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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Adreatta, Gianpiero. "Consequences of the Cessation of Traditional Forest Exploitation: The Example of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 281–287. Consequences of and possible solutions for the cessation of traditional forest coppicing in north-eastern Italy's Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. Provides brief history of forest management in the area from Neolithic times.

Angelstam, Per, and Marine Elbakidze. "Sustainable Forest Management in Europe's East and West: Trajectories of Development and the Role of Traditional Knowledge." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 349–357. Describes trajectories of the development of sustainable forest management and the role of traditional ecological knowledge in three European landscapes: Troitsko-Pechorsk, Russia; Skole, Ukraine; and Vilhelmina, Sweden. nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Ashcraft, David. "The End of an Era." Forest Landowner 66 (May/June 2007): 10–12. Examines changes in the forest products industry in the United States in the late twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the effects of globalization and the shift away from vertical integration business models.

Atkinson, Sian. "Back on the Map: The Search for Northern Ireland's Ancient Woods." Quarterly Journal of Forestry 101 (July 2007): 181–186. The Woodland Trust's 'Back on the Map' project to identify and preserve the oldest forests in Northern Ireland, and descriptions of the sources and methods used. Distinguishes between ancient woodland (land continuously wooded since at least 1600) and long-established woods (present since 1830 but not proved ancient).

Baier, Lowell E. "The Cradle of Conservation: Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch, An Icon of America's National Identity." Fair Chase 22 (Summer 2007): 20–29. History of conservation in America, highlighting key figures in the movement from the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. Focuses on Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Elkhorn Ranch in the Badlands of North Dakota as symbolic of American culture and identity. Reprinted from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 28 (Winter 2007): 12–24.

Barilla, James. "A Mosaic of Landscapes: Ecological Restoration and the Work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 128–140. Examines ecological and cultural restoration in Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac (1949), J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes (1999), arguing that they suggest the need to consider the restoration of landscapes in light of their indigenous cultural history as well as their ecological past.

Barnett, William C. "A Tale of Two Texas Cities: Houston, the Industrial Metropolis, and Galveston, the Island Getaway." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 185–204. Contrasts the nineteenth-twentieth century development of Houston, Texas (one of America's largest urban centers in the early twenty-first century) with nearby Galveston, a booming city as of 1880 which then experience marked economic decline. Argues that the disparate routes taken by the two cities were the result of distinct sets of economic and environmental relationships.

Bates, Diane C. "Urban Sprawl and the Piney Woods: Deforestation in the San Jacinto Watershed." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 173–184. Considers the environmental impact of the growth of Houston, Texas on the Piney Woods, a heavily forested region extending north and east of the city's downtown. Focuses on the San Jacinto watershed, comparing 1979 and 2000 satellite images to reveal the replacement of forests with suburban development.

Becker, Marc. "Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights in Twentieth-Century Ecuador." Agricultural History 81 (Spring 2007): 159–181. Examines conflicts over land rights on the Zumbahua hacienda in Ecuador's highlands during the 1930s-1940s, offering insights into rural social relations and indigenous resistance.

Biles, Roger. "Tobacco Towns: Urban Growth and Economic Development in Eastern North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 84 (April 2007): 156–190. Examines urban growth in post-Civil War North Carolina as a result of the increased manufacturing of tobacco. Focuses on four communities that developed most because of the tobacco boom — Wilson, Kinston, Rocky Mount, and Greenville.

Blank, Gary B. "Two Pines and the Native Tradition of Burning North American Landscapes." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 299–304. Examines the effects of changes in land use practice, including federal fire suppression and land clearance for agriculture, on the distribution of shortleaf and longleaf pine in eastern North America.

Blum, Elizabeth D. "The Gunfighters of Northwood Manor: How History Debunks Myths of the Environmental Justice Movement." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 224–240. Examines African American women's environmental justice activism over the twentieth century, using as an example the 1979 Bean vs. Southwestern Waste Management, in which the residents of a primarily African American neighborhood in northeast Houston, Texas filed a lawsuit alleging civil rights violations in the siting of a nearby landfill.

Brown, Hutch, and Dale Bosworth. "Investing in the Future: Ecological Restoration and the USDA Forest Service." Journal of Forestry 105 (June 2007): 208–211. Past, present, and future of ecological restoration by the USDA Forest Service, twentieth-early twenty-first centuries, asserting the importance of the practice and its centrality to the mission of the Forest Service.

