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An Archival Guide & Bibliography

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Barnett, LeRoy. "Making America's First Steel in Wyandotte." Michigan History 88 (July/August 2004): 28–34. On the development of the iron and steel industries in the company town of Wyandotte, Michigan, from the 1850s through the 1890s. Discusses the organization of the Eureka Iron Company by Eber Brock Ward, Jr., (1811–1875) in 1853; the company's use of wood to produce charcoal; the construction of the Wyandotte Rolling Mill facility to produce iron rails for use by the railroad industry; the contributions of engineer William Durfee, who used Henry Bessemer's (1813–1898) pneumatic process to convert iron into Bessemer steel; and the decline and eventual closing of the company in 1892.

Bonfield, Lynn A., ed. "The Work Journal of Albert Bickford, Mid-Nineteenth-Century Vermont Farmer, Cooper, and Carpenter." Vermont History 72 (Summer/Fall 2004): 113–159. Bickford's descriptions of his carpentry, cooperage, farming, and social activism work in a journal he wrote from the late 1840s to the early 1860s.

Boyd, Milt, and Paul Macone. "Nathan Buttrick, Early Clampmaker in Massachusetts." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (June 2004): 41–46. On the life, work, and characteristic features of clamps made by Carlisle, Massachusetts, tool maker Nathan Buttrick (1811–1883).

Brochot, Sylvie. "Quand l'administration forestière se mettait en scàne: les premières archives photographiques (1860–1914) de la Restauration des terrains en montagne." Revue forestière française56 (No. 1, 2004): 65–83. "When the Forestry Department Told its Own Story: The First Photographic Records (1860–1914) of Restoration of Mountain Land." Studies the photographic work of French Forestry Department foresters, the impact of their work on shaping forest policy, their relationships with local communities, and the foresters' attitudes toward and perceptions of nature captured through print photography. Text in French.

Brooks, David M. "Happy Birthday, Smokey." Conservationist 59 (August 2004): 19–21. On the events leading up to and shaping the development of Smokey Bear as an advertising symbol used in forest fire prevention programs in the United States, beginning in the 1930s.

Buttel, Frederick H. "The Treadmill of Production: An Appreciation, Assessment, and Agenda for Research." Organization & Environment 17 (September 2004): 323–336. Evaluates the contributions of the "treadmill of production" economic theory to the field of environmental sociology in North America, especially during the 1970s and 1980s, and discusses the reasons for its waning influence in recent years. The treadmill of production theory asserts that the commodification of labor and natural resources results in profits that demand ever-increasing levels of production and resource extraction to improve economic growth.

Chiang, Connie Y. "Novel Tourism: Nature, Industry, and Literature on Monterey's Cannery Row." Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Autumn 2004): 309–329. Discusses the work of city officials, developers, planners, and tourist industry representatives who used the natural beauty of the coastal region and the fame brought to the former sardine canning center through John Steinbeck's (1902–1968) novels as selling points for tourism in Monterey, California, from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Church, Michael A. "Smoke Farming: Smelting and Agricultural Reform in Utah, 1900–1945." Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Summer 2004): 196–218. On the political and legal maneuverings of farmers attempting to halt the negative impacts of smoke pollution produced by copper and lead smelters on agricultural crops in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys of Utah. The American Smelting & Refining Company, the United States Smelting & Refining Company, and the Anaconda Copper Company, operating under the name of International Smelting & Refining Company, were the largest smelters operating in the region during the early twentieth century.

Coleman, David C., David M. Swift, and John E. Mitchell. "From the Frontier to the Biosphere: A Brief History of the USIBP Grasslands Biome Program and its Impacts on Scientific Research in North America." 26 (August 2004): 8–15. On the founding, accomplishments, demise, and ecosystem research legacy of the Grassland Biome Program run under the leadership of rangeland scientist George M. Van Dyne (1932- ) at Colorado State University from 1967 to 1974. This American biosphere research program was part of the United States International Biological Program.

