Recent Recipients
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for Best Book Published
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| Gregg. Sara M. Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2010. Examines land use planning in the Appalachian Mountains region from the 1910s to the 1930s. Looks at the development of national forest, park, and agricultural policy prior to and during the New Deal era. Uses case studies in Virginia and Vermont to show land management decision making and how institutions such as the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and Resettlement Administration helped shape the 20th century Appalachian landscape. |
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2009 |
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| Appuhn, Karl. A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009. xii + 361 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Looks at the importance of wood to Renaissance-era Venice, Italy, used to build ships, construct buildings, and as a fuel and heat source. Examines the expansion of state control over regional forest resources during this time period, and the development of forest management and conservation systems. |
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2008 |
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| Maher, Neil. Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. x + 316 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, notes, index. A history the Civilian Conservation Corps in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s, looking at the conservation work done by the CCC, the politics behind the program, and the emergence of modern environmentalism. |
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| 2007 |
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| Sandlos, John. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the late19th, early 20th century conflict between native hunters and conservationists in Canada's Northwest Territories over three big game species: the wood bison, the musk ox, and the caribou. Argues that the introduction of wildlife conservation was integral to the assertion of state authority over traditional hunting cultures of the Dene and Inuit, and that commercial considerations have played a central role in Canadian wildlife management. |
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| 2006 |
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| Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. xii + 466 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Account of the development of German nationhood through transformations of landscape, especially attempts to harness the power of water through reclamation, exploration, river engineering, dam-building, and other methods; mid-eighteenth through early twenty-first centuries. |
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| 2005 |
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| Harvey, Mark. Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii + 325 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The life of Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), a prominent figure in the American wilderness preservation movement whose career culminated with the passage of the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. |
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| 2004 |
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| Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xii + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines economic, environmental, and social aspects of turpentine and naval stores production in the longleaf pine forests of the southern United States. |
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