Record Type: Book
Author(s): Pittman, Craig
Title: Manatee Insanity: Inside the War Over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Place of Publication: Gainesville
Date of Publication: 2010
Description: xii + 444 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: Examines the history of efforts to protect the manatee in Florida over the 20th century and into the 2000s. Provides an in-depth look at the conflicts between environmentalists, scientists, politicians, developers, and boaters surrounding protection of the manatee, an animal included on the first federal endangered species list in 1967.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Strahorn, Eric A.
Title: An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India: The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal
Publisher: Peter Lang
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2009
Description: 168 pp. Bibliography, index.
Abstract: A study of accelerated land use in postcolonial North India, looking at the changing Tarai landscape over the 20th century. Examines issues of agricultural practices, government environmental policy, wildlife conservation, and disease control.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Wright, Laura
Title: ‘Wilderness into Civilized Shapes’: Reading the Postcolonial Environment
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Place of Publication: Athens
Date of Publication: 2010
Description: 213 pp. Notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A study of representations of postcolonial landscapes and environmental issues in 20th and early 21st century fiction from around the world. Examines the impacts of colonialism and globalization on the natural environment through international works of fiction. Looks at topics such as deforestation and vegetation impacts, the use of animals as metaphors, global water issues, and relationships between women and the land.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Webb, James L. A.
Title: Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date of Publication: 2009
Description: xii + 236 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of the global distribution of malaria, from its earliest existence in tropical Africa through its spread to the Americas, and continuing up to the 21st century. Looks at the impacts of the disease, as well as issues such as genetics, diet, human migrations, and natural treatments.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Walsh, Lorena S.
Title: Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill
Date of Publication: 2010
Description: xxvi + 704 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, tables, index.
Abstract: A history of plantation management in the colonies of Virginia and Maryland during the 17th and 18th centuries. Examines more than thirty individual planters in the Chesapeake region, studying farm management practices, plantation economics, agricultural change, and the reliance on slave labor.
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Record Type: Book
Author(s): Walker, Brett L.
Title: Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Place of Publication: Seattle
Date of Publication: 2010
Description: xviii + 284 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: A history of industrial pollution in Japan over the 19th and 20th centuries, looking at how toxic substances have impacted the human population. Examines the environmental impacts of agricultural pesticide use, toxic waste from mining operations, industrial pollution, mercury contamination, and other unwanted by-products of industrial development. Uses case studies to present the great human suffering caused by the toxic legacies of Japanese industrialization.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Wright, Miriam
Title: Aboriginal Gillnet Fishers, Science, and the State: Salmon Fisheries Management on the Nass and Skeena Rivers, British Columbia, 1951-1961
Journal: Journal of Canadian Studies
Publication Info: Vol. 44 (Winter): 5-35 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Study of the conflicts between Aboriginal fishers and Canada’s Department of Fisheries over policy, science, and various regulations in northern British Columbia from 1951 to 1961. Looks at how state officials used science to justify expanding government regulation of the fisheries on the Nass and Skeena rivers.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Warecki, George
Title: Balancing Wilderness Protection and Economic Development: The Politics of Planning for Atikaki, 1972-1983
Journal: Ontario History
Publication Info: Vol. 102 (Spring): 56-77 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines efforts to establish a protected wilderness area in the Atikaki region of northwestern Ontario from 1972 to 1983. Looks at the competing interests of conservation organizations, the forest and mining industries, and provincial governments.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Wadewitz, Lissa
Chapter Title: The Scales of Salmon: Diplomacy and Conservation in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands
Book Title: Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories
Editor(s): Johnson, Benjamin H. and Andrew R. Graybill
Publication Info: Durham: Duke University Press: 141-166 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Looks at conflicts over early 20th century efforts to conserve salmon populations in the international waters of the Pacific between British Columbia and Washington. Examines these valuable salmon fisheries and the resulting economic competition over the marine environment on the U.S.-Canada border. Presents the relationships between various government and industry interests, and the difficulty in crafting an enforceable salmon conservation policy in the region.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Thomas, Mike
Title: Call of the Wild
Journal: National Parks
Publication Info: Vol. 84 (Spring): 48-54 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A biographical essay on George Melendez Wright (1904-1936), looking at his influential early 20th work in the emerging field of wildlife biology. Examines his early wildlife survey work in the western U.S. during the 1930s, and his legacy on wildlife management policy in the national park system.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Sylvester, Kenneth M.
