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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

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Alexander, Thomas G. "Interdependence and Change: Mutual Irrigation Companies in Utah's Wasatch Oasis in an Age of Modernization, 1870–1930." Utah Historical Quarterly 71 (Fall 2003): 292–314. Discusses water resources development, water rights, water utilization, and water law and legislation.

Anderson, Warwick. "The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 29–46 pp. Examines changes in scientific theories about race, climate, health in the Philippines during Spanish colonial rule in the late-nineteenth century and under United States imperial rule in the early twentieth century.

Apple, Daina Dravnieks. "Evolution of U.S. Water Policy: Emphasis on the West." Women in Natural Resources 24 (No. 3, 2003–2004). Development of water rights and water law since the 19th century, especially in California.

Ayres, Ed. "The Hidden Shame of the Global Industrial Economy." World Watch 17 (January/February 2004): 20–29. Compares the social, economic, and environmental impacts of sixteenth-century colonial extractive practices with those arising from extractive logging and mining operations around the world during the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

Bachrach, David S. "Crossbows for the King: The Crossbow during the Reigns of John and Henry III of England." Technology and Culture 45 (January 2004): 102–119. History of the technology used in the production of wooden crossbows and their use by the English military from 1204 to 1272 during the reigns of King John (1167–1216) and his son and successor King Henry III (1207–1272).

Bain, David. "The Queen's Park and its Avenues: Canada's First Public Park." Ontario History 95 (Autumn 2003): 192–215. Discusses the establishment of Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1860 and the impact of subsequent urban growth and development on the character and utilization of the park through the end of the nineteenth century.

Barnett, Gabrielle. "Drive By Viewing: Visual Consciousness and Forest Preservation in the Automobile Age." Technology And Culture 45 (January 2004): 30–54. Examines the competing reactions of the Save-the-Redwoods League and of highway promoters to the replacement of the two-lane Redwood Highway with a multi-lane Redwood Parks Freeway connecting Grants Pass, Oregon, with San Francisco, California; 1920s to 1950s.

Baviskar, Amita. "Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 289–318 pp. Examines the evolving political conflict over the issues of environmentalism and sustainable development between the middle-class activists who founded the Sangeth tribal trade union and tribal activists who later emerged as leaders of the union in the Madhya Pradesh state of India since the 1980s.

Beattie, James. "Environmental Anxiety in New Zealand, 1840–1941: Climate Change, Soil Erosion, Sand Drift, Flooding and Forest Conservation." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 379–392. Studies environmental concerns in New Zealand about the negative impacts of deforestation on climate, soils, and water resources, and discusses the impacts of a growing priority toward agricultural development at the expense of forest conservation on efforts to conserve natural resources during this period.

Beinart, William, and Karen Middleton. "Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective: A Review Article." Environment and History 10 (February 2004): 3–29. Historiographical analysis of the transfer of cultivated crops, garden plants, and weeds from native areas to non-native environments during the time of European imperialism from 1500 to 1900.

Blum, Edward J. "The Crucible of Disease: Trauma, Memory, and National Reconciliation during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878." The Journal of Southern History 69 (November 2003): 791–820. Argues that the assistance provided by northerners to people suffering from the widespread 1878 yellow fever epidemic in the southern United States significantly helped mend lingering feelings of hatred caused by the American Civil War.

Botner, Fred, Jr. "Planting Trees and Fighting Fires in National Forest." NACCCA Journal 27 (January 2004): 4. The author reminisces about his work in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the late 1930s fighting forest fires, felling "snag" trees killed by fire, planting white pines, and cleaning up the forest after commercial logging operations. Botner was based in camp 594, F-164 on the Kaniksu National Forest in Idaho and worked in both Idaho and Montana.

Brosius, J. Peter. "Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 319–346 pp. Examines the politics associated with an environmental campaign to prevent the destruction of the forest habitat of indigenous Penan peoples by intensive logging in Sarawak during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Calder, Alison. "Why Shoot the Gopher? Reading the Politics of a Prairie Icon." The American Review of Canadian Studies 33 (Autumn 2003): 391–414. Examines the social, environmental, and political differences that impacted human relationships with the gopher and affected cultural representations of the animal as either a symbol of conquest or a mascot used to promote tourism in the Canadian prairie region since the late nineteenth century.

