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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

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Alonzo, Armando C. "Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water Conservation Movement in South Texas, 1940's to Present." Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 201–221. Examines the ways in which Hispanic farmers and ranchers and government agencies, such as the U.S. Soil Conservation Service and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, have worked together to improve rangeland management, prevent floods, and conserve soil and water in southern Texas since the 1940s.

Appel, Peter A. "The Power of Congress 'Without Limitation' In The Twenty-First Century." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 25–44. Examines the degree to which Congress has invoked its power to regulate private property to protect federal property as defined in the Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Particularly discusses the issue as it relates to the regulation of activities on private property that directly impact federal public lands in the western United States; eighteenth century to the present. Annotated rough transcript of remarks presented 15 March 2003 in Missoula, Montana, at the 26th Annual Public Land Law Conference sponsored by the University of Montana School of Law's Public Lands & Resources Law Review and the Center for the Rocky Mountain West.

Apple, Daina Dravnieks. "Evolution of U.S. Water Policy: Emphasis on the West." Women in Natural Resources 24 (No. 3, 2003–2004): 16–25. Reviews differences in water utilization and water law and legislation governing water rights in the western United States since the sixteenth century.

Arneson, Clair L. "Other Duties As Assigned." National Museum of Forest Service History Newsletter 15 (May 2004): 1, 3. On the work of United States Forest Service field engineers to produce topographic maps of coastline regions for the U.S. military as part of the U.S. Forest Service War Mapping project during World War II. Mentions specifically mapping work on the Los Padres and Six Rivers national forests in California and the project's headquarters operations in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Babbitt, Bruce. "Keynote Address: Public Lands, Private Gains." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 1–7. Discusses the inadequacy of nineteenth- and twentieth-century public land laws in regulating such extractive industries as grazing, mining, and logging in the twenty-first-century western United States. Talk presented 13 March 2003 in Missoula, Montana, at the 26th Annual Public Land Law Conference sponsored by the University of Montana School of Law's Public Lands & Resources Law Review and the Center for the Rocky Mountain West.

Bate, Geoff. "B.C. Forest Service Ranger School Graduates." British Columbia Forest History Newsletter No. 73 (March 2004): 5–7. Lists ranger graduates by class number for the years 1966 through 1978.

Batory, Dana Martin. "A Key To Dating Vintage Woodworking Machinery." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (March 2004): 12–15. Discusses ways of investigating the dates of manufacture and operation of woodworking machinery made in the United States during the nineteenth or twentieth centuries.

Behan, Richard W. "Degenerate Democracy: The Neoliberal and Corporate Capture of America's Agenda." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 9–23. Critical examination of the rise of neoliberalism, or the anti-progressive notion that individual liberty is maximized by free market capitalism, in the United States beginning in the 1970s. Focuses specifically on the economically and politically motivated actions of neoliberals to deregulate government and the resulting impacts on the conservation of nature and natural resources on public lands in the United States. Talk presented 15 March 2003 in Missoula, Montana, at the 26th Annual Public Land Law Conference sponsored by the University of Montana School of Law's Public Lands & Resources Law Review and the Center for the Rocky Mountain West.

Bell, Ruth Greenspan, et al. "Clearing the Air: How Delhi Broke the Logjam on Air Quality Reforms." Environment 46 (April 2004): 22–39. Discusses a 1985 Indian Supreme Court order requiring commercial transport vehicles to use compressed natural gas instead of the more highly air polluting fuels traditionally used in Delhi. Examines problems experienced in meeting the terms of the regulation as well as the economic and environmental effectiveness of the ruling through the early 2000s.

Berdah, Robert M. "Stephen H. Spurr: A Pioneer in the Development of Photogrammetry and Forest Photo Interpretation." Crosscut [newsletter of the Texas Forestry Museum] n.v. (First Quarter 2004): 1–2. Biographical sketch of forest ecologist Stephen H. Spurr (1918–1990), a Yale Forestry School graduate whose long career included work in photogrammetry and ecology at the Harvard Forest and at the universities of Minnesota, Michigan, and Texas at Austin.