Title: Ecological Frontiers on the Grasslands of Kansas: Changes in Farm Scale and Crop Diversity
Journal: Journal of Economic History
Publication Info: Vol. 69 (December): 1041-1062 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Study of the relationships between scale and crop diversity in Kansas farms over the 20th century. Reveals that single-crop farming was not the dominant practice in the early 20th century, contrasting prevailing narratives in which wheat cultivation disturbed grasslands, leading to the Dust Bowl.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Swanson, Drew Addison
Title: Fighting over Fencing: Agricultural Reform and Antebellum Efforts to Close the Virginia Open Range
Journal: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Publication Info: Vol. 117 (2): 104-139 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Looks at early fencing laws in Virginia, and the 19th century efforts to require the fencing in of all livestock. Examines debates over common agricultural lands in Virginia, and the desires of large farmers to increase control over land in their possession.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): St. John, Rachel
Chapter Title: Divided Ranges: Trans-border Ranches and the Creation of National Space along the Western Mexico-U.S. Border
Book Title: Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories
Editor(s): Johnson, Benjamin H. and Andrew R. Graybill
Publication Info: Durham: Duke University Press: 116-140 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the impact of livestock movement on the borderland environment between the United States and Mexico over the second half of the 19th century through 1910. Looks at the international movement of livestock, and how the first fences were built over concern about Mexican cattle herds infested with Texas fever ticks. The first fences and ports of entry were created in the region as a result of shifting ranching policies. Presents the transition from open range ranching to strict state control, as the first major event in the evolution of the modern border-region landscape.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Schwartz, Robert M.
Title: Rail Transport, Agrarian Crisis, and the Restructuring of Agriculture France and Great Britain Confront Globalization, 1860-1900
Journal: Social Science History
Publication Info: Vol. 34 (2): 229-255 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Study of the impact of railway construction and international competition on agricultural landscapes in France and Great Britain over the second half of the 19th century. Looks at shifts from cereal grain production to livestock and dairy farming, rural change, and the impacts of food price declines.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Sandul, Paul J.
Title: The Agriburb: Recalling the Suburban Side of Ontario, California’s Agricultural Colonization
Journal: Agricultural History
Publication Info: Vol. 84 (Spring): 195-223 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A look at issues of growth and development in California during the 1880s and 1890s, through a study of the agricultural community of Ontario. Examines the planned development and promotion of Ontario, California as a suburban agricultural colony, labeled by the author as an “agriburb.”

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Saito, Osamu
Title: Forest History and the Great Divergence: China, Japan, and the West Compared
Journal: Journal of Global History
Publication Info: Vol. 4 (November): 379-404 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: A study of relationships between population dynamics, deforestation, and afforestation in Japan, China, England, and France focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries. Presents data comparing population increases and decreases in woodland areas, as well as the impacts of economic markets on deforestation.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Reeves, Randall R., et al.
Chapter Title: Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic
Book Title: The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
Editor(s): Kraus, Scott D. and Rosalind M. Rolland
Publication Info: Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 39-74 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A study of the depletion of the North Atlantic right whale due to commercial whaling during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Examines the evolution of whale fisheries in the North Atlantic, and their impacts, looking at spear, shore-based, off-shore, motorized and other whale fishing techniques.
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Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Pope, Peter
Chapter Title: Historical Archaeology and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Atlantic Fishery
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 36-54 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Uses historical archaeology to examine the cultural landscape of the Atlantic cod fisheries, from early Europeans through the 19th century. Looks at the impact of fisheries on land and ocean environments, with a focus on Newfoundland, Canada.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Pollock-Ellwand, Nancy
Title: Rickson Outhet: Bringing the Olmsted Legacy to Canada. A Romantic View of Nature in the Metropolis and the Hinterland
Journal: Journal of Canadian Studies
Publication Info: Vol. 44 (Winter): 137-183 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the influence of Frederick Law Olmsted’s vision of landscape design on Canada. Focuses on the work of Canadian Rickson Albert Outhet, who was trained by Olmsted before working as a professional landscape architect in Canada during the early 20th century.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Piper, Liza
Title: Parasites from ‘Alien Shores’: The Decline of Canada’s Freshwater Fishing Industry
Journal: Canadian Historical Review
Publication Info: Vol. 91 (1): 87-114 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the negative impacts of the Triaenophorus parasite and corresponding trade regulations on freshwater fishing in Canada during the 20th century. Looks at international regulations against parasites, impacting the harvest of commercial fish such as tullibee and lake whitefish for the United States market.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Myllyntaus, Timo
Chapter Title: Changing Forests, Moving Targets in Finland
Book Title: Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past
Editor(s): Hall, Marcus
Publication Info: New York: Routledge. 46-57 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Study of 20th century efforts at restoration of coniferous forests in Finland, presenting debates over different management strategies for bringing forests to a natural state. Looks at the economic and cultural issues connected to reforestation, as well as a history of human impact on forests in Finland.
