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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Barnett, Le Roy. "A Trail Through the Trackless Wilderness." Michigan History 90 (September/October 2006): 33–37. History of Michigan's Mackinaw Trail and efforts to define what/where it is, 1830–1959.

Basurto, Xavier. "Commercial Diving and the Callo de Hacha Fishery in Seri Territory." Journal of the Southwest 48 (Summer 2006): 189–209. Examines commercial diving for callo de hacha (scallops) in the Canal de Infiernillo, Seriland (northwest Mexico) from its beginnings in the 1720s through the 2000s.

Boutefeu, Benoît, and Paul Arnould. "Le Métier de Forestier: Entre Rationalité et Sensibilité." Revue forestière française 58 (January-February 2006): 61–72. "The Forester's Profession: Between Rational Thinking and Subjective Feel." Examines internal and external views of the forestry profession in France from the post-World War II period through the 2000s.

Brodhead, Michael J. "Nevada: The Selection and Disposal of State Lands, 1864–1957." Journal of the West 45 (Summer 2006): 34–41. Reviews Nevada's unique experience receiving lands from the federal government when it was admitted to statehood and ensuing transfers of land between state and federal ownership.

Brondízio, Eduardo S. "Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future: Historical Ecology and the Study of Contemporary Land-Use Change in the Amazon." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 365–405 pp. Explores the potential application of historical ecology for the analysis of contemporary land-use change in Amazonia , using spatial analysis to examine forest cover change, settlement, and cultural landscape formation from the pre-European period through the early twenty-first century.

Brown, Jane Roy. "Cementing the Viewshed." Landscape Architecture 96 (November 2006): 48, 50–57. Account of late twentieth-early twenty-first century attempts to preserve and restore Olana, the Hudson Valley, New York, estate of landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), including scenic views visible from the property threatened by the possible construction of a cement plant.

Bucheli, Marcelo, and Ian Read. "Banana Boats and Baby Food: The Banana in U.S. History." In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000, ed. Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. pp. 204–27. Examines fluctuations in the U.S. banana market , focusing on shifts in consumer demand, the role of the Boston-based United Fruit Company, and its relationship with the U.S. government, 1880–2000s.

Burns, Sarah. "The Pastoral Ideal: Winslow Homer's Bucolic America." In Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. pp. 119–31. Explores pastoralism and nationalism in works by nineteenth-century painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Argues that his art did not capture literal truth, as was often claimed, and that despite his reputation as the essential American artist, Homer was heavily influenced by French sensibilities.

Camp, Gregory S. "Part Nine: Conclusion and Legacies of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Triumph and Tragedy: The Return Home." North Dakota History 72 (3&4 2005): 38–57. Describes the final portion of the Lewis and Clark expedition, from Fort Clatsop, Oregon to St. Louis, March-September 1806.

Chaudron, Alain, et al. "L'Entrée en Vigueur de Protocole de Kyoto le 16 Février 2005: Quelles Implications Pour les Forêts Françaises?" Revue forestière française 57 (December 2005): 479–95. "The Kyoto Protocol Becomes Effective—Implications for French Forests." Takes stock of ongoing processes related to the 2005 enactment of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and their consequences for forests and forestry in France.

Cheah, Carole. "Hope for Hemlocks." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Fall 2006): 13–15. Examines the recovery of the hemlock in the eastern United States after near extinction in the 1990s due to infestation by an aphid-like pest, including the roles played by climate and the introduction of a ladybug predator.

Cheng, Hong. "Communication Across Space and Time: Contemporary American Nature Writers and the Ancient Chinese Poet Han-shan." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 13 (Winter 2006): 135–45. Explores the fascination of modern American nature writers (including Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Frazier) with the ancient Chinese poet Han-Shan, arguing that they share common views of life and nature, and similar writing styles.

Clark, Brett, and John Bellamy Foster. "The Environmental Conditions of the Working Class: An Introduction to Selections from Frederick Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844." Organization & Environment 19 (September 2006): 375–88. Introduction to a segment of Frederick Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 included in this issue, arguing for its influence in the development of environmental thought and social epidemiology.