Cash, David W. "Innovative Natural Resource Management: Nebraska's Model for Linking Science and Decisionmaking." Environment 45 (December 2003): 8–20. Discusses links between environmental change, natural resource management, land use, and groundwater supply, and describes laws and policies developed to conserve and manage water resources in Nebraska since the mid-twentieth century.

Chiaviello, Anthony. "Showdown at Diamond Bar Ranch: Rhetoric and Ecology on the Southwest Range." Journal of the Southwest 45 (Winter 2003): 709–750. Studies conflicting research and rhetoric of government agencies, environmental groups, and cattle ranchers relating to a 1990s conflict over the ecological impacts of grazing by cattle owned by the Diamond Bar Ranch on the Gila and Aldo Leopold Wilderness Areas in New Mexico.

Christie, Doug. "Looking West: Historical Overview of the Industry in BC." Pulp & Paper Canada 105 (January 2004): 22–24. On the development of the pulp, paper, and newsprint industries in British Columbia, Canada, since the early twentieth century. Describes the kraft pulping of sawmill waste, the construction of mills, the development of chemical wood treatments, and technological improvements in machinery. This article is an addendum to Mark Kuhlberg's May 2003 article "Pulp and Paper in Canada: Its First Century" (pp. 16–24), which focused primarily on the industries' history in eastern Canada.

Clark, Brett, and John Bellamy Foster. "Land, The Color Line, and the Quest of the Golden Fleece: An Introduction to W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk and The Quest of the Silver Fleece."Organization & Environment 16 (December 2003): 459–469. Examines philosophical relationships between race, class, politics, economics, and the environment drawn by black American intellectual William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) in his 1903 treatise The Souls of Black Folk and his 1911 novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece. Excerpts from both works appear on pp. 470–480.

Clayton, Neil. "Weeds, People and Contested Places." Environment and History 9 (August 2003): 301–331. Historiographical examination of human attitudes toward weeds since ancient times, focusing specifically on human interactions with weeds in British colonial New Zealand during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Cohen, Maurie J. "George W. Bush and the Environmental Protection Agency: A Midterm Appraisal."Society & Natural Resources 17 (January 2004): 69–88. Examines the politics behind the anti-environmentalism of the George W. Bush presidential administration of the early twenty-first century. Discusses the administration's environmental policies pertaining to air pollution, climate change, global warming, automotive fuel efficiency, and toxic waste disposal.

Coombes, Brad. "The Historicity of Institutional Trust and the Alienation of Maori Land for Catchment Control at Mangatu, New Zealand." Environment and History 9 (August 2003): 333–359. Discusses negative British colonial perceptions of the natural resource management abilities of native Maori people in New Zealand; the confiscation of Maori land along the Mangatu River to create the Mangatu State Forest; and afforestation and soil erosion control measures in the region; mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries.

Court, John P. M. "An Erosion of Imagination: Unfulfilled Plans for a University Botanical Gardens and Taddle Creek, 1850–1884." Ontario History 95 (Autumn 2003): 166–191. Examines the reasons why proposed plans for establishing a botanical garden along Taddle Creek on the campus of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, never reached fruition.

Crews, J. "Forest and Tree Symbolism in Folklore."Unasylva 54 (No. 2, 2003): 37, 39–43. Focuses primarily on representations of trees and forests in folklore and mythology in ancient cultures.

Darlington, Susan M. "Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 347–366 pp. Discusses attitudes toward forests in the Buddhist religion and the importance of the incorporation of ecological Buddhist principles in the establishment of a community forest in Giew Muang in Thailand.

Duarte, Regina Horta. "Facing the Forest: European Travellers Crossing the Mucuri River Valley, Brazil, in the Nineteenth Century." Environment and History 10 (February 2004): 31–58. Discusses impressions and perceptions of the forested region in the Mucuri River Valley of Minas Gerais, Brazil, recorded in writings from the 1810s to the 1850s by German naturalist Maximilian, Prince of Wied (1782–1867), French botanist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire (1779–1853), German doctor Robert Avé-Lallemant (1812–1884), and Swiss traveler Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889).

