January 2004 (9:1)

Articles:

Michael P. Cohen, “Blue in the Green: Ecocriticism Under Critique, ” 9-36.

Paolo Squatriti, “Offa’s Dyke Between Nature and Culture, ” 37-56.

Emily Brock, “The Challenge of Reforestation: Ecological Experiments in the Douglas Fir Forest, 1920-1940, ” 57-79.

Carl A. Zimring, “Dirty Work: How Hygiene and Xenophobia Marginalized the American Waste Trades 1870-1930, ” 80-101.

Kristin M. Szylvian, “Transforming Lake Michigan into the 'World's Greatest Fishing Hole’: The Environmental Politics of Michigan's Great Lakes Sport Fishing, 1965-1985,” 102-127.

Gallery:

Virginia DeJohn Anderson on Somer Islands’ “Hogge Money, ” 128-131.

Book Reviews:

Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. By Michael Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxvi + 689 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $70.00. Reviewed by John Dargavel.

The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World. By John F. Richards. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv + 682 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth $75.00. Reviewed by J. Donald Hughes.

Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley. By Neil S. Forkey. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2003. 164 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $49.95. Reviewed by Laurel Sefton MacDowell.

Parallel Destinies: Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies. By John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates, eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. 302 pp. Maps, index. Cloth $50.00, paper $22.95. Reviewed by Laurel Sefton MacDowell.

Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide. By Karen R. Jones. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. ix + 336 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Kimberly Jarvis.

In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau. By Christian C. Young. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 269 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $49.95. Reviewed by Peter S. Alagona.

Uniting Mountain & Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change Along the Front Range. By Kathleen A. Brosnan. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xii + 276 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $29.95. Reviewed by David Igler.

Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. By Michael A. Amundson. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xxiv + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $24.95. Reviewed by Jason N. Krupar.

Uranium Frenzy: Saga of the Nuclear West. By Raye Carleson Ringholz. Revised and expanded edition. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2002. xiii + 344pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $19.95. Reviewed by Jason N. Krupar.

High Altitude Energy: A History of Fossil Fuels in Colorado. By Lee Scamehorn. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xvi + 244 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $27.50. Reviewed by Thomas G. Andrews.

Coal: A Human History. By Barbara Freese. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2003. 320 pp. Bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00. Reviewed by Chad Montrie.

Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2002. 408 pp. Illustrations. $34.95 hardcover; $19.95 paperback. Reviewed by Christine Meisner Rosen.

Regional Visionaries and Metropolitan Boosters: Decentralization, Regional Planning, and Parkways During the Interwar Years. By Matthew Dalbey. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. 202 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $95.00. Reviewed by Rebecca Conard.

“Lord, We're Just Trying to Save your Water": Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South. By Suzanne Marshall. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xx + 343 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $55.00. Reviewed by Donald Edward Davis.

Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace. By Kimberly A. Smith. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 2003. x + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $34.95. Reviewed by Robert Burkholder.

Essays on Nature and Landscape. By Susan Fenimore Cooper. Edited by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. xxxiv + 131 pp. Notes, index. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95. Reviewed by Sylvia W. McGrath.

Byrd's Line: A Natural History. By Stephen C. Ausband. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002. ix + 187 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $22.95. Reviewed by Michael P. Branch.

Yearning For The Land: A Search for the Importance of Place. By John Warfield Simpson. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. 291 pp. Maps, bibliography. Cloth $24.00. Reviewed by Terry Gifford.

Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama. By John Lindsay-Poland. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. x + 265 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Paper $18.95. Reviewed by David Sowell.