Clark, Brett, and John Bellamy Foster. "Florence Kelley and the Struggle Against the Degradation of Life: An Introduction to a Selection from Modern Industry." Organization & Environment 19 (June 2006): 251–63. Examines the work of social reformer Florence Kelley (1859–1932) in critiquing industrial capitalism and increasing public awareness of worker exploitation, especially child labor and the exposure of workers to harmful gases and substances. Article serves as introduction to segment of Kelley's 1914 book Modern Industry: In Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality reprinted in this issue.

Clement, Charles R. "Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 165–85. Examines factors explaining why fruit trees became less important during the transition from foraging to food production in mid-Holocene Amazonia.

Colten, Craig E. "Contesting Pollution in Dixie: The Case of Corney Creek." The Journal of Southern History 72 (August 2006): 605–34. Examines the justifications for government action against water pollution on Louisiana's Corney Creek in the 1950s, exploring broader issues of pollution abatement particular to the South, such as the primacy of natural resources over public health in pollution policy.

Cormier, Loretta A. "Between the Ship and the Bulldozer: Historical Ecology of Guajá Subsistence, Sociality, and Symbolism after 1500." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 341–63. Examines the probable post-colonization shift from agriculture to foraging among the Guajá people of Maranhaão, Brazil, attempting to connect recent ethnographic studies with historical and ecological events that may have caused the shift. Addresses the history and diversity of foraging in Amazonia.

Dargavel, John. "From Exploitation to Science: Lane Poole's Forest Surveys of Papua and New Guinea, 1922–1924." Historical Records of Australian Science 17 (1 2006): 71–90. Examines the work conducted by Charles Lane Poole (1875–1970) in the Australian territories of Papua and New Guinea, 1922–1924, seeking forest resources that could be exploited for timber export, contributing to mapping and exploration efforts, and helping to establish a scientific basis for Australian forestry.

Davidson, Gail S. "Landscape Icons, Tourism, and Land Development in the Northeast." In Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. 3–74 pp. Explores the interaction of artists Church, Homer, and Moran and business entrepreneurs in the development of tourism in the late-nineteenth-century northeast, particularly Niagara, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and the White Mountains.

Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina, and Mark Williamson. "Rhododendron Ponticum in Britain and Ireland: Social, Economic and Ecological Factors in its Successful Invasion." Environment and History 12 (August 2006): 325–350. Examines the history of the invasion of Britain and Ireland with rhododendron ponticum, introduced in the eighteenth century. The plant was recognized as a problem species in the early-to-mid twentieth century, and control projects have been ongoing since that point.

Delph, Caroline. "Nature and Nationalism in the Writings of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860)." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 331–354 pp. Examines connections between writer and statesman Ernst Moritz Arndt's (1769–1860) concern for Germany's natural landscape and his sense of nationalism, arguing that Arndt's work exhibits elements of environmentalism and knowledge of ecology.

Denevan, William M. "Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 153–163 pp. Examines pre-1492 native forest cultivation practices and landscapes in Amazonia, particularly the complex system of semi-permanent integrated land use which created and exploited fertile soil (known as Dark Earth or terra preta).

Douglas, Kirsty. "'Forsaken Spot' to 'Classic Ground': Geological Heritage in Australia and the Recuperative Power of the Deep Past." Environment and History 12 (August 2006): 269–296. Seeks to construct a theory of geological heritage and the redemptive power of material remains of the deep past in Australia, focusing on landscapes (Adelaide's Hallett Cove, the Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve, and the dry Willandra Lakes of western New South Wales) that have been "saved" via the late-nineteenth- twentieth century discovery of their long-term historical significance.

Ebright, Malcolm. "'Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting': Water Allocation in Territorial New Mexico." New Mexico Historical Review 81 (Summer 2006): 149–298. Examines disputes over water in territorial New Mexico through water allocation decisions made by local and state courts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focuses on how water was divided in the Taos Valley.

Erickson, Clark L. "The Domesticated Landscapes of the Bolivian Amazon." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 235–78. Explores the hypothesis that pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bolivian Amazon (Llanos de Mojos) devoted more energy towards domesticating entire landscapes than individual plant and animal species, arguing that landscape domestication was driven by social demands beyond subsistence. Examines practices including burning, transplanting, earth-moving, and the creation of artificial wetlands by indigenous populations.

Erickson, Clark L., and William Balée. "The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 187–33. Reports on a historical ecological study begun in the 1990s of a cultural landscape of pre-Colombian earthworks (mounds, ponds, causeways, canals, and the vegetation currently growing on them) in the Llanos de Mojos region of the Bolivian Amazon.

