Episode 17 Virtual Field Trips, Automobiles, and Global Commodity Chains: October 29, 2010 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past17.mp3][24:35] Over the summer, the NiCHE New Scholars group organized a virtual environmental history workshop that invited graduate students from around the world to participate in two days of discussion and review of working papers on […]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
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Preservation versus use. This, according to environmental historian Alan MacEachern, is the “unresolved problem at the heart of park history.” Last weekend I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco where I came face to face with this tension in […]