Contents

Introduction Listening to the Land through Oral History
Kathryn Newfont with Debbie Lee

Part I: Building Fluency

Chapter 1 Memories of Precipitation: Gathering and Assessing Ecological Oral Histories in an Era of Climate Change
Peter Friederici

Chapter 2 Fostering Relationships with the Wild: Oral History's Role in Recreation Management
Alison Steiner and Daniel R. Williams

Chapter 3 The Public Significance of the Private Farm
Nathaniel Van Yperen

Part II: Listening through Place

Chapter 4 Documenting Tension on Idaho's Public Lands: A Case Study from the Idaho Oral History Center Collections
Troy J Reeves and Linda Morton-Keithley

Chapter 5 Territorial: A Collective Oral History of Land and Indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica
Emma Gaalaas Mullaney

Part III: Fostering Community through Environment

Chapter 6 Resurrecting Dead Lands: Two Oral Histories of Urban Explorers
Ben S. Bunting Jr.

Chapter 7 When the Flood Came for Good: Personal Stories and Impersonal Change in the Savannah River Valley
Robert P. Shapard

Chapter 8 (Re)Constructing Community Commons and Traditions: Urban Gardening and Community Spaces in the Haddington Neighborhood of West Philadelphia
Patrick Hurley, Shakiya Canty, and Walter Greason

Part IV: Attending to Public Land

Chapter 9 "Sky-Fighters of the Forest": Conscientious Objectors, African American Paratroopers, and the U.S. Forest Service Smokejumping Program in World War II
Annie Hanshew

Chapter 10 Filling the Gaps with Silence: Women's Stories and the Movement to Save the Indiana Dunes
Brittany Bayless Fremion

Chapter 11 "A sense of comfort and belonging in the woods": The Narrative of Laurel Munson Boyers
Brenna Lissoway and Lu Ann Jones

Part V: Interviewing the Environment

Chapter 12 Thinking Like a File Cabinet: Eco-Cruising in the Bitterroot
James G. Lewis

Chapter 13 Legend Days: Becoming Animal in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness
Debbie Lee

Chapter 14 The Many Lives of Newtown Creek: A New York Story
Betsy McCully

Further Reading

Contributors

Index