Bullard, Robert D. "Dumping on Houston's Black Neighborhoods." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 207–223. Examines solid waste disposal in Houston, Texas from the late 1920s through the late 1970s, arguing that race, class dynamics, and political disfranchisement have interacted to put some communities at higher health and environmental risk from the siting of garbage dumps, landfills, and incinerators.

Byram, R. Scott. "Tectonic History and Cultural Memory: Catastrophe and Reconstruction on the Oregon Coast." Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 (Summer 2007): 167–180. Overview of research on earthquake and tsunami events on the Oregon coast of the Pacific Northwest, with emphasis on changes to the landscape as well as the disruption and reconstruction of local communities.

Cartmill, Matt. "Hunting and Humanity in Western Thought." In The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. 237–244 pp. Traces changing attitudes towards hunting, focusing primarily on the medieval period.

Cathcart, James F., et al. "Carbon Storage and Oregon's Land-Use Planning Program." Journal of Forestry 105 (June 2007): 167–172. Examines the effects of land use planning on maintaining forest carbon in western Oregon since the 1973 enactment of the state's land use planning program. Forest carbon plays a major role in reducing greenhouse gases.

Cilano, Cara, and Elizabeth DeLoughrey. "Against Authenticity: Global Knowledges and Postcolonial Ecocriticism." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 14 (Winter 2007): 71–87. Differences, commonalities, and tensions between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches to literature and environmentalism.

Clark, Brett, and Richard York. "The Restoration of Nature and Biogeography: An Introduction to Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Epping Forest' in 1878." Organization & Environment 20 (June 2007): 213–234. Biographical sketch of nineteenth-century naturalist and scientific explorer Alfred Russel Wallace, highlighting his 1878 essay "Epping Forest," a forward-looking statement about the need for ecological restoration.

Crampton, David. "The Use of Traditional Knowledge in Sustainable Forest Management in the Kaska Traditional Territory in British Columbia and the Yukon." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 361–369. Describes efforts to balance traditional uses of the Kaska Dena forest territory with economic sustainability.

Dearing, John A. "Human-Environment Interactions: Learning from the Past." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 19–37. Investigates how past records of human-environment interaction can inform strategies for sustainable management of human-dominated landscapes, largely from the perspective of paleoenvironmental science.

Diekmann, Lucy, Lee Panich, and Chuck Striplen. "Native American Management and the Legacy of Working Landscapes in California." Rangelands 29 (June 2007): 46–50. Examines precolonial Native American land management practices in California, particularly burning, challenging the common perception that the American landscape was "pristine" prior to the arrival of Europeans. Provides a case study of Año Nuevo State Park and explores the importance of Native landscape intervention for contemporary ecosystem managers.

Donovan, Geoffrey H., and Thomas C. Brown. "Be Careful What You Wish For: The Legacy of Smokey Bear." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5 (March 2007): 73–79. Examines the historical roots and legacy of twentieth-century American wildfire suppression policy, critically assesses current efforts to ameliorate the effects of a century of wildfire suppression, and offers an alternative approach to wildfire management that places less emphasis on suppression.

Fisher, Robert. "'Bad Science': The Politics of Ozone Air Pollution in Houston." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 69–87. Examines the politics of ozone air pollution in Houston, Texas in the late twentieth century, situating this history in the context of "environmental opposition" groups like the Chamber of Commerce and the GHP (Greater Houston Partnership) as well as the long-standing political culture of privatism.

Flannery, Tim F. "The Trajectory of Human Evolution in Australia: 10,000 B.P. to the Present." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 89–94. Summarizes human-ecological interactions in Australia, identifying two periods of rapid, human-mediated environmental change: at first contact 46,000 years ago, and between 4,000 and 1,000 years ago.

Ford, Gerald R. "A Ranger's Return." National Parks 81 (Spring 2007): 52–54. Reprints the text of Gerald Ford's 1976 address at Yellowstone National Park (where he served as a seasonal park ranger in 1936) in which he promised support for the National Park System.

Forkey, Neil S. "'Thinking Like a River': The Making of Hugh MacLennan's Environmental Consciousness." Journal of Canadian Studies 41 (Spring 2007): 42–64. Examines the development of Canadian intellectual Hugh MacLennan's environmental consciousness, highlighting a period in the 1960s-1970s wherein the author argues he experienced a shift from glorifying the "heroic" age of river exploration to an urgent call for protecting Canadian rivers from pollution and damming.

Frierson, Patrick. "Metastandards in the Ethics of Adam Smith and Aldo Leopold." Environmental Ethics 29 (2 2007): 171–191. Explores how anthropocentric, utilitarian metastandards in the theory of economist Adam Smith (1723–1790) can be used to defend an ecocentric standpoint such as the land ethic of Aldo Leopold (1886–1948).

