Char Miller

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Public Lands, Public Debates

A Century of Controversy

Oregon State University Press

Nineteen essays from an environmental historian that explore the U.S. system of public lands, the subject of historical struggle and contemporary debate.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Fluid Arguments

Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict

Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
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River Basins of the American West

A High Country News Reader

Oregon State University Press
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Water in the 21st-Century West

A High Country News Reader

Oregon State University Press
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Toward a Natural Forest

The Forest Service in Transition (A Memoir)

By Jim Furnish; Foreword by Char Miller
Oregon State University Press


The Forest Service stumbled in responding to a wave of lawsuits from environmental groups in the late 20th Century—a phenomenon best symbolized by the spotted owl controversy that shut down logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The agency was brought to its knees, pitted between a powerful timber industry that had been having its way with the national forests for decades, and organized environmentalists who believed public lands had been abused and deserved better stewardship. Toward a Natural Forest offers an insider’s view of this tumultuous time in the history of the Forest Service, presenting twin tales of transformation, both within the agency and within the author’s evolving environmental consciousness. Drawing on the author’s personal experience and his broad professional knowledge, Toward a Natural Forest illuminates the potential of the Forest Service to provide strong leadership in global conservation efforts. Those interested in our public lands—environmentalists, natural resource professionals, academics, and historians—will find Jim Furnish’s story deeply informed, thought-provoking, and ultimately inspiring.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Nature of Hope

Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change

Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane
University Press of Colorado

The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene

Science, Policy, and Practice

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Burn Scars

A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning

Edited by Char Miller
Oregon State University Press

The first documentary history of wildfire management in the United States, Burn Scars probes the long efforts to suppress fire, beginning with the Spanish invasion of California in the eighteenth century through the US Forest Service’s relentless nationwide campaign in the twentieth century. In recent years, suppression has come under increasing scrutiny as a contributing factor to our current era of megafires.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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On Strawberry Hill

The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling

University of Alabama Press

While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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