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CONTENTS Foreword: Still Searching for Eden at the End of the Oregon Trail by William Cronon xi Preface xvii Prologue: A Time to Remember 3 I / P O S T W A R P R O M I S E 1 / The Great Hope for the New Order 21 2 / Into the Brave New World 47 I I / M A K I N G A G R I C U L T U R E M O D E R N 3 / Bringing Perfection to the Fields 79 4 / The Wonder World of Pesticides 114 III / I N D U S T R I A L F O R E S T R Y M A N A G E M E N T 5 / Planning and Technical E‹ciency in the Forests 147 6 / Intensive Forestry and Citizen Activism 178 I V / O F R I V E R S A N D L A N D 7 / Richard Neuberger’s Conservation Politics 215 8 / Tom McCall and the Struggle for the Willamette 248 9 / Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use Nexus 281 Epilogue: This Special Place 314 Notes 331 Bibliography 373 Index 387 ...

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