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AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Arvidson, Adam Regn, and Frank Edgerton Martin. "Where History and Nature Collide: Can Historic Preservation and Ecological Constituencies Find Common Ground in Minnesota?" Landscape Architecture 97 (11 2007): 48–57. Discusses historic landscape preservation efforts at Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bankoff, Greg. "Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines 1750–1898." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 285–306. Examines the extent of domesticated animal loss as a result of natural disasters and the impact of the animal deaths on human communities in the Philippines during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Bartlett, Robert V., Walter F. Baber, and Carolyn D. Baber. "Innovation in State Environmental Policy: A View from the West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 49–67. An examination of environmental policy innovation in the twentieth century western United States, looking at the forces responsible for both state and federal government policy innovation.

Bieter, John. "Lorenzo's Letters: A Basque Immigrant's Experience in the American West." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 74–91. A history of and personal stories from a Basque immigrant sheep rancher to Idaho in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Boyer, Christopher R. "Revolución y Paternalismo Ecológico: Miguel Ángel de Quevedo y la Política Forestal in México, 1926–1940." Historia Mexicana 57 (July-September 2007): 91–138. "Revolution and Ecological Paternalism: Miguel Angel de Quevedo and Forest Policy in Mexico, 1926–1940." De Quevedo was an early proponent of forestry in Mexico and founded the Sociedad Forestal Mexicana (Mexican Forestry Society).

Brown, Karen. "Poisonous Plants, Pastoral Knowledge and Perceptions of Environmental Change in South Africa, c. 1880–1940." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 307–32. Discussion of the effect of poisonous plants on livestock in South Africa between 1880 and 1940, and the resulting debates and research on topics of veterinary science, toxicology, and ecology.

Brown, Robert D. "A Brief History of Wildlife Conservation in the United States." Fair Chase 22 (Winter 2007): 28–33. An overview of wildlife conservation in the United States from early European settlers through the end of the nineteenth century, including information on bison populations, hunting clubs, hunting laws and regulations, and land conservation.

Cahn, Matthew A., Sheldon Kamieniecki, and Denise McCain-Tharnstrom. "Bureaucracy, Politics, and Environmental Policy in the American West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 19–47. An examination of the federal government bureaucracies that effect environmental protection, environmental regulation, and land management in the western United States, focusing on the period from the 1960s through the 2000s.

Cawley, R. McGreggor, and John C. Freemuth. "Science, Politics, and Federal Lands." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 69–88. An examination of the relationship between science and politics in the management of U.S. federal lands, focusing on the early twentieth century Progressive movement's vision of science as way to resolve political arguments.

Courtwright, Julie. "When We First Come Here It All Looked Like Prairie Land Almost": Prairie Fire and Plains Settlement." Western Historical Quarterly 38 (2 2007): 157–179. Efforts of settlers on the Great Plains in the nineteenth century to suppress the prairie fires that had been an environmental force on the area for centuries, and the lasting effect of the fires' disappearance.

Cowan, Michael Kenneth. "Ancient Water Systems Provide Lessons for Today." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 62 (6 2007): 138A. Looks at ancient water systems in arid regions, such as the Mesopotamian water systems of the ancient Sumerians, and how these historical systems can provide solutions to early twenty-first century water resource challenges.

Davis, Charles, and Sandra Davis. "The Politics of Hard-Rock Mining in the American West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 133–53. A discussion of hard-rock mining on western U.S. federal land from the 1872 Mining Act through the end of the twentieth century, and the relationship between environmental impact issues and federal policy.

Edelson, S. Max. "Clearing Swamps, Harvesting Forests: Trees and the Making of a Plantation Landscape in the Colonial South Carolina Lowcountry." Agricultural History 81 (3 2007): 381–406. An examination of the landscape transformation by English colonists and African slaves of swamplands and forests to rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Ezcurra, Exequiel. "Hornaday, Lumholtz, and the Grandeur of Nature." Journal of the Southwest 49 (Summer 2007): 135–39. Discusses the importance of two early twentieth century books by explorers of Mexico's Gran Desierto—New Trails in Mexico by Carl Lumholtz and Camp Fires in Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday—and the author's use of them in persuading the Mexican government and the United Nations to designate the Gran Desierto as a biological reserve. Discusses the intellectual, ecological, and cultural attributes of both books.

Finger, Thomas, and Barbara Morehouse. "River of Change: An Environmental History of Climate and Water Management in the Upper Little Colorado Watershed." Journal of the Southwest 49 (Winter 2007): 531–60. A history of climate and water resource management of the Upper Little Colorado River watershed in northeastern Arizona from preColumbian settlements through the late twentieth century, focusing primarily on the hundred years between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Fondahl, Gail and Atkinson Donna. "Remaking Space in North-Central British Columbia: The Establishment of the John Prince Research Forest." BC Studies 154 (Summer 2007): 67–95. Discusses the establishment of the John Prince Research Forest in British Columbia in the late 1990s, with emphasis on the differing ways in which participating parties visualized the space, based on their own perceptions and assumptions. Argues that the process of remaking space involves sensitive negotiations between multiple parties with varied and sometimes conflicting interests.

