...Kjell David Ericson This article takes animal materials as contested elements of ecological knowledge production. The focus is on Ago Bay, a Japanese inlet at the mid-twentieth-century global epicenter of demand for “cultured” pearls that formed inside surgically manipulated shellfish. In 1950s Ago...

... larger scale. Sears, best known for his Dust Bowl classic Deserts on the March and later for his suggestion that ecology is a subversive subject, would seem an unlikely supporter of such a program. This article explores his role on the advisory committee within the context of his life and work...

...Rachel Rothschild The U.S. military first sponsored ecological research during World War II to monitor the release of radioactive effluent into waterways from plutonium production. The Atomic Energy Commission later expanded these investigations to include studies of radioactive fallout...

... and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2012 environmental regulation wildlife conservation research freedom United States Marine Mammal Protection Act Endangered Species Act marine mammalogy ornithology zoology ecology ETIENNE BENSON Endangered Science...

... across the sciences is in order. © 2008 by The Regents of the University of California ecology field practice classification ROBERT E. KOHLER Plants and Pigeonholes: Classi cation as a Practice in American Ecology ABSTRACT Between the 1890s and the 1930s eld ecologists in the United States...