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“Growing Up amid Environmental Change: A Conversation with Jan David Hauck”

Jan David Hauck and Pooja Nayak discuss how changing environments change our language and morals.

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Roças and queimadas: Changing Landscapes of Fire in Twentieth-Century Portugal

by José Miguel Moura Ferreira, Miguel Carmo, Inês Gomes, and Marta Silva
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Arcadia, Summer 2025, no. 9
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The Great Peshtigo Fire

On 8 October 1871 a brush fire took hold of northeastern Wisconsin that destroyed acres upon acres of woodland areas and settlements and took up to 1,500 lives.

Tags: 
bushfire
farming
fire
forests
slash-and-burn
railroads
wood
Themes: 
Disasters
Infrastructure
Landscape Transformation
Regions: 
Michigan
Wisconsin
Related Links: 
  • History of the Peshtigo Fire, October 8, 1871 (Peshtigo Times)
  • The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 (Website by Deana C. Hipke)
  • "Worst Fire Largely Unknown" by Greg Tasker (The Baltimore Sun)
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