Estrade, Alfred, and Georges-André Morin. "Historique de L'Évolution du Cadre Législatif et Réglementaire des Modes de Ventes de Bois des Forêts Publiques." Revue forestière française 58 (May-June 2006): 245–56. "Historical Background of Changes in the Legislative and Regulatory Framework for Sales of State Forest Timber." seventeenth through twentieth centuries.

Fleming, Deborah. "Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm, and Faith in the Earth." Organization & Environment 19 (September 2006): 309–20. Argues that the work of Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), especially his nonfiction books Pleasant Valley (1945) and Malabar Farm (1948), should be included in the canon of environmental writing, and that Bromfield should be considered a forerunner to the philosophies of Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, and others.

Frank, Zephyr, and Aldo Mussachio. "Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870–1930." In From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000, ed. Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. pp. 271–99. Examines the rise and fall of Brazil's rubber industry in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, focusing on the role of uncertainty and competition. Includes background on rubber as a natural resource and rubber-tapping in Amazonia.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails: Part Six: Laneville, West Virginia (1907–1912) (2)." Log Train 22 (August 2006): 4–14. Sixth 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, including problems with forest fires and Hannah's experiences on logging trips with her husband.

Gerhardt, Christine. "'Syllabled to Us for Names': Native American Echoes in Walt Whitman's Green Poetics." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 209–28. Explores the relationship between Walt Whitman's environmental perspectives and the presence of Native Americans in Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, utilizing ecocritical and post-colonial analysis.

Goodbody, Axel. "From Egocentrism to Ecocentrism: Nature and Morality in German Writing in the 1980s." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 393–414. Examines the contribution of creative writing to public debate on the moral dimensions of man's relationship with nature in 1980s Germany, focusing specifically on the work of Günter Grass, Christa Wolf and Klaus Modick.

Gosnell, Hannah, Julia H. Haggerty, and William R. Travis. "Ranchland Ownership Changes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 1990–2001: Implications for Conservation." Society and Natural Resources 19 (September 2006): 743–58. Assesses trends of land ownership change around Yellowstone National Park, 1990–2001, suggesting ways in which shifts in ranch ownership from traditional livestock ranchers to a more diverse cohort, including absentee landowners, have presented conservation challenges and/or opportunities.

Griffiths, Katharine. "The bbbbsthetic Appreciation of Nature as a Reaction to Dictatorship: Disjunction and Dissidence in the Inner Emigration." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 373–92. Examines depictions of nature in German literature produced between 1933 and 1945 by writers of the "inner emigration," or those who were not forced out of the country by the Nazis. Explores whether nature can be seen as a narrative instrument in the articulation of dissidence in the works of Ernst Wiechert, Ernst Jünger, and Werner Bergengruen.

Griggs, Peter. "Soil Erosion, Scientists and the Development of Conservation Tillage Techniques in the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1935–1995." Environment and History 12 (August 2006): 233–68. Documents the development of soil conservation methods suited to land cropped with sugar cane by government officers in Queensland, Australia and growers' attitudes toward them, 1935–1995.

Harnik, Peter, Michael Taylor, and Ben Welle. "From Dumps to Destinations." Landscape Architecture 96 (December 2006): 50–55. Examines the conversion of landfills to parks in American cities such as Boston and Seattle, twentieth-early twenty-first centuries. Provides historical background from 1916 and addresses regulations, technical issues, and future potential.

Hastorf, Christine A. "Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 87–126. Examines the cultural implications of the adoption of "foreign" food plants in the dry west coast region of Peru between 8,000 and 1,000 BC.

Hazelrigg, George. "The Ultimate Spectacle." Landscape Architecture 96 (December 2006): 56–63. Case study of the conversion of landfills to parks at Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Provides evolutionary timeline of the island from the 1600s, when it was granted to the city of Boston, to 2006, when the island park opened to the public.

Heckenberger, Michael. "History, Ecology, and Alterity: Visualizing Polity in Ancient Amazonia." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 311–40. Addresses governmental and sociopolitical change over the long-term history of the southern Amazon and upper Xingu region, focusing on the settled/mobile or riverine/upland dichotomy in light of distinctive patterns of social valuation, ranking, and exchange.

