Bill Cronon

@wcronon

Environmental historian, writer and teacher about the North American landscape

Madison, WI
williamcronon.net
Joined April 2009
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    5 Apr 2020

    So now it’s nature’s metropolis

    Saturday, April 4. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Coyote. This feels like any number of scifi flicks. And here we are.
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  2. 8 Jun 2019

    NYT article with excellent animated graphics compares US and Japanese building practices address (or not addressing) earthquake risk:

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  3. 5 Jun 2019

    It's true that I've never published a word from this long-ago project, though it did eventually leading (via a rather winding path) to the book Nature's Metropolis. I'm grateful that took the trouble to have a look at it!

    Little known fact, in 1978, before the great environmental historian William Cronon wrote Nature's Metropolis (and Changes in the Land) he did a PhD at Oxford, where he wrote a wildly ahead-of-its-time environmental history of Coventry (never published). 1/6
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    9 Apr 2019

    (By the way, just a quick remark on the Bierstadt-Hegarty pairing, which I love. It is perhaps the best visual distillation of the important essay “The Trouble with Wilderness” by Bill Cronon () that I’ve ever seen; for his essay, see here: )

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  5. 16 Apr 2019

    I've somehow never before stumbled on the Weather Spark website, which has amazingly detailed graphical summaries of weather/climate data for many major cities/airports everywhere on earth. Well worth bookmarking for future reference:

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  6. 16 Apr 2019

    Remembering my friend David Brion Davis, who died this past Sunday: a giant who helped redefine our understanding of the history of slavery not just in the United States but in the world. RIP.

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  7. 6 Apr 2019

    Nicely presented reprinting of Benton MacKaye's 1921 article proposing the creation of an "Appalachian Trail," with an excellent introdution by Garrett Dash Nelson . If you've never read this classic piece, here's your chance!

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  8. 11 Mar 2019

    I finally got over to Special Collections at UW-Madison's Memorial Library today to see the wonderful new exhibition on the life and work of Aldo Leopold. If you can get there before May 24, you won't regret it:

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  9. 28 Feb 2019

    The periodic table is 150 years old this week. Here's a nice explainer about the story of how it came into being:

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  10. 26 Feb 2019

    An amazing victory for public lands today, including after years of effort permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). It likely won't get the notice it deserves because of other news, but this is a really big story!

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  11. 15 Feb 2019

    Apologies for the self-promotion, but I can't resist sharing this one:

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  12. 11 Feb 2019

    If you haven't yet seen the superb NYT graphic narrative on the Brazilian dam collapse at Brumadinho on 1/25/19, it's not to be missed:

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  13. 12 May 2018

    Very cool: subscribers to National Geographic now have access to more than 6000 high-resolution digital versions of the maps it has published since 1888: (alas, you have to locate them by browsing individual issues, but still...)

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  14. 12 May 2018

    Excellent graphical presentation does nice job of explicating the impacts and hazards associated with the current eruption of Kilauea:

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  15. 29 Apr 2018

    Just learned that the University of Iowa has digitized 11,000 of J N "Ding" Darling's famous editorial cartoons, many about wildlife and conservation: well worth perusing.

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  16. 28 Apr 2018

    Impressive multimedia cartographic presentation of the many threats facing long-distance migratory shorebirds:

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  17. 15 Apr 2018

    I've previously posted the wonderful digital archive for US national parks at but didn't know there's such a site for Canadian parks too: Definitely worth bookmarking and perusing!

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  18. 7 Apr 2018

    While I'm celebrating maps , here's an online version of their helpful 1996 guide to different genres of cartographic documents:

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  19. 7 Apr 2018

    Just revisiting the digital map collections , which are extraordinary. If you've not perused them, you should:

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  20. 7 Apr 2018

    A belated post on my part: the great environmental historian Alfred Crosby has died. We are all in his debt. RIP.

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