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Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona
Chapter Title: Finding Emily
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 158-180 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Explores the environmental influences of Canadian landscape artist Emily Carr through an examination of her early 20th century memoirs, journals, and paintings. Whereas Carr’s art in particular has significantly influenced the popular conception of nature in British Columbia, this essay examines the complexities in Carr’s artistic approach to the natural world.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): McShane, Bill
Title: ‘With a Woman’s Instinct’: Mira Lloyd Dock, the Mother of Forestry in Pennsylvania
Journal: Pennsylvania Heritage
Publication Info: Vol. 36 (Winter): 12-21 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A biographical portrait of the life and work of Mira Lloyd Dock (1853-1945), discussing her influential forestry and conservation work in Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century. Examines Dock’s early city beautification efforts in Harrisburg, and her avocation for the creation of parks as well as the preservation of rivers and forests. Dock, appointed a member of Pennsylvania State Forest Reservation Commission in 1901, was also an early promoter of the economic benefits of environmental conservation and city beautification.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): MacEachern, Alan
Chapter Title: Lost in Shipping: Canadian National Parks and the International Donation of Wildlife
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 196-213 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Examines the donations of wildlife by Parks Canada to various organizations and individuals around the world throughout the 20th century. Looks at how these wild animal gifts, such as ones to zoos, museums, Walt Disney, heads of state, and others, both reflected and contributed to public associations between Canada and the natural environment, as well as to the development of national symbols.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Lyman, Edward Leo
Title: Development of the Abraham, Millard County, Irrigation Project, 1889-1900
Journal: Utah Historical Quarterly
Publication Info: Vol. 78 (Spring): 118-133 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines water engineering efforts on the Sevier River in southern Utah. Looks at the failed efforts by early settlers at damming the Sevier River beginning in 1860. Focuses on the dams, canals, and irrigation systems built in the Millard County area between 1889 and 1900, helping to transform the area into premier agricultural land.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Lobley, Matt and Michael Winter
Title: ‘Born Out of Crisis’: Assessing the Legacy of the Exmoor Moorland Management Agreements
Journal: Rural History
Publication Info: Vol. 20 (October): 229-247 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Looks at conflicts between agricultural development and moorland preservation in the area of Exmoor National Park in southwest England over the second half of the 20th century. Looks at moorland reclamation projects, and the instituting of moorland management systems on national park land.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Kates, James
Title: Naming the Forest Fire: Journalists Define the ‘Red Demon,’ 1871-1933
Journal: Media History Monographs
Publication Info: Vol. 12 (2): 2-18 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Argues that American journalists shaped interpretations of wildfire in the United States between 1871 and 1933. Looks at how writers demonized fire, argued for complete fire exclusion, and campaigned for increased forest fire prevention. Examines how journalists presented the threat of fire to the value of America’s forests, and reveals how their work helped form the attitudes of the American public towards forest fires during this time period.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Hughes, Lotte
Chapter Title: ‘They Give Me Fever’: East Coast Fever and Other Environmental Impacts of the Maasai Moves
Book Title: Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
Editor(s): Brown, Karen and Daniel Gilfoyle
Publication Info: Athens: Ohio University Press: 146-162 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the forced resettlement of the Maasai under British colonialism in Kenya during the early 20th century. Looks at the large-scale movement of livestock, the cattle disease East Coast fever, and the environmental impacts of this forced migration.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Goss, Robert V.
Title: Holm on the Range: Camping the Yellowstone with Aron ‘Tex’ Holm
Journal: Annals of Wyoming
Publication Info: Vol. 82 (Winter): 2-21 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A history of the camping tours led by Aron “Tex” Holm in Yellowstone Park during the early parts of the 20th century. Looks at how Holm contributed to the development of Yellowstone and Cody, Wyoming as tourist destinations during the 1900s and 1910s.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Fiamengo, Janice
Title: Looking at Animals, Encountering Mystery: The Wild Animal Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G.D. Roberts
Journal: Journal of Canadian Studies
Publication Info: Vol. 44 (Winter): 36-59 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Examines the works of Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G.D. Roberts, looking at their representations of both nature and animal psychology. Looks at how late 19th and early 20th century works by the authors reveal the morality of nature and the meaning of animal life in the natural world.