Bopp, Carl. "Made In PHILADa: No. 4." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (March 2004): 16–22. On the work of planemaker John Veit and his sons Charles and William in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the 1860s through the 1920s.

Branch, Michael P. "John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 139–152. Studies reverence for the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California expressed in this 1911 work of nature writing by American environmentalist John Muir (1838–1914).

Carroll, Kyle. "The Essential White-Tailed Deer." Missouri Conservationist 65 (January 2004): 17–19. Brief overview of deer hunting and conservation in Missouri since the nineteenth century.

Castaneda, Christopher J. "History Beneath the Surface: Natural Gas Pipelines and the National Historic Preservation Act." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 105–121. On the historical significance of natural gas pipelines, changing government regulations impacting pipeline construction, and the influence of federal historic preservation policy on energy development in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author briefly worked as a historical consultant for Northern Natural Gas Company and authored a historical overview of the company in 1999.

Castro, Carlos J. "Sustainable Development: Mainstream and Critical Perspectives." Organization & Environment 17 (June 2004): 195–225. Examines differences in the environmental economic theory behind the idea of sustainable development, as presented by the United Nations, the World Bank, and proponents of environmental Marxism; 1980s and 1990s.

Cave, Shannon. "Lewis and Clark in Missouri." Missouri Conservationist 65 (January 2004): 5–9. Exploration of the natural resources of Missouri in 1804 by American explorers William Clark (1770–1838) and Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) during their Corps of Discovery expedition through the western United States from 1804 to 1806.

Chiang, Connie Y. "Monterey-by-the-Smell: Odors and Social Conflict on the California Coastline." Pacific Historical Review 73 (May 2004): 183–214. Examines the economic, social, and political aspects of local government regulation of Chinese-American squid fisheries from the 1890s to the 1900s and of the sardine canning industry from the 1910s to the 1930s in Monterey, California. Discusses racial tensions, the air pollution caused by the odors resulting from these industries, and the political maneuverings of developers and workers in the tourist industry who argued that the foul odors were negatively impacting the area's economy.

Christen, Catherine A., and Lisa Mighetto. "Introduction: Environmental History as Public History." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 9–19. Introduction to a special issue of the Public Historian commemorating the first joint meeting of the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Environmental History in Victoria, British Columbia, 31 March 2004 through 4 April 2004. Provides a context for the articles appearing in the issue by discussing the study of environmental history within the academy and in the public history arena, primarily in the United States and western Europe.

Clancy, Tim. "The War on Bosnia." World Watch 17 (March/April 2004): 12–23. Discusses the environmental consequences of the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, including deforestation, environmental degradation, and unsustainable natural resource utilization.

Coates, Peter A. "Garden and Mine, Paradise and Purgatory: Landscapes of Leisure and Labor in California." In "Nature's Nation" Revisited: American Concepts of Nature from Wonder to Ecological Crisis, edited by Hans Bak and Walter W. Hölbling. European Contributions to American Studies, no. 49. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2003. 147–167 pp. Juxtaposes the late-nineteenth-century history of the New Almaden quicksilver mines in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains with that of the English-style landscaped estate created by one of the mine's principal owners, William Barron, twenty-five miles to the north at Menlo Park.

Cummings, John R., and Martin E. Hansen. "The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa.: Tank Prairie Logging Locomotives." Tall Timber Short Lines No. 75 (Summer 2004): 10–57. Baldwin locomotive engines used by the lumber industry on the west coast of the United States; 1890s to 1940s.

Dansi, Thomas C., and W. Raymond Wood. "Lewis and Clark's Route Map: James MacKay's Map of the Missouri River." The Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Spring 2004): 53–72. On the making of a 1791 map of the lower Missouri River by Scottish cartographer James MacKay, and the influence of the map on the geographic work of explorers William Clark (1770–1838) and Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) during their Corps of Discovery expedition through the western United States from 1804 to 1806.

