Research Catalog

Title

Northwest lands, northwest peoples : readings in environmental history / edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Goble, Dale.
• Hirt, Paul W., 1954-

Description

xiv, 552 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• Human ecology > Northwest, Pacific
• Northwest, Pacific > Environmental conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Setting the Pacific Northwest stage: the influence of the natural environment / Eric C. Ewert -- Place: an argument for bioregional history / Dan Flores -- A natural history of the Puget Sound basin / Arthur R. Kruckeberg -- From where we are standing: the sense of place and environmental history / William L. Lang -- Willamette Eden: the ambiguous legacy / William G. Robbins -- Footprints and pathways: the urban imprint on the Pacific Northwest / Carl Abbott -- Salmon, sedentism, and cultivation: toward an environmental prehistory of the Northwest Coast / Douglas Deur -- Mobility as a factor limiting resource use on the Columbia Plateau / Eugene S. Hunn -- Unusual gardens: the Nez Perce and wild horticulture on the Eastern Columbia plateau / Alan G. Marshall -- Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a game sink / Paul S. Martin and Christine R. Szuter -- Land divided: Yakama tribal land use in the Federal Allotment era / Barbara Leibhardt Wester -- Salmon in the Columbia basin: from abundance to extinction / Dale D. Goble -- The Northwest's hydroelectric heritage / Michael C. Blumn -- Fish first!: the changing ethics of ecosystem management / Carolyn Merchant -- Ecological influences of the introduction of livestock on Pacific Northwest ecosystems / Kathleen A. Dwire, Bruce A. McIntosh, and J. Boone Kauffman -- Environmental change in the northern Rockies: settlement and livestock grazing in southwestern Montana, 1860-1995 / William Wyckoff and Katherine Hansen -- Creating a hybrid landscape: irrigated agriculture in Idaho / Mark Fiege -- Cultural perception of the irrigated lanscape in the Pacific Northwest / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted -- Human and ecological change in the inland Northwest forests / Nancy Langston -- Getting out the cut: a history of National Forest management in the northern Rockies / Paul W. Hirt -- Changing forests-changing needs: using the Pacific Northwests westside forests, past and present / Thomas R. Cox -- Mining, environment, and historical change in the inland Northwest / Katherine G. Morrissey -- Western smelters and the problem of smelter smoke / Katherine Aiken -- Epilogue: environmental history and human perception / William Dietrich

Call Number

JFE 99-13795

ISBN

• 0295978392 (alk. paper)
• 0295978384 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99027118

OCLC

41238502

Title

Northwest lands, northwest peoples : readings in environmental history / edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt.

Imprint

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goble, Dale.

Hirt, Paul W., 1954-

Research Call Number

JFE 99-13795