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I am doing my film paper on the Chinatown movie. There seems to be a theme of water and land productivity in the two sources. They seem to indicate that water and other necessities to life shape how a ...

I have visited many national parks, and they all feel different. My favorite was Denali national park, which makes up 2/3rds of the national park system, and has 66 miles of poorly maintained dirt roa ...

I did the wrong reading over the weekend, as did many people in the class. This thread is for us to talk about that reading now, since we talked about tonights reading then.

The reading we are di ...

The idea that we have to modify nature in order to keep it "natural" because humans have modified it is egotistical. There is nothing that separates humans from nature than our attempts to d ...

What is natural use? Is it "natural" to use only technology 100 years old? 1000? 10,000?
Where do we separate natural and unnatural?

The park manages thought defined natural as their ide ...

The west was all of those things, goal, destination, obstacle, dream, etc. Because Americans did not look at what it was, but what they wanted it to be.

The water demands of cities in the West is d ...

Mark David Spence, from Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (pp.264-272).

U.S. Environmental History - HIST 316 - 1 MOD 4
Assigned: 1/20 Due: 1/21
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The biggest question I have, and I hope it changes the scope of our debate on private vs public vs charity water, is whether we should live where there is no water. In the previous readings there has ...

The United States has always seemed precarious to me because of the conflicting ideals of capitalism and democracy. The people supporting capitalism argue that if people are left on their own, society ...

These readings seemed to talk about another aspect of environmental history. Instead of looking at how the environment has shaped us, they seem to ask how we can live with the environment. It is inevi ...

I agree with your summary that the British wanted to take the land from the Native Americans. They viewed the world through an entirely European viewpoint and they used it to justify their seizure of ...

This was an academic analysis of the transition of European thought from equality of all men to severe racism.

The Europeans went through multiple stages of trying to reconcile their views with the ...

What struck me the most was not the disease and death, but the discussion in "Eden" about the sustainability of the low impact, low population Native Americans. The first series of readings ...

"It is best to assume that most human activities have environmental consequences, and that change in natural systems (whether induced by humans or by nature itself) almost inevitably affects huma ...