Record Type: Article
Author(s): Ferber, Dan
Title: Into the Breach
Journal: Nature Conservancy
Publication Info: Vol. 60 (Spring): 30-39 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Focuses on a levee built in 1969 to protect agricultural land from Ouachita River floodwaters in northern Louisiana. The project has proved unsuccessful as water has been trapped behind the levee ruining farmland, while also disconnecting the river from a natural floodplain forest. In 1990s land around the levee was turned into Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Article also examines 20th century levee building projects by local governments and Army Corps of Engineers, and shifting floodplain management strategies over the late 20th early 21st centuries.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Feldman, James
Chapter Title: Spontaneous Rewilding of the Apostle Islands
Book Title: Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past
Editor(s): Hall, Marcus
Publication Info: New York: Routledge. 35-45 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: A history of ecological changes in the Apostle Islands, off the coast of Wisconsin in Lake Superior, over the 19th and 20th centuries. Examines how shifts in the economy led to the islands becoming more valued for recreation rather than the production of resources, such as timber. Reveals how the islands were reforested during the 20th century without any direct wilderness management, prior to being taken over by the National Park Service in the latter parts of the century.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Dunn, Russell
Title: Workhorses of the Industrial Revolution: Hudson River Waterfalls
Journal: New York State Conservationist
Publication Info: Vol. 64 (April): 2-5 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Looks at the use of waterfalls on the Hudson River in New York for industrial hydropower during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Dean, Joanna
Chapter Title: Seeing Trees, Thinking Forests: Urban Forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1960s
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 236-253 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Traces the 1960s origins of the term “urban forestry” to University of Toronto forest pathology professor Erik Jorgensen. Shows North Americans’ rising recognition of the importance of urban forests during the mid 20th century in the context of issues such as Dutch elm disease and the use of DDT.
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Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Davies, Althea
Chapter Title: Palaeoecology, Management, and Restoration in the Scottish Highlands
Book Title: Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past
Editor(s): Hall, Marcus
Publication Info: New York: Routledge. 74-86 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Looks at ecological restoration efforts in Scotland during the late 20th century and 2000s, discussing how restoration strategies are influenced by perceptions of the past. Examines differing definitions of the natural landscape in the Scottish Uplands, with a focus on work at the Glen Affric National Nature Reserve.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Daunais, Marie-Eve
Title: Vancouver’s Street Trees: A Public Affair
Journal: British Columbia History
Publication Info: Vol. 42 (3): 9-16 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Examines the planting of street trees in Vancouver, British Columbia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Looks at urban planning issues, landscape design, and city beautification movements of this time period.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Dagenais, Michéle
Chapter Title: The Urbanization of Nature: Water Networks and Green Spaces in Montreal
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 216-235 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Discusses the role of nature in Canadian cities, through a history of the development of Montreal from the mid 19th through early 20th century. Looks at issues related to green space, park design, water and sewer works, city beautification, and how relationships between people and nature developed in urban environments over this time period.
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Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Coates, Colin M.
Chapter Title: Seeing and Not Seeing: Landscape Art as a Historical Source
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 140-157 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Explores methodologies for interpreting historical depictions of landscapes, looking at the work of 18th and 19th century Canadian artists. Focuses on landscape paintings of European and Canadian artists, and their representations of the natural environments of Ontario and Quebec.
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Record Type: Article
Author(s): Chamberlin, Silas
Title: ‘To Ensure Permanency’: Expanding and Protecting Hiking Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Pennsylvania
Journal: Pennsylvania History
Publication Info: Vol. 77 (Spring): 193-216 pp.
Date of Publication: 2010
Abstract: Describes three approaches to trail development and conservation, as practiced by early 20th century Pennsylvania hiking clubs. Focuses on the activities of the Horse Shoe Trail Club and their aggressive yet failed effort to permanently protect 165 miles of trail, in contrast to the successes of clubs maintaining the Appalachian Trail.

Record Type: Book Chapter
Author(s): Castonguay, Stéphane and Diane Saint-Laurent
Chapter Title: Reconstructing Reforestation: Changing Land Use Patterns along the Saint-Francois River in the Eastern Townships
Book Title: Method and Meaning in Canadian Environmental History
Editor(s): MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel
Publication Info: Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009: 273-292 pp.
Date of Publication: 2009
Abstract: Analyzes the reforestation process in the flood-prone areas of the Saint-Francois drainage basin in southeastern Quebec during the mid-20th century. Argues for the importance of collaborative research with geographers in assisting environmental historians to better account for ecological change.
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