Lecture 39 Friday April 29, 2005

Ecological Restoration at Walden Pond

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Announcements:

(1)           Term papers due Monday: two hard copies and send e-copies to jat4, geh23, jrs76, and mre23, @cornell.edu

(2)           Walden Pond ecological restoration article handout today is required reading

 

I. Ecological Restoration at Walden Pond: Introduction

See required reading (handout): Jordan, William R., IV. "Restoration at Walden Pond." Restoration and Management Notes 7, no. 2 (1989): 65-69.

New book out last year:

Maynard, W. Barksdale. Walden Pond: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

 

II. Biographic info about Thoreau

Move to Walden Pond, 1845

 

III. Walden’s subsequent history

 

IV. Land management history of Walden

 

V. Ecological restoration of Walden

A. Walden Forever Wild

“Red Cross Beach”

Mary Sherwood

 

B. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

1980s

1990s—“bioengineering” at Walden Pond

VI. Things that weren’t “ecological” restoration