Scientific forest conservation and the statistical picturing of nature's limits in the progressive-era United States

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 431-459

  Demeritt, David ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESOURCE; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; MAPPING;

UNITED STATES;

PHLEUM PRATENSE;

EID: 0034883471     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d294     Document Type: Article

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