Farr, William E. "Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations Across the Rocky Mountains. Part 1, Making Meat And Taking Robes." Montana the Magazine of Western History 53 (Winter 2003): 2–21. Examines social, economic, and political aspects of Native American bison hunting in Montana during the early to mid-nineteenth century.

Forests and People. "Phil Wakeley: Pioneer Reforestation Scientist." Forests and People 54 (First Quarter 2004): 12–13. On the reforestation research and work of forester Philip Wakeley (d. 1983) at the United States Forest Service's Southern Forest Experiment Station in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Francaviglia, Richard V. "Hardrock Mining's Effects on the Visual Environment of the West." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 39–51. Historical geography of hardrock mining in the western United States focusing on the material culture of the industry as evidenced by the distinct topography and design of settlements associated with nineteenth- and twentieth-century mining.

Gillespie, Alexander. "Legitimating a Whale Ethic." Environmental Ethics 25 (Winter 2003): 395–410. Uses the example of the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, which united numerous nations in a commitment to protect Antarctica from natural resources development, to suggest that whaling and non-whaling countries should similarly join forces in an international effort to conserve whales by promoting such nonlethal activities as whale watching; 1970s–1990s.

Goodman, David. "The 'El Dorados'." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 14–20. Comparative history of gold mining rushes in California and Victoria, Australia, during the 1850s.

Gowans, Matthew, and Philip Cafaro. "A Latter-Day Saint Environmental Ethic." Environmental Ethics 25 (Winter 2003): 375–394. Argues that the religious philosophy of Mormonism has incorporated a strong environmental ethic since it was first practiced in the United States in the nineteenth century.

Greenough, Paul. "Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political 'Emergency': The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 201–230 pp. On the government projects of Smallpox Zero, a program aimed at completely eradicating the disease in India and Bangladesh, and Project Tiger, which established reserves inside or adjacent to protected Indian forests to prevent the extinction of the South Asian tiger. Includes discussion of local resistance to the projects, which impinged on the rights of indigenous populations to land and natural resource utilization.

Harrington, Winston, and Richard D. Morgenstern. "Economic Incentives versus Command and Control: What's the Best Approach for Solving Environmental Problems?" Resources No. 152 (Fall/Winter 2004): 13–17. Examines the utility of using economic incentives either in place of or in conjunction with government regulation to achieve environmental protection and solve environmental problems, such as air and water pollution arising from the production and use of chlorofluorocarbons, chlorinated solvents, leaded fuels, and industrial development. Studies approaches used in six cases in the United States, Germany, France, and Sweden from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Hazelrigg, George. "A River Runs Through It...Again." Landscape Architecture 94 (February 2004): 108–117. Describes the landscape planning and architectural features behind the revitalization of Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1990s and early 2000s. Includes discussion of the establishment of the park in 1876; its partial devastation as the site of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; the burial of River des Peres in underground concrete sewer pipes to prevent flooding in the park and adjacent areas; and the reintroduction of a landscaped waterway through the park.

Hendricks, Stephen. "Small Wonder." Sierra 89 (January/February 2004): 18–23. On the efforts of Cheyenne Indian activist and lawyer Gail Small to prevent further pollution by a coal mining operation of the Tongue River in Montana since the 1980s. A Cheyenne Indian reservation in Montana depends on water from the Tongue.

Hodge, Robin. "Seizing the Day: Pérrine Moncrieff and Nature Conservation in New Zealand." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 407–417. Biographical examination of New Zealand conservationist and ornithologist Pérrine Moncrieff (1893–1979), focusing on her work from 1920 to 1979 to conserve nature and natural resources in New Zealand.

Iles, Jeffrey K., and Anna M. Vold. "Landscape Tree Cultivar Preferences in Iowa, U.S." Journal of Arboriculture 29 (November 2003): 331–335. Provides the results of a survey that determined the shade- and flowering-tree preferences of landscapers in Iowa in the late twentieth century. Includes some history of the first instances of species introduction.