Crespo de Nogueri, Eduardo, and Consuelo Martínez Flores. "Aesthetic Values and Protected Areas: A Story of Symbol Preservation." George Wright Forum 21 (June 2004): 53-[55]. Traces the history of human appreciation for landscape features around the world from prehistoric times to the present, and examines the role of aesthetics in nature conservation since the late nineteenth century.

Eliassen, Meredith. "Adventures in Nature: The Merry Tramps of Oakland." California History 82 (No. 2, 2004): 6–19. Pictorial essay with introductory text depicting the activities of the Merry Tramps, a group of artistic, free-spirited campers from Oakland, California, who explored the mountains, forests, and beaches of California as a form of recreation and spiritual renewal during the 1880s. The group included a future First Lady of California and photographer Frank B. Rodolph (1843–1923), whose pictures form the basis of this article.

Etulain, Richard W. "Telling Lewis and Clark Stories: Historical Novelists as Storytellers." South Dakota History 34 (Spring 2004): 62–84. Analyzes works of historical fiction produced about the Lewis and Clark expedition through the present. Part of a special issue containing essays drawn from a conference held in April 2003 in Pierre, South Dakota, considering the historical legacy of the 1804–1806 "Corps of Discovery" exploratory expedition led by Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), William Clark (1770–1838).

Fleming, James R. "Fixing the Weather and Climate: Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering." In The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology To Create and Solve Problems, edited by Lisa Rosner. New York: Routledge, 2004. 175–200 pp. Focuses primarily on the American military's use of weather modification as a weapon during the Cold War era from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Fortun, Kim. "From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmentalism: Risk Communication in Historical Perspective." Osiris 19 (2004): 283–296. Examines the influence of information technology on the shaping of effective environmental policy in the United States since the 1980s. Discusses the limited information available to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the health risks of many chemicals manufactured by American companies in the 1980s that prevented the implementation of proactive environmental regulations that perhaps would have minimized the number of deaths that resulted from the 1984 toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India.

Foster, Steven. "Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany: Digital Reissue Illuminates Access to Rare Work." HerbalGram No. 63 (2004): 52–61. Provides a biographical sketch of Massachusetts botanist and Harvard professor of materia medica Jacob M. Bigelow (1787–1879); discusses his work producing the three-volume set titled American Medical Botany, Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants of the United States (Boston, Mass.: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817–1820); and includes plates reproduced from a digital facsimile of the work recently produced by Octavo Editions.

Funk, McKenzie. "The Route to Prosperity." Audubon 106 (July–August 2004): 42–47. Discusses the building of the Panama Canal in the Chagres River Basin by the United States in the early twentieth century; the U.S. military decision to protect and preserve the forested jungle along the Canal for defensive purposes; the resulting wealth of biological diversity that continues to thrive in the region today; and recent efforts of Panamanian officials to conserve nature in the region since the United States relinquished control of the Canal in 1999.

Gamble, James Douglas. "Axe Heads and Handles." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (June 2004): 47–50. Overview of the design and manufacture of axes since ancient times.

Gantenbein, Douglas. "Swimming Upstream." National Parks 78 (Summer 2004): 30–34. Reviews the negative impacts of the early-twentieth-century construction of the Elhwa and Glines Canyon dams on salmon populations in the Elhwa River in Washington State, and examines the recent development of plans to remove the dams, restore salmon to the river, and improve the ecology of the river.

Gould, Kenneth A., David N. Pellow, and Allan Schnaiberg. "Interrogating the Treadmill of Production: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Treadmill but Were Afraid to Ask." Organization & Environment 17 (September 2004): 296–316. On the technological aspects and environmental impacts of economic development in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, focusing specifically on the "treadmill of production," in which commodification of labor and natural resources results in profits that demand ever-increasing levels of production and resource extraction to improve economic growth.

