Sorry about any cross-posting, but I thought this might interest some
ECOFEMers.
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Date sent: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:03:20 -0600 (CST)
From: "Dennis Williams, Southern Nazarene U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Northwest Environmental History Symposium
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Date sent: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:04:18 -0800 (PST)
From: hirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Northwest Environmental History Symposium
Dear friends,
As mentioned in the last two ASEH newsletters, a symposium on the
environmental history of the Pacific Northwest is being held in Pullman,
Washington (WSU) and Moscow, Idaho (UI), August 1-4, 1996. For those of
you with access to the World Wide Web, we have a web page being
constructed with information on the symposium. Unfortunately, the web
page address listed in the ASEH newsletter had an error in it. The
correct address is: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/
Below is a summary of the symposium, followed by a list of
speakers so far confirmed along with their topics.
NORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
Environmental historians in the Northwest are organizing a regional
environmental history conference to be held August 1-4, 1996 at
Washington State University and the University of Idaho (sister
cities in the Palouse hills at the foot of the Idaho Rockies). This will
be an experimental precedent for future regionally-focused conferences to
be held in the years between the ASEH biennial national conferences.
Co-sponors of the symposium so far include the two universities, the
American Society for Environmental History, the Center for the Study of
the Pacific Northwest (UW), the Inland Empire Public Lands Council
(Spokane), and the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy (WSU).
Our proposed venue and format are intentionally nontraditional.
VENUE- Rather than expensive hotel conference rooms in a big city, the
symposium with be held on the WSU campus with accommodations in
reasonably priced hotels in two small towns close to the big outside.
Because this is a summer event people can take field trips on the way to
or from the conference--even camp nearby and commute to the conference
site. The summer date will also allow conferees to bring their families.
FORMAT- Rather than concurrent sessions of panels with papers and
commentators, there will be a series of plenary sessions with invited
regional experts speaking on various aspects of Northwest environmental
history: geology, geography & climate, vegetation, human ecology and
indigenous land use, rivers, forests, arid lands, wildlife/fisheries,
urbanization, transportation systems, pollution, conservation, etc. We
also plan to have a block of time dedicated to -poster sessions" (see
call for posters below). Finally, there will be a number of guided
field trips, along with relevant films and entertainment in the
evenings. The conference will be concertedly interdisciplinary and we
hope to attract an audience from both inside and outside academia.
Educators from high schools and colleges are especially urged to attend
as a teaching resources packet on Northwest environmental history will be
available at the conference.
Reserve August 1-4 on your calendar for a trip to the inland Northwest.
Within 3 hours of the conference site you can visit the Rocky Mountains,
the Cascades, the Snake, Salmon, and Clearwater rivers, Lakes Coeur
d+Alene and Pend Orielle, the Columbia Gorge, the Nez Perce and Umatilla
Indian Reservations, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, clearcuts, abandoned
mines, Superfund sites and much more!
CALL FOR POSTERS: For those who would like to present their research at
the symposium, we are offering a -poster session+ in which individuals
will be provided a space with a table and chair in a large convention
room where they can display their research (using text, photos, graphics,
maps, and anything else to attract browsers). A block of time will be
set aside for conferees to browse the poster session. To present at the
poster session, authors should submit a proposal with an abstract of
their research and a brief biographical sketch to Paul Hirt or Dale Goble
at one of the addresses below by April 1. Acceptance notifications will
be mailed out by April 16.
SUBMIT POSTER ABSTRACTS AND INQUIRIES TO: Northwest Environmental History
Symposium / Department of History / Washington State University /
Pullman, WA 99164-4030 / 509-335-4883 OR e-mail to: Kathryn Botsford at
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THE SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS ARE: Paul Hirt, Department of History, Washington=
State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4030, ph: 509-335-4883, fax:
509-335-4171, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; or Dale Goble, College of
Law, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, ph: 208-885-7976, fax:
208-885-7609, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB SITE: A web page for the symposium is currently under construction.
Consult it for information on accommodations, speakers, environmental
history resources, etc. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/
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Stefanie S. Rixecker
Centre for Resource Management/
Department of Resource Management
Lincoln University
Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (64) (03) 325-2811 x8377
Fax: (64) (03) 325-3841
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