On emblematic megaflora

Environmental History

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 533-546

  Farmer, Jared ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DESIGN; FLORISTICS; ORCHARD; ROAD; SHEEP; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77957681034     PISSN: 10845453     EISSN: 19308892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/envhis/emq059     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Recent noteworthy English-language works on trees include Stephen A. Spongberg, A Reunion of Trees: The Discovery of Exotic Plants and Their Introduction into North American and European Landscapes (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990);
2. Allen M. Young, The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994);
3. Charles E. Little, The Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America's Forests (New York: Viking Adult, 1995);
4. Laura Rival, ed., The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism (Oxford: Berg, 1998);
5. Michael P. Cohen, A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998);
6. Gayle Brandow Samuels, Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999);
7. Ian Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: California-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999);
8. Peter Thomas, Trees: Their Natural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000);
9. Robin W. Doughty, The Eucalyptus: A Natural and Commercial History of the Gum Tree (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000);
10. Judith M. Taylor, The Olive in California: History of an Immigrant Tree (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2000);
11. Tom Griffiths, ed., Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
12. Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (New York: Random House, 2001), chap. 1;
13. Robert Van Pelt, Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001);
14. Owain Jones, Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place (Oxford: Berg, 2002);
15. Ashley Hay, Gum (Potts Point, NSW: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002);
16. Thomas J. Campanella, Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003);
17. Richard Hayman, Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization (London: Hambledon and London, 2003);
18. Katharine Anderson, Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003);
19. Lori Vermaas, Sequoia: The Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2003);
20. Esmond Harris and James Jeanette, Oak: A British History (Macclesfield, Cheshire: Windgather Press, 2003);
21. Shaul Ephraim Cohen, Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004);
22. William Bryant Logan, Oak: The Frame of Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005);
23. John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005);
24. Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter (New York: Crown, 2006);
25. Henry W. Lawrence, City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006);
26. Susan Freinkel, American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007);
27. Richard Preston, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring (New York: Random House, 2007);
28. Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (London: Chatto & Windus, 2007);
29. Philip J. Pauly, Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007);
30. Nalini M. Nadkarni, Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008);
31. Irus Braverman, Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009);
32. Oliver Rackham, Woodlands (London: HarperCollins, 2010).
33. See Gabrielle Barnett, "Drive-By Viewing: Visual Consciousness and Forest Preservation in the Automobile Age," Technology and Culture 45 (2004): 30-54;
34. David Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006).
35. See E. P. Meinecke, A Report upon the Effect of Excessive Tourist Travel on the California Redwood Parks (SPO, 1928);
36. idem, Camp Ground Policy (Ogden, Utah, 1932);
37. Linda Flint McClelland, Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 276-85.
38. These and subsequent quotes are from clippings in the "El Palo Alto" vertical file at the Palo Alto Historical Association Archive, located in Palo Alto's Main Library.
39. See also Guy C. Miller, "Palo Alto," Western Folklore 7 (July 1948): 284-88;
40. Pamela Gullard and Nancy Lund, History of Palo Alto: The Early Years (San Francisco, 1989), 20-23.
41. See Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods;
42. Peter Coates, American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 123-50