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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Aldrich, Mark. "From Forest Conservation to Market Preservation: Invention and Diffusion of Wood-Preserving Technology, 1880–1939." Technology and Culture 47 (April 2006): 311–340. Examines the development of wood-preservation technologies in America around the turn of the twentieth century in response to surging wood consumption, largely fueled by railroad construction. Focuses specifically on the techniques and economics of preserving railroad ties.

Alter, Valerie. "Hawaiian Monk Seals: From Controversy to Cooperation, a Case Study of Cooperative Federalism." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 20 (1 2005): 157–188. Case study of the conservation of Hawaiian monk seals under the Endangered Species Act as an example of cooperative federalism, or the teaming of state and federal officials towards a common goal. Provides biological and historical background on monk seal populations, threats to, and protection of the species from the 1800s through the 2000s.

Armstrong, Kristin Jass. "The Secret Ingredient." Michigan History 90 (May/June 2006): 6–12. Natural and social history of Michigan's Fruit Belt, nineteenth century-2000s.

Autio-Sarasmo, Sari. "An Illusion of the Endless Forests?: Timber and Soviet Industrialization in the 1930s." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 125–145 pp. Examines the role of forests in Stalin's industrialization program and the effect of the "illusion of endless forests" on Soviet economic policy and forested areas in the 1920s-1930s. Presents case study of Karelia in the northwest Soviet Union.

Babbitt, James E. "The Impassible Dream: John W. Weatherford's San Francisco Mountain Boulevard." Journal of Arizona History 47 (September 2006): 173–184. Describes John W. Weatherford's project, 1890s-1940s, to build a scenic road for automobiles through the San Francisco Peaks overlooking Flagstaff, Arizona.

Bartoli, Michel, and Bernard Gény. "Il était une fois...le bois mort dans le forêts françaises." Revue forestière française 57 (May 2005): 443–456. "Once upon a time...dead wood in French forests." Examines the uses and perceptions of dead wood in French forests, sixteenth through twentieth centuries.

Bennett, Jason Patrick. "'Nature's Garden and a Possible Utopia': Farming for Fruit and Industrious Men in the Transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895–1914." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 222–240 pp. Examines the burgeoning early-twentieth-century fruit industry in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, seeking insight into how settlers and promoters of the region as an "agricultural utopia" imagined white, masculine identity in relation to the natural environment both locally and across the U.S.-Canada border.

Bhatt, Nina. "'There Is No Life Without Wildlife': National Parks and Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 297–325 pp. Analyzes how national park and wildlife officials in Nepal constructed identity both before and after the end of absolutist monarchical rule in 1990, focusing on how national park staff reconstituted relations, aspirations, and ideologies in the new framework of multiparty democracy. Provides a brief political history of Nepal from the eighteenth century.

Bolotova, Alla. "The State, Geology, and Nature in the USSR: The Experiences of Colonising the Russian Far North." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 99–124 pp. Analyzes Soviet interaction with the natural environment focusing on geological surveys and the state strategy of colonizing and industrializing open spaces in the Russian Far North and Far East, 1917–1970.

Bonfield, Lynn A. "Ho for California! Caledonia County Gold Miners." Vermont History 74 (Winter/Spring 2006): 5–47. Explores the experiences of men from Caledonia County, Vermont in the California Gold Rush, mid-nineteenth century.

Booker, Matthew Morse. "Oyster Growers and Oyster Pirates in San Francisco Bay." Pacific Historical Review 75 (February 2006): 63–88. Late nineteenth-early twentieth century history of the San Francisco Bay fishery for Atlantic oysters shipped across the country by rail and seeded on privately owned tidelands. Examines the struggles of both oyster growers and oyster pirates to possess the changing bay ecosystem's productivity, arguing that they reveal the inequalities of ownership in the American West.

Boyd, Delaney P., and C. Cormack Gates. "A Brief Review of the Status of Plains Bison in North America." Journal of the West 45 (Spring 2006): 15–21. Bison populations, conservation, disease, habitat, legal issues, and recovery initiatives, nineteenth century-2000s. Part of a special issue on "Bison in the West.".

Broderick, Steve. "Honoring Goodwin's Legacy in Hampton ." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Spring 2006): 30–32. Examines the impact and legacy of forester James Lippincott Goodwin and the Goodwin Forest Conservation Center in Hampton, Connecticut, 1960s-2000s.

Camp, Gregory S. "Part Eight: Divide to the Sea: The Corps of Discovery and the Final Challenges in Reaching the Pacific Ocean." North Dakota History 72 (1&2 2005): 47–54. Describes the Lewis and Clark expedition from August to December 1805, from Lemhi Pass in Idaho/Montana to Fort Clatsop, Oregon.

Carlos, Ann M. "Survival Through Generosity: Property Rights and Hunting Practices of Native Americans in the Subarctic Region." In Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. 319–346 pp. Resource rights, access, and utilization by Native Americans in the Hudson Bay region, in particular their reaction to the policies of European fur traders, early eighteenth century.

Carter, Glen D., and Douglas W. Larson. "Oregon Voices: Pioneering Water Pollution Control in Oregon." Oregon Historical Quarterly 107 (Summer 2006): 254–272. Aquatic biologist Carter describes water pollution problems he encountered on Oregon's Willamette River while working for the Oregon State Sanitary Authority, the forerunner to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, in the 1950s-1960s, providing background on water quality in the state from the late nineteenth century. Introduction by Douglas W. Larson.