DeJong, David H. "An Equal Chance? The Pima Indians and the 1916 Florence-Casa Grande Irrigation Project." Journal of Arizona History 45 (Spring 2004): 63–102. Discusses an ongoing water rights dispute between Pima Indians and other residents over water resources development and utilization of water from the Gila River in Arizona that began in the early twentieth century.

Dielman, Gary, ed. "'May Live and Die a Miner': The 1864 Clarksville Diary of James W. Virtue." Oregon Historical Quarterly 105 (Spring 2004): 62–95. Reprints portions of James William Virtue's (1837–1903) 1864 diary that contains information about local weather events, environmental conditions, and the daily working and social life of a novice Oregon gold miner who immigrated to the United States from Ireland by way of Canada. Later in life Virtue worked as a banker, sheriff, and political figure. Includes an explanatory introduction and conclusion by the editor.

Dummitt, Christopher. "Risk on the Rocks: Modernity, Manhood, and Mountaineering in Postwar British Columbia." BC Studies 141 (Spring 2004): 3–29. Discusses issues of power, control, risk, masculinity, and modernity associated with mountain climbing in British Columbia, Canada, after World War II. Focuses especially on the history of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club.

Farr, William E. "Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations Across the Rocky Mountains. Part 2, Civilian Permits, Army Escorts." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 26–43. Examines social, economic, and political aspects of Native American bison hunting in Montana in the 1860s and 1870s. Continued from Part 1 in the Winter 2003 issue.

Federici, Silvia. "The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against the Rebel Body." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15 (June 2004): 7–16. Drawn from a forthcoming book by the author to be titled Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation. Examines the loss of personal freedoms associated with the transformation of labor into a commodity; the rise of government regulation of people's social, political, and work behaviors; the emergence of witch hunts; and theoretical speculation about the relationship between personhood and the economic aspects of capitalism; Europe, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Fickle, James E. "Forest Products: The South's 'Forgotten Industry'." The Journal of Mississippi History 66 (Spring 2004): 1–16. Historiographical examination of the treatment of the southern forest products industry in analytic works by historians and other researchers since the 1980s. Has a particular focus on the industry in Mississippi.

Florey, Virginia. "Harvesting History." Michigan History 88 (May/June 2004): 52–53. Briefly describes a 1954 salvage logging operation by Ernie Allen that involved diving to locate long-submerged logs in Bradford Lake in Waters, Michigan.

Forbes, Linda C. "A Vision for Cultivating a Nation." Organization & Environment 17 (June 2004): 226–243. Gifford Pinchot's (1865–1946) conservation philosophy, as expressed in his 1910 book The Fight for Conservation (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company). Excerpts from Pinchot's book are included on pp. 232–243.

Foster, John Bellamy, and Paul Burkett. "Ecological Economics and Classical Marxism: The 'Podolinsky Business' Reconsidered." Organization & Environment 17 (March 2004): 32–60. Analyzes the reaction of radical German communist philosophers Frederick Engels (1820–1895) and Karl Marx (1818–1883) to the theory of ecological economics presented by Ukrainian socialist physician Sergei Podolinsky (1850–1891). Discusses the linkage between capitalism, the environment, and human production in all three philosophers' work.

Frome, Michael. "The Roots of E-Journalism: Or, Life Before Rachel Carson." SEJournal 13 (Spring 2004): 16–17. Overview of the history of conservation and environmental reporting by the mass media in the United States from the 1880s through the 1980s. Reprinted from Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 2003).

Gove, Bill. "Timber Baron: George Van Dyke was King of the Connecticut River Log Drives." Northern Woodlands 11 (Spring 2004): 30–34. Biographical sketch of American timberman George Van Dyke (1846–1909), owner of the Connecticut River Lumber Company and the Connecticut Valley Lumber Company. Van Dyke's companies operated in the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts and used the Connecticut River to float logs from logging sites to sawmills. Drawn from the author's book Log Drives on the Connecticut River (Littleton, N.H.: Bondcliff Books, 2003).

