Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : 1. Theory and method -- Wilderness and culture / John Wadland -- Doing environmental history / Donald Worster -- Gender and environmental history / Carolyn Merchant -- The nature and utility of traditional ecological knowledge / Milton M.R. Freeman - 2. Biology, culture, and imperialism -- Ecological imperialism : the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- 1492 and all that : making a garden out of wilderness / Ramsay Cook -- Aboriginal resource use in the nineteenth century in the great plains on modern Canada / Irene M. Spry - 3. Industrialization and the spread of settlement -- Three ideas of nature in Canada, 1893-1914 / George Altmeyer -- "The vexed question of sawdust" : river pollution in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick / Gilbert Allardyce -- The beginnings of a movement : the Montreal congress and its aftermath, 1880-1896 / Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach -- Conservation planning and urban planning : the Canadian Commission of Conservation in historical perspective / Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter -- The image of the state / H.V. Nelles --

4. The question of wildlife -- Death on ice (old style) /Farley Mowat -- Rationality and rationalization in Canadian National parks predator policy / Alan MacEachern -- The myth of integrated wildlife/forestry management / I.D. Thompson -- Animal rights and environmentalism / Rebecca Aird - 5. Common and uncommon property -- What happens when common property becomes uncommon? / M. Patricia Marchak -- Misunderstanding the prairies / David A. Gauthier and J. David Henry -- The alienation of Canadian resources : the case of the Columbia River Treaty / Larratt T. Higgins -- The all alone stone manifesto / John Broadhead -- Speaking for the earth : the Haida way / Gwaganad - 6. Rethinking environmental impact and assessment -- The Oka crisis from an environmental history perspective, 1870-1990 / Michel F. Girard -- Native people and the Alaska Highway / K. S. Coates and W. R. Morrison -- Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental assessment -- Ecology, culture, and the subarctic Algonquians / Edward S. Rogers.