The Maine Woods: A Legacy of Controversy

In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Richard Judd reflects on the history of Maine’s North Woods. He discusses the divergent interests with a stake on the North Woods over the centuries, but notes that there has been a long-standing interest in conservation and in the heritage represented by this vast region

Good Roads for Whom? Farmers, Urban Merchants, and Road Administration in Maine, 1901-1916

The arrival of the automobile challenged Maine to rethink a road system that dated back to colonial times. But as auto advocates soon discovered, this was an immensely controversial issue, bringing years of political turmoil as contending groups questioned matters of road location, financing, and administration at every juncture. As key players in this drama, farmers fought for a road system that linked them to local markets or rail depots; tourist advocates, on the other hand, envisioned a system of “trunk lines” — well-constructed thoroughfares that would carry travelers from one end of the state to the other. Isolation, parochial living, and traditionalism, some historians suggest, biased farmers against the modern political agencies that took control over roads previously built and maintained by individual towns. In fact, they had solid economic reasons to oppose these modern administrative forms, and until their needs were met, Maine road policy remained at an impasse. Richard W. Judd received a doctoral degree in American history from the University of California at Irvine in 1979, and from 1981 to 1984 he edited the Journal of Forest History. In 1984 he joined the History Department at the University of Maine and became editor of Maine History. His publications include Natural States: The Environmental Imagination in Maine, Oregon, and the Nation; Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England; Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present; and Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine

“A Last Chance for Wilderness”: Defining The Allagash Wilderness Waterway, 1959-1966

Seen in national perspective, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway is arguably Maine\u27s most dramatic environmental accomplishment. The waterway resulted from an extended debate over several mutually exclusive proposals for the north Maine woods— dams to flood it; national parks to preserve it; and recreational schemes to transform it into a Coney Island of the North. In the mid-1960s, a coalition of landowners and conservationists cobbled together a preservation plan that conformed to the 1968 Federal Wild and Scenic River Act but pioneered several unique features that gave the wilderness idea a decidedly “eastern” twist. As a result, the waterway became a model not only for Maine, but for the entire eastern United States, where rivers are far less \u27‘pristine’\u27 than those in the West. Richard W. Judd, professor of history at the University of Maine, is author of Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern New England (1997) and co-editor of Maine History. He is currently working with Christopher S. Beach on a study of environmental thought and action in Maine and Oregon, 1945-1975

Timber Down the St. John: A Study in Maine-New Brunswick Relations

This article is an expanded version of a paper read at a meeting of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations - Forest History Group in Portland, Oregon, October 18-19, 1983. The meeting was sponsored by the Forest History Society, Santa Cruz, California, which published the proceedings of the meeting under the editorship of Harold K. Steen

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Mi\u27Kmaq Resistance, Accomodaation and Cultural Survival by Harald E.I. Prins; The Richardson Lakes: Jewels in the Rangeley Chain by Herbert P. Shirref

Approaches in Environmental History: The Case in New England and Quebec

This article explores differences and similarities in approaches to environmental history in Canada and the United States. It begins by assessing the historiographical and political traditions that influenced the growth of environmental history in America in the 1970s, and then compares these traditions to similar trends in Canada, asking the question: are the basic premises of environmental history, as they developed in the U.S., appropriate to the Canadian national experience? The article then assesses similar ways of exploring reciprocal relations between society and nature in a single cross-border area: a bioregion consisting of Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces to the North, and New England and New York to the South. Here we find that scholarly traditions on both sides of the border have something new to contribute to the larger study of environmental history

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Same Great Struggle: The History of the Vickery Family of Unity, Maine, 1634-1997 by Andrea Constantine Hawkes; Canning Gold: Northern New England\u27s Sweet Corn Industry: A Historical Geography by Paul B. Frederic; Antiqueman\u27s Diary: The Memoir of Fred Bishop Tuck edited by Dean A. Fales, Jr

St. John\u27s Church: A History and Appreciation: Produced on the Occasion of the Jubilee 2000

A history of St. John\u27s Catholic Church on York Street in Bangor, Maine, dating from the 1830s to 2000.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1343/thumbnail.jp

Biological Flora of the Tropical and Subtropical Intertidal Zone: Literature Review for Rhizophora mangle L.

Rhizophora mangle L. is a tropical and subtropical mangrove species that occurs as a dominant tree species in the intertidal zone of low-energy shorelines. Rhizophora mangle plays an important role in coastal zones as habitat for a wide range of organisms of intertidal food webs, as a natural barrier to coastal erosion, and as carbon sequestration. A review of mangrove literature has been performed, but a review specifically on red mangroves has not. The approach was to cover a broad range of topics with a focus on topics that have seen significant work since the 1970s. This review includes a brief introduction to red mangroves and then focuses on the following topics: biogeography, habitats and zonation, geomorphological interactions, taxonomy, histology, anatomy, physiological ecology, productivity, biomass, litter, reproduction, population biology, plant communities, interactions with other species, impacts of storms, reforestation, remote sensing, modelling, and economic importance