Project MUSE®: Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers - Latest Articles
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It is my great pleasure to present the eighty-seventh volume of the Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Looking back at the first volume of the Yearbook, published in 1935 as the proceedings of the inaugural meeting of the Association, it is remarkable how encompassing and occasionally eclectic our collective endeavors have remained throughout our long history, and I believe each new volume reflects that tradition. As always, in addition to the usual selection of original research, this volume highlights our well-hosted 2024 gathering in Arcata, California.At that meeting, Fernando Bosco's Presidential Address introduced us to the concept of gastro poles, a novel adaptation of the classic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallEditorial Notes2025-12-16text/htmlen-USEditorial Notes2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®55522026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Contributor Biographies
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Daniel D. Arreola is emeritus professor at Arizona State University, where he taught and researched about the Mexican border and Mexican Americans for more than two decades. He resides in Placitas, New Mexico; collects historic postcards about ethnic restaurants; and is writing a book about Mexican restaurants in America. He is a past president of the APCG, a Distinguished Service Award recipient; past editor of Pacifica, the APCG newsletter; and co-host of the APCG meeting in Phoenix in 2005.Timothy J. Babalis is a historian and cultural resource program manager at Pinnacles National Park. He is the author of the Pinnacles park history and numerous publications for the National Park Service on a variety of topics.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallContributor Biographies2025-12-16text/htmlen-USContributor Biographies2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®68052026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Gastro Poles and Neighborhood Change in Buenos Aires
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For a decade, a significant portion of my research and writing has been devoted to work on the connections between food and place in urban environments. Studying food with an explicit attention to place means exploring the connections between food and the physical environment, social relations, economic structures, cultural practices, and political institutions and how those connections vary in specific geographic contexts (Bosco 2020). I have examined this topic by asking questions about how specific characteristics of places affect how food is grown, prepared, distributed, or consumed. At the same time, I have investigated how such everyday food practices create and transform places themselves. There is a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallGastro Poles and Neighborhood Change in Buenos Aires2025-12-16text/htmlen-USGastro Poles and Neighborhood Change in Buenos Aires2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®1377962026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Re-examining Third Places in the Age of Telecommuters: Excerpts from Bend, Oregon
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Given that a bend is a change in direction, the town of Bend, Oregon, is aptly named: in the last five decades the town has transformed from a lumber and cattle town into an outstanding symbol of the dynamic "New West" (Shumway and Otterstram 2001), or what Lybecker has labeled the "New New West" (Lybecker 2020). After its extractive industrial base declined in the 1970s, Bend restructured and has surged to regional prominence with a post-industrial economy centered on natural and cultural amenities and tourism. Bend's population has quintupled since the 1990s to exceed 100,000 today as educated, politically progressive "lifestyle migrants," mostly from larger cities in the Pacific Northwest and California, have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallRe-examining Third Places in the Age of Telecommuters: Excerpts from Bend, Oregon2025-12-16text/htmlen-USRe-examining Third Places in the Age of Telecommuters: Excerpts from Bend, Oregon2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®803622026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16California's Channel Islands National Park as a Site of Cultural Innovation
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Every aspect of culture has a beginning point. One of the roles of geography is to identify places that spawn new ideas, beliefs, activities, and objects. Thereafter the processes of diffusion carry them out into the world. Decades of research have described so-called culture regions, hearths for religions, political beliefs, and economic functions such as agriculture and industry. A sizeable literature continues to grow about places that invent cultural attributes and the ways they diffuse (National Academies 2019, 19–20; Sahin 2006; Sörlin 2020). The systems within which innovation and diffusion occur are innumerable. One that interests us is the national park system, an American invention that has an unusual
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallCalifornia's Channel Islands National Park as a Site of Cultural Innovation2025-12-16text/htmlen-USCalifornia's Channel Islands National Park as a Site of Cultural Innovation2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®876702026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Preemption, Federalism, and Contemporary Energy Planning: A Case Study of the Millennium Coal Terminal in Washington State
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Energy permitting in the United States is a complicated patchwork of federal, state, and local energy and land-use planning laws created over a period of more than five decades (Spence 2013). The fight between federal jurisdiction and more decentralized control has been present since the founding of the United States (Spence 2013; Wiseman 2016). The result is a cooperative federalism model resulting in confusion over the appropriate decision-making unit for some energy projects. The Millennium Coal Terminal project in Longview, Washington, is a recent example. This project represents the proverbial "kitchen sink" of conflicting jurisdictions and institutional governance frameworks. Fully unpacking this case study
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallPreemption, Federalism, and Contemporary Energy Planning: A Case Study of the Millennium Coal Terminal in Washington State2025-12-16text/htmlen-USPreemption, Federalism, and Contemporary Energy Planning: A Case Study of the Millennium Coal Terminal in Washington State2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®1151082026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16China's Língqú 灵渠 Magic Transport Canal: Context, Origin, Design, and Significance
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The 2,240-year-old Língqú 灵渠 Magic Transport Canal, near Guilin in south-central China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is one of the most noteworthy civil works in human history. This paper is a compilation of information from various sources and a comprehensive summary of its significance.Understanding its story begins with appreciation of context—its physical location in China, the importance of waterworks in Chinese history, and the political environment that brought about its creation. The story continues to the details of its design and construction and concludes with consideration of its significance—how the quiet flow in its winding channel changed the course of human history.The first detailed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallChina's Língqú 灵渠 Magic Transport Canal: Context, Origin, Design, and Significance2025-12-16text/htmlen-USChina's Língqú 灵渠 Magic Transport Canal: Context, Origin, Design, and Significance2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®740442026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16An Afternoon with Henry Glassie