Galbraith-Kent, Shannon L., and Steven N. Handel. "Lessons from an Urban Lakeshore Restoration Project in New York City." Ecological Restoration 25 (June 2007): 123–128. Summarizes the 1995 restoration of a lakeshore in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, New York City, focusing on the effects of invasive species removal on biodiversity and turtle habitats. Provides a brief twentieth-century history of Corona Park.

Gaskill, Hannah. "Hannah Gaskill's Timber Trails, Part Eight: Turkey Foot Lumber Company, Cressmont, Kentucky (1914–1920)." Log Train 89 (November 2007): 7–16. Eighth 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 their move to Cressmont, Kentucky and first years with the Turkey Foot Lumber Company.

Gianquitto, Tina. "Of Spiders, Ants, and Carnivorous Plants: Domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 234–249. Examines how naturalist Mary Treat (1830–1893) navigated the constraints of domestic ideology as a woman scientist, and produced popular nature writings that built on the theories of her correspondent Charles Darwin.

Gimmi, Urs, and Matthias Bürgi. "Using Oral History and Forest Management Plans to Reconstruct Traditional Non-Timber Forest Uses in the Swiss Rhone Valley (Valais) Since the Late Nineteenth Century." Environment and History 13 (May 2007): 211–466. Considers changes in forest use as a potential key force behind changing forest dynamics in the pine forest belt of the upper Rhone valley (Canton of Valias, Switzerland). Reports on study reconstructing traditional non-timber forest uses since the late nineteenth century using oral histories and analysis of forest management plans.

Gorman, Hugh S. "The Houston Ship Channel and the Changing Landscape of Industrial Pollution." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 52–68. Examines changing attitudes towards the management of oil-related industrial pollution along the ship channel in Houston, Texas over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Grove, Richard H. "Revolutionary Weather: The Climatic and Economic Crisis of 1788–1795 and the Discovery of El Niño." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 151–167. Investigates the global impacts of the 1788–1795 El Niño weather event on agriculture, politics, and human health. Examines interactions between global climate and regional historical events.

Harris, John M. "Bones from the Tar Pits." Natural History 116 (June 2007): 18–22. Natural history and history of excavations at the La Brea tar pits of central Los Angeles, California.

Hayashi, Robert T. "Beyond Walden Pond: Asian American Literature and the Limits of Ecocriticism." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 58–75. Encourages the examination of Asian American literary works by ecocritical inquiry, using examples of writings by Chinese immigrant laborers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Hibbard, Kathy A. et al. "Group Report: Decadal-scale Interactions of Humans and the Environment." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 341–375. Examines the human-environment relationship over the course of the twentieth century with the goal of helping predict the future of the Earth system.

Hoganson, John W. "Dinosaurs, Sharks, and Woolly Mammoths: Glimpses of Life in North Dakota's Prehistoric Past." North Dakota History, Journal of the Northern Plains 73 (1/2 2006): 2–60. Review of a century of paleontological research into animal and plant life in North Dakota over a period of more than five hundred million years. Divided into chapters: "North Dakota's Primordial Seas," "North Dakota's Cretaceous Underwater World," "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Hell Creek Delta," "The K-T Boundary Extinction," "North Dakota Everglades," "North Dakota Savannah," "The Great Ice Age," "The Holocene: A Reprieve from the Ice Age."

Hole, Frank. "Integration of Climatic, Archaeological, and Historical Data: A Case Study of the Khabur River Basin, Northeastern Syria." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 77–87. Examines the ten-thousand-year-long history of human occupation of the Khabur River Basin of northeastern Syria, which remained generally sustainable until the explosive settlement, population growth and mechanized agriculture of the twentieth century. Argues that the long-term history of this region verifies the fragility of the land to intensive use and shifts in precipitation patterns.

Janik, Erika. "Made-to-Order Farms: Benjamin Faast's Vision for Northern Wisconsin." Wisconsin Magazine of History 90 (Summer 2007): 40–49. Explores land developer Bejamin Faast's early twentieth century plan for Made-to-Order farms that he believed would bring prosperity to settlers in northern Wisconsin. Discusses Faast's Wisconsin Colonization Company as a manifestation of the era's rural reform ideals.

Jehlicka, Petr, and Joe Smith. "Out of the Woods and Into the Lab: Exploring the Strange Marriage of American Woodcraft and Soviet Ecology in Czech Environmentalism." Environment and History 13 (May 2007): 187–210. Examines post-World War II environmentalism, environmental politics and education in the Czech Republic, arguing they blended Soviet ecology with references to American woodcraft, scouting, and frontier mythology.

