Vale (geography, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) takes a primarily typological approach to synthesizing efforts in the US to protect nature. He discusses the meanings of wilderness, of wild landscapes, and o
For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary visi
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dap
