked role in shaping the United States' national public land systems—the national parks, forests, monuments, wildlife refuges, and other conservation used as models worldwide since the 1930s.

Livingston, Rebecca. "When an American City is Destroyed." Prologue 38 (Spring 2006): 36–44. Describes textual military records held by the National Archives relating to the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the event.

Lubetkin, M. John. "'Twenty-Six Feet and No Bottom': Constructing the Northern Pacific Railroad." Minnesota History 60 (Spring 2006): 4–17. Account of the saga of surveying and constructing the Northern Pacific Railroad in Minnesota in the 1870s-1880s, discussing the political, financial, and environmental obstacles faced by the effort.

Lyons, James R. "'FDR and Environmental Leadership'." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 195–217. Reasserts the environmental leadership of the FDR administration (1933–1945), arguing that his accomplishments in restoring natural resources are as substantial, and in some respects more broad and profound than those of the Theodore Roosevelt administration.

Maher, Neil M. "'A Conflux of Desire and Need': Trees, Boy Scouts, and the Roots of Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 49–83. Attempts to "map the ideological landscape" that gave rise to the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933.

Malakoff, David, and Antonin Kratochvil. "The Hot Zone ." Audubon 108 (March-April 2006): 74–79. Photo essay with accompanying text of the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, twenty years later.

Mallory, Chaone. "Ecofeminism and Forest Defense in Cascadia: Gender, Theory and Radical Activism." Capitalism Nature Socialism 17 (March 2006): 32–49. Examines women's forest protection activism in the Pacific Northwest in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, postulating a direct integration of feminism with environmentalism.

Marshall, Patricia. "Land Management: By the People, For the People." Forest Magazine 8 (Spring 2006 ): 32–36. Describes the use, process, and history (1960s-2000s) of filing appeals to the USDA Forest Service, a tool by which citizens can question management decisions made on public lands, in light of government and industry groups' attempts to eliminate or curtail the appeals process.

McCulloch, Jock. "The Mine at Wittenoom: Blue Asbestos, Labour and Occupational Disease." Labor History 47 (February 2006): 1–19. Examines the occupational health disaster resulting from the mining of crocidolite or blue asbestos at Wittenoom in Western Australia, primarily 1940s-1970s.

McDonald, David A. "Environmental Racism and Neoliberal Disorder in South Africa." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 255–78. Examines the interplay of race, class, and neoliberal ideology in the struggle for environmental justice in South Africa, 1950s-2000s.

Melzer, Richard. "Leonard W. 'Si' Porter's Memories of Life in the Civilian Conservation Corps of Southern New Mexico, 1936–1939." New Mexico Historical Review 80 (Fall 2005): 417–36. Introduction to and transcription of the author's 1990 oral history interview with Leonard W. "Si" Porter (1919–1992) concerning his childhood and experiences serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern New Mexico from 1936–1939.

Norris, Frank. "A Room with a View: Controversies over Hotel Development in Mount McKinley National Park, 1927–1970." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 96 (Fall 2005): 171–80. Examines conflict over building a lodge with a panoramic view of Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska, 1920s-1970s, considering the roles of low visitation rates, the government, and the bourgeoning environmental movement.

O'Har, George. "Where the Buffalo Roam: Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains." Technology and Culture 47 (January 2006): 156–63. Revisits Walter Prescott Webb's 1931 book The Great Plains, in particular its discussion of the spread of technology along with American westward expansion.

Pagels, Brad. "Hein's 'Y' Track." Chips and Sawdust 31 (Winter 2006): 9–10. Discusses a section of logging railway known as the "Y" Track, built in 1916 in Langlade County, Wisconsin and used by the Bonita Branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway.

