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Syllabus
Exams
Terms
Graduate Students
Graduate
Student
Papers
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Suggestions
for Further Study
The Legacy of Conservation
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Worster,
Don. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth
of the American West. New York: Pantheon, 1985. |
Critique
of reclamation policies and western water use.
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Fiege,
Mark. Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape
in the American West. Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 1999. |
A
case study of the ironies of irrigation in Idaho.
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Pyne,
Stephen. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland
and Rural Fire. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1982. |
An
analysis and critique of Forest Service attempts to prevent forest
fires
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Langston,
Nancy. Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of
Old Growth in the Inland West. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1995. |
Study
of the optimistic goals--and the disappointing outcome--of forest
service management of old growth forests in the Blue Mountains of
eastern Oregon and Washington.
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Spence,
Mark David. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal
and the Making of the National Parks. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999. |
Study
of the extent to which Indian removals were practiced by National
Park Service proponents and officials.
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Catton,
Theodore. Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National
Parks in Alaska. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1994. |
Examines
the development of Alaska’s National Parks in relation to the
native peoples who have used those areas for centuries.
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Sellars,
Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks:
A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. |
History
of the cooperation and conflict between preservations and recreation
in national parks.
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Runte,
Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. |
Study
of the high ideals and bitter realities of the history of one national
park.
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Nash,
Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind, 3rd
ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982. |
A
study of American attitudes towards wilderness from the seventeenth
through the twentieth centuries.
More Books of Interest
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Runte,
Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience, 3rd
edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. |
The
standard history of national parks in the US.
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Steen,
Harold K. The U.S. Forest Service: A History.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976. |
A
history of the Forest Service, with many photos.
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Robinson,
Michael C. Water for the West: The Bureau of Reclamation, 1902-1977.
Chicago: Public Works Historical Society, 1979.
A history of the Bureau,
with many photos interspersed throughout the text.
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Pinkett,
Harold T. Gifford Pinchot: Private and Public Forester.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. |
A
biography of Gifford Pinchot.
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Fox,
Stephen R. John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation
Movement. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981. |
A
biography of John Muir combined with a history of the US conservation
movement.
Film and Video
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Cadillac
Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature. 250 min. 1997.
Videorecording. |
The
PBS four-part series based on the work of Marc Reisner and Sandra
Postel. Available in Knight Library.
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Chinatown.
Directed by Roman Polanski. 131 min. 1974. Videorecording. |
Oscar-winning
fictional account of 1930s Los Angeles water politics, starring Jack
Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Available in Knight Library.
Web Sites
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Bureau
of Reclamation |
The
Bureau’s Web page. http://www.usbr.gov/
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ParkNet:
The National Park Service. |
The
National Park Service’s Web page. http://www.nps.gov/
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Sierra
Club. |
The
conservation organization’s web page.
http://www.sierraclub.org/
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John
Muir Exhibit |
The
Sierra Club’s tribute to their founder, with an extensive amount
of information and links to his writings. http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
Put Yourself There:
Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts
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Smythe,
William. The Conquest of Arid America. New York:
The Macmillan Company, 1905. |
An
argument for the irrigation of the West. In the Rare Books department
of Knight Library.
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Muir,
John. Writings. |
The
library owns several volumes of his writings.
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McHenry,
Robert. A Documentary History of Conservation in America.
New York, Praeger, 1972. |
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