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The American Environment Revisited The American Environment Revisited Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States Edited by Geoffrey L. Buckley Yolonda Youngs ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • London Published by Rowman & Littlefield A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowman.com Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26-34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB Copyright © 2018 by Rowman & Littlefield All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available ISBN 978-1-4422-6996-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4422-6997-2 (electronic) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America For Alexandra, Ingrid, Peter, and Owen—may we share many more adventures together, and for Rob—the open road and mountain trails await. Contents Preface vii Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver Introduction: The American Environment Revisited xiii Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs PART I: NATURE GONE WILD 1 Toward a Historical Geography of Human–Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South 3 Derek H. Alderman 2 Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post–World War II Homes 19 Dawn Biehler 3 From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States 39 Bob Wilson PART II: PARKS AND RECREATION 4 Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in US National Parks 59 Yolonda Youngs 5 Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation 81 Katie Algeo and Collins Eke 6 Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South 101 William E. O’Brien vii viii Contents 7 Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports 121 Annie Gilbert Coleman PART III: LIVING IN THE CITY 8 Frederick Law Olmsted’s Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan 145 Terence Young 9 Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice 161 Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone 10 Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape 181 Martin V. Melosi PART IV: TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT 11 Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland 199 Geoffrey L. Buckley 12 Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California 217 Gareth Hoskins 13 Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904–1912 235 K. Maria D. Lane 14 Florida’s Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics 255 Christopher F. Meindl PART V: EYE ON NATURE 15 Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History 277 Finis Dunaway 16 American Environmental Photography 295 Steven Hoelscher 17 Environments of the Imagination 323 Dydia DeLyser Afterword 335 William Wyckoff Index 339 Preface Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver Lary Dilsaver and I launched the American Environment project at a time when cultural and historical geographers were enchanted with postmodern- ist theory. It was a time when new theoretical fascinations tended to eclipse empirical substance, and when concern with humans and not the environ- ment dominated the published work of the day. Despite pleas for stronger human-environment content in historical geography, we struggled to as- semble regular sessions on the subject at the annual American Association of Geographers (AAG) conferences.1 There was no deep exploration of a single topic, but a smattering of papers across the full spectrum of environmental historical geography. And we often resorted to inviting an environmental historian from the conference city to fill up the session and to foster an inter- disciplinary exchange. Our mutual interest in the subject arose from our graduate training. We both received degrees at Louisiana State University, a department with a proud tradition of field/archive-oriented cultural and historical geography and one that quite commonly balanced human and physical dimensions of our dis- cipline. Indeed, during the heyday of the quantitative revolution, when many departments greatly reduced their physical geography offerings, LSU main- tained a decided balance and this provided a profoundly influential exposure to scholarship that explored the human-environment tradition within the field. Our own work at the time spanned the topical breadth of environmental his- torical geography. Dilsaver’s work drew on the rich archival records of the Na- tional Park Service—a repository also explored by historians. Colten focused on industrial hazardous wastes and likewise followed respected historians into the topic. Given our own diverse interests and the small number of specialists, we aspired to explore what we saw as a geographic approach—human impacts to and management of the environment. An underlying motivation was an ix
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