In this issue of the The Voice of the Wild Siskiyou of Spring 1998, a quarterly newsletter of the Siskiyou Regional Education Project, Art R. Kruckeberg and Frank A. Lang provide information about the Klamath-Siskyiou bioregion, a unique place situated along the Pacific Ocean across the Californian and Oregon border. Further, they ask the question of “how to preserve this bioregion and all its distinctive ecosystems - in the face of ongoing resource extraction and other human incursions?”, and encourage joining the Siskiyou Project network.

This article analyses the contribution of the Austrian-born Russian scientist, Franz Joseph Ruprecht (1814–70) to the development of geobotany in general and to the controversial issue of the origins of the very fertile chernozem (Black Earth) of the steppe region of the Russian Empire.

This paper explores the history of trees and scientific forestry in South Africa and how it changed southern African hydrologies.

This essay discusses ways of thinking about botanic gardens that pay close attention to their particularity as designed spaces, dependent on technique, that nonetheless purport to present (and preserve) natural entities (plants).

Between the 1890s and 1920s street trees became a more prominent feature in streetscapes across New South Wales, Australia.

With particular reference to Gatty’s British Sea-Weeds and Eliot’s ‘Recollections of Ilfracombe’, this article takes an ecocritical approach to popular writings about seaweed, thus illustrating the broader perception of the natural world in mid-Victorian literature.