Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples Readings in Environmental History

Name: Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples Readings in Environmental History
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ISBN: 9780295978383

ISBN-10: 0295978384

ISBN-13: 9780295978383

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dale D. Goble, Paul W. Hirt

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Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Preface




Setting the Pacific Northwest Stage: The Influence of the Natural Environment




This Place



Place: An Argument for Bioregional History




A Natural History of the Puget Sound Basin




From Where We Are Standing: The Sense of Place and Environmental History




Willamette Eden: The Ambiguous Legacy




Footprints and Pathways: The Urban Imprint on the Pacific Northwest




First Peoples



Salmon, Sedentism, and Cultivation: Toward an Environmental Prehistory of the Northwest Coast




Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use on the Columbia Plateau




Unusual Gardens: The Nez Perce and Wild Horticulture on the Eastern Columbia Plateau




Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a Game Sink




Land Divided: Yakama Tribal Land Use in the Federal Allotment Era




Rivers



Salmon in the Columbia Basin: From Abundance to Extinction




The Northwest's Hydroelectric Heritage




Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management




Agriculture



Ecological Influences of the Introduction of Livestock on Pacific Northwest Ecosystems




Environmental Change in the Northern Rockies: Settlement and Livestock Grazing in Southwestern Montana, 1860-1995




Creating a Hybrid Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture in Idaho




Cultural Perceptions of the Irrigated Landscape in the Pacific Northwest




Forests



Human and Ecological Change in the Inland Northwest Forests




Getting Out the Cut: A History of National Forest Management in the Northern Rockies




Changing Forests, Changing Needs: Using the Pacific Northwest's Westside Forests, Past and Present




Mining



Mining, Environment, and Historical Change in the Inland Northwest




Western Smelters and the Problem of Smelter Smoke



Epilogue: Environmental History and Human Perception



Contributors


Index