Guelke, Jeanne Kay. "Looking for Jesus in Christian Environmental Ethics." Environmental Ethics 26 (Summer 2004): 115–134. Examines environmental ethics in Christian theology, focusing on the degree to which environmental messages in narratives from the Bible attributed to Jesus impact environmental decisionmaking by Christians living in modern societies today. Includes discussion of the social justice dimensions of environmental problems, the impacts of modern consumerism on the environment, and the ecological effects of war.

Harlan, James D. "The Wild Missouri." Missouri Conservationist 65 (January 2004): 11–15. Observations about the depth, flow, length, and navigability of the Missouri River expressed in journals recorded by members of the Corps of Discovery exploratory expedition led by William Clark (1770–1838) and Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) in 1804.

Helms, John A. "Old-Growth: What Is It?" Journal of Forestry 102 (April/May 2004): 8–12. Discusses the etymology of this forestry term and examines the different meanings behind the use of the term "old-growth" to describe forests in the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Hensley, Donald R., Jr. "Cabbage Stacks at Slater, Florida: A Short Illustrated History of the Dowling and Camp Company's Sawmill." Tall Timber Short Lines No. 75 (Summer 2004): 58–66. On the logging, railroad log transportation, and sawmilling operations of Dowling & Camp Company near its company town of Slater, Florida; 1930s and 1940s.

Hess, Scott. "Postmodern Pastoral, Advertising, and the Masque of Technology." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 71–100. Argues that attitudes toward nature in the United States during the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries are similar to those exhibited in the early-seventeenth-century by members of the English court who embraced an idealized pastoral ideology that separated human society from the realities of nature.

Johnson, Cassandra Y., and J. M. Bowker. "African-American Wildland Memories." Environmental Ethics 26 (Spring 2004): 57–75. Asserts that African-American attitudes toward nature have been negatively impacted by African-American cultural history in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argues that racial discrimination and the low economic status of African Americans in the institution of slavery, the southern plantation agriculture system, the sharecropping way of life, and physically labor-intensive industries such as the naval stores industry has ensured environmentalism is not a high priority for African Americans.

Johnson, Matthew. "What Would the Salmon Say? An Argument for Supplementation to Help Rebuild Naturally Reproducing Salmon Populations in the Columbia Basin." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 45–73. Provides a brief history of salmon hatchery practices in the region since the 1870s and discusses differing views about the risks associated with supplementing natural fish populations with hatchery-spawned salmon. The author argues that supplementation together with habitat protection and restoration, careful harvesting, and minimal hydroelectric operations interference is a vital tool for maintaining salmon in the Columbia Basin.

Keegan, Charles E., III, Krista Gebert, and John Chmelik. "Changes in Montana's Secondary Wood Products Industry, 1990–1999." Forest Products Journal 54 (April 2004): 25–31. Asserts that economic changes in Montana's wood products industry during the 1990s have led to some growth in sales, marginally increased wages for industry workers, and a modest but positive outlook for the near future of the industry.

Kennedy, Joy. "'Sympathy between man and nature': Landscape Loss in Synge's Riders to the Sea." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 15–30. Ecocritical examination of attitudes toward nature and a "sense of place" presented in John Millington Synge's (1871–1909) 1904 play Riders to the Sea.

Kimbrell, George A. "Private Instream Rights: Western Oasis or Mirage? An Examination of the Legal and Practical Impediments to Private Instream Rights In Alaska." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 75–98. Discusses water use and water rights in Alaska in the late twentieth century, focusing especially on the ways in which the 1980 Instream Flow Act amended the Alaska Water Use Act of 1966 and thereby impacted private instream rights.

Kirkman, Robert. "Reasons to Dwell on (if Not Necessarily in) the Suburbs." Environmental Ethics 26 (Spring 2004): 77–95. The author points out negative environmental aspects of suburbanization in the United States since the mid-twentieth century and urges environmental philosophers to reconsider the relationship between suburbanization and environmental ethics.

