Sunday, May 22, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
April 25 Conservation applications of forest history
4/25 Applied forest history
David R. Foster, “Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history,” Forest History Today
Foster, D. R., F. Swanson, J. D. Aber, I. Burke, N. Brokaw, D. Tilman, and A. Knapp. 2003. The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation. BioScience 53: 77-88.
BLOG Due 11:30: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: For your blogs, you may consider the following: what do you think the most important lessons of history are for environmental policy? Specifically, how might an understanding of forest history change a Wisconsin forest planner's decision making?
David R. Foster, “Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history,” Forest History Today
Foster, D. R., F. Swanson, J. D. Aber, I. Burke, N. Brokaw, D. Tilman, and A. Knapp. 2003. The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation. BioScience 53: 77-88.
BLOG Due 11:30: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER: For your blogs, you may consider the following: what do you think the most important lessons of history are for environmental policy? Specifically, how might an understanding of forest history change a Wisconsin forest planner's decision making?
Sunday, April 10, 2011
April 11 Wild Life
For Monday, we're reading the novel that we didn't read when the troubles at the Capitol began: Molly Glass, Wild Life: entire
For your blog, you can discuss the ways that Glass's novel plays with the meanings of wild men (look back at Harrison's FORESTS, where he discusses the various meaning of wild men in forests, such as Sasquatch)
Or you can explore the ways that Glass uses deforestation and wildness in her novel. What is she conveying with the images of logging camps and deforestation, versus the wild forest where wild creatures hide?
Or you can explore Glass's central theme of a journey in the forest. What happens on the hero's main journeys in the forest? Why does she get lost? Why does she eventually get found?
For your blog, you can discuss the ways that Glass's novel plays with the meanings of wild men (look back at Harrison's FORESTS, where he discusses the various meaning of wild men in forests, such as Sasquatch)
Or you can explore the ways that Glass uses deforestation and wildness in her novel. What is she conveying with the images of logging camps and deforestation, versus the wild forest where wild creatures hide?
Or you can explore Glass's central theme of a journey in the forest. What happens on the hero's main journeys in the forest? Why does she get lost? Why does she eventually get found?
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Forest Dreams
For Monday, April 4th: read Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (U. of Washington Press, 1995), pp. 3-200, 247-264, and 296-306 (the first 6 chapters, the fire chapter, and the conclusion).
BLOG Due 11:30: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
How did different sides in the 1990s old growth debates deploy different versions of forest history to support their positions?
OR:
Explore the ways that ecological and social processes influenced each other in shaping landscape change in fire-adapted forests of the West.
BLOG Due 11:30: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
How did different sides in the 1990s old growth debates deploy different versions of forest history to support their positions?
OR:
Explore the ways that ecological and social processes influenced each other in shaping landscape change in fire-adapted forests of the West.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Soluri, Banana Cultures
Read Soluri, Banana Cultures, pp. 1-127 and 193-end.
For your blog post you may discuss the ways Soluri integrates agroecology, labor history, and medical history to explore the ways bananas transformed forests and people in Honduras.
For your blog post you may discuss the ways Soluri integrates agroecology, labor history, and medical history to explore the ways bananas transformed forests and people in Honduras.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Amazonia March 21
Dean, With Broadax and Firebrand, pp. 1-143, and final chapter, 348-364. For a global overview of deforesting the tropical world, Williams, Deforesting the Earth, 318-358 is valuable.
Then each of you will read ONE of the later chapters carefully (please skim the other). In class, you will have 3 minutes to summarize that chapter’s arguments for other students, so come prepared with an outline of the chapter’s central argument and supporting evidence. This will reduce the reading load for each of you, and it will also give you experience in teaching the main points of an argument to other students.
Chapter 11 (239-264): Jo, Emily, Mallory, Diana, Roxanne
Chapter 12 (265-291): Hanna, Dee, Erin, Sam
Chapter 13 (292-318): Alev, Kendall, Katie, Cory
Chapter 14 (318-347): Amanda, Stevie, Matt, John,
Then each of you will read ONE of the later chapters carefully (please skim the other). In class, you will have 3 minutes to summarize that chapter’s arguments for other students, so come prepared with an outline of the chapter’s central argument and supporting evidence. This will reduce the reading load for each of you, and it will also give you experience in teaching the main points of an argument to other students.
Chapter 11 (239-264): Jo, Emily, Mallory, Diana, Roxanne
Chapter 12 (265-291): Hanna, Dee, Erin, Sam
Chapter 13 (292-318): Alev, Kendall, Katie, Cory
Chapter 14 (318-347): Amanda, Stevie, Matt, John,
BLOG Due 11:30: QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:
Discuss whether Dean seems to believe that the loss of the Atlantic rainforest is irrevocable, or whether the forest can be restored. How could conservationists use forest history to restore the rainforest? For more information about current restoration efforts in the Atlantic forest, you can visit the Nature Conservancy's website for their "plant a billion trees" campaign (all in the Mata Atlantica).
Discuss whether Dean seems to believe that the loss of the Atlantic rainforest is irrevocable, or whether the forest can be restored. How could conservationists use forest history to restore the rainforest? For more information about current restoration efforts in the Atlantic forest, you can visit the Nature Conservancy's website for their "plant a billion trees" campaign (all in the Mata Atlantica).
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
African forests March 7
3/7 African forests
Fairhead and Leach, selections, Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic (course mywebspace folder).
For your journal, you may consider: what sources of evidence do Fairhead and Leach use to support their central argument? How else might you interpret those same sources of evidence?
PAPERS: bring to class one or two potential topics that interest you. In class, we will work in small groups to pose good questions about your potential topics.
Fairhead and Leach, selections, Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic (course mywebspace folder).
For your journal, you may consider: what sources of evidence do Fairhead and Leach use to support their central argument? How else might you interpret those same sources of evidence?
PAPERS: bring to class one or two potential topics that interest you. In class, we will work in small groups to pose good questions about your potential topics.
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