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Please read each item before it is discussed in class.

Text is Killing the Natives: Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare? It is available from the university bookstore, Antigone Books, and directly from the publisher. You have a chance to save money and a few trees by downloading the book from the latter source. Chapters in the schedule of classes refer to this book (e.g., "KtN chapter 1").

Most articles, chapters, and symposium proceedings are available as PDF files directly linked to the schedule of classes or via the library's online reserve system. An exception is the habitat-type manual by Muldavin et al. (1996), copies of which are available for short-term inspection in Biosciences East 226D and will be made available for relevant field trips and exams.

Balmford, A., Bruner, A., Cooper, P., Costanza, R., Farber, S., Green, R.E., Jenkins, M., Jefferiss, P., Jessamy, V., Madden, J., Munro, K., Myers, N., Naeem, S. Paavola, J., Rayment, M., Rosendo, S. Roughgarden, J., Trumper, K., and Turner, R.K. 2002. Economic reasons for conserving wild nature. Science 297:950-953.

Barnett, J.P., and Baker, J.B. 1991. Regeneration methods. Pages 35-50 in Duryea, M.L., and Dougherty, P.M. (editors), Forest Regeneration Manual. Kluwer Academic Press, Boston.

Cook, J.E. 1996. Implications of modern successional theory for habitat typing: a review. Forest Science 42:67-75.

Epstein, P.R. 1997. Climate, ecology, and human health. Consequences 3(2).

Freilich, J. E., Emlen, J.M. Duda, J.J., Freeman, D.C., and Cafaro, P.J. 2003. Ecological effects of ranching: a six-point critique. BioScience 53:759-765.

Hansen, A.J., R.L. Knight, J.M. Marzluff, S. Powell,K. Brown, P.H. Gude, and K. Jones. 2005. Effects of exurban development on biodiversity: patterns, mechanisms, and research needs. Ecological Applications 15:1893-1905.

Holling, C.S. and Meffe, G.K. 1996. Command and control and the pathology of natural resource management. Conservation Biology 10:328-337.

Karl, T.R. and Trenberth, E.K. 2003. Modern global climate change. Science 302:1719-1723.

McPherson, G.R. Fuels and fire ecology: a guide for land managers in the southwestern United States. Unpublished manuscript.

McPherson, G.R. In press. Bridging the cultural divide: seeking common ground in the management of natural resources. In Barbara Johnson (editor), Ranching at the Crossroads: Forging a West that Works. Proceedings of the Second Annual Quivira Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. In press.

McPherson, G.R. and DeStefano, S. 2003. Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

McPherson, G.R. and Weltzin, J.F. 2000. Disturbance and climate change in United States/Mexico borderland plant communities: a state-of-the-knowledge review. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-50.

Muldavin, E.H., DeVelice, R.L., and Ronco, F., Jr. 1996. A classification of forest habitat types southern Arizona and portions of the Colorado Plateau. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-287. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. [Copies available in class and on field trip]

The Nature Conservancy. 1997. Conservation by Design: A Framework for Mission Success. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia.

Noss, R. 1999. Is there a special conservation biology? Ecography 2:113-122.

Pimentel, D., L. Lach, R. Zuniga, and D. Morrison. 2000. Environmental and economic costs of non-indigenous species in the United States. Bioscience 50:53-65.

Rolston, H., III. 1999. Ethics on the home planet. Pages 107-139 in Weston, A. (editor), An Invitation to Environmental Philosophy. Oxford University Press, New York, New York.

Steuter, A.A., and McPherson, G.R. 1995. Fire as a physical stress. Pages 550-579 in Bedunah, D.J., and Sosebee, R.E. (editors), Wildland Plants: Physiological Ecology and Developmental Morphology. Society for Range Management, Denver, Colorado.

Wackernagel, M., Schulz, N.B., Deumling, D., Linares, A.C., Jenkins, M., Kapos, V., Monfreda, C., Loh, J., Myers, N., Norgaard, R., and Randers, J. 2002. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99:9266-9271.