Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History
Author: Dale Goble, Paul W. Hirt
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ISBN: 0295978392
Publisher: University of Washington Press (October, 1999)
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Fascinating information on ecology in the Northwest
This book is an interesting collection of papers on what the book title calls "environmental history", but what might be better characterized as human-environment interactions, human-ecology, or human-landuse, since that is what most of the essays focus upon. This is a good book for anyone interested in the history of landuse and environmental change in the Northwest. The readings are aimed at a scholarly audience, so the tempo, tone, and diction are more like "academic" writing and less like "popular" writing. In other words: this book is not always a fast and easy read (this is why I didn't give it 5 stars). Another small criticism: due to the format of the endnotes, I sometimes found it difficult to track down the original references mentioned in the text.
All in all -- important information and a useful book, definitely of regional interest.
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