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Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics: Northwest Coast Sustainability
In this brief and densely-packed treatise on why and how the aboriginal economy of the Northwest Coast worked so well, Ronald Trosper dives into the science fiction/fantasy territory: he re-imagines the clash of two competing...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 116
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Exploring Fort Vancouver
This fine volume is truly a “must” for those with more than a passing interest in the origins of the multi-ethnic area of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from the Aboriginal inhabitants to the eighteenth and...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 159-60
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Raincoast Chronicles 21: West Coast Wrecks and Other Maritime Tales
Tales of shipwrecks along British Columbia’s coast have focused on adventure and tragedy since the fur trade era. With marine transportation occupying such an important role in our daily lives, it is remarkable that so...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 186-87
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Measure of the Year: Reflections on Home, Family, and a Life Fully Lived
As part of its ‘Classics West Collection’ Touch Wood Editions has released a trade paperback edition of Measure of the Year, Roderick Haig-Brown’s celebrated collection of seasonal essays, with a foreword by poet Brian Brett....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 130-1
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Forestry and Biodiversity: Learning How to Sustain Biodiversity in Managed Forests
“No more clear-cuts!” So announced MacMillan Bloedel CEO Tom Stephens in a dramatic 1998 policy shift. The gap between global social expectations and the firm’s perceived destructive logging practices, primarily the accusation that it over-harvested pristine...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 145-147
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Still Fishin’: The BC Fishing Industry Revisited
Is there a future for sustainable commercial fisheries that support independent fishers and their way of life in British Columbia’s coastal communities? This timely question has recently been examined by Alan Haig-Brown – former fisher,...
BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | Page(s) 140-41
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Native Peoples and Water Rights: Irrigation, Dams, and the Law in Western Canada
Making the jump from studies of static property such as land to the fluid resource of water, Kenichi Matsui’s Native Peoples and Water Rights explores new territory by examining the intersection of Aboriginal rights and...
BC Studies no. 167 Autumn 2010 | Page(s) 138-9
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Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London’s Sea Wolf
Anyone who has delved into the gripping, sometimes impregnable, but always complex world of pelagic fur sealing on the north Pacific Coast knows just what a challenge the history of that subject poses. Then, to...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 108-9
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Spirit in the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
It is said that, in the old days, you could hear the commotion at Becher’s place as soon as your horse crested the rim of the Prairie. The old stopping house and saloon are gone...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 201-3
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Seeing the Ocean Through the Trees: A Conservation-Based Development Strategy for Clayoquot Sound
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 118, Summer 1998
BC Studies no. 118 Summer 1998 | Page(s) 126-30
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Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed
In 1910, D.J. Benham wrote of the new Jasper National Park, “Here may be seen Nature primeval, Nature benignant and Nature malignant – the glorious heritage of a Canadian nation” (xxv). People don’t really talk...
BC Studies no. 159 Autumn 2008 | Page(s) 143-5
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States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
The publication of Tina Loo’s States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century marks the coming of age of the field of Canadian environmental history. In some respects, this statement may seem over...
BC Studies no. 154 Summer 2007 | Page(s) 131-4
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
This book is a self-confessed labour of love, and it took the authors twenty-five years working in their spare time to complete it. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, it has over 1,700 original colour photographs...
BC Studies no. 149 Spring 2006 | Page(s) 103-4
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Atlas of Pacific Salmon
Journalist Timothy Egan once wrote that the Pacific Northwest “is wherever the salmon can get to.” As woefully provincial as he was, Egan unwittingly revealed the absence of an alternative way to regionalize the seven...
BC Studies no. 147 Autumn 2005 | Page(s) 116-8
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Living with Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
THE POPULARITY OF WILDLIFE, as idea and as icon, is near universal, but the presence ofwildlife in our yards, homes, and neighbourhoods provokes reactions as diverse as the species that we encounter and the places...
BC Studies no. 142-143 Summer-Autumn 2004 | Page(s) 317-8
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Your Land and Mine: Evolution of a Conservationist
WITHIN THE LAST two decades, several scholars have written about a number of the leading conservation activists who appeared in the United States and Canada in the crucial decades following the Second World War. Thanks...