Jackson, Richard E. "Recognizing Emerging Environmental Problems: The Case of Chlorinated Solvents in Ground Water." Technology and Culture 45 (January 2004): 55–79. Studies the reasons behind the delay in research and development, environmental monitoring, and remedial action taken by industry, government, and academia in the late 1980s to alleviate, control, and prevent groundwater contamination by chlorinated degreasing solvents first discovered in the 1970s. Includes a brief history of the industrial development and use of degreasing solvents in the United States since the 1920s.

Jarvis, Kimberly A. "The Preservation of Franconia Notch: The Old Man's Legacy." Historical New Hampshire 58 (Fall/Winter 2003): 80–100. Discusses the influence of Franconia Notch's unique "Old Man of the Mountain" rock profile geographic feature on the growth of nature tourism in the White Mountains of New Hampshire from the 1820s to the 1920s. Focuses especially on the work of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs and of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests to conserve nature in the region—efforts that resulted in the dedication of the Franconia Notch State Forest Reservation and Memorial Park on 15 September 1928.

Jeffery, Roger, et al. "A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in Indian." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 79–99 pp. Studies changes in Indian forest policy from a British colonial emphasis on timber production to the late-twentieth-century joint forest management concept that more readily recognizes to varying degrees forest utilization practices by indigenous forest-dwelling peoples that center around non-timber forest products.

Johnston, Andrew. "Quicksilver Landscapes: The Mercury Mining Boom, Chinese Labor, and the California Constitution of 1879." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 21–29. Tiburcio Parrott's challenge of the constitutionality of Article XIX of the state constitution passed on 7 May 1879, which prohibited corporations operating in the state from employing Chinese workers. Parrott's Sulphur Bank Mine in Lake County, California — like other mercury mining operations in the region— was largely dependent on a Chinese labor force by the late 1870s. Includes discussion of working conditions in quicksilver mines.

Kafarowski, Joanna. "How Attitudes and Values Shape Access to National Parks." George Wright Forum 20 (December 2003): 53–63. Asserts that a dominant value system representing the prevailing attitudes and values of Western elites has directly impacted the establishment, design, and use of nationally protected areas around the world from ancient times to the present. Includes discussion of the alienation of indigenous populations and problems of access for the underprivileged or physically handicapped arising from such values that control access to parks.

Kelman, Ari. "A Referendum on the River: The Mississippi Jetties Controversy." Gulf South Historical Review 19 (Fall 2003): 46–71. Discusses the politics associated with the decision to build jetties on the Mississippi River in New Orleans to alleviate problems with blockages formed by shifting sands and siltation that hindered the ability of ships traveling the river to reach the Gulf of Mexico; 1870s.

Koenig, Kevin. "Chevron-Texaco On Trial."World Watch 17 (January/February 2004): 10–19. Describes a 2003 law suit tried in an Ecuadorian court that involved American oil conglomerate ChevronTexaco and the Amazon Defense Front, a regional grassroots umbrella organization representing the indigenous Ecuadorian community. The plaintiff accused ChevronTexaco of improper business practices that directly led to rainforest devastation, environmental degradation from oil spills, and water pollution from abandoned oil sludge pits. Discusses Texaco's oil extraction activities in the rainforests of Ecuador from the 1960s through the early 1990s.

Kray, Ryan M. "The Path to Paradise: Expropriation, Exodus, and Exclusion in the Making of Palm Springs." Pacific Historical Review 73 (February 2004): 85–126. Describes the successful efforts of city elites and local government officials to control land use and development in Palm Springs, California, at the expense of the poor and Native Americans; 1940s through 1960s. The author argues that city planning and zoning measures favored the establishment of parks, homes, and buildings that promoted a prosperous image while simultaneously decimating city services for the underprivileged.

Kurtz, Rick S. "Disputing Wilderness on the Canadian-American Frontier: The Case of Glacier Bay National Park." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 67–73. Examines disputes between the United States and Canada over boundaries, land and natural resource utilization and development, and public land management associated with Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska since the late nineteenth century.