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Pasa Tiempo, the Friday arts magazine that comes with our digital subscription to the Santa Fe New Mexican, featured the announcement. A film to be shown at the Museum of International Folk Arts titled Henry Glassie: Field Work. Glassie, an internationally renowned folklorist, would also appear and answer questions following the presentation of the documentary.The Museum of International Folk Art (MIFA) is one of a handful of museums on the south side of Santa Fe, perched on an elevation known locally as Museum Hill. We have been members of the Museum Foundation of New Mexico ever since taking up residence in the Land of Enchantment. We've often taken out-of-town guests to Museum Hill to enjoy special exhibits and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallAn Afternoon with Henry Glassie2025-12-16text/htmlen-USAn Afternoon with Henry Glassie2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®148302026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park
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Much has been written about Yellowstone National Park since its creation in 1872. So much, in fact, that a new history of the world's first national park might seem superfluous. As Randall Wilson's authoritative, entertaining, and often humorous book clearly demonstrates, an additional volume is not only welcome but also timely.Divided into four parts comprising twenty-two chapters, A Place Called Yellowstone offers public lands aficionados and neophytes alike a sweeping overview of the park's social, cultural, environmental, and geologic past. In Part One, Foundations, Wilson immediately captures the attention of readers by recounting an event that relatively few tourists know about—and those who do prefer to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallA Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park2025-12-16text/htmlen-USA Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®92982026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Report of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting: Arcata, California October 3–5, 2024
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The Eighty-Sixth annual meeting of the APCG was hugely successful, despite how far north people had to travel. Humboldt hosted 108 registrants, including seventy-one students, in person on campus with numerous field trips, keynote speakers, and two full days of paper and poster sessions. Of the registrants, ninety-two were from California, three from Arizona, two each from Oregon and Nevada, and one each from Alabama, British Columbia, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, and Washington. The meeting location led to new connections, renewed relationships, and excellent and creative research shared.The conference began on Wednesday night with an informal gathering at the Redwood Curtain Brewery
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallReport of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting: Arcata, California October 3–5, 20242025-12-16text/htmlen-USReport of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting: Arcata, California October 3–5, 20242025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®47032026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16APCG Distinguished Service Award
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Any recipe summing up qualities useful to an Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Distinguished Service Award recipient swiftly evolves into a movable feast of possibility, and our 2024 recipient would readily acknowledge the importance of keeping in motion and blending varied elements of the geographer's art in a great cultural Vitamix®. In the business for better than thirty years, said geographer long ago mastered exceptionally good teaching, as recognized by students and the University; leading classes into structured fieldwork; finessing a steady stream of university grants; meeting the vagaries of family life; finding novel travel destinations to explore; delighting in the riches of a non-teaching summer
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallAPCG Distinguished Service Award2025-12-16text/htmlen-USAPCG Distinguished Service Award2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®68872026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-162024 APCG Student Paper Awards
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The President's Award for Outstanding Paper by a Phd StudentJake Rowlett, San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara "Searching for Star Wars in Humboldt and Del Norte: Cinematic Methods of Film Tourism across Redwoods State Parks"The President's Award for Outstanding Paper by a Master's StudentSangeeta Sarkar, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt "Indigenized Histories and Futures of the Schatz Tree Farm"The President's Award for Outstanding Paper by an Undergraduate StudentJacob Pike, University of California, Santa Barbara "Hydraulic Modeling with UAV Imagery:The Glendale Narrows of the Los Angeles River"The Tom McKnight and Joan Clemons Award for an Outstanding Paper
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmall2024 APCG Student Paper Awards2025-12-16text/htmlen-US2024 APCG Student Paper Awards2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®50182026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Resolutions of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting Arcata, California
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Whereas, we owe a great debt to conference organizers Rosemary Sheriff and Nick Perdue, who have organized and implemented an exemplary eighty-sixth APCG conference in Arcata. We also thank the faculty, staff, and students at Cal Poly Humboldt who made this conference possible; everyone from Amy jumping in with tech support, to Adonis at the name-tag table. We thank the gracious staff at Uniquely Yours catering, whose consistently excellent food and company has been an absolute highlight of this year's conference, andWhereas, the Committee notes that this year's resolutions were particularly difficult to compose, due to a remarkable absence of major blunders at this year's conference. Thursday's three field trips
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallResolutions of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting Arcata, California2025-12-16text/htmlen-USResolutions of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting Arcata, California2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®71132026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16Abstracts for Oral Presentations and Posters
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Sanchayeeta Adhikari, sadhikari@csun.edu, California State University, Northridge. Local-Scale Land Degradation Monitoring of Kolkata, India, Toward the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 15.3. Land degradation neutrality (LDN) is aimed at reducing and reversing human-induced land degradation through exploitation of land in the form of land changes such as deforestation, wetland transformations, agricultural expansion, and urbanization. India aims to achieve LDN by 2030 toward this sustainable development goal (SDG) indicator 15.3 as adopted by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). SDG indicators are developed as a monitoring mechanism for land degradation at a national level
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/280/image/coversmallAbstracts for Oral Presentations and Posters2025-12-16text/htmlen-USAbstracts for Oral Presentations and Posters2025-12-162025TWOProject MUSE®983642026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002025-12-16