Parks, Bradley C., and J. Timmons Roberts. "Globalization, Vulnerability to Climate Change, and Perceived Injustice." Society and Natural Resources 19 (April 2006): 337–355. Evaluates claims of environmental injustice by examining three cases where the first signs of climate change are being felt in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries: flooding from Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, rising sea levels in Pacific Island atoll nations, and flooding among squatter settlements in Mozambique. Concludes that these nations are suffering not only from poor geography and management, but from their colonial pasts and current positions in the world economy.

Pastor, Manuel, Jr., Sadd. James L., and Rachel Morello-Frosch. "Environmental Inequity in Metropolitan Los Angeles." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 108–24. Reports on research showing dramatic racial and ethnic inequalities in hazardous waste exposures and related illness in metropolitan Los Angeles, examining in particular the siting of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities from 1970 to 1990.

Persoon, Gerard A., and Eric Wakker. "The Forests of Sumatra: Use, Conversion, and Conservation, 1950–2000." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 325–49. Describes major forms of forest use and commercial forest exploitation in Sumatra from 1950–2000, presenting two case studies, one on the island of Siberut and one on the Bukit Duabeles Reserve in Central Jambi province.

Peña, Devon G. "Tierra y Vida: Chicano Environmental Justice Struggles in the Southwest ." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 188–206. Examines the contributions of people of Mexican origin, including farm and factory workers, acequia farmers, and urban barrio residents to the environmental justice movement in the American Southwest, 1980s-2000s.

Phillips, Sarah. "FDR, Hoover, and the New Rural Conservation, 1920–1932." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 107–52. Argues that the rural conservation programs of the New Deal drew from a new tradition of conservationist thinking that had largely developed in the 1920s, spurred by rural electrification advocates, land-use planners, and the presidential politics of the Hoover administration.

Pomar, Olga. "Toxic Racism on a New Jersey Waterfront." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 125–41. Describes the residents of Camden, New Jersey's struggle against environmental racism since the 1980s, which culminated in a high-profile federal suit challenging a cement-grinding facility in the Waterfront South neighborhood. Discusses Camden's grassroots activism since the 1960s.

Potter, Lesley M. "Commodifying, Consuming and Converting Kalimantan's Forests, 1950–2002." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 373–99. An overview of forests in Kalimantan, Indonesia, from Indonesian independence in the 1940s through the 2000s, with background on Dutch forest practices under colonialism from 1900–1949.

Pouta, Elia, Tuija Sievänen, and Marjo Neuvonen. "Recreational Wild Berry Picking in Finland—Reflection of a Rural Lifestyle." Society and Natural Resources 19 (April 2006): 285–304. Analyzes recreational berry picking, the most popular consumptive outdoor activity in Finland, which is showing signs of decline in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Concludes that picking wild berries is linked to a rural lifestyle, particularly that of older generations. Includes a history of the Nordic "everyman's right," the traditional legal right of open access to both private and public forests, from the eighteenth century.

Quinn, Stephen Christopher. "The Worlds Behind the Glass." Natural History 115 (April 2006): 48–53. History of nature dioramas in American museums, notably the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, since the late 1800s, including a resurgence in their popularity in the 1990s-2000s.

Rasker, Ray. "An Exploration Into the Economic Impact of Industrial Development Versus Conservation on Western Public Lands." Society and Natural Resources 19 (March 2006): 191–207. Investigates how different public land management regimes in the Western United States, from wilderness to resource extractive uses, impact the growth of county economies, 1970–2000.

Reeves, Peter, and Noelene Reeves. "Port-City Development and Singapore's Inshore and Culture Fisheries." In Muddied Waters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast Asia, ed. Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, and Manon Osseweijer (Leiden, The Netherlands: KITLV Press, 2006), 121–42. Examines the effects of the development of the port city in Singapore on inshore and culture fisheries in the 19th and 20th centuries, seeking to demonstrate how these fisheries were both displaced by other maritime activities and made untenable by the development of the island in support of its modern maritime role.

