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References

BRD is compiling a bibliography of important publications related to the LUHNA concept. We would appreciate your contributions, submitted in the following formats:

For articles and published reports:
Last name, First name MI, and First name MI Last name. Year. Title of article.
Journal volume:pp-pp. Key words (3-5 words or short phrases).

For book chapters:
Last name, First name MI, and First name MI Last name. Year. Title of
chapter. Pp. 000-000 in First name MI Last name (editor) Book Title. Publisher,
City, State, Country. Key words (3-5 words or short phrases).

Send submissions to luhna@usgs.gov. The bibliography will be updated periodically and posted in this location.


Bibliographic Entries:

Bacone, John A., R. K. Campbell, and Gerould S. Wilhelm. 1980. Presettlement vegetation of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Proceedings of the Second Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks 4:156-191.

Ball, T. H. 1900. Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900. Donohue and Henneberry, Chicago, IL, USA.

Beget, J. E., O. K. Mason and P. M. Anderson. 1992. Age and Extent of the Aniakchaktephra, western Alaska. The Holocene 2(1): 51-56.

Benson, B. E. 1989. Logs and Lumber: The Development of Lumbering in Michigan's Lower Peninsula 1837-1870. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasent. 309 pp.

Bourdo, E. A., Jr. 1956. A Review of the General Land Office Survey and of its Use in Quantitiative Studies of Former Forests. Ecology 37(4) pp.754-768.

Brigham-Grette, J., and D. M. Hopkins. (In press) Last Interglacial Sea level Record and Paleoclimate along the Beringian Gateway of northwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research.

Brigham-Grette, J., Hopkins, D. M., Benson, S. L., Heiser, P., Ivanov, V. F. Basilyan, A., and Pushkar, V. 1994. Coastal records of Pleistocene Glacial and Sea level events on Chukotka Peninsula, northeast Siberia: A new interpretation. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 11:119-120.

Comer, P.J. & D.A. Albert. Cartography: Michael B. Austin. 1998. Vegetation of Michigan circa 1800: an interpretation of the General Land Office Surveys 1816-1856. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 2-map set, scale 1: 500,000.

Comer, P.J. 1998. A Preliminary Assessment of Wetland Trends in Michigan since 1800. Great Lakes Wetlands Vol. 9, Number 2. pp. 6-11.
(Key Words: wetland extent, wetland type conversion)

Comer, P.J. 1996. Wetland Trends in Michigan since 1800: a preliminary assessment. Report to the U. S. E.P.A. and Land and Water Management Division, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Michigan Natural Features Inventory. Lansing, MI. 76 pp.
(Key Words: wetland extent, wetland type conversion)

Comer, P.J., D.A. Albert, H. A. Wells, B.L. Hart, J.B. Raab, D. L. Price, D. M. Kashian, R.A. Corner & D.W. Schuen. 1995. Michigan's Native Landscape, as Interpreted from the General Land Office Surveys 1816-1856. Report to the U. S. E.P.A. Water Division and the Wildlife Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 78 pp.
(Key Words: General Land Office surveys, presettlement vegetation, historical disturbance regimes, human land use)

Comer, P.J., D.A. Albert, H. A. Wells, B.L. Hart, J.B. Raab, D. L. Price, D. M. Kashian, R.A. Corner & D.W. Schuen. (map interpretation); T.R Leibfreid, M.B Austin, C. J. DeLain, K. M. Korroch, L. Prange-Gregory, L.J. Scrimger, & J.G. Spitzley (digital map production). 1995. Michigan's Presettlement Vegetation, as Interpreted from the General Land Office Surveys 1816-1856. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. digital map, 1:24,000 scale base, 20 ha minimum map unit.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. 900-1900.

Davis, Gary E. 1982. A century of change in coral distribution at the Dry Tortugas: a comparison of reef maps from 1881 and 1976. Bulletin of Marine Science 32(2): 608-623.

De Cola. Lee 1994 Simulating and mapping spatial complexity using multiscale techniques International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 8(5):411-427.

Delcourt, P.A., & H.R. Delcourt. 1981. Vegetation Maps of Eastern North America: 40,000 yrs. B.P. to the present. In: R. Romans (Ed.), Proc. 1980 Geobotany Conference, Plenum, New York, pp.123-166.

Dunlap, Thomas R. DDT: Scientists, Citizens, and Public Policy.

Dunlap, Thomas R. Saving America's Wildlife.

Findley, R.W. 1976. The Original Vegetation Cover of Wisconsin. North Central Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service. St. Paul, MN. (1:500,000 scale map).

Flader, Susan. Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests.

Flader, Susan. ed. The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History.

Fox, Stephen. John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement.

Friedman, Johnathan M., Michael L. Scott, and Gregor T. Auble. 1997. Water management and cottonwood forest dynamics along prairie streams. Pp. 49-71 in Fritz L. Knopf and Fed B. Samson (editors). Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY, USA.

Girel, J., Garguet-Duport, B., Pautou, G. 1997. Present structure and construction processes of landscapes in Alpine floodplains. A case study: the Arc-Isère confluence (Savoie, France). Environmental Management, 21(6), 891-907.

Girel, J., Manneville, O. 1998. Present species richness of plant communities in Alpine stream corridors in relation to historical river management. Biological Conservation, 85 (1-2), 21-33.

Hamilton, W. L. 1979. Holocene and Pleistocene lakes in Zion National Park, Utah. In, Proceedings of the First Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks. pp. 835-844, 1977 New Orleans Conference, N.P.S./A.I.B.S., R. Linn, Ed.