Graybill, Andrew. "Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Policing of the Transnational Industrial Frontier, 1885–1910." Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Summer 2004): 167–191. On the respective roles of the Texas Rangers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in settling labor disputes between coal miners and mining companies in the Great Plains regions of Texas and Alberta, Canada. Focuses on the Texas & Pacific Coal Company and the Alberta Railway & Coal Company.

Hall, Marcus. "The Provincial Nature of George Perkins Marsh." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 191–204. Asserts that George Perkins Marsh's (1801–1882) ideas about environmental degradation in his 1867 book Man and Nature (New York: C. Scribner & Co.) resonated more with Americans, who had a great potential to inflict damage on a pristine, largely undeveloped landscape, than they did with Europeans, who were long used to culturally-managed landscapes and believed natural forces had a more detrimental impact on the land than did human culture. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Hughes, J. Donald. "Preface: Beginning with Rome." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 123–125. Discusses the theme of landscape degradation in American politician George Perkins Marsh's (1801–1882) book Man and Nature (New York: C. Scribner & Co., 1867). Focuses specifically on Marsh's assertion that neglect of nature and natural resources began with the Roman Empire in ancient times. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Jacob, Walter W. "Stanley Advertising Zig-Zag Rules, Their Variety and Types." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (June 2004): 73–78. Adjunct article to a four-part series of articles by the author that appeared in four issues of this serial in 2003. Discusses A. Stanley and Company's (Stanley Tools) manufacture of wooden zig-zag measuring rulers with lines of advertising printed on them from the 1900s through the 1930s.

Johnston, Ronnie, and Arthur McIvor. "Oral History, Subjectivity, and Environmental Reality: Occupational Health Histories in Twentieth-Century Scotland." Osiris 19 (2004): 234–249. On the use of oral testimony by workers employed in the coal mining, iron, steel, quarrying, shipbuilding, pottery, and construction industries to determine the degree to which exposure to coal dust and asbestos in the workplace impacted occupational health and safety in the Clydeside region of western Scotland during the twentieth century.

Jones, Susan D. "Mapping a Zoonotic Disease: Anglo-American Efforts to Control Bovine Tuberculosis Before World War I." Osiris 19 (2004): 133–148. Research by physicians, veterinarians, and public health officials in the United States and the United Kingdom into the affects of unsanitary conditions and unhealthy life choices on the transfer of tuberculosis from infected cattle to milk consumers.

Judd, Richard W. "George Perkins Marsh: The Times and their Man." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 169–190. The author argues that while George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was indeed an influential conservationist, his ideas were not necessarily novel because the conservationist message in his book Man and Nature (New York: C. Scribner & Co., 1867) was actually reflective of a widespread conservationist ethic among naturalists of the times. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Kelly, Patrick M. "I. N. Miller: Maker of Wooden Children's Woodworking Planes." Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 57 (June 2004): 51–53. The author describes his purchase and investigation of the origins of a child's wooden plane crafted by planemaker I. N. Miller in McLean, New York, likely in the early to mid-nineteenth century.

Kerr, John. "From Ballara to Hightville: A Remote 2ft Gauge Solution." Light Railways No. 178 (August 2004): 3–11. On the construction and use of tramways by Hampden-Cloncurry Copper Mines, Limited to transport copper from mines to smelter facilities in Queensland, Australia; 1900s–1920s.

Kilham, Chris. "Tamanu Oil: A Tropical Topical Remedy." HerbalGram No. 63 (2004): 26–31. On the sustainable harvesting of nuts from tamanu trees and the subsequent production and medical uses of tamanu oil in Polynesia, especially Tahiti, during the twentieth century. Discusses the findings of early studies done in the 1920s and 1930s of the topical uses of the oil as well as the growth in a market for the oil around the world during the 1990s.

King, Nicholas B. "The Scale Politics of Emerging Diseases." Osiris 19 (2004): 62–76. On the role of the mass media in presenting information about the relationship between the environment and new, emerging diseases in such a way as to encourage greater political involvement both locally and globally in epidemiological research and in the development of public health policies for disease control in the United States during the 1990s.

