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INDEX 249 Abbott, Clinton G., 28–29 acclimatization, 4, 35, 36, 46, 62, 115, 125, 179 African Americans, 52 ailanthus (tree of heaven), 113, 119–23, 177, 180 Alien Land Law, 14 Aliens, 169–70 Aliens in the Backyard (Leland), 186–87 Algeria, 124 American bullfrog, 12, 25 American Association of Nurserymen, 104, 118 American Civil War, 40–41, 71–72 American Forestry Association, 110 American Genetic Association, 48, 90 American Immigration Control Foundation, 161 American Indians. See Native Americans American Museum of Natural History, 64 American Ornithologists’ Union, 31–32, 45, 55 American Patrol, 162, 163 American water weed, 73–74, 180 analogies between non-human and human immigrants, 14–21, 50, 77–79, 87–90, 91, 95–96, 100, 103–4, 105, 106–7, 115–16, 148–49, 151–64, 159–60, 164–72, 235n21 Anderson, Edgar, 113 Angel Island: eucalyptus controversy on, 132–42, 152; environmental impact report on, 138 Angel Island Association, 138, 149 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 165 anthropomorphism, 16, 20, 33, 56, 151, 172, 189 anti-English sentiment, 34, 41, 43–44 anti-German sentiment, 156 anti-urban sentiment, 37–38 arboreal immigrants, 112–50 Archduke of Austria, 127–28, Ardenwood Regional Park, 144 Argentine ant, 12, 159 Armitage, Merle, 132 Aryan Nations, 163 Aryan Women’s League, 163 Asher, Jerry E., 178 Asian immigrants, 44, 60, 86, 157 Asian longhorned beetle, 167 Asian tiger mosquito, 167, 175 Asiatic beetle, 95 Astley, Hubert D., 53 Atkinson, J. C., 56 Audubon, John James, 47 Auster, Lawrence, 22–23 Australia, 24, 67, 124, 125, 130, 132, 136, 142, 144, 147, 182 “authored” nature, 8, 35 balsam woolly adelgid, 2 bamboo mite, 103 baobab, 122, 211 barberry, 95 Barbour, Michael, 149–50 UC_Coates.qxd 9/25/2006 2:58 PM Page 249 Barrows, Walter B., 29, 45, 59 Baskin, Yvonne, 166, 167 Bazzaz, Fakhri A., 169 beaver, 100–101 Beecher, Henry Ward, 56–57 bees, 19–20 Bering land bridge, 11–12 Berkeley (Calif.), 127, 128, 132–33, 142, biological pollution, 172–73, 178, 186 biosecurity, 2–3 biotic exchange/interchange, 4–5, 96, 113, 123, 175, 182 birds: native species, 46–47, 51, 52, 56, 62, 65; campaign to protect, 51–55 Black, Max, 19 black locust, 12, 135, 177 Blanchan, Neltje, 44–45, 46, 57, 58, 183, 184 blue gum. See eucalyptus Boas, Franz, 9, 84–85, 159, 171 boll weevil, 53, 95, 99–100, 101, 164 Bolles, Frank, 37–38, 48 Booth, Wayne, 19 Borchardt, Rudolf, 153 Bossard, Carla, 173 botanical xenophobia, 187 Boyd, David, 135, 137, 146, 147, 148, 149 Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 153–54, 183 Brewer, Thomas Mayo, 55, 61 Britain, 24–26; American trees in, 114–15; American water weed in, 73–74, 180; English sparrow in, 56; eucalyptus in, 123–24 British-American relations, 40–44, 71–72 British empire, 41 Brodhead, Michael, 32–33 Brooklyn Institute, 35, 55, Brooksville agricultural station, 103 Brown, James, 26, 177 brown-headed cowbird, 13 brown-tailed moth, 101 brown tree snake, 184, 247n185 Bryant, William Cullen, 36, 46 Buchanan, Pat, 163, 164 Budiansky, Stephen, 166 Buffon, Count, 46 bulb war, 103–6 bur cucumber, 73 Burdick, Alan, 243n137 Bureau of Entomology, 97–98, 101 Bureau of Plant Industry, 78, 82, 83, 90, 97, 102 Bureau of Plant Introduction, 107 Bureau of Plant Quarantine, 174 Burgess, Ernest, 19 Burlingame, 142 Burnham, Frederick Russell, 99–100 Burroughs, John, 46 Bush, George W., 2, 119 Bush, Laura, 2 cabbage palm. See palmetto California, 8, 22, 60–61, 83, 93, 97, 113– 14, 117, 153, 165, 177, 178; and eucalyptus 8, 22, 113–14, 124–49, 183; and ailanthus, 122–33, 177; and Alien Land Law, 14; and English sparrow, 51, 58; and eugenics, 15; immigration to, 9, 160; and insects, 160; and quarantine law, 97; and “weed bashing,” 165–66; and weeds, 74–75 California Conservation Corps, 178 California Department of Parks and Recreation, 135–37, 142, 146, 149 California Environmental Quality Act, 137 California Exotic Pest Plant Council, 156, 170, 173 California Native Plant Society, 136, 138, 143, 156 California State Board of Forestry, 126 campanilismo, 78–79, 80, 103, 111, 115, 163 Canada thistle, 12, 194n34 Canadian water weed. See American water weed canker worm, 35–36, 68, 120 Cannon, Cornelia James, 20, 87–88, 93 caribou, 13 Carson, Rachel, 65–66, 182, 184–85 Carter, Jimmy, 11, 13 cattle egret, 169, 172, 180–81 Ceylon, 109 Central Park, 28, 39, 62, 119 Chapman, Frank, 30, 64–65, 68, 69, 108, 189...
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