Heise, Ursula K. "Afterglow: Chernobyl and the Everyday." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 177–207. Examines the literary representation of risk in two German novels written immediately after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, exploring how environmental crisis alters everyday perceptions and experience of place among the novels' characters.

Heynen, Nik, Harold A. Perkins, and Parama Roy. "The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space: The Impact of Political Economy on Race and Ethnicity in Producing Environmental Inequality in Milwaukee." Urban Affairs Review 42 (September 2006): 3–25. Investigates the roles of urban political economy, private-public property relations, and race/ethnicity in the inequitable distribution of urban canopy cover within the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries.

Hunt, Terry L. "Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island." American Scientist 94 (September/October 2006): 412–19. Challenges conclusions reached by scholars, most notably Jared Diamond, that the Rapa Nui culture on Easter Island fell victim to self-induced environmental collapse in the seventeenth century. Based on archaeological evidence, argues that the causes were more complex and included ecological changes caused by rats.

Johns, Larry. "The Mills at St. Anthony: The Waterfalls on the Mississippi that Built Minneapolis." Northern Logger 55 (September 2006): 12–14, 32, 34. History of development of the cataract on the Mississippi River now known as St. Anthony Falls, located in present-day Itasca State Park, Minnesota, late seventeenth-nineteenth centuries. Focuses on the use of the falls for lumbering and sawmilling operations in the mid-nineteenth century, led by industrialist Franklin Steele.

Jones, Jean Crum. "Where Have All the Oysters Gone?" Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Fall 2006): 26–27. Explores oyster populations in the eastern United States, especially Connecticut. Traces their status from the colonial period, when settlers made extravagant use of the bountiful supply, through the decline of the oyster industry in the 1900s due to pollution and disease, to their current ecological importance as keystone and indicator species.

Kaufman, Anne L. "Tracing Amorous Journeys from the Sweetwater to Watson Lake: Environmental Ecstasies of Willa Cather and Aritha van Herk." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 270–80. Explores the environmental visions of authors Willa Cather (1873–1947) and Aritha van Herk (1954-), arguing that both use negotiations with place/landscape to tell women's stories in ways liberated from dominant structures.

Klingle, Matthew W. "Changing Spaces: Nature, Property, and Power in Seattle, 1880–1945." Journal of Urban History 32 (January 2006): 197–230. Examines nature and urban environmental justice with regard to late nineteenth-early twentieth century earthmoving/renovation projects conducted in downtown Seattle, Washington, focused largely on poor and minority neighborhoods.

Kurtz, Rick S. "Alaska: Policy Dilemma in Glacier Bay National Park." Journal of the West 45 (Summer 2006): 9–16. Examines the twentieth-century history of park policy at Glacier Bay, Alaska, in particular how the competing mandates of "multiple-use" recreation and preservation have been addressed.

Lanier, Louis. "Le Gros Chêne M'a Dit." Revue forestière française 57 (December 2005): 541–50. "What the Tall Oak Told Me." History of France's Poirmont forest in Haute-Saône as told by a tree called "the tall oak." Uses historical and silvicultural elements to trace the development of forest management from 1754 to the 2000s.

Leone, Sébastien. "De La Bannie à la Forêt de Protection: Les Montagnes Savoyardes aux XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles." Revue forestière française 58 (May-June 2006): 257–68. "From Banned Forests to Protection Forests—The Mountains of Savoie in the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries." Forest protection in the mountain communities of Savoie, France.

Linton, Jamie. "The Social Nature of Natural Resources: The Case of Water." Reconstruction 6 (Summer 2006). Explores the political implications of assigning water an identity as a natural "resource," particularly in the context of the early-twentieth century conservation movement and the development of the hydrological sciences in the United States.

Lovin, Hugh T. "Idaho: The Dubois Project: A Matter of Big Dreams and Little Progress in the American West." Journal of the West 45 (Summer 2006): 42–49. Account of the 500,000 acre Dubois irrigation/water diversion project in what is now Clark County, Idaho, 1880s-1950s.

Luckert, Martin J. "Has the Myth of the Omnipotent Forester Become the Reality of the Impotent Forester?" Journal of Forestry 104 (September 2006): 299–306. Revisits a 1966 Journal of Forestry article by R. W. Behan, "The Myth of the Omnipotent Forester," which stressed that professional foresters in America should manage public forests according to society's goals. Suggests that foresters have neglected this advice in the time since, thereby creating "the reality of the impotent forester."