Hamilton, W. L. in press. Quaternary Ponds and Lakes in Zion National Park, Utah. In J. Mead and L. Agenbroad, Eds. Quaternary History of the Colorado Plateau. Plateau Press, Flagstaff, AZ. USA.

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920.

Hays, Samuel P. Beauty, Health, Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985.

Hirt, Paul W. A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since World War Two.

Hundley, Norris, Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s.

Hutchison, M. 1988. A Guide to Understanding, Interpreting, and Using the Public Land Survey Field Notes in Illinois. Natural Areas Journal. Vol.8(4). pp. 245-255.

Jackson, Stephen T., Richard P. Futyma, and Douglas A. Wilcox. 1988. A paleoecological test of a classical hydrosere in the Lake Michigan dunes. Ecology 69:928-936.

Karamanki, T. J. 1989. Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan. Wayne State University Press, Detroit. 305 pp.

Kirtland, David, Leonard Gaydos, Keith Clarke, Lee De Cola, William Acevedo, and Cindy Bell 1994 An analysis of human-induced land transformations in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Area. World Resource Review 6(2):206-217

Kaufman, D. S., Walter, R. C., Brigham-Grette, J., and Hopkins, D. M. 1991. Middle Pleistocene Age of the Nome River Glaciation, Northwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research 36: 277-293.

Kirby, Jack Temple. Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society.

Klein Goldewijk, C.G.M. and J.J. Battjes. 1997. A Hundred Year (1890-1990) Database for Integrated Environmental Assessments (HYDE, version 1.1). RIVM Report nr. 422514002. National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM). 196 pp.

Leverett, F. 1897. The Pleistocene features and deposits of the Chicago area. Chicago Academy of Sciences, Geology and Natural History Survey Bulletin 2.

Loope, Walter, L. 1991. Interrelationships of Fire History, and Landscape Pattern Within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Canadian Field-Naturalist 105(1): 18-28.

Mason, O. K. and J. W. Jordan. 1991. A Proxy Late Holocene Climate Record Deduced from NW Alaska Beach Ridges. IN Proceedings, International Conference on the Role of Polar Regions in Global Change, V. II. G. Weller, C. Wilson, and B. Severin (eds). Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks. pp. 649-657.

Mason, O. K. 1992. A Geoarchaeological Methodology for Studying Prograding Coastal Sequences: Beach Ridge Geomorphology in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. IN Paleoshorelines and Prehistory: An Exploration of Method, edited by L. L. Johnson and M. Stright, pp. 55-81, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Mason, O. K. 1993. The Geoarchaeology of Beach Ridges and Cheniers: Studies of Coastal Evolution using Archaeological Data. Journal of Coastal Research 9(1): 126-146.

Mason, O. K. and J. W. Jordan. 1993. Heightened North Pacific Storminess and Synchronous late Holocene Erosion of northwest Alaska Beach Ridge Complexes. Quaternary Research 40(1):55-69.

McEvoy, Arthur F. The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980.

MacLeish, William H. The Day Before America: Changing the Nature of a Continent.

Meine, Curt. Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work.

Meing, D.W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Vol. I: Atlantic America, 1492-1800.

Meing, D.W. The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Vol. II: Continental America, 1800-1867

Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England.

Merchant, Carolyn, ed. Major Problems in American Environmental History.

Noss, R.F. 1985. On Characterizing Presettlement Vegetation: How and Why. Natural Areas Journal Vol.5 (1) pp. 5-19.

Olson, R. K., and T. A. Lyson (eds). 1998. Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Opie, John. 1993. "Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. A Historical Study in the possibilities for American Sustainable Agriculture". Nebraska.

Opie, John. 1987 (revised 1994). "The Law of the Land: 200 Years of American Farmland Policy" Nebraska.

Opie, John. 1997. "Nature's Nation: An environmental history of the United States" Harcourt Brace.

Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire.

Quattro-chi, Dale and Michael Goodchild. In preparation. Multiscale covariation among features and sensors". IN Scaling of remote sensing data for GIS Chelsea MI: LewisPublishers.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.

Reiger, John F. American Sportsman and the Origins of Conservation.

Runte, Alfred. National Parks: The American Experience, rev. ed.

Runte, Alfred. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness.

Schaaf, Jeanne M. In Press. The Shared Beringian Heritage Program: A Study of Cultural and Landscape History in Beringia. IN Proceedings of the George Wright Society 7th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands.

Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.

Smith, Michael L. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915.

Stilgoe, John. Common Landscape America, 1580 to 1845.

Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England.

Stenger, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian; John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West.

Tanner, H.H. (ed.) 1987. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Univ. Oklahoma Press. 224 pp.

Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility.

Thompson, Todd A. 1992. Beach-ridge development and lake-level variation in southern Lake Michigan. Sedimentary Geology 80:305-318.

Turner, B.L., II, et al., eds. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years.

White, C. A. 1984. A History of the Rectangular Survey System. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington D.C.

White, Richard. Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington.

White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos.

White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River.

Whitney, G.G. 1994. From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in North America 1500 to Present. Cambridge University Press. 451 pp.

Wilcox, Douglas A., and Howard A. Simonin. 1987. A chronosequence of aquatic macrophyte communities in dune ponds. Aquatic Botany 28:227-242.

Williams, Michael. Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography.

Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s.

Worster, Donald. Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (2nd ed.)

Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West.

Worster, Donald. The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination.

Worster, Donald. An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes on the American West.

Worster, Donald. Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the Amercian West.



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