Kinsey, Joni L. "'I wished for the pencil of Salvator Rosa': The Artistic Legacy of Lewis and Clark." South Dakota History 34 (Spring 2004): 28–61. Describes the visual record of the natural history of the western United States compiled by the Lewis and Clark expedition or later produced from artifacts or descriptions provided by the explorers. Part of a special issue containing essays drawn from a conference held in April 2003 in Pierre, South Dakota, considering the historical legacy of the 1804–1806 "Corps of Discovery" exploratory expedition led by Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), William Clark (1770–1838).

Kirsch, Scott. "Harold Knapp and the Geography of Normal Controversy: Radioiodine in the Historical Environment." Osiris 19 (2004): 167–181. Discusses mathematician Harold Knapp's research during the 1960s into radiation contamination in milk produced on dairy farms in Nevada and Utah that were subjected to radioactive nuclear test fallout during the 1950s. Examines the influence of Knapp's research on the work of his colleagues in the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine.

Lass, William E. "Elias H. Durfee and Campbell K. Peck: Indian Traders on the Upper Missouri Frontier." Journal of the West 43 (Spring 2004): 9–19. On the operations of the fur trading company Durfee and Peck in the western Missouri River territory that included Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming during the 1860s and 1870s. Elias H. Durfee formed the company with his brother-in-law Campbell K. Peck (d. 1879).

LeCain, Timothy J. "From Eastern Coal to Western Copper: The Bureau of Mines and Industrial Mining in the West." Journal of the West 43 (Spring 2004): 20–28. On the cooperative work of eastern coal miners and western cooper miners through the American Mining Congress lobbying group to influence the establishment of a business-friendly Bureau of Mines with limited regulatory power. Focuses on the politics leading to the Bureau's establishment in 1910 and the agency's subsequent policy support for the development of the western hard-rock mining industry in the United States in the following decade.

LeCain, Timothy J. "When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth-Century American Mining." In The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology To Create and Solve Problems, edited by Lisa Rosner. New York: Routledge, 2004. 137–153 pp. Discusses technological efforts to control the environmental pollution caused by copper mining smelters run by the Tennessee Copper Company in Ducktown, Tennessee, and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in the Deer Lodge Valley of Montana; 1890s through the late twentieth century.

Lowenthal, David. "Marsh at Cravairola: Boundary-Making in the Italo-Swiss Alps." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 205–235. On the role of George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), United States minister to Italy, in settling a dispute between Switzerland and Italy over Cravairola, a tract of mountain pasture owned by two Italian communes whose logging and river driving activities were causing environmental devastation downstream. Examines the reasons behind and the legacy of his 1867 decision to award the territory to Italy on watershed protection and property rights in the region. Includes the text of his arbitration decision. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Maclean, John N. "Fire and Ashes: The Last Survivor of the Mann Gulch Fire." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Autumn 2004): 18–33. Former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper Bob Sallee's haunting memories of the 5 August 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in Montana, as recorded on the fiftieth anniversary of the event.

McKillop, Bob. "Mining Railways of Cobar: 7. Other Mines, 1871–1922." Light Railways No. 179 (October 2004): 3–11. Discusses mining companies' use of tramways to transport copper, gold, and waste products in the Cobar region of New South Wales, in Australia from 1871 to 1922. Includes discussion of the Occidental Gold Mining Company, Cobar Chesney Gold Mining Company, Cobar Gold Mine Limited, Queen Bee Copper Mine, Mount Boppy Gold-Mining Company, and the Cornish, Scottish and Australian Mine.

Marsh, Kevin R. "The Ups and Downs of Mountain Life: Historical Patterns of Adaptation in the Cascade Mountains." Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Summer 2004): 193–213. Asserts that whereas both Native Americans and industrial workers in logging communities used migration as a response to changing environmental and economic conditions in the Cascade Mountains region of Washington State during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mobility as a form of adaptation had different meanings for each cultural group. Discusses the land use patterns, natural resource utilization practices, and social values of each group as well as the legacy of the boom-and-bust timber economy for the region.