Cederlöf, Gunnel. "The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820–1843." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 65–89 pp. Explores the centrality of law, the emerging idea of national interest, and the principle of sovereign rule in the establishment of British administration by the East India Company in the Nilgiris mountains of South India, 1820–1843. Examines how these ideas of sovereignty conflicted with the local customs and land rights of the Toda people, seen by settlers as part of nature to be "domesticated."

Clayton, John. "Caroline Lockhart on the Dryhead: 'Happily-Ever-Aftering' on a Montana Cattle Ranch." Montana the Magazine of Western History 56 (Summer 2006): 58–64. Account of Western author Caroline Lockhart's (1870–1962) move to the Dryhead region of Montana in 1926 to run her own cattle ranch.

Cornell, Richard. "Knights of the Spike-Soled Shoe: Lumbering in the Chippewa." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Summer 2006): 38–47. Account of nineteenth-early-twentieth century logging and lumbering activities on Wisconsin's Chippewa River, especially the dangers faced by log drivers responsible for breaking up log jams.

Costlow, Jane. "Dmitrii Kaigorodov and the Ethics of Attentiveness: Knowledge, Love and Care for Rodnaia Priroda." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 45–67 pp. Examines the life and work of Russian nature writer Dmitrii Kaigorodov (1846–1924), focusing on his unique sensibility, which the author argues underlies Russian environmental ethics, and his place within the history of Russian environmental writing.

Dahlström, Anna, Sara A. O. Cousins, and Ove Eriksson. "The History (1620–2003) of Land Use, People and Livestock, and the Relationship to Present Plant Species Diversity in a Rural Landscape in Sweden." Environment and History 12 (May 2006): 191–212. Describes changes in land use on the island of Selaön in Sweden's Lake Mälaren in relation to changes in human population and livestock, 1620–2003, analyzing relationships between historical land use and early twenty-first century plant species diversity.

Damodaran, Vinita. "Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860–2002." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 115–150 pp. Examines economic, ethnic, anthropologic, religious, and ecological factors shaping the use of forested landscapes on India's Chotanagpur plateau, mid-nineteenth to early-twenty-first centuries. Focuses on tensions between colonial forestry and indigenous rights/identity.

Damstra, Carolyn. "A Peach of a Man." Michigan History 90 (May/June 2006): 65–70. Biographical account of Stanley Johnson (1898–1969), superintendent of Michigan State University's experiment station from 1920–1969 and influential figure in the history of Michigan's peach and blueberry industries.

Davis, Mark H. "Market Hunters vs. Sportsmen on the Prairie: The Case of William Kerr and Robert Poole." Minnesota History 60 (Summer 2006): 48–60. Explores conflict between sport hunters and market hunters in late nineteenth-early twentieth century Minnesota, focusing on the case of William Kerr, a buyer for market hunters in Lakefield accused of selling game illegally in 1903. Examines the roles of state authority, class, and rural-urban conflict.

Del Tredici, Peter. "From Temple to Terrace: The Remarkable Journey of the Oldest Bonsai in America." Arnoldia 64 (2/3 2006): 2–30. History of the Larz Anderson Collection of Japanese Dwarfed Trees held by Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum and of the introduction of dwarfed tree cultivation to the United States, 1853–2000s.

Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." Natural History 115 (July/August 2006): 22–25. Examines the work of Alfred C. Kinsey (1894–1956) as a botanist and entomologist prior to procuring fame as a sexuality researcher, in particular his collaboration with Harvard botanist Merritt L. Fernald on the classic book Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (1943).

Dibling, Karin, et al. "Guild's Lake Industrial District: The Process of Change Over Time." Oregon Historical Quarterly 107 (Spring 2006): 88–105. Illustrated history of Guild's Lake near Portland, Oregon, 1840s-2000s, documenting changes as the landscape was altered from swampy floodplain to modern industrial district.

Dropkin, Robin, and Philip DeRita. "Empire State Adventures." New York State Conservationist 60 (June 2006): 22–25. Overview of multi-use recreational trails in New York state converted from nineteenth-century transportation corridors.

Ely, Christopher David. "Prospect, Refuge, Coherence, Mystery: Landscape Theory and Russian Terrain." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 21–43 pp. Draws on "habitat theory" to explore what it reveals about landscape in Russia, and what Russian experience might suggest about biological theories of landscape aesthetics. Focuses on nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting.

Ens, Gerhard J. "The Border, the Buffalo, and the Métis of Montana." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 139–154 pp. Examines the buffalo-hunting Plains Métis (descendents of native women and European men) who moved into Montana in the 1860s-1870s, addressing why many chose to stay on the American side of the border after the decline of the buffalo population in the area.

Evans, Sterling. "The Twine Line: Mexican Henequen, U.S.-Canadian Relations, and Binder Twine in the Northern Plains and Prairie Provinces, 1890–1950." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 189–202 pp. History of the role of the production of henequen (a.k.a. sisal, used for the manufacture of binder twine for tying grain bundles) in Mexico-U.S.-Canada relations, 1890–1950.

Evans, Timothy H. "Piece-Sur-Piece Horse Barns on the Laramie Plains of Southeastern Wyoming: Cultural Interplay and Adaptation." Material Culture 38 (Spring 2006): 54–87. Examines log horse barns built between 1880 and 1920 on the Laramie Plains of southeastern Wyoming, arguing that they embody the social and natural history of the area.