Fox, Thomas R., Eric J. Jokela, and H. Lee Allen. "The Development of Pine Plantation Silviculture in the Southern United States." Journal of Forestry 105 (7 2007): 337–347. A study of the history of applied silvicultural research to southern pine plantations focusing on the period from the 1950s through the 2000s. Includes examinations of nursery management, site preparation, fertilization, genetic engineering, and other practices which increased the productivity of pine plantations in the southern United States.

Garza, Dolly. "Comanaging Sea Otter: A Model of Modern Alaska Native Stewardship." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li . Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 25–34. The conservation and management of the sea otter population of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. How native tribes maintain hunting traditions with modern technology and resource management.

Gomez, Art. "America's National Parks System: Sunset or New Dawn?" Perspectives 45 (7 2007): 46–48. Examines the history and future of the National Park Service, focusing on a 1953 article by Bernard DeVoto, "Let's Close the National Parks," and a 2006 article by John G. Mitchell, "Threatened Sanctuaries."

Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda. "From Sojourners to Settlers: Mexicanos in Oregon." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 114–36. History of migrant farm workers and Mexican immigration to the Willamette Valley, Oregon over the course of the twentieth century.

Griggs, Peter. "Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860–1995." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 255–83. An examination of the environmental impacts of deforestation associated with the cultivation of sugar cane along the eastern coast of Australia from the 1860s through the 1990s.

Hackel, Steven. "Shifting Patterns of Land Use in Monterey, California before 1850." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 57–64. eighteenth century land use in Monterey, California focusing on transitions between Native Americans and Spanish settlers.

Harnik, Peter. "Nine Mile Rerun: In Pittsburgh, Activists Bring a Biologically Dead Stream Back to Life." Landscape Architecture 97 (11 2007): 62–71. Looks at the urban stream revitalization project undertaken at Nine Mile Run in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Hatch, David R. "Resolution." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 35–39. Author's personal stories of growing up in the Siletz tribe along the Oregon Coast, hunting and fishing.

Hawkins, Tracy S. "A Forest Transect of Pine Mountain, Kentucky: Changes Since E. Lucy Braun and Chestnut Blight." Journal of Kentucky Academy of Science 67 (2 2006): 73–80. A research study of forest changes and canopy composition since the height of chestnut blight on the Hi Lewis Pine Barrens State Nature Preserve in Harlan County, Kentucky. Compares data from 1997 with data collected by Dr. E. Lucy Braun in 1935 to determine forest changes after the decline of the American chestnut.

Jackson, Jane E. " Monumental Tasks: Flagstaff's Mt. Elden Civilian Conservation Corps Camp." Journal of Arizona History 48 (3 2007): 289–304. A look at the experiences of Civilian Conservation Corps laborers at Mt. Elden camp in Arizona.

Kingston, Deanna. "Walrus Hunting in a Changing Arctic." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 15–24. The changes over time in walrus hunting by the Ugiuvangmiut around King Island, Alaska.

LeMonds, Jim. "Logger Poetry and Music: The Culture of Harvest." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 102–113. A history of logging songs, poetry, and culture.

Li, Judith L. "Lost China Camps." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 65–73. Economic, social, and environmental history of Chinese fishermen on the northern Californian coast in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Low, Christopher H. "Different Histories of Buchu: Euro-American Appropriation of San and Khoekhoe Knowledge of Buchu Plants." Environment and History 13 (August 2007): 333–61. A history of the South African buchu plant, a traditional remedy of the Khoisan people, and its appropriation by Europeans and Americans for various commercial uses from the seventeenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Lubetkin, M. John. "Captain Javan B. Irvine and the 1871 Eastern Yellowstone Surveying Expedition." South Dakota History 37 (Summer 2007): 125–62. A history of the 1871 land survey expedition of the Yellowstone Valley in Dakota Territory to identify a route for the Northern Pacific Railway.

Majewski, John, and Viken Tchakerian. "The Environmental Origins of Shifting Cultivation: Climate, Soils, and Disease in the Nineteenth-Century US South." Agricultural History 81 (4 2007): 522–49. A history of shifting cultivation in nineteenth century Southern farms, including the impact of burning forest tracts, livestock disease, poor soil, and rugged topography.

Mangun, William R. "Wildlife Resource Policy Issues in the West." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 109–131. An examination of the history of wildlife management policy in the western United States, focusing on the conflict over endangered species policies in the late twentieth century.