Massell, David. "'As Though There Was No Boundary': The Shipshaw Project and Continental Integration." American Review of Canadian Studies 34 (Summer 2004): 187–222. Examines the role of the United States in promoting the construction of a dam and giant hydroelectric power plant on the lower Saguenay River in Quebec, Canada, by the aluminum manufacturing company Alcan, originally a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America, during the early 1940s.

Miller, Hugh. "Trends in Forestry Education in Great Britain and Germany, 1992 to 2001." Unasylva 55 (No. 1, 2004): 29–32. Compares trends in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at universities in the two nations. Part of a special issue on "Reinventing Forestry Education" with an international focus.

Miller, Kristie. "'I Have Been Waiting for it All My Life': The Congressional Career of Isabella Greenway." Journal of Arizona History 45 (Summer 2004): 121–142. Biographical sketch of Isabella Greenway King (1886–1953) focusing exclusively on her political career as an Arizona politician during the 1920s and 1930s. Discusses her close relationship with friends Eleanor (1884–1962) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945); her loyalty to and work on behalf of the Democratic Party; and her efforts to use the political process to revive the copper mining industry in Arizona while serving in the United States House of Representatives.

Millspaugh, Sarah H., Cathy Whitlock, and Patrick J. Bartlein. "Postglacial Fire, Vegetation, and Climate History of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau Provinces, Yellowstone National Park." In After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park, edited by Linda L. Wallace. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. 10–28 pp. Analyzes the fire ecology of Yellowstone National Park during the Holocene epoch to provide a historical perspective for the 1988 fires that burned much of the park.

Minchin, Timothy J. "'It tears the heart right out of you': Memories of Striker Replacement at International Paper Company in De Pere, Wisconsin, 1987–88." Oral History Review 72 (Summer/Fall 2004): 1–27. The author uses oral history interviews to provide insight into the history of this labor conflict between the United Paperworkers' International Union and Nicolet Paper Company, owned by International Paper Company. Focuses especially on the effects of this strikebreaking tactic on paper workers in the community.

Mitchell, Roy. "The Coming of the Smokejumpers (Historical Document)." Smokejumper No. 45 (October 2004): 23–24. On the origins of the U.S. Forest Service's smokejumper program, whereby highly trained forest firefighters parachuted from planes into remote locations where forest fires raged, in 1939.

Mitman, Gregg. "Geographies of Hope: Mining the Frontiers of Health in Denver and Beyond, 1870–1965." Osiris 19 (2004): 93–111. On the role of such environmental conditions as climate, clean air, and sunshine in shaping tourism, settlement, the regional health care industry, and a sense of place in the western United States, especially in Denver, Colorado. Focuses specifically on the work of boosters in promoting health as an economic commodity.

Mitman, Gregg, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers. "Introduction: A Cloud over History." Osiris 19 (2004): 1–17. Introductory article written by the editors of a special issue ofOsiris containing articles on the economic, political, and social history of public health around the world since the mid-nineteenth century. The authors discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the articles and their treatment of the historical relationship between human health and the environment.

Mitman, Gregg, Michelle Murphy, and Christopher Sellers, eds. "Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments." Osiris 19 (2004): 1–304. Special edited issue containing articles on the economic, political, and social history of public health around the world since the mid-nineteenth century. Topics covered include: environmentalism, environmental protection, sanitation, pesticides, occupational health, disease control, radiation contamination, epidemics, and public health policy.

Motavalli, Jim. "The Numbers Game: Myths, Truths and Half-Truths About Human Population Growth and the Environment." E the Environmental Magazine 15 (January/February 2004): 26–33. Evaluates the relationship between world population growth—especially in the United States, where immigration plays a large role—and such environmental problems as urban sprawl, environmental degradation, fertility, malnutrition, and unsustainable natural resource consumption. Includes some history from the mid-twentieth century as well as projections for the future.