Fahey, Catherine, and John H. Tibbetts. "From Base Closure to New Urbanism." Landscape Architecture 96 (June 2006): 86–101. Describes the Noisette community, an urban reclamation project underway in Charleston, South Carolina on the site of the former Charleston Naval Base (closed in 1996). Provides historical background on urban planning in this area of North Charleston from the late nineteenth century.

Fenyk, Heather, and David H. Guston. "Citizen Expertise and Citizen Action in the Creation of the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 68–89 pp. Traces the emergence of citizen wetlands protection in New Jersey in the 1950s and the statewide environmental advocacy movement that emerged from it, culminating in the 1987 passage of the state's Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act (FWPA).

Ferber, Dan. "Duck Soup." Audubon 108 (May-June 2006): 22–27. History and overview of the bottomland forests in Arkansas's White River National Wildlife Refuge, including human interventions, animal inhabitants, and ecological characteristics of the region.

Fischer, A. Paige, and John C. Bliss. "Mental and Biophysical Terrains of Biodiversity: Conserving Oak on Family Forests." Society and Natural Resources 19 (August 2006): 625–643. Report on research conducted in 2002 in western Oregon using concept mapping, interviews, property mapping, and field observation to gauge the mental and biophysical terrains of family forest owners' knowledge, beliefs, and practices with regard to biodiversity.

Fleischman, Forrest. "Gutting Another Law." Inner Voice 8 (Summer 2006): 29–31. Explores public accountability and the U.S. Forest Service in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, especially with regard to the U.S. National Forest Management Act (passed in 1976).

Forrest, Todd. "Botanic Evolution." Landscape Architecture 96 (June 2006): 34–44. History and overview of the Benenson Ornamental Conifers collection at the New York Botanical Garden, originally designed by landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin in the 1940s and rehabilitated in the 2000s.

Gari, Lutfallah. "The History of the Hima Conservation System." Environment and History 12 (May 2006): 213–228. History of the Middle Eastern system of hima (or hema), where reserved trees and grazing lands are protected from indiscriminate harvest, which flourished from pre-Islamic times through the first half of the twentieth century. Reviews changes with regard to the hima in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, and recommends ways to adopt this traditional conservation system in current societies.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part Five: Laneville, West Virginia (1907–1912)." Log Train 22 (May 2006): 4–15. Fifth 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 in Laneville from 1907–1912, including Hannah's experiences on logging trips with her husband.

Geiser, Urs. "Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy Between the 'Ecological,' the 'National,' and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier ." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 90–111 pp. Seeks to provide historical perspective on current conflicts in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) over technical forest management by examining the political geography and institutional history of the NWFP's Malakand Division, nineteenth century-2000s.

Gephard, Stephen. "Last Chance for Atlantic Salmon." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Spring 2006): 7–10. History and analysis of Connecticut's Atlantic salmon restoration program, 1960s-2000s.

Gluck, Emery. "Hurricanes Leave Their Mark." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Summer 2006): 11–13, 29. History of hurricanes in Connecticut, especially the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, stressing the importance of preparation.

Graham, Frank, Jr. "Warning Signs." Audubon 108 (May-June 2006): 46–52, 64–65. Explores the links between the health of North American breeding birds on the Mississippi Flyway and the health of the river itself in the twentieth-twenty-first centuries, including an analysis of the effects of 2005's Hurricane Katrina on the region's bird populations.

Hallowell, Christopher. "A Mighty Challenge." Audubon 108 (May-June 2006): 35–41. Exploration of erosion problems on the Mississippi River in Louisiana and attempts to alleviate them, especially in light of 2005's Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Primarily twentieth century.

Harmon, David, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley. "The Antiquities Act: The First Hundred Years of a Landmark Law." George Wright Forum 23 (1 2006): 5–27. Examines the importance and influence of the 1906 Antiquities Act for/on American archaeology, nature conservation, and historic preservation. Adapted from the book The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (University of Arizona Press, 2006), edited by the authors.

Hassrick, Peter H. "William Ranney: A Painter's Requiem to the Mountain Man." Montana the Magazine of Western History 56 (Summer 2006): 42–53. Explores the life and work of mid-nineteenth century western painter William T. Ranney, whose work featured the character of the mountain man (hunters, trappers, etc.) set in dramatic western scenery.

Hayden, Dolores. "What is Suburbia?: Naming the Layers of Landscape, 1820–2000." In Westchester: The American Suburb, edited by Roger Panetta. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 77–101 pp. Explores how American suburbs have been organized, financed, designed, constructed, marketed, and inhabited, 1820–2000, taking a cultural landscape approach and relying on aerial photographs and land use history.

Hoeppe, Götz. "Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in Fishery (Kerala, India)." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 233–254 pp. Investigates local reactions to the expansion of state control in a community of marine fisherfolk in Kerala, South India in the twentieth century. Focuses on government bans on types fishing instituted in the 1940s and 1980s.

Hyde, Charles K. "Planning a Transportation System for Metropolitan Detroit in the Age of the Automobile: The Triumph of the Expressway." Michigan Historical Review 32 (Spring 2006): 59–95. Proposed solutions for Detroit, Michigan's traffic congestion, 1910s-1950s, leading to the adoption of expressways.

Iftekhar, Md. Sayed. "Forestry in Bangladesh: An Overview." Journal of Forestry 104 (April/May 2006): 148–153. Overview and brief history of forestry and forest degradation in Bangladesh, nineteenth-early twenty-first centuries.