MacDonald, Peter, and Michael Clow. "The Industrialization of Tree Harvesting Systems in the Eastern Canadian Forest, 1955–1995." Labour/Le Travail (Fall 2006): 145–67. Examines technological development and conceptualizes labor processes characterizing tree harvesting production systems.

MacGregor, Sherilyn. "The Public, the Private, the Planet, and the Province: Women's Quality-of-Life Activism in Urban Southern Ontario." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 169–87. Drawing on interviews conducted with women activists from the Toronto area in the 1990s, explores the relationships between women's household labor and their activism on urban environmental issues/quality-of-life improvement.

Mahoney, Shane. "The North American Wildlife Conservation Model: Triumph for Man and Nature." Fair Chase 21 (Fall 2006): 20–25. Explores the history of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model, a philosophical framework that first emerged in the 1830s, especially the involvement of sportsmen. Reprinted from Bugle Magazine.

Martin, Paul S. "Green Mansions of Tamaulipas." Journal of the Southwest 48 (Summer 2006): 115–88. Memoir of author's childhood fascination with nature, farming, and ecology, leading up to a 1948–1949 field trip to the Lake Pátzcuaro region of Mexico to observe and collect bird specimens while he was a student at Cornell.

Martínez Miranda, Elio Augstín, and María de la Paz Ramos Lara. "Funciones de Los Ingenieros Inspectores al Comienzo de las Obras del Complejo Hidroeléctrico de Necaxa." Historia Mexicana 56 (1 2006): 231–86. "Function of the Inspecting Engineers at the Creation of the Hydroelectric Complex at Necaxa." Development of a new form of energy creation along the Necaxa River in the Mexican state of Puebla during the 1890s and early 1900s.

Maynard, Charles. "Haven in the Dunes: Carl Sandburg's Life on Lake Michigan's Shore." Michigan History (November/December 2006): 12–23. Explores the time author/poet/historian Carl Sandburg spent living on the shore of Lake Michigan from 1928 to 1945, examining how his writings reflect his appreciation for the natural world.

McCarron-Cates, Floramae. "The Best Possible View: Pictorial Representation in the American West." In Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. pp. 75–118. Explores the promotion of national identity in late-nineteenth-century works by Church, Homer, and Moran portraying scenes from the American West. Argues that iconic images were often manipulated and constructed expressly to stir national pride and create a sense of belonging.

McCormick, Sabrina. "The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Knowledge Contestation as Communicative Action." Organization & Environment 19 (September 2006): 321–46. Uses a case study of the late-twentieth-early twenty-first century anti-dam movement in Brazil to "delineate how scientization of the state motivates environmental movements to contest science," applying Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action to social movements.

McPherson, E. Gregory. "Urban Forestry in North America." Renewable Resources Journal 24 (Autumn 2006): 8–12. Overview of urban forestry in North America, primarily in the 1990s-2000s. Addresses air quality, climate protection, poverty, water resources, solid waste, biodiversity, and public health.

Meacher, Simon. "It Was Shown in the Way They Stepped in the Woods: Nature in Hermann Löns and Edward Thomas." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 355–71. Compares the prose of German author Hermann Löns (1866–1914) and Edward Thomas (1878–1917) of England, analyzing the writers' attitudes on the interaction of nature and modernity, their representations of birdlife, and their ecological awareness.

Neis, Barbara, and Brenda Grzetic. "Environmental, Industrial, and Political Restructuring and the Health of Women Processing Workers in Newfoundland's Fishery-Dependent Communities." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 82–101. Summarizes findings from research on the interactions between women's health and environmental, industrial, and political restructuring in a fisheries-dependent region of Newfoundland, Canada, in the wake of the 1990s collapse of the Atlantic Canadian groundfish stocks.

Neves, Eduardo G., and James B. Petersen. "Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia." In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands, ed. William Balée and Clark L. Erickson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. pp. 279–309. Examines landscape transformation by indigenous populations in pre-Columbian Amazonia, arguing that human history in the region, rather than unfolding uniformly over time, has been punctuated by sudden and dramatic episodes of sociocultural change interrupting periods of long-term stability. Includes a case study of the creation of anthropic dark soils or ADE (Amazonian Dark Earth).