Junkin, Brock. "Economic Development Based on Local Resources: Commercial Harvesting of Caribou on Southampton Island." In Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005, 203–221. Case study of commercial caribou harvesting in the Nunavut community of Coral Harbour on Southampton Island, northern Hudson Bay, 1960s-2000s, exploring how such commercial enterprises can contribute to local economic development and still complement traditional cultural values.

Karskens, Grace. "Water Dreams, Earthen Histories: Exploring Urban Environmental History at the Penrith Lakes Scheme and Castlereagh, Sydney." Environment and History 13 (May 2007): 116–154. Explores the human and bioregional history of the hybrid landscape at Penrith Lakes Scheme at Castlereagh in outer Western Sydney, Australia, tracking the succession of Aboriginal, settler, industrial and urban histories and shifting definitions of "environment" in the nineteenth-twentieth centuries.

Kolodny, Annette. "Rethinking the "Ecological Indian": A Penobscot Precursor." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 14 (Winter 2007): 1–23. Reconsidering the image of the American Indian as in touch with nature and committed to conservation, as described in Shepard Krech's 1999 book, "The Ecological Indian". Uses Joseph Nicolar's 1893 self-published book "The Life and Traditions of the Red Man" as an example of American Indians consciously promoting their image as protectors of the earth much earlier than previously recognized.

Korsmo, Fae L. "The Early Cold War and U.S. Arctic Research." In Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles, edited by Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007, 173–199. Examines U.S. Arctic research, focusing on the late 1940s, during time which World War II-era cooperation with the Soviet Union gave way to animosity and, simultaneously, the Arctic became a region of interest for cold weather research. Argues that the Arctic offered strategic benefits to the U.S. and Canada against the Soviet Union.

Lemelin, R. Harvey. "Wildlife Tourism at the Edge of Chaos: Complex Interactions Between Humans and Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba." In Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005, 183–202. Explores the development of wildlife tourism in Manitoba, Canada from the perspective of complexity, using a historical case analysis composed of a literature review, oral histories, and on-site observations of the polar bear industry in Churchill (1970s-2000s).

Liu, Kam-biu. "Uncovering Prehistoric Hurricane Activity." American Scientist 95 (March-April 2007): 126–133. Establishing long-term trends of hurricane activity and predicting future patterns through the science of paleotempestology—studying evidence of changes in geology and in the activities of living organisms in coastal area over a period of several millennia.

Log Train. "The Proper Method of Felling Timber." Log Train 89 (February 2007): 4–6. Reprinted from the April 1925 issue of The Hardwood Bark, the employee publication of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of West Virginia. Includes illustrations and diagrams.

Losey, Robert L. "Native American Vulnerability and Resiliency to Great Cascadia Earthquakes." Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 (Summer 2007): 201–221. Study of the effects of earthquakes, tsunamis, and the floods resulting from them, on housing, food supply, and social organization of the Native American communities of the Oregon coast in the United States, drawn from geologic and archaeological evidence from the earthquake of 1700 and from prehistoric events.

Lowitt, Richard. "Forty Feet Under: Kaw City and the Kaw Project on the Arkansas River, 1957–1976." Chronicles of Oklahoma 84 (Winter 2006–2007): 388–425. History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation project (1957–1976) to dam the Arkansas River at Kaw City, Oklahoma, for the purposes of irrigation, navigation, and flood control.

Mantua, Nathan J. "A Decadal Chronology of twentieth-Century Changes in Earth's Natural Systems." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 277–299. Overview of key twentieth-century decade- to century-scale changes in the Earth's natural systems due to both human and natural causes, examining global and regional climate, the hydrologic cycle, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystems.

Martin, Daniel J. "Lynching Sites: Where Trauma and Pastoral Collide." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 93–108. Examines the clash between the beauty of nature and rurality and the trauma of lynching in twentieth-century music, literature and poetry.

McIntyre, Linda. "Pall Over the Mall." Landscape Architecture 97 (April 2007): 42–53. Discusses the needs for and process of repairing the damaged landscape of Washington, D.C.'s National Mall.

McKinney, Tom W. "Superhighway Deluxe: Houston's Gulf Freeway." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 148–172. Background and impacts of the construction of the Gulf Freeway in Houston, Texas in the years after World War II. The first limited access highway constructed after the war, the Gulf Freeway served as a prototype and illustrates many of the urban and environmental issues surrounding such roadways.

