January 1999 (4:1)

Articles:

Jessica Teisch, "The Drowning of Big Meadows: Nature's Managers in Progressive-Era California," 32-53.

Joseph E. Taylor, "Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Historicizing Overfishing in Oregon's Nineteenth-Century Salmon Fisheries," 54-79.

Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest," 80-99.

Book Reviews:

Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States. By John Opie. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998. iii + 517 pp. Reviewed by Peter Coates.

Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World. By Stephen J. Pyne. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvii + 659 pp. Reviewed by Michael Williams.

Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England. By Richard Judd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiv + 335  pp. Reviewed by Dona Brown..

The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv + 422 pp. Reviewed by David Rich Lewis.

A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913. By Robert L. Dorman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi + 256 pp. Reviewed by Char Miller.

Nature Writing: The Pastoral Impulse in America. By Don Scheese. New York: Twayne, 1996. xxi + 227 pp. Reviewed by Robert E. Burkholder.

Of Bison and Man. By Harold P. Danz. Niwot: University Press of Colorado. xii + 231 pp. Reviewed by John F. Reiger.

The Wild Animal Story. Edited by Ralph H. Lutts. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. xi + 302  pp. Reviewed by Daniel J. Philippon.

The Evolution of National Wildlife Law. By Michael J. Bean and Melanie J. Rowland. 3d ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1997. xix + 544 pp. Reviewed by Timothy Rawson.

Working for Wildlife: The Beginning of Preservation in Canada. By Janet Foster. 2d ed. Foreword and afterword by Lorne Hammond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xx + 297  pp. Reviewed by Karen Wills.

Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice. Edited by Jace Weaver. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996. xvii + 205 pp. Reviewed by Randel D. Hanson.

The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West. By Valerie L. Kuletz. New York: Routledge, 1998. xxii + 336 pp. Reviewed by Randel D. Hanson.

Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. By Richard A. Rajala. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998. xxiii + 286 pp. Reviewed by Gordon F. Weetman.

Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes, and the Cold War. By John H. Perkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xi + 337 pp. Reviewed by Lawrence Busch.

Reopening the American West. Edited by Hal K. Rothman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998. xiv + 208 pp. Reviewed by William L. Lang.

Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision: Essays on Literature, History, and Landscape. Edited by Curt Meine. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.  xxi + 256 pp. Reviewed by Mark Harvey..

A Greener Vision of Home: Cultural Politics and Environmental Reform in the German Heimatschutz Movement, 1904-1918. By William H. Rollins. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. x + 332 pp. Reviewed by Sandra Chaney.

Knowing Nature, Knowing Science: An Ethnography of Environmental Activism. By Eeva Berglund. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 1998. viii + 225  pp. Reviewed by Sarah Hill.

Sustaining Amazonia: Grassroots Action for Productive Conservation. By Anthony Hall. New York: Manchester University Press, 1997. xxvi + 269 pp. Reviewed by Allyn MacLean Stearman.