Murphy, Michelle. "Uncertain Exposures and the Privilege of Imperception: Activist Scientists and Race at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Osiris 19 (2004): 266–282. On the formation in the 1980s of a local chapter of the National Federation of Federal Employees to represent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists, toxicologists, chemists, biologists, attorneys, and environmental professionals. The local sought to protest policies of the agency that promoted environmental racism, to challenge discrimination against African-American EPA scientists, and to promote and preserve scientific ethics.

Nash, Linda. "The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California." Osiris 19 (2004): 203–219. On the gradual emergence of knowledge that linked pesticide use to the poisoning of agricultural workers employed in the fruit industry of California during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Pasqualetti, Martin J. "Wind Power: Obstacles and Opportunities." Environment 46 (September 2004): 22–38. Provides a historical perspective on the development and different uses of wind energy around the world, focusing especially on the use of windmills in the United States since the late twentieth century.

Peck, Robert McCracken. "'To acquire what knolege you can': The Scientific Contributions of Lewis and Clark." South Dakota History 34 (Spring 2004): 5–27. Describes the types of detailed information about the animals, plants, minerals, and topography of the western United States compiled by the Lewis and Clark expedition, and discusses the varied causes of a long delay in sharing the natural history data with the scientific community. Part of a special issue containing essays drawn from a conference held in April 2003 in Pierre, South Dakota, considering the historical legacy of the 1804–1806 "Corps of Discovery" exploratory expedition led by Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809), William Clark (1770–1838).

Philippon, Daniel J. "Thoreau's Notes on the Journey West: Nature Writing or Environmental History?" ATQ: 19th C. American Literature and Culture 18 (June 2004): 105–117. Asserts that American author Henry David Thoreau's (1817–1862) unpublished journal notes recorded on an 1861 trip to Minnesota are useful as both a historical and a literary source of information on the unique natural history of the region contributing to the notion of an ecological identity and sense of place associated with Minnesota.

Pimentel, David, and Anne Wilson. "World Population, Agriculture, and Malnutrition." World Watch 17 (September/October 2004): 22–25. Asserts that world food production has not kept pace with world population growth and that this fact, combined with soil erosion and inadequate supplies of fresh water and energy sources for agricultural use, has contributed to malnutrition in many parts of the world during the last half of the twentieth century.

Platt, Harold L. "'Clever Microbes': Bacteriology and Sanitary Technology in Manchester and Chicago During the Progressive Age." Osiris 19 (2004): 149–166. Comparative study of the politics and scientific philosophy shaping wastewater management reforms in Chicago, Illinois, and Manchester, England, from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Rangelands. "Second In a Series: Insight From SRM's Charter Members." Rangelands 26 (August 2004): 34–37. Excerpts from interviews with founding members of the American Society of Range Management Laurence E. Riordan, E. H. "Pat" McIlvain, and William Daly Hurst. The charter members discuss their educational background, work experiences, and involvement with the professional association for range managers in the United States. Topics covered include forest and range management and grazing. Series continued from the June 2004 issue.

Raven, Rob, and Geert Verbong. "Dung, Sludge, and Landfill: Biogas Technology in the Netherlands, 1970–2000." Technology and Culture 45 (July 2004): 519–539. Discusses the impacts of government regulation and political pressures on the implementation of different waste management technologies in this European nation during the late-twentieth century.

Reisig, Greg, and Glenn Ruggles. "Elk Rapids: Where the Chain of Lakes Meets the Great Lakes." Michigan History 88 (July/August 2004): 8–13. Economic development in the town of Elk Rapids in Antrim County, Michigan, from the 1850s to the present. Discusses the significant role of the timber industry in shaping the economy of the town through the early twentieth century, when the industry dissolved due to overcutting of the forests.

