Course Readings

Following are required readings for Environmental Studies 399. These readings also are listed on the course schedule on the days on which they are assigned. The page also includes a bibliography of supplementary readings on the Cannon River region and a sense of place.

REQUIRED TEXT

Wes Jackson. 1996. Becoming Native to This Place. Washington: Counterpoint.

REQUIRED ELECTRONIC RESERVE READINGS
Available in our course's Library Materials folder on the L:Classes/Brit drive

• Essays from William Vitek and Wes Jackson, eds. 1996. Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Helena Norberg-Hodge, “Living with the Land”
  • Deborah Tall, “Dwelling: Making Peace with Space and Place”
  • Jack Kloppenburg Jr., John Hendrickson and G.W. Stevenson, “Coming In to the Foodshed”
  • Franklin A Kalinowski, “Aldo Leopold as Hunter and Communitarian”
  • Philip Selznick, “In Search of Community”
  • David W. Orr, “Re-Ruralizing Education”
    
• “A Practical Harmony” and “The Work of Local Culture,” essays from Wendell Berry. 1990. What Are People For? New York: North Point.
  
• “Ordinary Local Knowledge” from Frank Fischer. 2000. Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press.
  

OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

The following readings are optional supplementary sources.

READINGS ON "A SENSE OF PLACE"

Beatley, Timothy, and Kristy Manning. 1997. Ch. 4, “The Ecology of Place.” The Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy, and Community. Washington: Island Press. (Electronic reserve in Library Materials folder)

Cheng, Antony S., and Steven E. Daniels. 2003. "Examining the Interaction between Geographic Scale and Ways of Knowing in Ecosystem Management: A Case Study of Place-Based Collaborative Planning." Forest Science 49, no. 6:841-854. (Electronic reserve in Library Materials folder)

Cheng, Antony S., Linda E. Kruger, and Steven E. Daniels. 2003. "'Place' as an Integrating Concept in Natural Resource Politics: Propositions for a Social Science Research Agenda." Society and Natural Resources 16:87-104. (Electronic reserve in Library Materials folder)

Sale, Kirkpatrick. 2000. Ch. 4, “Dwellers in the Land.” Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Original edition, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985. (Electronic reserve in Library Materials folder)

Schneider, Richard J., ed. 2000. Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. (Rolvaag Library)

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HISTORICAL READINGS ON THE CANNON RIVER REGION

Amatuzio, Barry, and Ross Hamre. 1978. Northfield River Corridor: Cannon River. [Minneapolis]. (Northfield Public Library)

Bohnhoff, Jim, and Lynn Carlin. 1976. Continuum: Threads in the Community Fabric of Northfield, Minnesota. Northfield: City of Northfield. (Rolvaag Library)

Larsen, Arthur James. 1931. The Settlement and Development of Rice County, Minnesota, to 1875. Master's thesis, University of Minnesota. (Rolvaag Library)

Munson, Raymond. 1938. Rice County: The Story of Its Discovery and Settlement. Minneapolis: Works Progress Administration. (Rolvaag Library)

Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas. 1993. “The Minnesota, the Blue Earth and the Undine.” Joseph N. Nicollet on the Plains and Prairies. Translated by E. C. Bray and M. C. Bray. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. (Electronic reserve in Library Materials folder)

O'Connell, Barbara, and Kenneth C. Wedding. 1985. Archaeological Survey of Rice County, Minnesota. St. Paul: Hamline University. (Rolvaag Library)

Schmidt, Edward W. 1937. Lowland Mounds in the Northfield Area. Northfield: Mohn Printing. (Rolvaag Library)

Swanberg, L.E. 1976. Then and Now: A History of Rice County, Faribault and Communities. Faribault: Rice County Bi-Centennial Commission. (Rolvaag Library)

Umbanhowar, Charles Jr., and Paul Jensen. [1999]. The Indian Pathway through the Carleton Arboretum. [Northfield]. (Northfield Public Library)

 

ENVIRONMENTAL READINGS ON THE CANNON RIVER REGION

Blair, Bruce. 1994. Guide to the Lower Cannon River Valley: Its Public Places, Recreational Facilities, Natural Resources, and Points of Interest. Welch, MN: Welch General Store. (Northfield Public Library)

Camill, Philip, Charles E. Umbanhowar Jr., Rebecca Teed, Christoph E. Geiss, Jessica Aldinger, Leah Dvorak, Jon Kenning, Jacob Limmer, and Kristina Walkup. 2003. "Late-glacial and Holocene Climatic Effects on Fire and Vegetation Dynamics at the Prairie-forest Ecotone in South-central Minnesota. Journal of Ecology 91: 822-836. (Class Materials folder on the L/Classes drive)

Carlson, Britt, Jeff Jasperson, Tonya Kjerland and Nathan Smits. "The Cannon River: An Overview of the Physical characteristics and Management of the Watershed," written for Biology 285, January 2004.

Citizens Jury on Hog Farming: Final Report. 1995. Northfield: St. Olaf College and Carleton College. (Prof. Breen's personal library)

Geiss, Christoph E., Charles E. Umbanhowar, Phil Camill, and Subir K. Banerjee. 2003. "Sediment Magnetic Properties Reveal Holocene Climate Change along the Minnesota Prairie-Forest Ecotone." Journal of Paleolimnology 30: 151-166. (Class Materials folder on the L/Classes drive)

Gregory, Megan. "Comparing Agroecosystems: Effects of Cropping and Tillage Patterns on Soil, Water, Energy Use and Productivity, or 'What I learned Playing in the Dirt, Part II,'" written for Biology 398, Fall 2003. (Full-text version and a shorter poster text/graphics version available in the Class Materials folder on the L/Classes drive.)

Robbins, Chris. 1996. Cannon River Watershed Plan. Faribault: Cannon River Watershed Partnership. (Rolvaag Library)

Umbanhowar, Charles Jr., Daniel R. Engstrom, and Eric C. Bergman. "Reconstructing Eutrophication and Phosphorus Loading for Lake Volney, Minnesota: Combining Lake Sediments and Land-Use History to Establish 'Natural' Baselines for Management and Restoration." Lake and Reservoir Management 19, no. 1: forthcoming. (Copy provided by Prof. Umbanhowar will be available soon in the Library Materials folder on the L/Classes drive.)

Zischke, James, Gary Schnobrich, Mark Vlasek, Molly McGrath, and Jack Arthur. 1997. Assessment of Water Quality in Streams of the Cannon River Watershed Basin. Northfield: St. Olaf College. (Rolvaag Library)

 

READINGS ON WRITING A MEMOIR ESSAY

Gornick, Vivian. 2001. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narratives. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Class Materials folder on the L/Classes drive)

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