American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
Eric Rutkow shows that trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country’s rise as both an empire and a civilization.
This issue of Wild Earth celebrates the third year of the Wildlands Project featuring the theme “A Critique and Defense of the Wilderness Idea,” as well as essays on: falcons in urban environments, state complicity in wildlife losses, and common lands recovery.
In Wild Earth 5, no. 4 Reed F. Noss reflects on what endangered ecosystems should mean to The Wildlands Project, and preliminary results of a biodiversity analysis in the Greater North Cascades ecosystem and a biodiversity conservation plan for the Klamath/Siskiyou region are presented.
Wild Earth 6, no. 2 features Bill McKibben on nature writing and common ground, Laura Westra writes about ecosystem integrity, sustainability, and the “Fish Wars”, and W. O. Pruitt explains “The Caribou Commons.”
Wild Earth 9, no. 2 is dedicated to the topic “Carnivore Ecology and Recovery.” Articles discuss Yellowstone grizzlies, Oregon wolves, and the cultural and biological roles of carnivores.
Wild Earth 12, no. 2, features essays on deep time and evolution, ecopsychology, animal indicators of ecosystem health, and a proposal for Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.
Wild Earth 3, no. 2 on imperiled predators like bears and lions, the Eastern forest recovery, Alabama wildlands, deep ecology in the former Soviet Union, and the salmon/selway ecosystem.
This historiographical essay outlines and discusses major trends within European environmental history by highlighting recent discussions and future possibilities regarding collaboration across national borders and contexts, and ultimately arguing for more transnational cooperation within the field of environmental history.
Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.