Irland, Lloyd, and William Bentley. "Connecticut Forests in Harms' Way: What Good is Sustainability Without a Forest?" Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Spring 2006): 18–20, 38. Briefly examines the forces impacting Connecticut's forests over time, seventeenth through twenty-first centuries, and makes recommendations for conservation leaders.

Izlar, Bob. "A Centennial Sketch of the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources." Georgia Forestry Today 2 (May/June 2006): 10–13. Forestry education at the University of Georgia, 1906–2006. Adapted from the author's Centennial History of Georgia Forestry: A Pictorial Journey (2006).

Jessup, Lynda. "Landscapes of Sport, Landscapes of Exclusion: The 'Sportsman's Paradise' in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canadian Painting." Journal of Canadian Studies 40 (Winter 2006): 71–123. Examines a group of late-nineteenth-century Canadian landscape paintings created by members of the sportsmen's club movement, arguing that in picturing Atlantic Canada as an elite "sportsman's paradise," the paintings are also products of the history of Native exclusion from the Atlantic salmon fishery.

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G. "Does the Border Matter?: Cattle Ranching and the Forty-ninth Parallel." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 107–116 pp. Explores the question of whether the Canadian-United States border mattered to late nineteenth-early twentieth century cattle ranchers establishing their enterprises in the borderlands.

Keele, Denise, et al. "Forest Service Land Management Litigation, 1989–2002." Journal of Forestry 104 (June 2006): 196–202. Study of land management litigation and the U.S. Forest Service, documenting the characteristics and final outcomes of 729 cases filed in federal court from 1989 to 2002.

Koch, John. "Touching Every Forty: John Bordner and The Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Summer 2006): 14–25. Account of farmer John Bordner's life and career directing a comprehensive inventory of the forests and fields of Wisconsin, 1920s-1940s.

Kochetkova, Tatjana. "A Vision of Nature in Russian Romanticism: Vladimir Solov'ev and Fedor Tiutchev." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 319–341 pp. Philosophy of nature in the works of Russian Romantics Vladimir Solov'ev (1853–1900) and poet Fedor Ivanovick Tiutchev (1803–1873), exploring the connections (or lack of) between national views of nature and environmental policy.

Lathrop, Richard, and John Hasse. "Tracking New Jersey's Changing Landscape." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 109–127 pp. Explores trends in urban growth and land use change in New Jersey between 1986–1995 and 1995–2000.

Lawrence, Philomena. "Old Tractors Live On in Unique Collection." The Northern Logger & Timber Processor 54 (May 2006): 20–24. Describes a collection of early-twentieth-century Lombard & Linn logging tractors held by Robert Smith of Westernville, New York. Provides histories of the Lombard Tractor and Log Hauling and Linn Manufacturing Companies from the turn of the twentieth century.

Lawson, Michael L. "'We Have Lost Our Way of Living': The Inundation of the White Swan Community." South Dakota History 36 (Summer 2006): 135–172. Background and impacts of the 1952 creation of Lake Francis Case in South Dakota, which inundated and obliterated a traditional community on the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation called White Swan. Argues that the government failed to adequately compensate the displaced or support the community's reestablishment.

Lewis, Stephen B. "Why They Stock Trout: A History of Connecticut's Programs." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Spring 2006): 11–14. History and analysis of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection's fish management and protection programs, 1880s-2000s.

Linkenbach, Antje. "Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 151–169 pp. Examines ways in which local inhabitants of the Central Himalayan region of Uttarakhand, India relate to nature/forests in terms of identity construction and planning for development, and the links between these processes and political consciousness of hill residents. Provides historical context from the late nineteenth century.

Lipin, Lawrence M. "'Cast Aside the Automobile Enthusiast': Class Conflict, Tax Policy, and the Preservation of Nature in Progressive-Era Oregon." Oregon Historical Quarterly 107 (Summer 2006): 166–195. Discusses early-twentieth century conflict in Oregon which pitted boosters of a automobile-based tourist economy built around scenery and the preservation of game species against farmers, fishermen, and urban trade unionists who opposed their efforts and espoused working-class, populist ideas about nature and labor.

Lockhart, Matthew A. "'The Trouble with Wilderness' Education in the National Park Service: The Case of the Lost Cattle Mounts of Congaree." Public Historian 28 (Spring 2006): 11–30. Explores how twenty-first-century ideas of wilderness that exclude the human past and increasing emphasis on wilderness education in the U.S. National Park Service could adversely affect historical interpretation. Uses South Carolina's Congaree National Park as a case study, giving background on the NPS and the Congaree Swamp from the late nineteenth century.

Lubetkin, M. John. "'No Fighting Is To Be Apprehended': Major Eugene Baker, Sitting Bull, and the Northern Pacific Railroad's 1872 Western Yellowstone Surveying Expedition." Montana the Magazine of Western History 56 (Summer 2006): 28–41. Account of the 1872 Western Yellowstone Surveying Expedition organized by the Northern Pacific Railroad, which ended in the defeat of the expedition's military contingent, led by Major Eugene M. Baker, at the hands of Sitting Bull and his men at the Battle of Pryor's Creek in Montana.

Maddox, Kenneth W. "The Lure of the Country." In Westchester: The American Suburb, edited by Roger Panetta. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 103–135 pp. Examines nineteenth-century attitudes towards suburban country houses and country living in Westchester County, New York as illustrated through the works and residences of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis and artists like Jasper Cropsey, Alfred Bierstadt, and Edward Gay.

