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.
  • Lipton, Thomas, Santen, David. Sustainable Stormwater Management: A Landscape-Driven Approach to Planning and Design. Timber Press, 2017.
  • 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.
  • Tal, Daniel, Altschuld, Jon. Drone Technology in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction. John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
  • White, Courtney, Pollan, Michael. Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey through Carbon Country. Chelsea Green Pub Co, 2014.
  • 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, PA1. 
  2. PowerPlants, White Bay Power Station. Rozelle, Sydney, AUS
  3. Slow Cleanup, Civic Experiments. Chicago, IL 
  4. Tubbs, Nuns, and Pocket Fires Bioremediation. Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino Counties, CA
  5. Mycoremediation in the Dungeness Watershed. Dungeness Watershed, WA 
  6. Amazon Mycorenewal Project. Lago Agrio, Sucumbios, Ecuador
  7. Val d’en Joan Landfill Reclamation. Garraf (Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
  8. Tylee Farm. Ulm, TX
  9. Orongo Station Conservation Master Plan. Poverty Bay, New Zealand - Aotearoa. 
  10. Shield Ranch Master Plan. Austin, TX
  11. Elwha River Dam Removal. Elwha River, Port Angeles, WA
  12. Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Across Wyoming, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta.
  13. John Bunker Sands Wetland Center. Seagoville, TX
  14. American Prairie Bison Restoration, Montana
  15. West Laurel Hills Nature Sanctuary, Bala Cynwyd, PA
  16. Xuhui Runway Park, Shanghai, China
  17. Phipps Center for Sustainable Landscapes, Pittsburgh, PA
  18. Dell Medical District at UT Austin, Austin, TX