Ecological Restoration and the U.S. Nature and Environmental Writing Tradition

Laura Smith is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter, U.K. She works across cultural geography and the environmental humanities, with research interests in ecological restoration and rewilding, the history and conservation of U.S. public lands, American literature, and environmental protest and activism.

• Chapter 1: A Storying—Restorying—Restoring of the Land: Rethinking Ecological Restoration through Literature.- Chapter 2: ‘With Walden in Its Midst:’ Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, and the Walden Woods Project.- Chapter 3: ‘No Holier Temple:’ John Muir, the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and Restore Hetch Hetchy.- Chapter 4: ‘On This Sand Farm in Wisconsin:’ Aldo Leopold, the Leopold Shack, and the Aldo Leopold Foundation.- Chapter 5: ‘The Superb Monotony of Saw Grass Under the World of Air:’ Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the Everglades, and Friends of the Everglades.- Chapter 6: ‘The Canyonlands Did Have a Heart, a Living Heart:’ Edward Abbey, Glen Canyon, and the Glen Canyon Institute.- Reflections on Literature, Ecological Restoration, and Activism.- Index.