Kuzma, Julian. "New Zealand Landscape and Literature, 1890–1925." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 451–461. Asserts that late colonial New Zealand literature contains many insights into attitudes toward nature predominant in the European settler community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lubetkin, M. John. "An Ambush that Changed History: Thomas L. Rosser, David S. Stanley, Gall, and the 1872 Eastern Yellowstone Surveying Expedition." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 74–83. Examines attacks of Lakota and Sioux Indians led by a Native American named Gall (ca. 1840–1894) on an 1872 Northern Pacific Railroad survey expedition of the Yellowstone Valley in Montana and South Dakota led by surveyor Thomas Lafayette Rosser (1836–1910) and Army commander David Sloan Stanley (1828–1902), whose forces based at Fort Sully accompanied the expedition.

Mabbett, Terry. "Not The Same Old Chestnut." Quarterly Journal of Forestry 98 (January 2004): 49–54. Reviews the natural history and cultural uses of two tree species—the horse chestnut and the sweet chestnut—in England since ancient times.

McGuire, Thomas R. "The River, the Delta, and the Sea." Journal of the Southwest 45 (Autumn 2003): 371–410. Discusses the use and management of water and natural resources in the Colorado River Delta, which empties into the Gulf of California in Mexico, since the nineteenth century. Also examines recent efforts by agencies, individuals, and institutions in both nations to conserve water and natural resources in the region.

Madden, Erin. "Seeing the Science for the Trees: Employing Daubert Standards to Assess the Adequacy of National Forest Management Under the National Forest Management Act." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 18 (Fall 2003): 321–364. (1) Reviews laws governing national forest management in the United States that preceded passage of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (the Creative Act of 1891, the Organic Administration Act of 1897, the Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960, and the Forest Rangeland and Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974); and (2) discusses the judicial review implications of the 1993 Supreme Court case Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on national forest management decisions.

Martin, Susan R. "Evidence for Indigenous Hardrock Mining of Copper in Ancient North America." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 8–13. Describes metalworking technology, tools, and copper mining practices of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of North America during prehistoric and ancient times.

Milbourne, Ken. "The Vertical-Boilered Locomotive at Tasmanian Transport Museum." Light Railways No. 175 (February 2004): 3–5. Traces the history of a steam locomotive engine manufactured by Oliver & Co. Ltd. (later known as Markham & Co.) in England and used to transport timber and coal on tramways in Tasmania, Australia, beginning in the 1890s. The engine was abandoned in a forest when the tramway operation of Chesterman & Co. Pty Ltd. closed in the early 1940s.

Moon, Suzanne. "Empirical Knowledge, Scientific Authority, and Native Development: The Controversy over Sugar/Rice Ecology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1905–1914." Environment and History 10 (February 2004): 59–81. Asserts that the small-scale agricultural changes introduced in colonial Java during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did little to alter traditional shifting cultivation practices and resulted in only minor environmental transformations.

Moore, Jason W. "Capitalism as World-Ecology: Braudel and Marx on Environmental History." Organization & Environment 16 (December 2003): 431–458. Examines philosophical relationships between capitalism, ecology, and the environment evident in the work of German philosopher Karl Marx (1818–1883) and French historian Fernand Braudel (1902–1985).

Moran, Dominique. "Lesniki and Leskhozy: Life and Work in Russia's Northern Forests." Environment and History 10 (February 2004): 83–105. Asserts that Soviet forest policy promoted intensive logging of timber resources in the northern Ural Mountains to support the rapid industrialization and economic development of the Soviet Union during the twentieth-century communist era. Discusses the environmental impacts of such practices as well as the lifestyle of exiles relocated to the primitive region to fell timber.

Mumme, Stephen P. "Revising the 1944 Water Treaty: Reflections on the Rio Grande Drought Crises and Other Matters." Journal of the Southwest 45 (Winter 2003): 649–670. Examines challenges experienced in the 1990s and 2000s in implementing measures controlling the management, use, and development of Rio Grande water resources as outlined by the U.S.-Mexico International Boundary and Water Commission, which was created through the 1944 United States-Mexico Water Treaty.

Musselman, L. J. "Trees in the Koran and the Bible." Unasylva 54 (213 2003): 45–46, 48–49. Examines references to trees, their utilization, and symbolic images associated with them in ancient Christian, Judaic, and Islamic religious texts.