Roberts, Virginia Culin. "The Mosons and the Martins: Pioneer Ranchers of Arizona and Sonora." Journal of Arizona History 45 (Autumn 2004): 221–264. History of a family that made its fortune in the mining and especially the cattle ranching industries in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, from the 1880s through the 1960s.

Rojas Rodríguez, Freddy. "Professional Forestry Education and Forestry Development in Central America." Unasylva 55 (No. 1, 2004): 33–37. Historical overview of trends in forestry education and employment in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama from the 1960s through the present. Asserts that while educational opportunities have increased, employment opportunities have decreased. Part of a special issue on "Reinventing Forestry Education" with an international focus.

Rudebjer, Per G., Iskandar Siregar, and Auust B. Temu. "Trends in Forestry Education in Southeast Asia and Africa, 1993 to 2002: Preliminary Results of Two Surveys." Unasylva 55 (No. 1, 2004): 10–21. Lists the types of degree programs, trends in the gender of graduates, types of employment for foresters, types of forestry work typically done in the regions, and the changing needs and standards of forestry education. Part of a special issue on "Reinventing Forestry Education" with an international focus.

Schilthuizen, Menno. "'A Paradox to Everyone but Himself'." Natural History 113 (September 2004): 58–60, 62. Biographical article on English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), who developed a theory of natural selection at the same time as his contemporary Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Includes review discussion of two 2004 books published about Wallace: The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by Ross A. Slotten (New York: Columbia University Press) and An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace by Martin Fichman (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press).

Sellers, Christopher. "The Artificial Nature of Fluoridated Water: Between Nations, Knowledge, and Material Flows." Osiris 19 (2004): 182–200. Discusses differing perceptions of the impacts of water fluoridation on human health held by scientists and public health officials in the United States and India during the mid-twentieth century. In the United States scientific findings supported the theory that fluoridated water helped prevent tooth decay in children, whereas in India scientists attributed the cause of skeletal fluorosis to fluoridated water.

Slatta, Richard W., Ku'ulani Auld, and Maile Melrose. "Kona: Cradle of Hawai'i's Paniolo." Montana the Magazine of Western History 54 (Summer 2004): 2–19. Describes the cowboy (paniolo) culture that developed in the Kona region of the big island of Hawaii beginning in the late eighteenth century. Discusses such topics as: the taming and use of horses on ranches; the special skills required of cowboys working in Kona's unique natural environment; and the shipping of cattle by boat to meat markets in Honolulu on the island of Oahu.

Smith, Kimberly. "Black Agrarianism and the Foundations of Black Environmental Thought." Environmental Ethics 26 (Fall 2004): 267–286. Examines nineteenth-century African American writers' critiques of slavery that associate the racial oppression of the agrarian economy of the southern United States with a disconnect between blacks and the environment. The author asserts that this "black agrarianism" philosophy impacted the development of attitudes toward the environment in the African-American community during the twentieth century.

Soberón M., Jorge. "Translating Life's Diversity: Can Scientists and Policymakers Learn to Communicate Better?" Environment 46 (September 2004): 10–20. Reviews common causes of loss of biodiversity and describes the missions of a number of national and international institutions formed since the late 1980s that are dedicated to gathering and sharing biological diversity information while focusing on the work of the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio), established in Mexico in 1992 to inventory Mexican biodiversity and promote ecological research.

Tilley, Helen. "Ecologies of Complexity: Tropical Environments, African Trypanosomiasis, and the Science of Disease Control in British Colonial Africa, 1900–1940." Osiris 19 (2004): 21–38. Examines the scientific thought guiding British colonial public health policy in Africa during the early twentieth century, focusing specifically on the relationship between tropical environmental conditions and the occurrence of African sleeping sickness on an epidemic scale.

