Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
Imperfect Balance offers a balance of accessible writing and scholarly approaches to understanding the Western Hemisphere’s incredibly diverse landscapes, the human forces that shaped them, and the impact of this interaction on sustained human settlement.
In an era when federal ownership and control of natural resources is under suspicion, conservation trusts have emerged into the policy limelight after more than a century in the shadows. This book asks whether conservation trusts can live up to their promise as an efficient and responsive environmental protection policy.
Nature’s Management is a collection of early nineteenth century agricultural writings by Edmund Ruffin, topically arranged to highlight Virginia’s fence enclosure laws, municipal public health measures to combat malaria, wetlands drainage and reclamation, and observations of the geology, botany, and culture of Virginia and the Carolinas.
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona through the lens of political rhetoric.
David Russell narrates the exploration of trees and woods.
Wild Earth 8, no. 2 features articles on the connections between philanthropy and nature preservation and on the history of land protection in the US, as well as profiles of conservation heroes Howard Zahniser and Mardy Murie.
Wild Earth 9, no. 1 features essays on wilderness and spirituality. They center around two slogans: “Rewilding Ourselves” and “Rewilding the Land.”