October 1996 (1:4)

Articles:

Peter Coates, "Amchitka, Alaska: Toward the Bio-Biography of an Island," pp. 20-45.

Melvin C. Johnson and Jonathan K. Gerland, "Tapping 'Green Gold': The Steam Rail and Logging Trams of East Texas," pp. 46-65.

Frank Norris, "A Lone Voice in the Wilderness: The National Park Service in Alaska, 1917-1969," pp. 66-76.

Book Reviews:

Landscape and Memory. By Simon Schama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. xi + 652 pp. Reviewed by Jennifer Price.

Slide Mountain: Or, the Folly of Owning Nature. By Theodore Steinberg. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. ix + 212 pp. Reviewed by Donald J. Pisani.

Who Controls the Public Lands? Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990. By Christopher McGrory Klyza. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xii + 211 pp. Reviewed by Char Miller.

Earth's Insights: A Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback. By J. Baird Callicott. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. xxiv + 285 pp. Reviewed by Ronald F. Lockmann.

The Greening of Protestant Thought. By Robert Booth Fowler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. viii + 242 pp. Reviewed by Patrick Allitt.

Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark. By Daniel B. Botkin. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. xix + 300 pp. Reviewed by Dan Huon.

Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society. By Jack Temple Kirby. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvii + 293 pp. Reviewed by Thad W. Tate.

World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth. By Stephen J. Pyne. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995. xiv + 379 pp. Reviewed by John Richards.

Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West. By Nancy Langston. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. xii + 368 pp. Reviewed by Paul Hirt.

The Northwest Salmon Crisis: A Documentary History. Edited by Joseph Cone and Sandy Ridlington. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1996. v + 374 pp. Reviewed by Joseph E. Taylor III.

Saving the Salmon: A History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Role in the Protection of Anadromous Fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. By Lisa Mighetto and Wesley J. Ebel. Seattle: Historical Research Associates, Inc. [for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers], 1994. ii + 262 + [24] pp. Reviewed by Joseph E. Taylor III.

Defending the Land of the Jaguar: A History of Conservation in Mexico. By lane Simonian. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xiv + 326 pp. Reviewed by Roger Cunniff.

The Danish Revolution, 1500-1800: An Ecohistorical Interpretation. By Thorkild Kjaergaard, translated by David Hohnen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii + 314 pp. Reviewed by Mark Cioc.

People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900. By James C. McCann. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xviii + 298 pp. Reviewed by Tobias J. Lanz.

The Building of an Empire: Italian Land Policy and Practice in Ethiopia, 1935-1941. By Haile M. Larebo. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxvii + 350 pp. Reviewed by Tobias J. Lanz.

The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842. By P. J. van der Merwe, translated by Roger B. Beck. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995. xvi + 315 pp. Reviewed by Thomas P. Johnson.

Connecticut Woodlands: A Century's Story of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. By George McLean Milne. [Middlefield, Conn.]: Connecticut Forest and Park Association, Inc., 1995. Reviewed by Roy R. Wilson.

Science in the Pleasure Ground: A History of the Arnold Arboretum. By Ida Hay. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994. x + 349 pp. Reviewed by Patricia Tyson Stroud.

Florida's Pioneer Naturalist: The Life of Charles Torrey Simpson. By Elizabeth Ogren Rothra. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. xv + 232 pp. Reviewed by Robert J. Malone.

John Muir: Apostle of Nature. By Thurman Wilkins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xxvii + 302 pp. Reviewed by Mark Stoll.

Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography. By Jonathan Spaulding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv + 516 pp. Reviewed by Jim Baird.