“The pine’s fear made the bishop loved”: Thinking with Plants in Early Medieval Gaul
Arcadia, Spring 2026, no. 11
trees
“Can Forest Gardens Save the Rainforest, Ulrike Prinz?”
This podcast discusses linalool extraction from rosewood grown in the Amazon rainforest.
“Eagles, Marmots, Humans: Knowing Wildlife Through Fieldwork”
The work of two biologists in remote forests shows that species recovery depends on both data and human–animal bonds forged in the field, as Monica Vasile writes.
Links Between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe
Arcadia, Spring 2025, no. 2
Twenty-One Millet Co-wives against One Rice Co-wife: Millet and Rice Cultivation in the Dandakaranya Forest, 1956–1987
The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
Drimys winteri: Circulation of Environmental Ignorance in European Written Sources (1578–1776)
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 15
“An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma”
Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.
Unwelcome but Dear: Poplar Trees in Northern Kazakhstan’s Post-Soviet Cityscapes
Arcadia, Spring 2021, no. 13
ASLE EcoCast: Thinking with Trees: Poetry and Conversation with Jason-Allen Paisant
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Jason-Allen Paisant, poet and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Leed.