In a second "reflections"essay, Laura Watt, Leigh Raymond, and Meryl Eschen consider the similarities and differences in U. S. efforts to save endangered species and preserve historical places. The two efforts at first seem to be unrelated. But Watt, Raymond, and Eschen show that species protection and historical preservation have much in common, and their essay offers practical suggestions for the future as well as insight into the past.

The three articles in this issue address three very different issues. By looking at the ways early modern Europeans learned about tobacco, Peter Mancall offers new insight into one of the most fundamental questions in environmental history: How do living things become commodities? Rauno Lahtinen and Timo Vuorisalo assess the environmental effects of the two world wars on a Finnish city. Their work adds to the rapidly growing literature on the environmental history of war. By exploring the role of gender expectations in shaping the response of American conservationists to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Maril Hazlett sheds new light on the transition from conservation to environmentalism.

The cover image is a photograph by Eliot Porter, "Maple Leaves and Pine Needles," from the collection of the Amon Carter Museum. The image also is the subject of Finis Dunaway's "Gallery" essay, which considers the use of Porter's photographs in the Sierra Club's celebrated 1962 coffee-table book, In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World.

AS ANOTHER volume ends, I am grateful once again for the many contributions of the fine staff at the Forest History Society: Carol Marochak, Cheryl Oakes, Michele Justice, Kathy Cox, and Steve Anderson. I also depend on the wonderful work of managing editor Eve Munson, book review editor Ed Russell, and graphics editor Kathy Morse. Eve's job has become more complicated every year, and she has managed superbly. Ed continues to broaden the range of the book review section, and Kathy has made every issue in this volume a visual treat. I also appreciate the good work of the members of the editorial board.

In addition, I want to acknowledge the many people who took time this year to evaluate manuscripts. Thanks to Michael Amundson, Peter Baldwin, Mark Barrow, Christopher Beach, Brian Black, Scout Blum, Lisa Brady, Joyce Chaplin, Michael Chiarappa, Greg Cushman, Jack Davis, Kurk Dorsey, Thomas Dunlap, Sarah Elkind, John Findlay, Susan Flader, Don Garden, Tamara Giles-Vernick, David Glassberg, Robert Grese, Mark Harvey, Dave Hsiung, David Igler, Nancy Jacobs, Melissa Johnson, Ari Kelman, Andrew Kirk, Simo Laakkonen, Ronald Lewis, Michael Logan, Greg Maddox, Peter Mancall, James McCann, Stuart McCook, Curt Meine, Martin Melosi, Shawn Miller, Chris Morris, Charlotte Porter, James Pritchard, Fred Quivik, Christine Meisner Rosen, David Schuyler, Philip Scranton, Marguerite Shaffer, Timothy Silver, Andrew Sluyter, Michael Smith, Thaddeus Sunseri, Bob Pepperman Taylor, William Tsutsui, Jessica Wang, Thomas Wellock, Donald Worster, and Michael Ziser.

With the January 2005 issue, Environmental History will begin its tenth year. Though the roots of the journal go much deeper—one of our predecessor journals evolved from a newsletter first published in 1957, while volume 1 of our other predecessor appeared in 1976—I wanted to celebrate the ten-year partnership of the Forest History Society and the American Society for Environmental History. So our next issue will be truly special. In addition to a brilliant article about John Muir by Donald Worster and a brilliant reflection on world forest history by Nancy Langston, we will publish a special section on what's next for the field of environmental history. The section will have short essays by thirty people who have published articles in Environmental History, and I promise that you'll be provoked, inspired, and enlightened. If you don't subscribe, the next issue would be a great introduction. And please tell your colleagues, students, and friends about the issue as well!

ADAM ROME