Kiser, Lisa J. "Animal Economies: The Lives of St. Francis in Their Medieval contexts." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 121–138. Examines analyses of the relationship between St. Francis (ca. 1181–1226) and animals in medieval Franciscan literature and discusses economic aspects of early Franciscan environmental philosophy.

Knight, Frank. "Homer House: Pioneer of Wildflower Photography." Conservationist 58 (April 2004): 19–21. Discusses the innovative color photography work of New York botanist Homer Doliver House (1878–1949) in his two-volume 1918 publication Wild Flowers of New York (Albany: The University of the State of New York).

Lansky, Mitch. "Managing Old Growth Forests." Northern Woodlands 11 (Summer 2004): 30–35. Sustainable management of old-growth forests at Baxter State Park in Maine. Discusses the sustainability vision of former governor Percival Proctor Baxter (1876–1969), who donated to the state the forest land that comprises the park, and the ecosystem management goals of present-day park resource manager Jensen Bissell.

Laux, Bill. "A Home-Made Logging Railroad: Push, Pull & Jerk Railway." Tall Timber Short Lines No. 74 (Spring 2004): 57–62. On the logging and sawmilling operations of A. G. Lambert and Company along Sproul Creek in the Kootenay District of British Columbia, Canada; 1900s to 1910s. Focuses on the background of company founder George Alexander Lambert, who inexpertly built his own logging locomotive to transport to his mill the logs brought down from mountain slopes via log flumes.

Line, Les. "Clarion Call." Audubon 106 (May 2004): 62–66. On the conservation of the Kirtland's warbler bird species in Michigan since the early twentieth century. Focuses specifically on the work of the Michigan Audubon Society.

Little, Jane Braxton. "Time Lines." American Forests 109 (Winter 2004): 22–27. The author discusses the ecology of the bristlecone pine, groves of bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California, and the original dendrochronological work of forester Edmund P. Schulman at the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research in the 1950s.

McAbee, J. Clark. "Empire in the Shadows: History of the Northern Coast Timber Company." Tall Timber Short Lines No. 74 (Spring 2004): 11–52. On the organization, leaders, logging operations, logging equipment, log transportation methods, logging camps, and associated corporations of this timber company known at one time as the North Coast Timber Company and after 1918 as the Cascade Timber Company. The company operated primarily in King, Lewis, and Pierce counties in Washington State; 1900s and 1910s.

McMahon, A. Michal. "Mill Town: Prostitution and the Rule of Lumber in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1867–1918." Louisiana History 45 (Spring 2004): 151–171. Social history of Lake Charles, a community whose economic livelihood was largely dependent on the region's lumber industry. Focuses specifically on the politics surrounding prostitution.

Madison, Mark. "Conserving Conservation: Field Notes from an Animal Archive." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 145–155. The author recounts his efforts as historian for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to build a cohesive archives, museum, and history education center representing the agency's institutional memory. Madison began working for the agency in 1997 after the opening of the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Includes some history of the agency.

Marks, Martha. "The Green Old Party." Sierra 89 (July/August 2004): 48–52. Reviews the efforts of certain Republican politicians to promote natural resource conservation in the United States since 1900. Includes a sidebar providing summaries of the conservation politics of United States presidents Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), and Richard Nixon (1913–1994) as well as the pro-conservation stances of senators and representatives from various states serving in the United States Congress as of the early twenty-first century.

Mayda, Chris. "Pig Pens, Hog Houses, and Manure Pits: A Century of Change in Hog Production." Material Culture 36 (Spring 2004): 18–39. Examines changes in hog housing, hog farms, and hog production in the United States since 1900. Includes discussion of different techniques used in livestock management and the rise of factory farming in the late twentieth century.

Mizzoni, John. "St. Francis, Paul Taylor, and Franciscan Biocentrism." Environmental Ethics 26 (Spring 2004): 41–56. Asserts that Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) held a biocentric theory of environmental ethics comparable to that of American environmental philosopher Paul W. Taylor (1923- ).