Norris, Frank. "The Antiquities Act and the Acreage Debate." George Wright Forum 23 (3 2006): 6–16. Examines the second section of the 1906 Antiquities Act, which provides for the declaration of national monuments on public lands, focusing on the issue of acreage and exploring how the Act's acreage-related language has fared in the century following its enactment.

O'Leary, Daniel J. "Environmentalism, Hermeneutics, and Canadian Imperialism in Agnes Deans Cameron's The New North." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 19–34 pp. Analysis of the work of Agnes Deans Cameron (1863–1912), late-Victorian Canadian environmentalist, suffragist, educational pioneer, and British-immigration propagandist. Examines her 1909 book The New North from the perspective of the doctrines of hermenueticist Johann Augustus Ernesti (1707–1781), looking at themes of wilderness, imperialism, and conservation.

Raglon, Rebecca. "Little Goody Two-Shoes: Reassessing the Work of Catharine Parr Traill." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. 4–18 pp. Examines the work of nineteenth-century Canadian writer Catharine Parr Traill and her contributions to the field of environmental thought, arguing that they are best appreciated within an eighteenth-century English tradition of nature writing which was a hybrid of literature and science.

Reed, Maureen G. "Working at the Margins of Forestry: The Gender of Labour Practices on British Columbia's West Coast." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 102–27. Examines women's experiences of paid work in forestry communities on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, based on a study that took place on northern Vancouver Island between 1996 and 1999. Argues for the increasing significance of women in forestry and in the restructuring of forest industry.

Ribe, Tom. "Fire in the Southwest: A Historical Context." In Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, ed. George Wuerthner. Washington: Island Press, 2006. pp. 87–92. History of fire in the American Southwest from prehistoric times through the early twenty-first century, exploring how and why natural fire has changed from a positive to a negative force.

Riordan, Colin. "German Literature, Nature and Modernity Before 1914." In Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. pp. 313–330. Explores ways in which German literature prior to World War I acknowledged and negotiated relationships between humans and the natural world as a result of the advent of modernity and accompanying changes in the landscape. Examines the works of Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), and Herman Hesse (1877–1962), among others.

Roorda, Randall. "Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women's Participation in Nature." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 35–56. Examines three different books entitled Wilderness Wife: a children's biography of Rebecca Boone, wife of Daniel Boone; a memoir written by Kathrene Pinkerton in 1939 about homesteading in Ontario, Canada; and a 1976 potboiler by Bradford and Vena Angier, also about homesteading, in British Columbia. Explores the relationships between home, wilderness, and womanhood, and the role of women writers in the development of nature writing and the Canadian environment in the twentieth century.

Ross, Joseph. "FLPMA Turns 30." Rangelands 28 (October 2006): 16–23. History of public lands management in the United States, 1860s-2000s, focusing on the creation of the Bureau of Land Management and the passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976.

Sandilands, Catriona. "Where the Mountain Men Meet the Lesbian Rangers: Gender, Nation, and Nature in the Rocky Mountain National Parks." In This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. Melody Hessing, Rebecca Raglon, and Catriona Sandilands. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. pp. 142–62. Explores the Canadian national parks system in relation to national identity, specifically the gendered and racialized dynamics of the ongoing representation of the Rocky Mountain National Parks. Argues for a central tension between an iconic, white, male-centered national nature and a feminine-oriented domestic nature. Explores the National Park Warden Service as a site for enactments of these dynamics/tensions. Late nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Sarathy, Brinda. "The Latinization of Forest Management Work in Southern Oregon: A Case from the Rogue Valley." Journal of Forestry 104 (October/November 2006): 359–65. Examines the increasing representation of Latinos in forest work in Oregon's Rogue Valley, providing social and historical context on federal immigration policy, immigrant social networks, and the effects of Latinization on forest management, 1970s-2000s.

Shah, Behula. "The Pilgrimage of the Groves: Reconstructing the Meaning of a Sixteenth-Century Hindu Landscape." Arnoldia 64 (4 2006): 39–41. Examines the relationships between landscape and religion/politics in the Vraj region of central India in the 16th century, when the area became enclosed by an extended pilgrimage route. Explores the reasons why this sacred landscape, renamed Braj, became an increasingly important locus for the cult of Krishna and the role it played in the assertion of political and religious authority.

