{"title":"Canyonlands National Park: A Multiple-Use Test Case","authors":"Tate Pashibin, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Y. Youngs","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Congress established Canyonlands National Park in 1964 during a time of great change for American outdoor recreation and the National Park Service (NPS). The area proposed by Utah Congressional delegates for inclusion in the park provided economic benefits to local communities via mineral extraction, hunting, and livestock grazing. Historically, these uses ran counter to the preservation rhetoric of the NPS, but the bills submitted by the delegates promised continued extractive uses in the new park. Supporters of the multiple-use concept noted the increasing material and recreational demands of American society and recommended that commercial development be permitted to continue. Preservationists argued that all national parks would be jeopardized if Canyonlands were established with such provisions. In this paper we use archival data spanning the period 1961 to 1971 to illuminate this important episode in resource management history. The story of Canyonlands National Park's creation not only helps us understand why past decisions were made but also how those decisions affect the use, management, and protection of NPS units today, especially those in the western U.S. Our findings provide insights into historical stakeholder decision making, federal public lands policy, and the evolution of multiple-use strategies.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124694961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portland's Post-Industrial Neighborhoods","authors":"M. Bjelland, Madelyn Vander Veen","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Reimagined, remediated, and redeveloped former industrial lands are now thriving mixed-use neighborhoods in Portland's Pearl District and South Waterfront. Places of physical labor have been transformed into spaces where a new class of knowledge workers live, work, and play. This paper argues that inner-city post-industrial neighborhoods offer a valuable lens through which to view key transformations in cities and in the wider society. Using historic and current land-use maps in a geographic information system, we identified the major post-industrial areas of Portland. We then used demographic data, business location data, and planning studies to find the stories behind these places. In the shadow of lost manufacturing jobs and the changing location of heavy industry, the emergence of postindustrial neighborhoods reflects a growing emphasis on cities as centers of consumption, livability, and sustainability. The demographics of these new post-industrial neighborhoods signal the return to the inner city by highly educated, high-income residents.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"84 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115055643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report of the Eighty-Third Annual Meeting: San Diego, California October 14–16, 2021","authors":"Liz Ridder, Atsushi Nara, Y. Youngs","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125627746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gold Mountain, Big City: Ken Cathcart's 1947 Illustrated Map of San Francisco's Chinatown by Jim Schein (review)","authors":"D. Arreola","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117157047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsettled Waters: Rights, Law, and Identity in the American West by Eric P. Perramond (review)","authors":"Michael Pease","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127381920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Response of a Dwarfed Population of Quercus marilandica in Central Illinois, United States","authors":"T. Matheus","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Quercus marilandica is distributed widely across the eastern United States, but dwarfed specimens (<3.4 m in height) are found where tree growth is limited by nutrient-poor soils. Few studies have explored the tree rings of Q. marilandica, with no research examining tree rings of any dwarfed species of tree in the U.S. In this report, we examine the climate-growth response of dwarfed Q. marilandica sampled on a sandstone bluff in central Illinois. This is one of the first attempts at identifying the climate-growth response of Q. marilandica and any dwarfed tree species in the U.S. Ring widths positively correlated with the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index, and dew point, and negatively correlated with summer maximum temperature and vapor pressure deficit. The results of a moving-window analysis suggest that the influence of climate variability has become more important to radial growth in the past thirty-plus years. Our results indicate that dwarfed Q. marilandica are sensitive to hot, dry summers, making future projections of increased temperatures and drought a concern. Our findings suggest that future conditions could increase the vulnerability of dwarfed populations of trees.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127255811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Theory for Geography Students I: Foucault and \"Questions on Geography\"","authors":"Michael W. Pesses","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121170922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Walsh, Kiara Anderson, Emily Deardorff, Sophie Johnson, Darren Kim, Rebecca Mitre, Tonya Morrey, S. Nurmi, Diana Ojeda, Luke Telfer, Jo-Ana Tumin-Roberts
{"title":"Evaluating Best Practices for Macroscopic Charcoal-Based Fire History Reconstructions through a Research Experience for Undergraduates","authors":"M. Walsh, Kiara Anderson, Emily Deardorff, Sophie Johnson, Darren Kim, Rebecca Mitre, Tonya Morrey, S. Nurmi, Diana Ojeda, Luke Telfer, Jo-Ana Tumin-Roberts","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Macroscopic charcoal analysis has emerged as the leading method for reconstructing local fire histories. However, after more than thirty years of research, numerous methodological questions remain unaddressed. Through the efforts of ten student researchers, most of whom participated in a NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates, important variables including site selection, coring strategy, and data reproducibility were evaluated using sediment cores extracted from two lakes located in the eastern Cascades of Washington. The design of this study made it possible to evaluate charcoal data produced by the same student researcher analyzing multiple cores from the same site, multiple student researchers analyzing the same cores from the same site, and multiple student researchers analyzing different cores from the same site. The charcoal curves illustrate that data reproducibility is possible, even when using \"less-than-ideal\" study sites. This is particularly true for sediment cores analyzed by the same student researcher. Our results show that data produced by different student researchers from both the same sediment core and study site indicate a good level of agreement, especially when overall trends instead of absolute values are considered. We encourage other researchers to address similar methodological questions to improve best practices for fire history studies.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130585936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutionalized Racism: Redlined Districts Then and Now in Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles","authors":"Mallory Stermon, Christopher L Lukinbeal","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In the late 1930s, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) used a process called redlining to section off districts in an attempt to signal the level of risk to lenders. Consequently, lenders felt justified in turning away non-white borrowers, effectively leading to segregated communities. This practice carried on through the mid-1960s, after which some communities underwent socio-demographic transformations due to gentrification, urban renewal, and deindustrialization, amongst other things. This paper analyzes the current demographic trends in Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles to determine to what extent the resulting segregation from redlining practices has persisted. Redlining and census data from 1930 and 2020 were obtained and analyzed in order to compare the racial demographics over time. White vs. non-white population in redline districts in 1930 versus 2020 were compared in each of these cities. Whereas percent change between white majority and non-white minority provides a demographic trend over time, a local spatial autocorrelation (LISA) analysis helped to identify dense areas of minority population. Lastly, the index dissimilarity, interaction, and isolation were used to better expose persistent levels of segregation. This research provides one example of how historical GIS analysis can be done using diverse datasets to show spatio-temporal patterns of importance to ongoing issues of social justice and inequality.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126669229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surprise! Discoveries with a Field Methods Class","authors":"R. Sumner, John A. Menary","doi":"10.1353/pcg.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/pcg.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Our field methods class led to the realization that the things you discover may not be what you set out to do. A series of surprising encounters and revelations demanded reorientation and a radically transformed focus, as participants followed unexpected avenues of enquiry. New insights produced a much richer class experience. Recognition of the benefits gained from that more open-ended process prompted our subsequent further consideration of the role of surprise in fieldwork.","PeriodicalId":412404,"journal":{"name":"Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126194431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}