Mark, Stephen R. "Natural Heritage and the Maintenance of Iconic Stature: Crater Lake, Oregon, USA ." In Lake Tourism: An Integrated Approach to Lacustrine Tourism Systems, edited by C. Michael Hall and Tuija Härkönen. Clevedon, Buffalo, and Toronto: Channel View Publications, 2006. xiii+235 pp. Illustrations, maps. Examines cultural perceptions of Oregon's Crater Lake, nineteenth century-2000s, exploring how park managers have responded to public/visitor attitudes and the park's changing place in a "scenic hierarchy" of other protected areas.

Martin, Frank Edgerton. "Industrial Revolution." Landscape Architecture 96 (July 2006): 56, 58–60, 62–65. Describes early twenty-first-century plans for rehabilitating Chicago's Lake Calumet, drastically altered by industrial pollution since the nineteenth century. Addresses challenges of restoring brownfield sites that will remain industrial.

McAbee, J. Clark. "Adna Lumber Company, Manufacturers of Washington Fir Lumber, also known as Adna Mill Company: A Narrow Gauge Logger in Lewis County." Tall Timber Short Lines 82 (Spring 2006): 24–37, 66. History of narrow-gauge logging operations by the Adna Lumber Company in Lewis County, Washington, 1890s-1910s.

McCarthy, John. "Dreaming of a Decentralized Metropolis: City Planning in Socialist Milwaukee." Michigan Historical Review 32 (Spring 2006): 33–57. Examines municipal Socialists' Progressive-Era attempts at reform and urban change in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, early twentieth century.

McCay, Bonnie J. "Oysters, Public Trust, and the Law in New Jersey." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 51–67 pp. Examines conflicts over and decisions related to oyster harvesting in New Jersey that led to the adoption of the Public Trust Doctrine in the United States. eighteenth-twentieth centuries.

McGurty, Eileen M. "Solid Waste Management in 'The Garbage State': New Jersey's Transformation From Landfilling to Incineration." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 28–47 pp. Explores twentieth-century changes in New Jersey's garbage policies by examining two episodes: the closing of landfills in the Hackensack Meadowlands development district and the construction of Newark's Essex County incinerator.

McIntyre, Linda. "On the Side of the Angels." Landscape Architecture 96 (July 2006): 66–77. Describes 1990s-2000s efforts to restore the Olmsted Woods at the Washington National Cathedral, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1907 and heavily damaged over the years by water runoff and development issues.

McManus, Sheila. "'Their Own Country': Race, Gender, Landscape, and Colonization around the Forty-ninth Parallel, 1862–1900." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 117–130 pp. Examines diaries and reminiscences of late nineteenth-century white women settlers in southern Alberta and northern Montana as illustrating the dialect among race, gender, and white women's perceptions of landscape and the role these connections played in establishing settler societies.

McQuaid, Kim. "Selling the Space Age: NASA and Earth's Environment, 1958–1990." Environment and History 12 (May 2006): 127–163. Examines the views of the U.S. National bbbbronautics and Space Administration (NASA) towards the Earth's environment during its formative period, 1958–1990. Argues that despite the burgeoning environmental movement, NASA rarely saw Earth as a part of "space" or solar system exploration.

Mey, Wolfgang. "Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 255–273 pp. Examines local responses to development planning and implementation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, India, and corresponding perceptions/images of "hill people" by colonial/state powers. Provides historical context on settlement and shifting cultivation of the tracts from the eighteenth century.

Miller, Char. "Landmark Decision: The Antiquities Act, Big-Stick Conservation, and the Modern State." Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 27 (2 2006): 5–14. On the occasion of the centennial of the 1906 American Antiquities Act, examines the circumstances leading to the Act's passage, its legacy and significance for land management and conservationism.

Miller, Char. "Liquidation Sale." Forest Magazine 8 (Summer 2006): 14–19. Examines the George W. Bush administration's proposed sale of public lands in U.S. national forests to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, providing historical background on the economics of government land protection from the late nineteenth century.

Mitchell, James K. "A Century of Natural Disasters in a State of Changing Vulnerability: New Jersey, 1900–1999." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 164–198 pp. Explores New Jersey's potential for natural hazards by identifying seven twentieth-century disaster events (floods, storms, forest fires, droughts, etc.), analyzing trends in the major components of these events, and comparing them with pre-1900 hazard records.

Morrison, Kathleen D. "Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South Asia." In Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2006. 44–64 pp. Examines the environmental and cultural history of India's Western Ghats mountain range within the context of imperial expansion, agricultural change, and the forest products trade, focusing on the period between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Mortimer, Michael J. "Assessing the Potential of Congressional Responsibility for National Forest Management." Society and Natural Resources 19 (July 2006): 563–570. Examines the statutory delegation of authority and responsibility for national forest management by the U.S. Congress to the USDA Forest Service, focusing on the Multiple-Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003.

Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona. "'The Geology Recognizes No Boundaries': Shifting Borders in Waterton Lakes National Park." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 309–333 pp. Examines the history of the swath of land that runs along the U.S.-Canadian border through Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, nineteenth century-2000s, arguing that it reveals some of the paradoxes of borderlands and the negotiation between "nature and nation.".

Nelson, Dave. "The Great Suppression: State Fire Policy in Florida, 1920–1970." Gulf South Historical Review 21 (2 2006): 75–94. History of state forest fire suppression policy in Florida from 1920 to 1970, arguing that government activities damaged native fire-dependent ecosystems and actually increased the number of uncontrollable wildfires.

