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Responding to AJ’s post: I think it is interesting that you related your questions about a brewery to the reading about water in Boston, especially because one of the reasons people were in support of ...

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The question I chose was “does the accessibility of manageable nature make the property around it more valuable if not monetarily than sentimentally?”

I don’t have the physical reading packet with ...

I don’t think there is an expectation for Environmental History to dictate what is right and wrong, more so just to show what is closer to the actual truth. Since it is a school of revisionist History ...

Something that has been bothering me that this reading brought up was the fact that nature is valuable because we say it is, and different “natures” have different values. What makes Yellowstone more ...

Something important that Pollan brought up was the separation between humans and “nature”. In my definitions today in class, I definitely “started from the premise that man and nature were irreconcila ...

I have never been to a national park, and until these readings I never noticed how much I associate tourism with national parks. When I think of the geysers and Yellowstone, I picture people looking a ...

To respond to the question Rachel (Hirsch) posted on MyCsw,

“For the first post, here's the question that you must answer (and don't forget to also ask your own question for the next person): Based ...

I am going to answer Zach’s question,

" SO my question is:
What do you think of when you see a pool? Does affluence come up in you connotations of pools and do your thoughts agree with Didio ...

From what I understand about life, more people are usually working class than rich. So how does it make sense to deprive the majority of the people in a population of usable water so a very small grou ...

I thought it was very interesting to look at the effect of animals in these readings; our previous readings haven’t really dealt with this aspect of environment history. In the “Indians and Bison on t ...

A lot of the arguments that the colonists used for their superiority just completely made no sense. I thought it was odd how they claimed that the Indian suffering was due to “either the inadequate se ...

My question is: How come Indians were sometimes able to "exhaust" resources in their given areas (and therefore forced to move) when they had such supposedly small and dispersed populations, ...

so, like olivia, this may be unhelpful, but.

here are my interpretations of three definitions i think we need.

Humans: People and everything they create and do, ranging from skyscrapers to their ...

I used 3 main quotes to get Cronon’s definition of environmental history.

“I felt that my responsibility both as a teacher and as someone who cares about the future must be to resist such a conclus ...