Roosevelt, Theodore, IV. "We Few, We Happy Few." Fair Chase 21 (Spring 2006): 51–55. Address delivered by the author at the Annual Dinner of the Boone and Crockett Club in 2005, including his reflections on the founding and history of the club and its responsibilities for the future.

Rosier, Paul C. "Fond Memories and Bitter Struggles: Concerted Resistance to Environmental Injustices in Postwar Native America." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 35–53. Survey of environmental justice issues in post-World War II Indian country and the ways in which the struggles of Native Americans intersect with those of other peoples of color.

Rosier, Paul C. "'They Are Ancestral Homelands': Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945–1961." Journal of American History 92 (March 2006): 1300–1326. Examines the mid-twentieth century "termination movement" in which federal U.S. officials tried to dismantle the reservation system and relocate Native Americans in "mainstream" American society. Argues that Native Americans should be added to the list of groups who not only were attacked in the name of Cold War conformity, but who used the Cold War as a vehicle for social change.

Ross, Charles D. "Sight, Sound, and Tactics in the American Civil War." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed.Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 267–78. Examines how sound propagation, in addition to visual cues, played an important role in command decisions and communication in the battles of the American Civil War.

Rowe, Jane Bloodworth. "Ferrell Parkway: Conflicting Views of Nature in a Mixed Use Community." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 183–93. Examines the discourse of government officials, environmentalists, and rural residents surrounding the 1990s-2000s controversy over the construction of the Ferrell Parkway in Virginia Beach, VA, seeking to understand how rural people prevailed against a powerful and organized opposition.

Ruffner, Charles M., and John W. Groninger. "Making the Case for Fire in Southern Illinois Forests." Journal of Forestry 104 (March 2006): 78–83. Reviews evidence from Southern Illinois forests for fire as an ecosystem process since European settlement in the sixteenth century, and discusses an emerging strategy for the reintegration of fire management across the midwestern landscape in the 2000s.

Santana, Déborah Berman. "Vieques: The Land, the People, the Struggle, the Future." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 222–38. Examines the struggle to keep the U.S. Navy from occupying and conducting bombing practice on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, considering how racism and colonialism have been used to justify sacrificing people and land for the national security of others.

Sayers, Jane. "Remembering the Mother River: The Impact of Environmental Injustice on National Identity in Contemporary China." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 331–44. Examines the relationship between collective memory of the Yellow River, environmental degradation, and Chinese national identity since ancient times, in light of a campaign beginning in 2000 by the China Youth Development Foundation to rehabilitate the Yellow River region.

Sears, John F. "Grassroots Democracy: FDR and the Land." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 7–17. Asserts president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's intimate connection to the land, its history, and its geography, as revealed through his relationship with his family estate in Hyde Park and the Hudson Valley region in New York, 1930s-1940s.

Seefeldt, Steven S., and William Laycock. "The United States Sheep Experiment Station: Shedding Light on Rangeland Ecosystems." Rangelands 28 (April 2006): 30–35. History and overview of the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho (a component of the USDA Agricultural Research Service) including research programs in wildfire, exotic weeds, and grazing strategies, 1915–2000s.

Selby, Rachael, and Pataka Moore. "Guardians of the Land: A Maori Community's Environmental Battles." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 299–309. Examines the history of the Ngati Raukawa Maori community in Aotearoa, New Zealand from the 1800s onward, focusing on their twentieth-century struggles to protect their water resources and natural environment.

Shallat, Todd. "Holding Louisiana." Technology and Culture 47 (January 2006): 102–07. Discusses coastal erosion and subsidence in Louisiana and attempts to deal with them in the twentieth century.

Sharpe, Patricia. "Lost & Found." Audubon 108 (March-April 2006): 60–65. History of Mitchell Lake in San Antonio, Texas, turned into a sewage lagoon in the early twentieth century and rehabilitated as a wildlife refuge in the 1990s-2000s.