McMacken, David, and John Schubach. "Letters from the Woods." Michigan History (May/June 2007): 10–17. Explores a group of letters written in the 1890s by logger Archie Boyce to his father Jonathan, head of the Boyce Lumber Company in Essexville, Michigan. The letters detail conditions at the Boyce logging camps, problems with shipping logs via railroad, fires and windfalls, and other topics.

McNeill, John R. "Social, Economic, and Political Forces in Environmental Change: Decadal Scale (1900 to 2000)." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 301–329. Sketch of global environmental change as it relates to political economy, technology, population and urbanization, and energy use, 1890–2000.

Menkes, Dove. "Giants and Dinosaurs in the Grand Canyon: Samuel Hubbard and the 1924 Doheny Scientific Expedition." Arizona History 48 (Spring 2007): 53–88. Reexamines explorer Samuel Hubbard's claims of finding evidence of twenty-foot-tall men co-existing with dinosaurs in Arizona's Grand Canyon, focusing on the 1924 Doheny Scientific Expedition. Quotes extensively from Hubbard's account of his travels in the Canyon, originally published in an 1896 issue of the Los Angeles Times. Hubbard's accounts have been cited by modern-day creationists as evidence of a "young earth."

Meyers, Rick, and Jerre Creighton. "Restoring Longleaf Pine in Virginia." Virginia Forests 63 (Spring 2007): 4–11. Explores the history of longleaf pine in Virginia , the important role of fire in its management and regeneration, and late twentieth-early twenty-first century efforts to restore the species.

Mithen, Steven. "The Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory of Human-Animal Interactions." In The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings, edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007, 117–128. Traces the history and evolution of the prehistoric human-animal relationship, as hunter-gatherer societies came to view animals as more than just sources of meat or predation. Originally published in Anthrozoos vol. 12, no. 4, 1999.

Moore, Robert J. "Hard Work and Good Times: Charlie Pflugh Recalls His CCC Experiences in Arizona." Journal of Arizona History 48 (Summer 2007): 177–200. Life in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Chevalon Canyon in the Mogollon Rim country of northern Arizona. The experiences of a nineteen-year-old Pennsylvania boy working on road-building and bridge construction projects at the camp in 1940 and 1941. Also describes the social, recreational, and religious life at the camp.

Munroe, Jeffrey S. "In the Footsteps of Timothy O'Sullivan: Rephotographing the 1869 King Survey in the Headwaters of the Bear River, Uinta Mountains." Utah Historical Quarterly 75 (Summer 2007): 238–257. Describes the survey of the north slope of the Uinta Mountains in the headwaters of the Bear River, directed by Clarence King in 1869, and the photos taken on this expedition by the photographer Timothy O'Sullivan. Includes photos taken in 2001, 2003 and 2004, alongside O'Sullivan's photos, and discussing changes and stasis in the landscape.

Murray, Robin L., and Joseph K. Heumann. "Environmental Cartoons of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s: A Critique of Post-World War II Progress?" ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 14 (Winter 2007): 51–69. Study of ways in which animated cartoons dealt with the relationship between humans and nature, dived into three sections: the power of nature over the human world; controlling human intervention and nurturing interdependence with nature; criticism of human exploitation of nature.

Myers, Heather, et al. "Feeding the Family in Times of Change." In Breaking Ice: Renewable Resource and Ocean Management in the Canadian North. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005, 23–45. Examines food production by residents of the Canadian Arctic, 1970s-2000s, analyzing the effects of traditional consumption and sharing activities; the impacts of environmental change on marine resources; comprehension of contaminants; and economic development.

Neushul, Peter. "Antarctica Beneath the Ice: Marine Botany in the Polar Region." In Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles, edited by Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007, 227–246. History of the study of marine botany, or phycology, in the polar regions, highlighting the Antarctic work of Swedish botanist Carl Skottsberg during the 1880s-1900s and of Michael Neushul of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the 1950s-1960s.

Oerlemans, Onno. "Romanticism and the City: Toward a Green Architecture." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 168–184. Traces anti-urbanism in eighteenth-nineteenth century romantic literature, focusing on the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others, seeking to use romantic writing to lead to an idea of "green" architecture that understands the physicality of buildings and communities in an environmentalist context.

O'Neill, Dan. "Frozen in Time." National Parks 81 (Spring 2007): 24–30. Examines the cultural history of traditional hunting and fishing preserved by the establishment of Cape Krusenstern, Kobuk Valley, and Bering Land Bridge national park units by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980.

