Henry Red Eagle, Popular Literature, and the Native American Connection to the Maine Woods

Returning to Maine in 1936 after several decades working in the American entertainment industry, Henry Red Eagle (1885- 1972), a Maliseet from Greenville, wrote in an area newspaper of his love of the northern forest: “what I really like is to ease around in an old flannel shirt, or no shirt at all if the place and the occupation permit— and let the rest of the world go by. I like to get off on some unfrequented part of the lake or stream in my canoe or in the woods where the noise of the crowds can’t reach me. I suppose it’s a reversion to the blanket of my ancestors.” As a registered Maine guide, Red Eagle was well acquainted with the woods and waters of northern Maine

“There Are Folks Comin’ After Us That Will Need Trees”: Progressive Era Conservation, The Woods Tradition, and Maine Writer Holman Francis Day

Throughout his novels, Maine author Holman Francis Day maintained the importance of both the conservation of timber and the cultural conservation of Maine’s rural communities. Day wrote his novels in a Progressive Era climate permeated by a wise-use ideology. The point for Day, however, was not whether resources should be used, but by whom; his approach emphasized Maine’s resources for Maine’s people and industry. As a writer of fiction, Day balanced the needs of the people of Maine with a concern for the natural resources that made the state unique. Dale Potts is an Assistant Professor of History at South Dakota State University where he teaches courses in Native American history, environmental history and United States cultural history. His research includes the study of popular nature writing, including pulp fiction, and how it relates to the topics of conservation and environmentalism in the twentieth centur

An analysis of key governance domains affecting environment outcomes and their social and economic consequences in the Great Barrier Reef: core data tables

The intended outcomes of governance for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are made clear in the Reef Long Term Sustainability Plan (LTSP). At its broadest level, the vision for future outcomes in the GBR under the LTSP is "to ensure the Great Barrier Reef continues to improve on its Outstanding Universal Value every decade between now and 2050 to be a natural wonder for each successive generation to come" (Commonwealth of Australia, 2015). The Plan goes on to outline a range of quite specific water quality and reef health targets that it intends to achieve by 2050. This vision and associated outcomes are broadly agreed across the Australian and Queensland Governments and among key sectors with GBR interests. These outcomes are also implicitly supported internationally through recent decisions regarding the future status of the GBR taken by the United Nations Educations, Sciences and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, 2015). This document consists of a number of rapid assessment tables that examine the risk of systemic failure of key governance domains and subdomains that majorly influence outcomes in the GBR. In doing so, we apply the Governance Systems Analysis (GSA) framework tested in Dale et al. (2013). Table 3 provides a description and summary of the results of all the rapid assessments contained in this document. The rapid assessment tables below are organised based on their alignment with the overarching governance themes of Economic Development, Social Development, and Environmental Management. Within all themes, some governance domains are broken down into more distinct subdomains. Most rapid assessment tables in this document describe and assess the governance systems within domains and subdomains in the Environmental Management Theme. Each rapid assessment table consists of a short description of the domain or subdomain, followed by the identification and explanation of the key structural and functional components of each. Based on this, the likelihood and consequences of the each domain's or subdomain's governance system failing are identified. Each table also consequently contains a score for the likelihood of systemic failure and the consequence of systemic failure. Finally, a cumulative risk rating is then derived from the multiplication of each of the aforementioned scores. The rapid assessment tables conclude with the identification of possible or suggested areas for governance reform. The standardised scores described in Table 1 and Table 2 are used throughout this document to indicate the likelihood and consequences of systemic failure of the governance system. The use of standard criteria enables benchmarking of the target governance system over time and repeatability of the assessment/s. The multiplication of the likelihood and consequence scores provides an indication of the risk of failure of the governance system being analysed. Overview References: Commonwealth of Australia. (2015). Reef 2050 long-term sustainability plan. Canberra: Department of the Environment. Retrieved from http://www.environment.gov.au/marine/gbr/long-term-sustainability-plan Dale, A., Vella, K., Pressey, R., Brodie, J., Yorkston, H., & Pott, s. R. (2013). A method for risk analysis across governance systems: a Great Barrier Reef case study. Environmental Research Letters, 8(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015037 UNESCO (2015). Decision: 39 COM 7B.7. Great Barrier Reef (Australia) (N 154). Retrieved from http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2015/whc15-39com-19-en.pd

