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?
Monday, April 11, 2011
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?
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