Nelson, Paula M. "'In the Midst of Life we are in Death': Medical Care and Mortality in Early Canton." South Dakota History 33 (Fall 2003): 193–234. Examines medical treatments for disease and public health measures employed in Canton, South Dakota, during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

Neufeld, David. "Dredging the Goldfields: Corporate Gold Mining in the Yukon Territory." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 30–38. History of gold mining in the Klondike region of Canada from the 1890s through the 1950s. Includes discussion of mining technology and the growing role of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation in providing stabilization for the industry during the Great Depression and later years.

Pentland, Brenda. "Letters from World's End: A Young Couple's Portrait of Butte, 1936–1941." Montana the Magazine of Western History 53 (Winter 2003): 36–49. Examines representations of life in the copper mining town of Butte, Montana, recorded in correspondence, paintings, and photographs by Anaconda Copper Mining Company geologist Charles Harry Burgess and his wife Linda Cannon Burgess.

Pickles, Katie. "The Re-Creation of Bottle Lake: From Site of Discard to Environmental Playground?" Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 419–434. Discusses changing attitudes toward and uses of the land known today as Bottle Lake Forest Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, since the nineteenth century. Examines ideas about the area as wasteland; perceptions that the region was useful as a sanitary retreat for persons suffering ill health; tree planting measures; and recreational uses of the park.

Reynard, Pierre Claude. "Charting Environmental Concerns: Reactions to Hydraulic Public Works in Eighteenth-Century France." Environment and History 9 (August 2003): 251–273. Examines differences in the scale, planning, impacts, and environmental concerns associated with water development projects across France from the mid-seventeenth century through the late-eighteenth century. Focuses especially on canals.

Roche, Michael. "'Wilderness to Orchard': The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908–1940." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 435–450. On the transformation of Nelson into an export-oriented apple growing region of New Zealand in the early twentieth century.

Rohe, Randall E. "100 Years of Wisconsin Forestry." Wisconsin Natural Resources 28 (February 2004): 17–21. Excerpt from a forthcoming book by the author discussing lumbering, the timber industry, tree planting activities, forest conservation, conservation clubs and groups, and firefighting technology in the state of Wisconsin since the early twentieth century.

Román-Cuesta, Rosa María, Javier Retana, and Gracia Marc. "Fire Trends in Tropical Mexico: A Case Study of Chiapas." Journal of Forestry 102 (January/ February 2004): 26–32. Asserts that data sets documenting information about forest fires that occurred in Chiapas, Mexico, in the 1980s and 1990s suggest that the most prominent causes of fires were negligence and deliberate burning.

Sivaramakrishnan, K. "Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 253–285 pp. Studies the evolution of British colonial forest management and silvicultural policy in Bengal from the 1880s to the 1940s.

Slack, Tim, and Leif Jensen. "Employment Adequacy in Extractive Industries: An Analysis of Underemployment, 1974–1998." Society & Natural Resources 17 (February 2004): 129–146. Social science examination of employment and income levels in the agriculture, fishing, mining, and timber industries in the Untied States during the late twentieth century.

Smith, Tyson E. "Shades of Green: Justice O'Connor and the Environment." Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation 18 (Fall 2003): 365–402. Examines the influence of family background, education, and life experiences on the judicial decisions of Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-) in cases involving environmental issues.

Star, Paul. "New Zealand Environmental History: A Question of Attitudes." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 463–475. The author discusses his own research into forest utilization and attitudes toward the environment in New Zealand from 1865 to 1914 and provides a historiographical commentary on the field of environmental history in the nation today, as well as its roots in other scholarly disciplines.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. "Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 124–169 pp. First World perceptions of the proper role of peasants in agricultural production in Java, the Philippines, and Malaysia during colonial and post-colonial rule; nineteenth and twentieth-centuries.

Unasylva. "Saving the Cedar of Lebanon, Cedrus Libani -- A Cultural Emblem." Unasylva 54 (213 2003): 50–52. Discusses uses of wood from the cedar of Lebanon in the ancient Near and Middle East, and recent efforts to preserve the species in Lebanon.

Uriarte Ayo, Rafael. "Expansión y Declive de la Industria Resinera Española (1936–1976)." In Historia y Economía del Bosque en la Europa del Sur (Siglos XVIII–XX), edited by José Antonio Sebastián Amarilla and Rafael Uriarte Ayo. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2003. 431–462 pp. Expansion and Decline of the Spanish Resin Industry (1935–1976). Text in Spanish.

