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Author(s): Miller, Char; Swift, Allegra K; Kramer, Anna; Hackenberger, Ben | Abstract: Scholarly ... more Author(s): Miller, Char; Swift, Allegra K; Kramer, Anna; Hackenberger, Ben | Abstract: Scholarly communication is undergoing an ever accelerating evolution in how research and scholarship are being conducted, how scholarship is being disseminated, and who is included in the creation and communication of new knowledge. At the forefront of this evolution are libraries and academics who recognize that students are not only creating new knowledge that is valuable beyond the walls of the classroom but that there is a dire need to support and educate students and institutions about the impact of information sharing on a global scale. Students share and receive information on the internet with very little context and support for their roles as knowledge producers and global digital citizens.This chapter discusses how acting on these opportunities benefit the student well after graduation by inspiring citizens who are information-literate advocates for education, intellectual engagement, an...

Journal of Forestry, 2016

Journal of Forestry, 2015

The American Historical Review, 1999

Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and So? cial Change in West V... more Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and So? cial Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. By Ronald L. Lewis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xv plus 348pp.). In Transforming the Appalachian Countryside, a major ...

Eastern Sierra History Journal

Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene: Science, Policy, and Practice, 2016

$Research paper thumbnail of Making the Past Present: Editor\u27s Note$

For this inaugural volume of the ESHJ, editor Char Miller discusses the formative role that write... more For this inaugural volume of the ESHJ, editor Char Miller discusses the formative role that writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) has had in identifying many of the Eastern Sierra\u27s key features, natural and human. This new journal hopes to add to the intellectual work that she launched, serving as a window into this complex, fascinating, and contested region

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1988

The Journal of American History, 2000

Ecological Economics, 2003

The American Historical Review, 2005

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2002

The Journal of Pacific History, 1979

But was alcohol the primary symbol of contention throughout Oceania? And in those areas where it ... more But was alcohol the primary symbol of contention throughout Oceania? And in those areas where it was paramount, will an analysis of the missionary\u27s socioeconomic background fully explain the debate between the mission and the beach communities? My responses are limited to evidence drawn from the histories of the Hawaiian and Gilbert Islands missions. Nevertheless, the trends suggested by these two missions indicate that a different perception of the missionary\u27s activities is possible

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1960

$Research paper thumbnail of Gifford Pinchot\u27s Legacy: America\u27s Great National Forests$

Gifford Pinchot, the founding chief of the US Forest Service, had a profound impact in California... more Gifford Pinchot, the founding chief of the US Forest Service, had a profound impact in California and more broadly across the US west. After all, the Forest Service manages upwards of 193 million acres, many of which are located west of the Mississippi River. Yet it was California, which he visited in 1891, that rocked his perceptions of America the Beautiful