Mundede, D. Chongo. "Saving the Land: Soil and Water Conservation in Oklahoma." Chronicles of Oklahoma 82 (Spring 2004). On the work of the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps, the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts, local governments, community organizations, and farmers to manage, develop, and conserve soil and water resources in Oklahoma from the 1930s through the 1990s.

Parson, Robert. "'The Hardest Worked River In The World': The 1962 Bear River Project, Utah and Idaho." Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2004): 136–155. Reviews proposals for and completed water resources development projects in the Bear River Basin of Idaho and Utah since the late nineteenth century. Focuses on water politics and includes discussion of dams and canals that could be or were used for irrigation needs and to produce hydroelectric power.

Patakfalvi, Zsolt. "Celebrating 40 Years of Cascades & the Tissue Paper Mill Operation in Kingsey Falls." Pulp & Paper Canada 105 (June 2004): 14–15. Brief corporate history of the Canadian paper company Cascades Inc., formerly known as Papiers Cascades Inc., based in Kingsey Falls, Quebec; 1960s through 2000s.

Platt, Rutherford H. "Toward Ecological Cities: Adapting to the 21st Century Metropolis." Environment 46 (June 2004): 10–27. Reviews the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of urban growth, city planning, government regulation, and development policy that led to urban sprawl in the United States. Includes discussion of urban ecology and efforts to conserve nature and curb non-ecological industrial development in the early twenty-first century.

Pratt, Joseph A. "Warts and All?: An Elusive Balance in Contracted Corporate Histories about Energy and Environment." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 21–39. The author relates the challenges he has faced and lessons learned in trying to produce objective scholarship as an environmental historian writing energy company-sponsored contract histories.

Preston, Ron. "The Railways of Hebburn." Light Railways No. 177 (June 2004): 6–13. On the use of steam-powered locomotives to transport coal mined from pits at the Hebburn Coal Mining Company's No. 2 Colliery in Tomalpin, New South Wales, Australia, to nearby Weston from 1918 to 1972.

Quivik, Frederic L. "Of Tailings, Superfund Litigation, and Historians as Experts: U.S. v. Asarco, et al.(the Bunker Hill Case in Idaho)." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 81–104. The author relates the efforts of lawyers for Asarco Inc. (formerly known as the American Smelting and Refining Company) to exclude from the 2001 U.S. v. Asarco, et al. court case his testimony concerning the historical movement of tailings in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin of Idaho from the 1880s through the 1960s. The lawyers claimed his deposition was not based on scientific knowledge. Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, for whom Quivik was testifying as an expert witness, countered the argument by touting his abilities as a historian to draw conclusions based on historical evidence. Judge Edward J. Lodge allowed Quivik to testify but not to offer unsubstantiated expert opinions, and he ultimately ruled in favor of the Department of Justice in 2003.

Rangelands. "First In A Series: Insight From SRM's Charter Members." Rangelands 26 (June 2004): 38–42. Excerpts from interviews with founding members of the American Society of Range Management E. William Anderson, Everett R. Doman, and George W. Kansky. The charter members discuss their educational background, work experiences, and involvement with the professional association for range managers in the United States. Topics covered include forest and range management and grazing.

Reuss, Martin. "Historians, Historical Analysis, and International Water Politics." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 65–79. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers historian Martin Reuss discusses his collaborative work with joint authors of publications pertaining to water management technology and politics.

Roberts, Janine. "Polio: The Virus and the Vaccine." Ecologist 34 (May 2004): 35–52. On the epidemiology of infantile paralysis, previously known as polio and known as Acute Flaccid Paralysis in the late twentieth century. Discusses epidemics around the world, flawed medical research, the development and effectiveness of polio vaccines, the impact of certain pesticides on occurrences of the disease, and the degree to which the disease threatens public health in the early twenty-first century. Includes a timeline linking the world histories of polio and pesticides from 1873 to 2005.