Van Hoak, Stephen P. "The Other Buffalo: Native Americans, Fur Trappers, and the Western Bison, 1600–1860." Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Winter 2004): 4–18. Buffalo hunting in Utah.

Wallinger, R. Scott. "Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program." Journal of Forestry 101 (December 2003): 9, 16–19. Overview of the management principles, objectives, and milestones of the American Forest & Paper Association's voluntary Sustainable Forestry Initiative since it was conceived in the early 1990s. The Initiative is a "sustainable forest management standard and certification system that seeks to expand the practice of sustainable forest management in North America.".

Webster, Barbara, and Steve Mullins. "Nature, Progress and the 'Disorderly' Fitzroy: The Vain Quest for Queensland's 'Noblest Navigable River', 1865–1965." Environment and History 9 (August 2003): 275–299. Examines attitudes toward nature; water engineering efforts undertaken to make the Fitzroy River navigable for large merchant ships; and the environmental impacts of the river's development. In Queensland, Australia.

Whittlesey, Lee H. "'Music, Song and Laughter': Yellowstone National Park's Fountain Hotel, 1891–1916." Montana the Magazine of Western History 53 (Winter 2003): 22–35. History of this park concession in Wyoming that served tourists visiting Yellowstone in the era prior to the advent of automobile tourism. Discusses hotel construction in 1890 and its opening in 1891; hotel staff and amenities; nearby geysers, hot springs, natural sites of interest, and wildlife that appealed to hotel visitors; the closing of the hotel in 1916 when the advent of automobile tourism eliminated the need for lodging; and the hotel's demise in 1927 when it was completely torn down after years of standing empty and unused.

Wildcat, Tolly Smith. "Mining History for Art: The Story of Wayne Wildcat's 'Solidarity'." Journal of the West 43 (Winter 2004): 52–66. Describes immigrant women's participation in a 1921 coal mining strike in Kansas and the representation of their struggle in a painting titled "Solidarity" by artist Wayne Wildcat.

Wood, Vaughn. "Appraising Soil Fertility in Early Colonial New Zealand: The 'Biometric Fallacy' and Beyond." Environment and History 9 (November 2003): 393–405. Examines changing scientific theories about the relationship between healthy forests and fertile soils used by the New Zealand Company to encourage European farmers to immigrate to New Zealand from the 1830s to the 1850s.

Youngs, Robert L. "Wood Science and Technology in North America." Forest Products Journal 53 (November/December 2003): 12–21. History of wood products research in the United States since the late nineteenth century. Discusses wood technology, wood preservation techniques, and recycling of materials, as well as the significant role played by the United States Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory in advancing wood products research.

Yulsman, Tom. "Meltdown." Audubon 105 (December 2003): 38, 40–43. Examines the causes of and the environmental impacts of deglaciation in Montana's Glacier National Park. Focuses primarily on the melting of Grinnell Glacier in the twentieth century but includes discussion of the formation of glaciers in prehistoric times.

Zeman, Scott C. "High Roads and Highways to Romance: New Mexico Highway Journal and Arizona Highways (Re) Present the Southwest." New Mexico Historical Review 78 (Fall 2003): 419–438. Studies popular representations of New Mexico's cultural and environmental resources published in these two publications and their impact on the development of recreational tourism in the state during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Zerega, Nyree J. C. "The Breadfruit Trail: The Wild Ancestors of a Staple Food Illuminate Human Migrations in the Pacific Islands." Natural History 112 (December/January 2003/2004): 46–51. Studies the origins of the breadfruit tree and its spread through islands in the Pacific Ocean by Polynesians during prehistoric times. Based on genetic analyses and archaeological findings.

Zerner, Charles. "Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856–1997." In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. 47–78 pp. Studies changes in the relationship between natural resource extraction, economic development, and indigenous cultures in Aru, as evidenced in the early work of natural scientist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), in late-twentieth century travel and nature writings, and in the greater role played by marginalized cultures, local communities, Indonesian activists, and international nongovernmental organizations in natural resource conservation and environmental management during the 1990s.

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