Smidt, Mathew, Mark R. Dubois, and Bruno da Silviera Folegatti. "Costs and Cost Trends for Forestry Practices in the South." Forest Landowner 64 (March/April 2005): 25–31. Presents cost estimates for practicing forestry in the United States South in 2004 and cost changes from 1952 to 2004.

Smilor, Raymond W. "American Noise, 1900–1930." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 319–30. Examines the Progressive-era campaign against noise pollution resulting from industrialization in the United States, 1900–1930.

Smith, Bruce R. "The Soundscapes of Early Modern England." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 85–111. Explores how residents would have experienced different acoustical environments (e.g., city vs. country) in early modern England (sixteenth-seventeenth century).

Smith, Mark M., Mitchell Snay, and Bruce R. Smith. "Coda: Talking Sound History." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 365–84 . Explores the historical construction and meaning of aurality, noise, and sound in antebellum America to reveal how regional soundscapes became "modern," and to illustrate how these constructions both impinged on and helped define social relations, particularly class and sectional identity.

Speltz, Mark. "An Interest in Health and Happiness as Yet Untold: The Woman's Club of Madison, 1893–1917." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Spring 2006): 2–15. History of the Women's Club of Madison, Wisconsin, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, in particular the club's belief in the power of outdoor recreation to mitigate the negative effects of city living as shown by their work to clean up schoolyards and neighborhoods, build playgrounds, and reform children's health care in the city.

Stenger, Philip J. "Hurricanes of Virginia's Past, Present & Future." Virginia Forests 61 (Winter 2006): 10–16. Overview of the more noteworthy hurricanes in Virginia's history, seventeenth through twentieth centuries.

Steyn, Phia. "Shell International, the Ogoni People, and Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing Environmental Justice in an Oil-Based Economy." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 371–87. Examines the environmental impact of Shell International's oil production in Ogoniland, Nigeria during the late twentieth century and ensuing claims of environmental injustice by the Ogoni people.

Sutter, Paul. "New Deal Conservation: A View From the Wilderness." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 87–106. Examines the tension between FDR's New Deal conservation and wilderness preservation in the early twentieth century, suggesting that wilderness advocacy embodied an critique of the New Deal environmental programs, even while members of the Wilderness Society supported them in practice.

Sze, Julie. "Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, and Community Memory in New York City." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 171–82. Examines the role of history and memory in the environmental justice campaigns of local New York City activists of color in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the polarizing legacy of mid-twentieth century development and urban renewal policy.

Tarlock, A. Dan. "Rediscovering the New Deal's Environmental Legacy." In FDR and the Environment, ed. Henry L. Henderson and David B. Woolner (World of the Roosevelts Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 155–76. Recovers and reinterprets the legacy of New Deal conservation/environ-mental policies for complex twenty-first-century problems related to pollution and bio-diversity. Argues that many of the underlying ideas of modern environ-mentalism can be found in New Deal attitudes on the use of natural resources.

Taylor, Stephen Wallace. "Citizens Against Wilderness: Environmentalism and the Politics of Marginalization in the Great Smoky Mountains." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 157–69. Examines the negative effects of the early-twentieth-century formation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina and the Tennessee Valley Authority's construction of the Fontana Dam on local population and industry.

Tempelhoff, Elise, and Johann Tempelhoff. "The Community, Industry, and the Quest for a Clean Vaal River, 1997–2004." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 389–407. Historical overview of community protest in South Africa's Gauteng Province to prevent a major steel manufacturer from polluting the local air and water, 1997–2004.

Thompson, Emily. "Shaping the Sound of Modernity." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 331–63. Examines the rise of the acoustical building materials industry in early-twentieth-century American cities, arguing that the materials not only transformed the aural dimensions of interior space, they created a new, modern sound of their own.