Osherenko, Gail. "New Discourses on Ocean Governance: Understanding Property Rights and the Public Trust." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 21 (2 2006): 317–381. Articulates questions in ocean and marine resource governance not yet explored, providing background for their exploration. Examines relevant historical precedents such as nineteenth century battles over tidelands, the Truman Proclamation of 1945, the 1958 Geneva Conventions, and various state/federal court battles over proprietary rights to subsurface areas.

Otero, Iago et al. "Landscape History and Heritage Revaluation in Olzinelles Valley (Montnegre, NE Spain): A Socioecological Approach (1851–2006)." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 312–321. Results of interdisciplinary research on land use, land cover change, and socioecological heritage revaluation in the Olzinelles Valley of northeast Spain, focusing on the period from 1851 to 2006.

Paci, Marco, Livio Bianchi, and Davide Travaglini. "Landscape Dynamics of the Barbialla Farm (Val d'Egola, Province of Florence) in the Second Half of the 20th Century." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 322–328. Analysis of afforestation, landscape enrichment, and loss of cultural heritage on Italy's Barbialla Farm, 1954–1996.

Patrick, Amy M. "Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 141–153. Examines themes of "apocalypticism" in environmental literature, most notably Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), arguing that this kind of text/rhetoric should be considered precautionary rather than apocalyptic if they are to be effective.

Phillips, Patricia Whereat. "Tsunamis and Floods in Coos Bay Mythology." Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 (Summer 2007): 181–192. Prehistoric earthquakes, floods and tsunamis on the Oregon coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, as described in the mythology of the Coos Bay Indians, particularly in the Hanis language.

Piper, Liza. "Subterranean Bodies: Mining the Large Lakes of North-west Canada, 1921–1960." Environment and History 13 (May 2007): 155–186. Examines the history of hard rock mining on the large lakes of Northwestern Canada from 1921 to 1960. Focuses on the Athabasca, Great Slave, and Great Bear Lakes, using oral histories, published reports, and the records of the three largest mining companies: Eldorado Mining and Refining, Cominco, and Giant Mines. Considers the character of "subterranean bodies" and how they reveal the physical engagement of miners with nature.

Pfister, Christian. "Little Ice Age-type Impacts and the Mitigation of Social Vulnerability to Climate in the Swiss Canton of Bern prior to 1800." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 197–212. Relates large-scale climatic patterns in central Europe to regional food vulnerability in the Swiss canton of Bern from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries, during which cold winters were more severe and frequent. Considers adaptive strategies of farmers and authorities, and proposes a model for assessing biophysical impacts of climate using the known properties of agro-ecosystems.

Pratt, Joseph A. "A Mixed Blessing: Energy, Economic Growth, and Houston's Environment." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 21–51. Explores the "mixed blessing" of oil-driven growth in Houston, Texas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argues that while the region benefited economically from oil-related industries, it also suffered from oil-related environmental problems, including air and water pollution.

Reeves, Randall R., Tim D. Smith, and Elizabeth A. Josephson. "Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic." In The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads, edited by Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007, 39–74. History of right whaling in the North Atlantic , seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Examines historical records from individual fisheries and tracks population changes over time, noting a marked decline over that time period.

Risbrudt, Christopher D. et al. "Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting the Nation's Armed Forces with Valuable Wood Research for 90 Years." Forest Products Journal 57 (January/February 2007): 6–14. Brief review of the contributions of the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), located in Madison, Wisconsin, in support of U.S. military operations during World Wars I and II, the Korean Conflict, and 1960 through Operation Desert Storm.

Sayre, Nathan F. "A History of Working Landscapes: The Altar Valley, Arizona." Rangelands 29 (June 2007): 41–45. History of rangelands management in Arizona's Altar Valley, late nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Addresses water development, fencing and stocking rates, brush control, and grazing, arguing that the case of Altar Valley sheds light on how economics, range science, mental models, and the scale of decision making have shaped ranchers and the landscape over time.

Scarborough, Vernon L. "The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Maya: A Case Study in Political Ecology." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 51–59. Assesses the potential for sustainability and collapse in tropical ecosystems with biophysical constraints. Uses a case study of the ancient southern lowland Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula, who experienced long-lived success within an inhospitable semitropical environment before collapsing in the ninth century AD.

Schenck, Marian Albright. "One Day on Timbered Island: How the Rockefellers' Visits to Yellowstone Led to Grand Teton National Park." Montana the Magazine of Western History 57 (Summer 2007): 22–39. An account of two visits by John D. Rockefeller and his family to the Yellowstone and Jackson Hole areas, hosted by Yellowstone Park superintendent Horace Albright, and the conversations between Rockefeller and Albright that led to Rockefeller's purchase of the land that would become Grand Teton National Park.

