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When Environmentalists Crossed the Strait: Subsistence Whalers, Hippies, and the Soviets
Ryan Tucker Jones recounts how environmental activist organizations came into conflict with indigenous groups in the Bering Straight.
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Ngarrindjeri Whaling Narratives and Reconciliation at Encounter Bay, South Australia
Adam Paterson and Chris Wilson consider Ngarrindjeri contributions to Southern Australia’s nineteenth-century whaling industry.
Perspectives Article
Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Syllabi in Environment and Society
Short profiles of university and course syllabi, and collaborative syllabi projects on Environment and Society.
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Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal
In 1966, historian Albert Silbert highlighted the longstanding importance of fire in the traditional Portuguese rural economy, at a time when such practices were being erased from the landscape.
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Of Rust and Mold—The Insect Pin as a Token of Transimperial Cooperation
Tropical humidity necessitated a quest for rust-proof insect pins, determining which specimens could be preserved, which tools could be used, and ultimately what knowledge could be produced in the Dutch East Indies.
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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 5, no. 3
In Wild Earth 5, no. 3 Wendell Berry writes about private property and the Commonwealth, Thomas P. Rooney reflects on global warming, and Paul J. Kalisz analyses sustainable silviculture in the hardwood forests of the eastern United States.