Thompson, Guy. "'Aiee, Our Fields Will Be Destroyed': Dubious Science and Peasant Environmental Practices in Madziwa, Zimbabwe." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 355–69. Explores peasants' memories of the imposition of colonial agricultural policies in the Madziwa Communal Area of Zimbabwe, 1940–1965, examining their continued efforts to challenge the contemporary government and exert control over their collective past.

Ulam, Alex. "Square Deal?" Landscape Architecture 98 (March 2006): 102–111. Evaluates early twenty-first-century plans to redesign New York City's Washington Square Park, which have sparked debate over how best to preserve public historic landscapes. Provides a history of the park's design and development from the early nineteenth century.

Unger, Nancy C. "Gendered Approaches to Environmental Justice: An Historical Sampling." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 17–34. Sampling of women's contributions to environmental justice activism in the United States from the pre-Columbian period through the 2000s examining the relationships among gender, race and class.

Vandergeest, Peter, and Nancy Lee Peluso. "Empires of Forestry: Professional Forestry and State Power in Southeast Asia, Part 1." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 31–64. Examines the origins, spread, and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Part 1 argues that professional forestry empires were constituted under colonialism through local politics rather than through practices exported from Europe.

Walsh, John. "Environmental Justice and Popular Protest in Thailand." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 345–54. Examines environmental injustice and protest in Thailand, focusing on the controversy surrounding the construction of the Pak Moon Dam in the Isaan region, 1960s-2000s.

Washington, Sylvia Hood. "'My Soul Looked Back': Environmental Memories of the African in America, 1600–2000." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 55–71. Overview of cognition and memory among African Americans, their observers, and their supporters about environmental degradation and inequality, from the Middle Passage through the 2000s.

Washington, Sylvia Hood. "Wadin' in the Water: African American Migrant Struggles for Environmental Equality in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928–1970." In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), 127–42. Examines an environmental struggle, 1928–1970, by an African American migrant community in Cleveland, Ohio to protect themselves from sewage-contaminated water and to obtain water treatment systems equivalent to those in white communities.

Watson, Claudia. "The Photography of Dayton's Albert Kern." Timeline 23 (April/June 2006): 50–67. Examines the late nineteenth-early twentieth century photographs of attorney Albert Kern of Dayton, Ohio, an attorney who documented Dayton and its surroundings, and the effects of the Civil War and the great flood and fire of 1913, among other events.

Weil, Benjamin. "The Rivers Come: Colonial Flood Control and Knowledge Systems in the Indus Basin, 1840s-1930s." Environment and History 12 (February 2006): 3–29. Traces the development of the physical and cultural infrastructure of colonial flood control in the Indus valley (in modern Pakistan and India), 1840s-1930s, in particular the growing dominance of an engineering mentality.

Woolf, D. R. "Hearing Renaissance England." In Hearing History: A Reader, ed. Mark M. Smith (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004), 112–35. Explores the nexus between sight, sound, and history by examining a variety of sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century English writings for evidence of the ways in which attitudes about sound and sight structure the perception and study of the past. Argues that the early modern historical mind sprang from aural roots as much as from visual ones.

Wright, Beverly. "Living and Dying in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley'." In The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, ed. Robert D. Bullard (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, University of California Press, 2005), 87–107. Examines the relationship between government and the petrochemical industry in Louisiana in the late twentieth century and its effects on the largely African-American residents of the Mississippi River chemical corridor, known as "Cancer Alley." Provides historical context for Southern environmental racism and for specific communities back to the nineteenth century.

Wurman, Leonard H. "B&C Conservationists: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887–1945)." Fair Chase 21 (Spring 2006): 16–19. Biographical sketch of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887–1945), President Theodore Roosevelt's eldest son, highlighting his military and political careers and passion for hunting.

Wyckoff, William. "Second Views of the Treasure State." Montana the Magazine of Western History 56 (Spring 2006): 20–29. Examines landscape change in Montana by comparing historical photographs of road improvement projects taken in the 1910s-1940s with repeat photos taken by the author in 2001–2003.

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