Schroeder, Tom. "Rediscovering a Coastal Prairie Near Friday Harbor." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 98 (Spring 2007): 55–63. Describes the discovery that a section of dense forest on San Juan Island in Washington State had been farmland and grassland in the nineteenth century, and tracks the ecological history of the area.

Schwach, Vera. "Faded Glory: The Norwegian Voringen Expedition, 1876–1878." In Extremes: Oceanography's Adventures at the Poles, edited by Keith R. Benson and Helen M. Rozwadowski. Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007, 31–70. History of Norwegian polar oceanography as an expansion of national territory, focusing on the Voringen expedition of 1876–1878 as representative of the linkages between the natural sciences and economic, political, and cultural interests.

Scott, Deborah, and Susan Jane M. Brown. "The Oregon and California Lands Act: Revisiting the Concept of 'Dominant Use'." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 21 (2 2006): 259–315. History and interpretation of the 1937 Oregon and California Lands Act, questioning its use in the 1990 Headwaters, Inc. v. Bureau of Land Management, Medford District decision, and calling for a reexamination of the idea that the O&C Act is a "dominant use" statute.

Silver, Timothy. "Learning to Live With Nature: Colonial Historians and the Southern Environment." The Journal of Southern History LXXIII (August 2007): 539–552. How the environmental history of the Jamestown colony can reveal the impact of Europeans settlers, American Indians and African slaves on each other and on the natural world.

Smith, Chad L. "Economic Deprivation and Environmental Inequality in Postindustrial Detroit." Organization & Environment 20 (March 2007): 25–43. Tests the empirical merits of common explanations for urban environmental inequality by comparing landfill and Superfund locations in Detroit, Michigan (1970–1990). Results indicate that economic deprivation trumps race in predicting locations of both types of sites.

Smith, Richard A. "The Eco-suicidal Economics of Adam Smith." Capitalism Nature Socialism 18 (June 2007): 22–43. Argues that the free market cannot solve the global environmental crisis widely recognized in the early twenty-first century, using an examination of the capitalist economics of eighteenth-century theorist Adam Smith. Proposes a new type of "ecosocial" thinking about economic life.

Spada, Francesco, and Susanna Passigli. "Variazioni della copertura vegetale, documentazione storica e toponomastica nel Lazio appenninico." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 329–338. "Vegetation variation, historical documentation and toponymy." Analyzes forest cover fluctuation and toponymy (terms and expressions relative to forest cover) in a section of monastery of Santa Scolatica, Subiaco territory, Monti Simbruini district, Italy, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. Text in Italian.

Stoll, Mark. "Creating Ecology: Protestants and the Moral Community of Creation." In Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux, edited by David M. Lodge and Christopher S. Hamlin. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, 53–72. Describes how Protestantism influenced the shape and content of the early science of ecology and lent it moral implications.

Stoll, Mark. "Edward Osborne Wilson: The Gospel According to Sociobiology." In Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion, edited by Nicholaas S. Rupke. New York: Peter Lang, 2007, 219–223. Investigates the influence of the Southern Baptist background of biologist and environmentalist E. O. Wilson (b. 1929) on his life and thought.

Tainter, Joseph A., and Carole L. Crumley. "Climate, Complexity, and Problem Solving in the Roman Empire." In Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth, edited by Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, and Will Steffen. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007, 61–75. Examines the role of climate, particularly a period of dry, warm weather, in the development and collapse of the Roman Empire during the last two centuries BC- first three centuries AD. Explores the implications of this case study for modern environmental problem solving, and for the IHOPE project (Integrated History and future Of People on Earth), an initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth (AIMES).

Tal, Alon. "To Make a Desert Bloom: The Israeli Agricultural Adventure and the Quest for Sustainability." Agricultural History 81 (Spring 2007): 228–257. Overview of Israeli agriculture over the twentieth century, crediting a commitment to food security, water development, and technology as key contributors to its record of success. Addresses challenges such as water contamination and pesticide usage and examines prospects for a sustainable future in Israel.

Tello, Enric et al. "From Integration to Abandonment: Forest Management in the Mediterranean Agro-Ecosystems Before and After the "Green Revolution" (The Vallès County, Catalonia, Spain, 1860–1999)." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 339–346. Analyzes the role of forest and territorial management in the economy and ecology of a West-Mediterranean advanced organic system in 1860, comparing it with the system prevailing at the end of the twentieth century. Highlights the links between energy and land use using GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

Thomas, Sian. "The Ancient Tree Hunt." Quarterly Journal of Forestry 101 (July 2007): 223–226. Describes the compilation of a database of all ancient trees in the United Kingdom, organized by the Woodland Trust, the Ancient Tree Forum, and the Tree Register of the British Isles, and involving a partnership with local organizations and volunteers. Describes the causes of death of many ancient trees between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. includes guidance for identifying and describing ancient trees.