Roberts, Lisa. "An Arcadian Apparatus: The Introduction of the Steam Engine into the Dutch Landscape." Technology and Culture 45 (April 2004): 251–276. On the use of steam-powered machinery to control water levels, clean sewers, promote drainage of excessive water, irrigate flower and landscape gardens, and power fountains in gardens in the Netherlands during the eighteenth century.

Routledge, Karen. "'Being a Girl Without Being a Girl': Gender and Mountaineering on Mount Waddington, 1926–36." BC Studies 141 (Spring 2004): 31–58. On the challenges faced by Canadian mountain climber Phyllis James Munday during climbing trips in the Mount Waddinton region of British Columbia, Canada, during the 1930s and 1940s. Focuses on issues arising from her gender as a participant in an almost exclusively male-dominated outdoor recreation activity.

Rozwadowski, Helen M. "Science, the Sea, and Marine Resource Management: Researching the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 41–64. The author, a history professor at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point, discusses her writing of a commissioned history of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and explores the notion that valid public history projects much incorporate a wider contextual subject focus beyond a basic administrative group history.

Rudge, Bill, and Julia Yuan. "Catskill Park: 100 Years of Stewardship." Conservationist 58 (June 2004): 5–12. Forest and nature conservation in the Catskill Mountains of New York since the early nineteenth century, focusing especially on the history of Catskill Park since its establishment in 1904. Includes discussion of such outdoor recreational activities in the park as snow skiing, camping, and fly fishing.

Sax, Joseph L. "The History of Water Law in the United States." Water Resources Center Archives News 11 (June 2004): 1, 5–7. Overview from the influence of Roman law on early colonial practices to the protection of ecological values in the 1970s.

Schneider, M. H., and A. E. Witt. "History of Wood Polymer Composite Commercialization." Forest Products Journal 54 (April 2004): 19–24. Discusses research that contributed to the development of wood polymer composites (WPCs); wood preservation measures applied to WPCs; and use of this type of treated wood in the United States, Norway, and the provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada; 1940s through 2000s.

Scrivani, John A. "Forest Changes in Virginia, 1940–2001." Virginia Forestry 60 (Spring 2004): 14–18. Summarizes conclusions drawn from forest surveys of Virginia taken over six decades. Discusses changes in forest types and the amount of forest cover as well as cycles of deforestation and reforestation.

Shannon, Irwin V. "The Social Effects of Mechanization in the Coal Mining Industry in Southeastern Ohio." Material Culture 36 (Spring 2004): 43–60. The impacts of the introduction of mechanized processes for coal loading on bituminous coal miners in the Hocking Valley of Ohio during the 1930s and 1940s. Discusses such topics as poverty, malnutrition, poor health, underemployment, and unemployment in the region's coal mining communities. Reprinted from Southeastern Ohio in Depression and War: The Disintegration of an Area (Columbus: Ohio Public Health Association, in Cooperation with the Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 1943) by Irwin V. Shannon.

Sheasby, Walt Contreras. "Karl Marx and the Victorians' Nature: The Evolution of a Deeper View: Part One: Oceanus." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15 (June 2004): 47–64. German socialist Karl Marx's (1818–1883) observations about the coastal ecology of England and the influence on those perceptions on his philosophy of nature.

Sherow, James E. "'The Fellow Who Can Talk the Loudest and Has the Best Shotgun Gets the Water': Water Regulation and the Montana State Engineer's Office, 1889–1964." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 56–69. On locals' distrust and suspicion of government regulation, and their unwillingness to readily cooperate with water conservation and development projects organized by the Montana State Engineer's Office.

Sivils, Matthew Wynn. "William Bartram's Travels and the Rhetoric of Ecological Communities." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 57–70. Asserts that American botanical explorer and naturalist William Bartram (1739–1823) expressed in his 1791 publication on the natural history of the southern United States attitudes about the relationship between human beings and wilderness that were ahead of his time.

Snyder, Gary. "Ecology, Literature, and the New World Disorder." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 1–13. Evaluates from a historical perspective the legacy of East Asian literary concepts of nature for modern writers connecting literature with human ecology and the environment.