Nijhuis, Michelle. "Written in the Rings." High Country News 37 (January 24 2005). History and overview of dendrochronology (tree-ring research) especially in Arizona, where it was introduced by astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass in the 1890s. Explores the implications of tree-ring science for current debates over global warming.

Nyyssönen, Jukka. "Establishing Territorial Sovereignty in Finland: The Environmental Consequences of Ethno-Nationalization of Resource Management in Inari." In Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Jacob Metzer. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. 358–387 pp. Analyzes the process of establishing Finnish sovereignty in the District of Inari and its ecological effects, particularly on forests and reindeer populations. Sixteenth through twentieth centuries.

Oldfield, Jonathan D., and Denis J. B. Shaw. "Russian Understandings of Society-Nature Interactions: Historical Underpinnings of the Sustainable Development Concept." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 237–252 pp. Explores the twentieth-twentieth century historical underpinnings of contemporary Russian approaches to sustainable development using policy documentation and Russian social science literature.

Panetta, Roger. "Westchester, the American Suburb: A New Narrative." In Westchester: The American Suburb, edited by Roger Panetta. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 5–75 pp. History of the development of Westchester County, New York, into the "quintessential American suburb" from its settlement in the late seventeenth century through the late twentieth century.

Peters, Scott J. "'Every Farmer Should Be Awakened': Liberty Hyde Bailey's Vision of Agricultural Extension Work." Agricultural History 80 (Spring 2006): 190–219. Examines Liberty Hyde Bailey's contributions to the early agricultural extension movement in the United States, arguing that his vision of extension work was aimed at encouraging a new worldview for farmers combining respect for nature, love of rural life, and science. Focuses on Bailey's years as leader of Cornell University's extension program, 1894–1902.

Petrick, Gabriella. "'Like Ribbons of Green and Gold': Industrializing Lettuce and the Quest for Quality in the Salinas Valley, 1920–1965." Agricultural History 80 (Summer 2006): 269–295. Examines the development of large-scale lettuce production and marketing in California's Salinas Valley, early twentieth century, as illustrative of tensions between technology and nature.

Pickering, Robert B. "Where the Buffalo Roam." Journal of the West 45 (Spring 2006): 7–14. Natural history of bison and their association with humans from the Pleistocene through the twenty-first century. Part of a special issue on "Bison in the West."

Plater, Zygmunt J. B. "Dealing With Dumb and Dumber: The Continuing Mission of Citizen Environmentalism." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 20 (1 2005): 9–69. Surveys the history of citizen environmentalism in the United States, late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, hypothesizing five categories of corporate, governmental, political and individual actions that the author argues should be called "dumb" and summarizing the lessons to be learned from them.

Plumb, Glenn E., and Rosemary Sucec. "A Bison Conservation History in the U.S. National Parks." Journal of the West 45 (Spring 2006): 22–28. Management of bison populations in the U.S. national parks, late nineteenth-century-2000s. Part of a special issue on "Bison in the West.."

Pooley, Colin G., and Jean Turnbull. "Coping with Congestion: Responses to Urban Traffic Problems in British Cities c. 1920–1960." Journal of Historical Geography 31 (1 2005): 78–93. Examines debates over urban traffic congestion in Manchester, England and Glasgow, Scotland in the early twentieth century, arguing that conflicts between various types of transport (trams, cyclists, pedestrians, etc.) led to the progressive dominance of automobiles.

Popper, Deborah E., and Frank J. Popper. "The Onset of the Buffalo Commons." Journal of the West 45 (Spring 2006): 29–34. Discusses the boom-and-bust economic and demographic history of the Great Plains and the authors' theory of a "Buffalo Commons" as a metaphor for a restoration-based future. Twentieth-twenty-first centuries. Part of a special issue on "Bison in the West.".

Potter, James E. "Putting Boyd County on the Map." Nebraska History 87 (Spring 2006): 2–9. History of how Boyd County was added to the state of Nebraska, 1860s-1890s.

Reynolds, Robert W. "The Free Fishing Controversy of Sussex County, New Jersey." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 90–108 pp. Explores conflict over public access to privately owned fishing destinations in Sussex County, New Jersey which led to the creation of state parks, 1870s-1910s.

Robinson, Danielle, and Ken Cruikshank. "Hurricane Hazel: Disaster Relief, Politics, and Society in Canada, 1954–55." Journal of Canadian Studies 40 (Winter 2006): 37–70. Explores the interaction between federal, provincial, and local governments, volunteer organizations, and conservationists in the aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, which hit the area surrounding Toronto, Canada in October 1954.

Roghair, David L. "Anderson v. Evans: Will Makah Whaling Under the Treaty of Neah Bay Survive the Ninth Circuit's Application of the MMPA?" Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 20 (1 2005): 189–211. Examines 1990s litigation over whaling by the Makah Indian Tribe off the coast of Washington State, providing historical background on the Makah and their dealings with the U.S. government from the late eighteenth century. Concludes that the court's decision not to exclude the Makah from the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) did not give adequate weight to their reserved treaty rights.

Rosenholm, Arja. "'There is no Russia without the Cow': The Russian Mind and Memory: The Cow as Symbol." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 69–96 pp. Examines the symbol of the cow in Russian cultural expression, arguing that cow imagery is invoked at moments of significant individual or national transformation, and that it is associated with familiar intimacy and with gendered conventions of female iconography. Primarily twentieth century.

