Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for Best Book Published
2007
Sandlos, John. Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007. xiii + 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Examines the late19th, early 20th century conflict between native hunters and conservationists in Canada's Northwest Territories over three big game species: the wood bison, the musk ox, and the caribou. Argues that the introduction of wildlife conservation was integral to the assertion of state authority over traditional hunting cultures of the Dene and Inuit, and that commercial considerations have played a central role in Canadian wildlife management.
2006
Blackbourn, David. The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2006. xii + 466 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Account of the development of German nationhood through transformations of landscape, especially attempts to harness the power of water through reclamation, exploration, river engineering, dam-building, and other methods; mid-eighteenth through early twenty-first centuries.
2005
Harvey, Mark. Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xviii + 325 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The life of Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), a prominent figure in the American wilderness preservation movement whose career culminated with the passage of the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964.
2004
Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xii + 352 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Examines economic, environmental, and social aspects of turpentine and naval stores production in the longleaf pine forests of the southern United States.
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