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281 Index Note: Page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations Ackefors, Hans, 110–11, 250n2 actants, 213, 225n1 actor networks, 158–59, 161 actor network theory (ANT), 151–52, 212–13; in Anglo-American grain trade, 153, 154, 154–55, 157–58; in environmental history, 162, 227n4; in preservation efforts, 217, 220; technological systems and, 162–63 Adams, William, 214, 222 aesthetics, and offshore oil structures, 62 agency, nature’s vs. human, 4, 6 agnotology, 38–39, 48–50. See also ignorance agriculture, 110, 137; conservation and, 88, 90; corn production in Germany, 41–43; effects of hybrid seeds in, 44; environmental history and, 40, 157, 159–60; fungicides in, 105–9; karakul sheep and, 139–40, 144–47, 150; knowledge in, 41–43; rabbit raising in Italy, 142–43; research in, 44–45; science applied to, 88–89, 94–95; US, 155–60, 263n41; wheat, 153, 155–56 Agrosan fungicide, 106 Akrich, Madeleine, 73 Alexander, Czar (Russia), 122 Alicja and Marek, 121 alkylmercury, 108, 251n28 Alpert, Dede, 57–58, 61, 63 aluminum, in beverage containers, 69–71, 79 Alvarez, Luis, 202–3 Alvarez, Walter, 202–3 American Game, 94 American Indians: control over natural resources , 179; historical periods of, 181–92; knowledge production and, 181, 183. See also White Mountain Apaches American Society for Environmental History, 228n18 American Society of Agronomy, 87 Animal Breeding Institute, at the University of Halle, 137–41, 144 Antarctica, 196 Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, 191–92 Apache trout, 184–85, 192–93 Arctic, 170; distinctiveness of, 164, 174–75; research in, 169, 175; situated and mobile science in, 168–70, 175–78 arctic ecology, 165, 174–75; importance of place in, 176–77; northern/circumpolar, 171–78 Arctic Land Use Research Program, 173 Arenberg, Jos, 250n2 Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD), 186 Arizona Water Resources Committee, 189 artifacts, 217, 220; offshore oil rigs as, 59, 62–63 artificial insemination, of karakul sheep, 146–48 Aspling, Sven, 108 assemblage, of knowledge, 194 282 Index Association of Space Explorers, 208–1 asteroid belt, 200 asteroids, 199; effects of impacts by, 202–3, 205–6; as environmental objects, 195–96; location of, 204; origins of, 200–201; threat mitigation of, 197–98, 208–9 astronomy, 195–203 Atlantic Cable, 159 autarky, 43, 49, 142–44 Badoglio, Pietro, 145 Bafalon, Lee, 57 Balbo, Italo, 145 Baring Brothers & Company, 156 Barringer, David, 202 Bates, Joshua, 156 Baur, Erwin, 139 Bayer, fungicides by, 106 Beck, Ulrich, 207 Belarus, 119, 124–25, 253n2 Belknap, Jeremy, 25, 31–33 Benford, Robert D., 91 Bennett, Hugh Hammond, 87–89, 99, 102; on erosion problem, 90–92, 94, 100–101; framing by, 91–93, 95–96, 101; on soil conservation as patriotism, 94–96; Soil Conservation Service and, 90, 98, 100 Benson, Etienne, 254n18 Berkeley, California, 216 Bernstein, Brock, 51–52, 68 Betoxin, 108 beverage containers: nonreturnable, 75–76, 79–80, 82–83; Norway’s recycling of, 69–71, 74, 80–82, 245n5, 246n21, 247n37; recycling of, 76–80; responsibility for disposal of, 82–83 B612 Foundation, 208–9 Białowieża forest, 118, 122–24, 129, 253n1; criticisms of biologists working in, 126–28; environmental history of, 119–20; locals’ role in decisions about, 120–21; as primeval forest vs. commercial forest, 125, 130–31 Białowieża Forest National Park, 118; conflict over expansion of, 123–25, 253n6, 254n16; struggle over uses of, 123–24, 130–31 Bijker, Wiebe, 93 bioaccumulation, of mercury, 105, 109, 110 biodiversity, 219–20, 271n4 biologists, 150, 173, 219; on Białowieża forest, 123–25, 130–31, 253n1; legitimacy of, 126–28; locals vs., 124–30 birds, mercury poisoning of, 105, 106–7 bison, restoration of, 254n13 Blackbourn, David, 5 Bobrowsky, Charles, 207 Bode, Johanne, 199 Bonadonna, Telesforo, 146–47 Bonneuil, Christophe, 259n71 Boone and Crockett Club, 188 borders. See boundary-work boreal ecology, 174–75, 176–77 Borg, Karl, 107 Bormann, Herb, 166 bottles. See beverage containers; glass boundaries: among disciplines, 42–43, 201; asteroid threat mitigation crossing, 209–10; Białowieża National Park crossing, 119; broadening of environmental history’s, 196; of Fort Apache Indian Reservation, 180; habitats vs., 23; between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, 183; of research regions, 170; solar system’s, 199–200, 207; territorial sovereignty and, 27–28 boundary objects, 167, 197, 207, 210, 268n8 boundary-work: in knowledge systems, 8–9; in land-management practices, 186; in science vs. other types of knowledge production, 180–81; in STS and environmental history, 13–16; by White Mountain Apaches...

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