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Contributors J Baird Callicott is professor of philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas. He is author of In Defense ofthe Land Ethic (1989), Earth's Insights (1994), Beyond the Land Ethic (1999), and more than a hundred book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews in environmental philosophy. He is editor or coeditor of Companion to "A Sand County Almanac" (1987), The River ofthe Mother of God and Other Essays fly Aldo Leopold (1991), The Great New Wilderness Debate (1998), and several other anthologies. In 1971, at the University of WisconsinStevens Point, he designed and taught the first philosophy course in environmental ethics. He has served as president ofthe International Society ofEnvironmental Ethics since 1997. David Ehrenfeld is professor of biology at Rutgers University, where he teaches courses in ecology and conservation. He is the author of The Arrogance ofHumanism (1981) and Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium (1993), and was the founding editor of the internationaljournal Conservation Biology. He lectures widely and has written numerous articles for magazines and scientific publications. Susan L. Flader is professor of United States western and environmental history at the University ofMissouri-Columbia. In addition to her many articles, she has written or edited six books, including Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution ofan Ecological Attitude Toward Deer; Wolves, and Forests (1974; 1994), The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History (1983), The River of the Mother ofGod and OtherEssays fly Aldo Leopold (1991), and Exploring Missouri's Legacy : State Parks and Historic Sites (1992). She has served as president of the American Society for Environmental History (1995-97) and the Missouri Parks Association (1982-86 and 1998-present), and as a director of the National Audubon Society, the American Forestry Association, and the Forest History Society. Eric T. Freyfogle teaches property, natural resources, and environmental law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where he is the Max L. Rowe Professor. He is the author ofJustice and the Earth (1993) and Bounded People, Boundless Lands (1998), as well as many scholarly and popular articles on property ownership and environmental policy. A native of central Illinois, he has long been active in many state and local environmental causes. Wes Jackson is president of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. He served as professor of biology at Kansas Wesleyan University and later established the Environmental Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento. Jack357 358 Contributors son outlined the basis for agricultural research at the Land Institute in New Roots for Agriculture (1980). Altars of Unhewn Stone appeared in 1987 and Meeting the Expectations ofthe Land, edited with Wendell Berry and Bruce Colman, in 1984. Becoming Native to This Place (1994) sketches his vision for the resettlement of America's rural communities. His most recent work, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, coedited with William Vitek, appeared in 1996. He is a recipient of the Pew Conservation Scholars award (1990) and a MacArthur Fellowship (1992). Paul W.Johnson served from 1994 to 1997 as chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As a representative in the Iowa General Assembly from 1984 to 1990, he was a major architect of the state's landmark Groundwater Protection Act and other legislation involving sustainable agriculture and the environment. He holds degrees in forestry from the University of Michigan, and has taught forestry in Ghana and worked with the USDA Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest. He served on the board on agriculture of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences from 1988 to 1994, contributing to major studies in forestry, agriculture, and conservation. Mter leaving the NRCS,johnson returned to his family's farm in Iowa. In 1999 he was appointed director of Iowa's Department of Natural Resources. Joni L. Kinsey is associate professor at the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History with a specialty in American art. Among other topics, she has published on American architecture, women painters in the West, and polyptychs (multipaneled images) in American art. Her research has focused especially on landscape and regional issues within the visual culture of the United States, and she has written a number of articles and exhibition catalogue essays on these subjects. She is the author of Thomas Moran: Surveying the American West (1992) and Plain Pictures: Images ofthe American Prairie (1996). Richard L. Knight is professor of wildlife conservation at Colorado State...

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