Evaluating governance arrangements and decision-making outcomes for natural resource management planning: An empirical application of the governance systems analysis framework

Governance continues to be a challenge in the management and conservation of natural resources. It is difficult to strategically address governance challenges without understanding the dynamics, capacities, and knowledge application of institutions within such governance systems. This paper examines the use of Governance Systems Analysis (GSA) to compare, evaluate and benchmark governance arrangements for regional natural resource management (NRM) planning. It is applied in two Australian regional NRM case studies in Cape York and the Wet Tropics. Our analysis of governance arrangements for NRM planning in the two regions finds that while they are structurally and functionally similar, they have different capacities for decision-making about planning. The paper concludes with a discussion of the usefulness and implications of using the GSA as an evaluative framework to analyse governance in regional NRM planning systems

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: Unearthed: Storied Artifacts and Remarkable Predecessors of the Saint Joseph’s College Campus by Steven L. Bridge; Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr by Ronald H. Epp; The Human Shore: Seacoasts in Historyby John R. Gillis; Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston by Daniel G. Payne

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Reviews of the following books: The Wilderness from Chamberlain Farm: A Story of Hope for the American Wild by Dean B. Bennett; The French Baron of Pentagouet: Baron St. Castin and the Struggle for Empire in Early New England by Ailene S. Taylor; Bold Vision: The Development of the Parks of Portland, Maine, edited by Theo H.B.M. Holtwijk and Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.; Charles Nolcini: The Life and Music of an Italian American in the Age of Jackson by Vincent A. Lapomarda; A Most Remarkable Mix: Sketches of Notable Freeporters by John D. Davi

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Anticou\u27s Island Domain: Wabanaki People at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride; Maine Politics and Government, 2nd Edition by Kenneth T. Palmer, G. Thomas Taylor, Marcus A. LiBrizzi and Jean E. Lavigne; Survival at Work and Home: Saco-Lowell Shops in WWII by Roy P. Fairfield; Designing the Maine Landscape by Theresa Mattor and Lucie Teegarden; Historic Maine Homes: 300 Years of Great Houses Text By Christopher Glass, Photography by Brian Vanden Brink; Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation: A Heritage of Civic Engagement by Charles H. W. Foster, ed; Mountains in Maine: Intriguing Stories Behind Their Names by Steve Pinkham

Governing community-based natural resource management in Australia: international implications

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has grown in stature as a key component of many national natural resource and rural development governance systems. Despite their growth, the integrity of CBNRM governance systems has rarely been analysed in a national context. To enhance dialogue about how best to design and deploy such systems nationally, this paper analyses the Australian system in detail. The Australian system was selected because the nation has a globally recognised and strong history of CBNRM approaches. We first contextualise the international emergence of national CBRM governance systems before analysing the Australian system. We find that a theoretically informed approach recognising regions as the anchors in brokering multi-scale CBNRM was applied between 2000 and 2007. Subsequent policy, while strengthening indigenous roles, has tended to weaken regional brokering, Commonwealth–state cooperation and research collaboration. Our findings and consequent emerging lessons can inform Australian policy makers and other nations looking to establish (or to reform existing) CBNRM governance systems. Equally, the research approach taken represents the application of an emerging new theoretical framework for analysing complex governance systems

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History by Trudy Irene Scee; The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist: For God, King, Country and for Self by James S. Leamon; The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories by Don Perkins; Gateway to Vacationland: The Making of Portland, Maine by John F. Bauman; Maine: The Wilder Half of New England by William David Berry; The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War by Matthew McCullough; Omaha Beach: The Life and Military Service of a Penobscot Indian Elder by Charles Norman Shay

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier by Laura M. Chmielewski; Champlain\u27s Dream: The European Founding of North America by David Hackett Fischer; Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rustiates on Maine\u27s Mount Desert Island, 1840s-1920s by Bunny McBride and Harald E.L. Prins; Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture and Community on the Eastern Frontier by Kevin D. Murphy; Deering: A Social and Architectural History by William David Barry and Patricia MccGraw Anderson; Bethel, Maine: A Brief History by Stanley Russell Howe; Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen by Michael C. Connelly; Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed by James Grant; Rural Unweb Mothers: An American Experience, 1870-1950 by Mazie Hough; Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870-1950 by Mazie Houg