Souder, William. "Audubon in Kentucky." Natural History 113 (May 2004): 46–52. On the early writings and paintings about birds conducted by John James Audubon (1785–1851) in Kentucky in the 1810s. This article is drawn from a 2004 book by William Souder titled Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America ([New York?]: North Point Press).

Stephens, Piers H. G. "Nature and Human Liberty: The Golden Country in George Orwell's 1984 and an Alternative Conception of Human Freedom." Organization & Environment 17 (March 2004): 76–98. Examines the environmental philosophy and theories about human-nature relationships exhibited in the 1948 futuristic novel titled 1984 written by George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of British author Eric Arthur Blair.

Teorey, Matthew. "William Wordsworth and Leslie Marmon Silko: Toward an Ecofeminist Future." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 31–56. Compares attitudes toward nature in William Wordsworth's (1770–1850) poetry with the ecofeminist philosophy reflected in Leslie Marmon Silko's (1948- ) novel Ceremony (New York: Viking Press, 1977). Argues that Wordsworth struggled to avoid promoting a patriarchal, imperialistic attitude toward nature and instead tried, often unsuccessfully, to embrace a harmonious relationship between human beings and nature.

TimberLines. "Biltmore: Birthplace of American Forestry." TimberLines 2 (Spring 2004): 8–12. History of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, from the 1890s through the early 1910s. Discusses the wishes of George Washington Vanderbilt (1862–1914) for the estate; the work of landscape gardener Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) on the estate; the early forest management work of Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946) as the official forester for the estate; and the establishment and progress of the Biltmore Forest School under the direction of Pinchot and Carl Alwin Schenck (1868–1955).

Wagner, Jeffery. "Free Riding on Eiseley's Star Thrower, Thoreau's Huckleberry Patch, and Havel's Streetcar in the Local and Global Commons." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 11.1 (Winter 2004): 101–119. Economic analysis of ideas about the relationship between society and common property expressed in the environmental writings of American naturalist and anthropologist Loren Corey Eiseley (1907–1977), American transcendentalist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), and Czech dramatist, essayist, and president Václav Havel (1936– ).

Weisiger, Marsha L. "The Debate over El Lobo: Can Historians Make a Difference." Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004): 123–144. The author relates her experience organizing a 2003 forum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at which historians, ranchers, environmental activists, wolf experts, and the general public met to discuss the past, present, and future of the Mexican gray wolf in the southwestern United States. Reviews wolf eradication efforts during the early twentieth century, discusses wildlife politics of the late twentieth century, and focuses on recent efforts to reintroduce the species to its former habitat.

Williams, Jason. "Beyond Mere Ownership: How the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Used Regulatory Control Over Natural Resources to Establish a Viable Tribal Homeland." Public Land & Resources Law Review 24 (Winter 2004): 121–137. Discusses the Hellgate Treaty of 1855, which established the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, and the tribes' use of litigation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to enforce the terms of the treaty giving the tribes' the right to manage wildlife and fish resources around Flathead Lake.

Wolf, Tom. "Ahead of His Time." Forest Magazine (Summer 2004): 38–43. Biographical sketch of American landscape architect and conservation writer Arthur Carhart (1892–1978). Specifically discusses his efforts while a United States Forest Service employee in the late 1910s and early 1920s to convince the agency to focus national forest management policy on recreation opportunities rather than on timber production and grazing activities.

Woodside, Christine. "The Merritt Parkway." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Spring 2004): 10–13. Discusses the landscape design and construction of Merritt Parkway in Connecticut during the 1930s and 1940s, and efforts of the Connecticut Department of Transportation and the Merritt Parkway Conservancy to improve landscaping and signage along the road in the 1990s to better reflect the original scenic nature of the parkway, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Woodside, Christine. "The Trail Pioneers." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Spring 2004): 8–9, 15. On the work of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association's Trails Committee to establish and maintain a network of hiking trails across the state that would be easily accessible from cities; 1920s and 1930s.

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