Preface - Paul Hirt & Dale Goble
1) Setting the Pacific Northwest Stage: The Influence of the Natural Environment - Eric Ewert
PART I: THIS PLACE
2) Place: An Argument for Bioregional History - Dan Flores
3) A Natural History of the Puget Sound Basin - Arthur Kruckeberg
4) From Where We Are Standing: The Sense of Place and Environmental History - William Lang
5) Willamette Eden: The Ambitious Legacy - William Robbins
6) Footprints and Pathways: The Urban Imprint on the Pacific Northwest - Carl Abbott
PART II: FIRST PEOPLES
7) Salmon, Sedentism, and Cultivation: Toward an Environmental Prehistory of the Northwest Coast - Douglas Deur
8) Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use on the Columbia Plateau - Eugene Hunn
9) Unusual Gardens: The Nez Perce and Wild Horticulture on the Eastern Columbia Plateau - Alan Marshall
10) Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a Game Sink - Paul Martin & Christine Szuter
11) Land Divided: Yakima Tribal Land Use in the Federal Allotment Era - Barbara Wester
PART III: RIVERS
12) Salmon in the Columbia Basin: From Abundance to Extinction - Dale Goble
13) The Northwest's Hydroelectric Heritage - Michael Blumm
14) Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management - Carolyn Merchant
PART IV: AGRICULTURE
15) Ecological Influences of the Introduction of Livestock on Pacific Northwest Ecosystems - Kathleen Dwire, Bruce McIntosh, & Boone Kauffman
16) Environmental Change in the Northern Rockies: Settlement and Livestock Grazing in Southwestern Montana - William Wyckoff & Katherine Hansen
17) Creating a Hybrid Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture in Idaho - Mark Fiege
18) Cultural Perceptions of the Irrigated Landscape in the Pacific Northwest - Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
PART V: FORESTS
19) Human and Ecological Change in the Inland Northwest Forests - Nancy Langston
20) Getting Out the Cut: A History of National Forest Management in the Northern Rockies - Paul Hirt
21) Changing Forests, Changing Needs: Using the Pacific Northwest's Westside Forests, Past and Present - Thomas Cox
PART VI: MINING
22) Mining, Environment, and Historical Change in the Island Northwest - Katherine Morrissey
23) Western Smelters and the Problem of Smelter Smoke - Katherine Aiken
Epilogue: Environmental History and Human Perception - William Dietrich
Contributors
Index