Timber Bulletin. "Smokey Turns 60." Timber Bulletin 60 (July/August 2004): 14–15. On the development of the Smokey Bear forest fire prevention program in the United States in 1950 after the rescue of a burned bear cub found alone in the smoking ruins of a forest burned by fire in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. The cub named "Smokey" became the nation's visible symbol of forest fire prevention and lived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., until his death in 1976.

Tyrrell, Ian. "Acclimatisation and Environmental Renovation: Australian Perspectives on George Perkins Marsh." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 153–167. On the global perspective incorporated in George Perkins Marsh's (1801–1882) 1867 book Man and Nature (New York: C. Scribner & Co.) and international reaction to his warnings of environmental degradation. Focuses specifically on the influence of Australian ideas about non-native species adaptation to new environments on Marsh's work. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Uekoetter, Frank. "Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and for All: The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes." In The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology To Create and Solve Problems, edited by Lisa Rosner. New York: Routledge, 2004. 155–174 pp. Contrasts the smoke abatement movements of the 1900s and 1910s in Germany and the United States, arguing that the American approach was more successful because it incorporated technological fixes at the production level rather than focusing on training people to better react to problems arising at the consumption level.

Valencius, Conevery Bolton. "Gender and the Economy of Health on the Santa Fe Trail." Osiris19 (2004): 79–92. Examines the connections between gendered attitudes toward human health and economic decisions about traveling to regions where environmental conditions are perceived to be more beneficial to human health. Focuses on the case of Kate Kingsbury who traveled from New England to the New Mexico Territory in 1857 hoping the southwestern environment would help cure her of consumption (likely tuberculosis) or at least ease her physical discomfort; she died while traveling on the Santa Fe Trail.

Van Kosky, William. "Trouble at the Cow Pound." Michigan History 88 (July/August 2004): 14–18, 20–21. Discusses the establishment in 1881 of a city pound for the corralling of cows, horses, and other livestock that roamed the streets of Marquette, Michigan, unattended. The author states that Sidney Adams, the first poundmaster, and subsequent holders of the position did not enjoy popular support from the townspeople, who resented having to pay fees to free their animals from the pound.

Warner, Mary. "The Careful Mapmaker." [Morrison County Historical Society Newsletter] (Summer 2004): 1–2. Biographical sketch of French astronomer Joseph N. Nicollet (d. 1843), who immigrated to the United States in 1832 and worked as a land surveyor, producing a detailed map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

Waterman, Laura. "Why Trails Matter: The Case for Safeguarding Connecticut's Hiking Trails." Connecticut Woodlands 69 (Summer 2004): 15–17. On the influence of Albert Milford Turner, field secretary for the Connecticut Forestry Association (known as the Connecticut Forest & Park Association after 1928), and other individuals on the development of an extensive trail system in the state of Connecticut during the 1920s and 1930s.

Watson, James. "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers: Reflections on an Aspect of Technological Change in New Zealand Dairy Farming between the World Wars." Agricultural History 78 (Summer 2004): 346–360. Discusses the role of technology in shaping the development of dairy farms as one-man operations in New Zealand during the 1930s. Focuses specifically on the use and negative human health impacts of the highly combustible chemical weed killer sodium chlorate used to control the prolific growth of ragwort, a non-native species that was poisonous to cattle.

Williams, Michael. "The Origin and Construction of Knowledge." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 127–131. Asserts that George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) ably synthesized the ideas and philosophies of contemporary thinkers and those who lived in former eras when writing his 1867 book Man and Nature (New York: C. Scribner & Co., 1867), in which he described the negative impacts of human activity on the environment. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

Wynn, Graeme. "'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' in Environmental History." Environment and History 10 (May 2004): 133–151. Examines ideas about human-caused landscape degradation in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia expressed by Titus Smith, Jr., a Canadian farmer who emigrated from colonial British America; the reaction in New Zealand to the message of environmental decline promoted by the American George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882); and the relevance of the two men's work for environmental historians. Part of a special issue titled "The Nature of G. P. Marsh: Tradition and Historical Judgement," edited by Marcus Hall.

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