Resources



Old-Growth Grassland Survey




Reading List
          Data collected through EcoTech III courses.






  • Anderson, Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda, Jesse E. D. Miller, Alex C. McAlvay, Patrick Morgan Ritchie, and Dana Lepofsky. “Historical Indigenous Land-Use Explains Plant Functional Trait Diversity.” Ecology and Society 26, no. 2 (2021): art6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12322-260206.
  • Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Rev. reprint. San Francisco [Great Britain]: Sierra Club Books, 1997.
  • Bronowski, Jacob. Science and Human Values. Rev. ed. with a new dialogue, The abacus and the Rose. New York: Perennial Library, 19.
  • Butterfield, Jody. Holistic Management Handbook, 2019. http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9781610919777.
  • From Sustainability through Regeneration: Whole and Living System Design. Accessed August 24, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzEI1rZG_U.
  • H., C. J., and May Theilgaard Watts. “Reading the Landscape: An Adventure in Ecology.” Geographical Review 48, no. 3 (July 1958): 460. https://doi.org/10.2307/212275.
  • Hantman, Jeffrey L. Monacan Millennium: A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018,
  • Hollander, Justin B, Niall Kirkwood, and Julia L Gold. Principles of Brownfield Regeneration Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land. Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. http://qut.eblib.com.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=3317506.
  • Kashyap, Prem Lal, Alok Kumar Srivastava, Shree Prakash Tiwari, and Sudheer Kumar, eds. Microbes for Climate Resilient Agriculture. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2018.
  • Kennen, Kate, and Niall Kirkwood. Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design. First edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.
  • Lengnick, Laura. Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2015.
  • Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
  • Nerlekar, Ashish N., and Joseph W. Veldman. “High Plant Diversity and Slow Assembly of Old-Growth Grasslands.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 31 (August 4, 2020): 18550–56. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922266117.
  • Noss, Reed F. Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2013.
  • Seibert, Matthew, ed. Atlas of Material Worlds: Mapping the Agency of Matter for a New Landscape Practice. First Edition. New York: Routledge, 2021.
  • Spirn, Anne Whiston. The Language of Landscape. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Zimov, S. A. “ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Pleistocene Park: Return of the Mammoth’s Ecosystem.” Science 308, no. 5723 (May 6, 2005): 796–98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1113442.
Case Studies
  1. Vintondale Reclamation Park. Vintondale, PA
  2. PowerPlants, White Bay Power Station. Rozelle, Sydney, AUS
  3. Slow Cleanup, Civic Experiments. Chicago, IL 
  4. Ford Motor Company Factory. Genk, Belgium
  5. US Coast Guard Former Fuel Storage Facility. Elizabeth, NC
  6. Tubbs, Nuns, and Pocket Fires Bioremediation. Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino Counties, CA
  7. Mycoremediation in the Dungeness Watershed. Dungeness Watershed, WA 
  8. Amazon Mycorenewal Project. Lago Agrio, Sucumbios, Ecuador
  9. Pesticide Reduction Study. Northern California
  10. Ford Rouge Center. Dearborn, MI
  11. Revival Field. Multiple Locations Minnesota
  12. Val d’en Joan Landfill Reclamation. Garraf (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
  13. Tylee Farm. Ulm, TX
  14. Orongo Station Conservation Master Plan. Poverty Bay, New Zealand - Aotearoa. 
  15. Shenyang Architectural University. Shenyang City, China
  16. Pleistocene Park. Chersky, Northern Siberia, Russia.
  17. Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Across Wyoming, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta. 
  18. Elwha River Dam Removal. Elwha River, Port Angeles, WA
  19. Overlook Farm. Waverly, PA
  20. Shield Ranch Master Plan. Austin, TX
  21. Churchtown Dairy Ecological Assessment and Integrated Water Infrastructure Planning Design. Hudson, NY
  22. John Bunker Sands Wetland Center. Seagoville, TX
  23. Welzow Energy Landscape. Welzow-Sud minelands, Brandenburg, Germany