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175 Introduction 1 The other flyways are the Central, Mississippi, and Atlantic. 2 Guy A. Baldassarre and Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management , 2nd ed. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2006), 373. 3 Richard Walker, The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California (New York: The New Press, 2004), 1. 4 Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890–1920 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959); Paul W. Hirt, A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests since World War II (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994); Donald J. Pisani, To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law, and Public Policy, 1848–1902 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), “Federal Water Policy and the Rural West,” in The Rural West since World War II, ed. R. Douglas Hurt (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), and Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Nancy Langston, Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003); Hal Rothman, America’s National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation (Lawrence: University Press of notes 176 Notes to Introduction Kansas, 1989); Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience, 3rd ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997); Richard West Sellars , Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1997); Donald Worster, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985). 5 Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), 60–61, 69–73, and “Private Property and Ecological Commons in the American West,” in Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson, ed. Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 219–31; and Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), x, 59–61. 6 Julia Haggerty and William Travis, “Out of Administrative Control: Absentee Owners, Resident Elk and the Shifting Nature of Wildlife Management in Southwestern Montana,” Geoforum 37, no. 5 (2006): 816–30. 7 Mark Fiege, “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape,” Western Historical Quarterly 36, no. 1 (2005). 8 “Interview with William Cronon,” Scapes, 5 (Fall 2006): 37. 9 Kurkpatrick Dorsey discusses the Migratory Bird Treaty as well as other environmental protection agreements of the time in The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties ­ in the Progressive Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998), 165–237. See also Janet Foster, Working for Wildlife: The Beginnings of Preservation in Canada, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). 10 On legibility, see James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998), 1–24. 11 Given the importance of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in protecting endangered and threatened species, it has received remarkably little attention from historians or geographers. An administrative history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has yet to be written, but for a brief overview, see Mark Madison’s entry on the agency in The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, ed. Shepard Krech III, John R. McNeill, and Carolyn Merchant (New York: Routledge, 2004). See also Steve Chase and Mark Madison, “The Expanding Ark: 100 Years Notes to Introduction 177 of Wildlife Refuges,” Wild Earth, Winter 2003–2004, 18–27; Langston, Where Land and Water Meet; Mark Madison, “Conserving Conservation : Field Notes from an Animal Archive,” The Public Historian (2004): 145–56; Nathan F. Sayre, Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002); and Thomas R. Vale, The American Wilderness: Reflections on Nature Protection in the United States (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005), 140–59. 12 W. E. Frayer, Dennis D. Peters, and H. Ross Pywell, “Wetlands of the Central Valley: Status and Trends, 1939 to Mid-1980s” (Portland, Ore.: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 1989). 13 Nancy Langston discuses the rationale for and consequences of simplifying complex ecosystems to produce more commodities in Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995). 14 On hybrid nature, see Fiege, Irrigated...