Speakman, Joseph M. "Into the Woods: The First Year of the Civilian Conservation Corps." Prologue 38 (Fall 2006): 12–21. Detailed overview of planning for, mobilization and deployment of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the United States in 1933.

Sreetheran, M., et al. "A Historical Perspective of Urban Tree Planting in Malaysia." Unasylva 57 (223 2006): 28–33. Overview of Malaysia's urban greening program and the historical development of urban tree planting in the country, late eighteenth-early twenty-first centuries.

Stowe, William W. "'A Minister of Happiness': Nature in Beecham's America." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 13 (Winter 2006): 45–64. Examines the nineteenth-century writings of Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), arguing that in the midst of American urbanization and industrialization, he encouraged finding physical and aesthetic pleasure and spiritual inspiration in the natural world.

Swetnam, Thomas W., Craig D. Allen, and Julio L. Betancourt. "Applied Historical Ecology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future." In Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, ed. George Wuerthner. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006. pp. 99–109. Explores the values and limitations of applied historical ecology for understanding and managing modern ecosystems, with special attention to landscape change, forest structure change, and fire history in the American Southwest, seventeenth through twenty-first centuries.

Vance, Joel M. "The Seven-Year Night." Missouri Conservationist 67 (September 2006): 4–9. Personal account of the 1969–1976 campaign for a conservation sales tax in Missouri, which funded the state's celebrated Design for Conservation program.

Waugh, Charles. "Ritualistic Bear Slayings in American Fiction: A Rhizomic Ecocriticism." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 13 (Winter 2006): 25–43. Examines the significance of bear killing in relation to American national identity in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834) and literary works by T. B. Thorpe, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, and Cormac McCarthy.

Wells, Philippa K. "'An Enemy of the Rabbit': The Social Context of Acclimatisation of an Immigrant Killer." Environment and History 12 (August 2006): 297–324. Examines the debate surrounding and harmful effects of importation of members of the animal family Mustelidae (weasels, ferrets, and stoats) to New Zealand in the late nineteenth century to help solve the country's rabbit problem.

White, Peter, and Keith Langdon. "The ATBI in the Smokies: An Overview." George Wright Forum 23 (3 2006): 18–25. Overview of the 1990s-2000s planning and execution of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Woodside, Christine. "The Changing Coast." Connecticut Woodlands 71 (Fall 2006): 10–12. Examines rising sea levels since 1960 as evidence of climate change, focusing on rivers and coastal areas in Connecticut.

Wuerthner, George. "The Yellowstone Fires of 1988: A Living Wilderness." In Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, ed. George Wuerthner. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006. 46–60 pp. Examines perceptions and media portrayals of the Yellowstone fires of 1988, arguing that the park's ecosystem was restored and rejuvenated rather than devastated. Provides a history of fire management in Yellowstone from the late nineteenth century.

Wurman, Leonard H. "Conservation Timeline: The Lacey Act of 1900." Fair Chase 21 (Fall 2006): 16–18. Background and significant individuals involved in the 1900 passage of the Lacey Act, America's first federal wildlife protection measure.

York, Richard. "Goodall's Light: Twenty Years with The Chimpanzees of Gombe." Organization & Environment 19 (September 2006): 371–374. Examines Jane Goodall's research and especially her 1986 book The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, arguing that it stands as one of the most important twentieth-century books on animal behavior.

Young, James A., and Charlie D. Clements. "Nevada Rangelands." Rangelands 28 (October 2006): 10–15. Structural geology, physical features, recent geological history, and twentieth-century management challenges of Nevada's rangelands.

Zhang, Yuxing, and Conghe Song. "Impacts of Afforestation, Deforestation, and Reforestation on Forest Cover in China from 1949 to 2004." Journal of Forestry 104 (October/November 2006): 383–387. Examines factors changing China's forest cover, highlighting three stages in forest cover change: a transition phase from 1949–1981; slow increase from 1982–1993; and rapid increase from 1994–2003.

Zwagerman, Sean. "The View from the Train: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Construction of the California Landscape." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 13 (Winter 2006): 65–81. Examines early-twentieth-century promotional literature by produced the Southern Pacific Railroad as a form of nature writing, created with the goal of constructing and selling the idea of an abundant California landscape.

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