Seefeldt, Douglas. "Constructing Comanche Pasts: Public Memory and the Cuerno Verde Rest Area, Colorado City, Colorado." New Mexico Historical Review 81 (Winter 2006): 69–95. Explores the Cuerno Verde Rest Area off of I-25 near Colorado City, Colorado, which incorporates Plains Indian-inspired design elements and displays a Comanche flag, as a manifestation of late twentieth-century public memory-making. Provides a history of human involvement in the Cuerno Verde region from the sixteenth century.

Shapiro, Aaron. "Up North On Vacation: Tourism and Resorts in Wisconsin's North Woods, 1900–1945." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89 (Summer 2006): 2–13. Examines the rise of northern Wisconsin's tourism industry between 1900 and 1945, specifically the roles of boosterism and the automobile and the effects of tourism on the landscape.

Sheail, John. "'Burning Bings': A Study of Pollution Management in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain." Journal of Historical Geography 31 (January 2005): 134–148. Examines the circumstances in which the Public Health (Coal Mine Refuse) Bills of 1939 were promoted and passed in Britain, especially public protest over health concerns caused by the combustion of mineral waste piles or "bings" in the context of the larger developing environmental movement.

Sheridan, Thomas. "Rio Rico and the Great Arizona Land Rush." Journal of the Southwest 48 (Spring 2006): 1–36. Modified version of chapter eight in Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumácacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham (University of Arizona Press, 2006), which explores how the Upper Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona was transformed from a landscape of community occupied by the O'odham in the 1600s to a "landscape of fraud" by Mexican and Anglo speculators. Article deals with the post-World War II housing boom and resulting suburban sprawl in the area.

Simon, Bryant. "A Natural History of the Life and Death of a Great American City: Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1850–2000 ." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 11–27 pp. Explores the relationship between nature and tourist crowds in the history of the resort town of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1850–2000, arguing that changing perceptions of outdoor leisure shaped the city's past.

Sioh, Maureen. "An Ecology of Postcoloniality: Disciplining Nature and Society in Malaya, 1948–1957." Journal of Historical Geography 30 (4 2004): 729–746. Examines the territorialization of the Malayan rainforest by British colonial authorities in the decade prior to Malayan independence in 1957. Argues that the struggle was cast in moral terms of good (the state) versus bad (Communists), resulting in an ecology of violence that allowed the disciplining of subject-citizens.

Smalley, Andrea L. "'Our Lady Sportsmen': Gender, Class, and Conservation in Sport Hunting Magazines, 1873–1920." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4 (October 2005): 355–380. Explores women as potential audiences for, contributors to, and subjects of content in turn-of-the-century American sportsmen's magazines including Forest and Stream, Field and Stream, and Outdoor Life, arguing that their presence complicates the familiar masculine image of sport hunting in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Sowards, Adam M. "William O. Douglas's Wilderness Politics: Public Protest and Committees of Correspondence in the Pacific Northwest." Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Spring 2006): 21–42. Account of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's (1898–1980) organization of conservationists to protect various places in the Pacific Northwest from logging and road construction, 1950s-1970s.

Spiegelman, Helen. "Hope in Wasteland." Alternatives 32 (1 2006): 8–12. Examines changes in North American municipal solid waste output, management, and composition, 1900–2003.

Star, Paul, and Tom Brooking. "Fescue to the Rescue: Chewings Fescue, Paspalum, and the Application of Non-British Experience to Pastoral Practice in New Zealand, 1880–1920." Agricultural History 80 (Summer 2006): 312–335. Investigates British experimentation with and adoption of Chewings fescue and paspalum pasture plants in New Zealand, 1880–1920, arguing that the process reflects the influence of social factors on agricultural change.

Stewart, Marie, et al. "Caring for the 'Orphans'." Wisconsin Natural Resources 30 (August 2006): 25–29. Describes state efforts to restore abandoned or "orphaned" properties contaminated with chemicals in Wisconsin, 1980s-2000s.

Stroganov, Mikhail. "Nature and Man in the Natural-Philosophical and Literary Works of Herzen in the 1840s." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 299–318 pp. Philosophy of nature in the works of Russian writer and thinker Aleksandr Herzen (1812–1870), with reference to works by Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837).

Swinn, Brian W. "Scaroon Manor...Storied Past, Promising Future." New York State Conservationist 60 (June 2006): 6–9. History and overview of Scaroon Manor on Schroon Lake (Warren County, New York), founded as a farm in the nineteenth century, converted into a grand hotel in 1879, and opening in 2006 as a day-use recreation area.

Szylvian, Kristin M. "The Joads Come to Michigan." Michigan History 90 (May/June 2006): 52–63. Photographs and brief account of Farm Security Administration photographer John Vachon's work with migrant fruit workers in Berrien County, Michigan in July 1940.

Szylvian, Kristin M. Gaydos Jennifer. "Voices of the Growers." Michigan History 90 (May/June 2006): 14–20. Describes 2004 project by students at Western Michigan University to interview farmers from the Fruit Belt; includes farmers' reminiscences about the Benton Harbor Fruit Market and changes in the labor force over the course of the twentieth century.

Taubeneck, John A. "The End of Rayonier Steam." Tall Timber Short Lines 82 (Spring 2006): 51–59. Account of the final years of the Rayonier, Inc.'s use of steam locomotives for logging in the Pacific Northwest, 1960s.

