Hal K. Rothman - Reopening the American West

Mike Davis is a widely known and respected journalist and the author of City of Quartz:Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Among his many projects is a coedited volumewith Hal Rothman entitled The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas.He teaches urban theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in LosAngeles.

William deBuys is an author and professional conservationist who resides in SantaFe, New Mexico. He is the author of two highly acclaimed booksEnchantment and Exploitation:The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range and, with photographer AlexHarris, River of Traps.

Dan L. Flores is Hammond Professor of History and Environmental Studies at the Universityof Montana in Missoula. He is the author of a series of influential and provocativearticles about environmental history and Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heartof the Southern Plains.

Robert Gottlieb is one of the leading scholars and writers about the American West.He is the author of numerous books about water, including A Life of Its Own: ThePolitics and Power of Water, as well as Forcing the Spring: The Transformation ofthe American Environmental Movement. He teaches at the University of CaliforniaLosAngeles.

Helen Ingram is the Warmington Endowed Chair and Professor at the University of CaliforniaIrvine,where she holds joint appointments with the School of Social Ecology and the Departmentof Politics and Society. Among her specialties is the relationship of water resourcesto political power and equity in the American West. Her first book, a study of the1967 Colorado River Basin Projects Act, was updated in a new edition: Water Politics,Continuity and Change. Her most recent coauthored book, Divided Waters, deals withU.S.-Mexico transboundary water resources.

Char Miller is a professor of history at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.His articles on the history of American forestry and the Forest Service frequentlyappear in scholarly and popular journals. Forthcoming works include American Forestry:Nature, Politics, and Culture, Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History,and a volume redefining the life of Gifford Pinchot.

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor of history at Arizona State University, Tempe, andthe author of numerous volumes on fire history throughout the world, including Firein America, World Fire, Vestal Fire, and Burning Bush: A History of Fire in Australia.

Hal K. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of NevadaLas Vegas, wherehe edits the journal Environmental History. His most recent books are The Greeningof Nation? Environmentalism in the United States since 1945 and Fll Never FightFire with My Bare Hands Again. His next book is Devils Bargains: Tourism and Transformationin the Twentieth-Century American West.

Marguerite S. Shaffer is an assistant professor of history at the University of NorthCarolinaWilmington. She has published in Pacific Historical Review and other journalsand has received grants from the Smithsonian Institution, Dumbarton Oaks, and theHuntington Library. Her article is derived from her first book, See America First:Tourism and National Identity, 1905-1930, which is forthcoming.

Donald Worster is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the Universityof Kansas and one of the founders of modern environmental history. His works, includingDust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s and Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity,and the Growth of the American West, have garnered countless awards as he definedand redefined various subfields. His most recent work is An Unsettled Country: ChangingLandscapes of the American West. He is a popular speaker and lecturer and one ofthe clearest voices of environmental history that reaches the public.