Martin, Irene. "Clifton Gillnetters: Their Ethnic and Occupational Identity." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 92–101. A history of fishing community of Clifton, Oregon, examining nineteenth century European immigration.

Masumoto, David Mas. "April: Spring Weeds." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 151–55. Adaptation from an essay by Masumoto in Letters to the Valley, a Harvest of Memories, 2004.

Mathewson, Margaret S. "California Indian Basketweavers and the Landscape." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 40–56. A look at the contemporary struggles of Native Americans in California to maintain their historical traditions of basketweaving.

McCool, Daniel. "The Politics of Dam Removal and River Restoration." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 89–107. A discussion of dam removal and river restoration in the western United States featuring two case studies from the 2000s, the Matilija Dam on the Ventura River and the Savage Rapids Dam on the Rogue River.

McCormick, Michael, Paul Edward Dutton, and Paul A. Mayewski. "Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, AD 750–950." Speculum 82 (October 2007): 865–95. Examines early historic weather and climate through the study of volcanic aerosols in Greenland ice cores and their relationship to harsh European winters.

McDonnell, Janet. "World War II: Defending Park Values and Resources." Public Historian 29 (Fall 2007): 15–33. Looks at the way the National Park Service resisted demands for the use of park resources by the U.S. military during World War II through conservation campaigns as well as special compromise measures.

McKenna, Phil. "Recovery/Breakout." Audubon 109 (6 2007): 72–79. Describes early twenty-first century efforts to release captive-bred whooping cranes directly into the wild. Includes a history of the American whooping crane population, and the work done throughout the twentieth century to save the birds from extinction.

Menard, Russell R. "Plantation Empire: How Sugar and Tobacco Planters Built their Industries and Raised an Empire." Agricultural History 81 (3 2007): 309–32. Examines the plantation agricultural economy of the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and how increases in productivity and commerce assisted the British Empire.

Miller, Char. "When Elephants Were Green: Gifford Pinchot, the GOP, and the Conservation Movement." Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 28 (Fall 2007): 12–24. Traces the life of Gifford Pinchot, with an examination of the conflicts between politics and Pinchot's theories of conservation in the early twentieth century.

Mitchell, R. J., et al. "Silviculture That Sustains: The Nexus Between Silviculture, Frequent Prescribed Fire, and Conservation of Biodiversity in Longleaf Pine Forests of the Southeastern United States." Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36 (November 2006): 2724–36. An examination of various twentieth century silvicultural approaches to managing and sustaining longleaf pine forest ecosystems in the southeastern United States, including a discussion of fire management policies.

Moan, Jaina L., and Zachary A. Smith. "Water Policy in the Western United States: Historical and Contextual Perspectives." In Environmental Politics and Policy in the West, ed. Zachary A. Smith and John C. Freemuth. Rev. ed. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007. 173–95. A history of water management policy in the western United States from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century. Looks at evolving environmental attitudes, issues of federal and state government administration, scientific management, and water economics.

Nichols, John. "Aamodt, Schmaamodt: Who Really Gets the Water?" In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 156–70. History of small farmers and irrigation ditches in Taos, New Mexico.

Orth, Joel. "The Shelterbelt Project: Cooperative Conservation in 1930s America." Agricultural History 81 (3 2007): 333–57. An examination of the Shelterbelt Project of the 1930s, a plan to create a zone of tree shelterbelts across the Great Plains states, and the resulting conflicts between foresters, government, the public, and nature.

Patakfalvi, Zsolt. "Remembering the Pulp and Paper Pavilion at Expo 67: 40 Years Later." Pulp & Paper Canada 109 (9 2007): 24–25. A look back at the pulp and paper pavilion at Expo 67, the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Canada. Includes discussion of the design of the pavilion and its featured exhibits and presentations, sponsored by paper companies and the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.

Payne, Adam A. "'We Complacently Drink the Fruit of the Lotus Bowl': Deciding on the Oklahoma City Floodway, 1946–1953." Chronicles of Oklahoma 85 (Fall 2007): 308–23. Looks at the designing and planning of the Oklahoma City Floodway from 1946 to 1943, a project designed to protect the city against the damage caused by the repeated flooding of the North Canadian River.

Pisani, Donald J. "The Squatter and Natural Law in Nineteenth-Century America." Agricultural History 81 (4 2007): 443–63. Examines land rights and squatters in nineteenth century California in the context of American frontier values.

Reynolds, Terry S. "Calm or Conflicted? Labor-Management Relations on Michigan's Iron Ranges in the Nineteenth Century." Michigan Historical Review 33 (Fall 2007): 1–45. An examination of the history of labor relations, strikes, and labor activity of iron miners in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the nineteenth century. Includes a history of iron ore mining in Michigan beginning in 1844.

