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Vadon and puszta—Hungarian | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness babel” exhibition, written by historical ecologist and environmental historian Péter Szabó, looks at Hungarian notions of “wilderness.”
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Metsik loodus, puutumatu loodus and põlisloodus—Estonian | Wilderness Babel
This part of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by semiotician Kadri Tüur, describes how terms denoting general categories regarding nature are quite diverse in Estonia—a country where language and culture have been very intimately intertwined with landscapes and their natural conditions.
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Erämaa—Finnish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Mikko Saikku, explores central concepts for understanding the traditional Finnish relationship with nature and use of natural resources.
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Wildnis—German | Wilderness Babel
The German term Wildnis, as is demonstrated in this part of the “Wilderness babel” exhibition by historian Patrick Kupper, has always referred to places of difference, distinct by their very separation from society’s cultivated spaces.
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Vildmark and ödemark—Swedish | Wilderness Babel
This chapter of the “Wilderness Babel” exhibition, written by historian Lars Elenius, looks at Swedish notions of wilderness and its uses over history.
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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.
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Wild Earth 4, no. 4
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.
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Wild Earth 5, no. 4
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.
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Wild Earth 6, no. 2
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.”
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Wild Earth 9, no. 2
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.