Taylor, Matthew J. "Biomass in the Borderlands: Charcoal and Firewood Production in the Sonoran Ejidos." Journal of the Southwest 48 (Spring 2006): 63–90. Documents the environmental impacts of biomass energy and the wood and charcoal trade on the borderlands of northern Sonora (Arizona and Mexico). Provides a history of mesquite use in the borderlands, seventeenth through twenty-first centuries.

Thomas, Mark. "Grafts from a Lost Orchard." Utah Historical Quarterly 74 (Summer 2006): 231–240. Nineteenth and early-twentieth century orchardists in Salt Lake City, Utah, and efforts in the 2000s to preserve heirloom fruit trees.

Tilley, David Rogers. "National Metabolism and Communications Technology Development in the United States, 1790–2000." Environment and History 12 (May 2006): 166–190. Examines the connection between technology development and increasing national metabolism, or the consumption of fossil fuels, mineral deposits, virgin timber, soils and other natural resources, in the United States over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Troetel, Barbara. "Suburban Transportation Redefined: America's First Parkway." In Westchester: The American Suburb, edited by Roger Panetta. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 247–289 pp. Account of the early twentieth century project to reclaim the Bronx River from extreme pollution and build a scenic parkway adjacent to the river. Argues that the Bronx River Parkway, which opened in 1925, epitomized Progressive era impulses and set the standard for U.S. roadways for decades following.

Tysiachniouk, Maria, and Jonathan Reisman. "Market Values Across the Border: Forest Practices on Certified Territories in Northwestern Russia." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 147–176 pp. Examines the importation and adoption of the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC) into Russia through a series of regional case studies, late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Vorobyev, Dmitry. "Ruling Rivers: Discussions on the River Diversion Project in the Soviet Union." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 177–205 pp. Examines the project to divert the rivers in northwestern Russia and Siberia to southern parts of the country in the wider context of river engineering, Russian "utopian projects," and environmental improvement, mainly mid-twentieth century.

Wadewitz, Lissa. "Fishing the Line: Political Boundaries and Border Fluidity in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands, 1880–1930s." In The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel, edited by Sterling Evans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 299–308 pp. Explores the evolution of the Pacific salmon fishing industry in western Washington and southwest British Columbia, 1880–1930s, arguing that the designation of the U.S.-Canadian border contributed to the decline of Pacific salmon runs while also offering fishermen greater financial opportunities.

Waley, Paul. "Parks and Landmarks: Planning the Eastern Capital along Western Lines." Journal of Historical Geography 31 (1 2005): 1–16. Discusses the history of city planning and the introduction of the Western urban public park concept in Japan, sixteenth through early twentieth centuries, focusing the radical transformation of Tokyo in the mid-nineteenth century.

Weiner, Douglas R. "The Genealogy of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Landscape of Risk." In Understanding Russian Nature: Representations, Values, and Concepts, edited by Arja Rosenholm and Sari Autio-Sarasmo. Aleksanteri-Papers 4. Saarijärvi, Finland: University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 2005. 209–236 pp. Examines environmental damage and decline in Russia through the evolving philosophies of its leadership, primarily twentieth century.

Wells, Christopher W. "The Changing Nature of Country Roads: Farmers, Reformers, and the Shifting Uses of Rural Space, 1880–1905." Agricultural History 80 (Spring 2006): 143–166. Examines the development of American country roads in the period from 1880–1905, examining in particular the ideological effects of the good-roads campaigns of the 1890s and the growing connections between urban and rural politics.

Wichansky, Paul S., et al. "Evaluating the Effects of Historical Land Cover Change on Summertime Weather and Climate in New Jersey." In New Jersey's Environments: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Neil M. Maher. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 128–163 pp. Blends science- and technology-based efforts with more traditional historical analysis to study effects of land cover and land use change on weather and climate in New Jersey, 1880s-1990s.

Williams, Ted. "The Last Line of Defense." Audubon 108 (May-June 2006): 56–58, 66–71. Examines the twentieth-century history of flood control and engineering on the Mississippi River, arguing that river manipulations have been harmful to fish and wildlife in addition to contributing to the damage caused by disasters like 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

Williamson, Karen, and Don Hesler. "Return to Glory: The Resurgence of Onondaga Lake." New York State Conservationist 61 (August 2006): 7–14. Traces the history of Onondaga Lake on the outskirts of Syracuse, New York from its seventeenth-century Iroquois inhabitants, use for fishing, as a resort, and in the salt industry in the nineteenth century, increasing pollution from manufacturing in the early twentieth century, and its cleanup/restoration in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Wood, Paul. "Tools and Machinery of the Granite Industry." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 59 (June 2006): 37–52. Overview and history of the American granite industry, including techniques and tools used for quarrying, late eighteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Woodside, Christine. "What the Old Lyme Artists Saw." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Summer 2006): 8–10. Examines landscape art and artists of Connecticut's Old Lyme region, late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Wooster, Chuck. "Two Centuries of Timber and Trampers: Where Recreation and Logging Coexist." Northern Woodlands 13 (Summer 2006): 22–27. Explores the history of and modern coexistence of recreational and logging activities on the Second College Grant, a property in New Hampshire's Coos County owned by Dartmouth College since the turn of the nineteenth century.

Wurman, Leonard H. "Conservation Timeline: Yellowstone Preservation Act of 1894." Fair Chase 21 (Summer 2006): 16–18. Events leading up to the Yellowstone Preservation Act of 1894, including the advocacy role played by the Boone & Crockett Club.

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