Thomas, Wiliam Wayt. "Survival of the Rarest." Natural History 116 (June 2007): 24–27. Explores plant diversity in the forests of southern Bahia, Brazil and late-twentieth century efforts to document rare plant species found there. Provides a brief history of Brazil's Atlantic coastal forest.

Thompson, Robert S. "'The Air-Conditioning Capital of the World': Houston and Climate Control." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 88–104. Examines the relationship between climate control, economic development and urban growth in Houston, Texas in the decades after World War II. Explores social aspects of climate control, including implications for class and race relations.

Tomkins-Walsh, Teresa. "'To Combine Many and Varied Forces': The Hope of Houston's Environmental Activism, 1923–1999." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 241–259. Explores the dominant individuals, themes, and organizations in the twentieth-century history of environmental activism in Houston, Texas.

Torbert, Melanie. "Too Much Water for Cypress Forests." Forests & People 57 (Second Quarter 2007): 6–9. Examines changes in the hydrology of Louisiana's swamps and their effects on cypress trees and timber harvesting, nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Torbett, Melanie. "Williams Company Grew from Swamps." Forests & People 57 (Second Quarter 2007): 12–15. History of the F. B. Williams cypress lumber operation in Patterson, Lousiana, nineteenth-twentieth centuries. Williams was one of the first operators to use the pullboat logging system.

Waldie, Angela. "Challenging the Confines: Haiku from the Prison Camps." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 39–57. Examines views of nature expressed through haiku written by Japanese Americans imprisoned in the enclosed and unfamiliar landscapes of internment camps during World War II.

Walker, Jeff. "The Great, Shaggy Barbaric Earth: Geological Writings of John Burroughs." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 250–259. Explores the ways in which author John Burroughs' (1837–1921) interest in geology influenced his writings, and his ability to distill scientific concepts into accessible language.

Walls, Laura Dassow. "Seeking Common Ground: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities." In Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice, edited by Annie Merrill Ingram, et al. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007, 199–208. Encourages integration between the sciences and humanities in the study of literature, drawing on the works/worldviews of Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Edward O. Wilson.

Wurman, Leonard H. "Conservation Timeline: Paying for Conservation." Fair Chase 22 (Spring 2007): 16–19. Examines sources of funding for conservation in nineteenth-twentieth century American history, including hunting and fishing licensure and various acts of legislation.

Wurman, Leonard H. "Conservation Timeline: United States Forest Service: The Early Years." Fair Chase 22 (Summer 2007): 16–19. Brief history and origins of the USDA Forest Service, nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Youngblood, Kimberly A. "Voices of Discord: The Effects of a Grassroots Environmental Movement at the Brio Superfund Site." In Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast, edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 260–273. Examines the twentieth-century case of the Brio Superfund site near Houston, Texas as an example of environmentalism and the Superfund process—how grassroots environmental movements affect communities and the cleanup of hazardous waste sites.

Youngs, Robert L. "Meeting the Challenge of Change." Forest Products Journal 57 (June 2007): 6–13. Broadly reviews changes in the global forestry/forest products complex in the late twentieth-early twenty-first century and makes projections for its future.

Younker, Jason T. "Weaving Long Ropes: Oral Tradition and Understanding the Great Tide." Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 (Summer 2007): 193–201. Knowledge of the effects of prehistoric earthquakes and tsunamis, drawn from the mythology and oral traditions of the Nave Americans communities on the Pacific coast of Oregon.

Zaragoza, Tersa Cervera, and Ramon Garrabou. "Mediterranean Forest Management, A Tool to Guarantee Sustainability: Evolution of the Catalan Agrarian Landscape and the Forestry Regulations from the 18th Century to the End of the 20th Century." In Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The Role of Traditional Knowledge: Proceedings of the IUFRO Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge/Research Group on "Forest and Woodland History" Conference, Florence, Italy, 8–11 June 2006, Volume II, edited by John Parrotta, Mauro Agnoletti, and Elisabeth Johann. Warsaw, Poland: Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE), 2006, 306–311. Analyzes forest cover change in the Catalonia region of Spain from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, examining factors such as agriculture, population growth, and government regulation.

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