Russell, Peter A. "The Far-From-Dry Debates: Dry Farming on the Canadian Prairies and the American Great Plains." Agricultural History 81 (4 2007): 493–521. Looks at the history of dry farming techniques in the Canadian Prairies and the American Great Plains.

Saikku, Mikko. "Utopians and Utilitarians: Environment and Economy in the Finnish-Canadian Settlement of Sointula." BC Studies 154 (Summer 2007): 3–38. Examination of the utopian community of Sointula, established on Malcolm Island in British Columbia in the early twentieth century by Finnish immigrants, with emphasis on the inhabitants perception of and relationship to the natural environment.

Sakurai, Patti. "In Wind and Sand: Landscape and the Reading of Gila River Internment Camp ." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 137–50. Examines Gila River Japanese Internment Camp of 1940s in Arizona. Internee's relationship with the land from historical and environmental perspectives.

Sellars, Richard West. "A Very Large Array: Early Federal Historic Preservation—The Antiquities Act, Mesa Verde, and the National Park Service Act." Natural Resources Journal 47 (2007): 267–328. A history of early United States government historic preservation efforts focusing on the Antiquities Act of 1906, as well as the 1906 Mesa Verde Act and the 1916 National Park Service Act. These federal government efforts came about as a way to preserve Native American archeological sites and Civil War battlefields for future research and education.

Spain, Glen. "Dams, Water Reforms, and Endangered Species in the Klamath Basin." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 22 (2007): 49–129. An examination of the legal and environmental conflicts surrounding the water of the Klamath Basin, including issues such as the Endangered Species Act, fish hatcheries, dams, wild salmon populations, and water allocation policies.

Stone, Joel. "The 1847 Harbor and River Convention at Chicago and the Politics of Internal Improvement." Journal of Illinois History 10 (2007): 107–132. A history of the 1847 Harbor and River Convention in Chicago, Illinois, and the growing national debate over funding for internal improvements to canals, rivers, harbors, roads, and railroads.

Taylor, Lonn. "Building the White Elephant: The Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Park Service, and the Davis Mountains Indian Lodge." Journal of the West 46 (Summer 2007): 56–61. A case study of the construction of the Davis Mountains Indian Lodge in Texas by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

Turner, Raymond M. "Desert on the March." Journal of the Southwest 49 (Summer 2007): 141–63. The author describes trips made in 1959, 1970, 1979 and 2007, retracing William T. Hornaday's exploration of the Sonoran Desert in Mexico in 1907.Comparisons of photos demonstrate changes in the region's ecology over a one hundred year period.

Verschoor, Karin. "A Century of Seedlings." New York State Conservationist 62 (2007): 2–5. A history of tree seedling sales in New York state, focusing on the history and current state of the Saratoga Tree Nursery.

Vivanco, Luis A. "The Work of Environmentalism in an Age of Televisual Adventures." Cultural Dynamics 16 (2004): 5–27. Discusses the apolitical and ahistorical approach of television programs that display adventures in the natural world. Describes ways in which such entertainment, while purporting to encourage conservation, can actually mislead viewers about the ecological and political complexities of such activities. Uses the example of media personality Steve Irwin, known as the "Crocodile Hunter."

Wickham, J. D., et al. "Temporal Change in Forest Fragmentation at Multiple Scales." Landscape Ecology 22 (2007): 481–489. A study examining changes resulting from forest loss, comparing data from the Chesapeake Bay region to data from the New Jersey Pine Barrens gathered between 1984 and 2001.

Wilkinson, Charles. "Return of the Canoe Journey." In To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West, ed. Judith L. Li. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2007. 8–14. An excerpt from Blood Struggle—The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by W.W. Norton.

Williams, Austin. "The Pacific Salmon Treaty: A Historical Analysis and Prescription for the Future." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 22 (2007): 153–95. An examination of the historical conflicts between the United States and Canada over Pacific salmon throughout the twentieth century, including environmental challenges, salmon habitat protection, and an analysis of the Pacific Salmon Treaty of 1985.

Wunder, Sven. "The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation." Conservation Biology 21 (February 2007): 48–58. Describes the system known as payments for environmental services (PES), which attempts to promote conservation and overcome differences through direct compensation of the interested parties. Discusses the reasons that PES has not been adopted widely in the tropics and suggests ways to expend it through the improvement of PES programs.

Young, James A., and Charlie D. Clements. "Cheatgrass and Grazing Rangelands." Rangelands 29 (December 2007): 15–20. An examination of the early to mid-twentieth century range management work of Charles Fleming in the area of grazing and invasive grass species, and its application to range policy in the early twenty-first century.

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