“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.
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.
A writer and literary scholar, Sule Emmanuel Egya weaves together a personal love letter to trees with accounts of having witnessed extractive wood logging in Gombe, Nigeria. To what extent can the Gombe State tree planting policy attempt to salvage such hostility toward trees?
Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Monica Vasile.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ian M. Miller is interviewed on her new book, Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China.
Excerpt from The State in the Forest: Contested Commons in the Nineteenth Century Venetian Alps.
The authors illuminate the power relations between state actors and the local people in accessing fuelwood in Zimbabwe, and how discourses of scarcity enhance these power dynamics.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines forests and deforestation in works by Adalbert Stifter, Marlen Haushofer, and Elfriede Jelinek. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke examines forests and deforestation in works by Adalbert Stifter, Marlen Haushofer, and Elfriede Jelinek. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
This Earth First! tabloid describes negative impacts of the U.S. Forest Service on national forests. Topics include reform proposals for the USFS, the role of deep ecology, the destruction of eco-systems across the U.S., abuse of Native American cultural heritage, and a call for the protection of national forests.