Routledge, ). Observations on northeastern Florida, development, and water are
my own (some based on local newspaper accounts) during four visits, –. See also
John Sayles’s film,Sunshine State(), which depicts scheming would-be develop-
ers of ‘‘Lincolnville’’ (actually the historically black American Beach) in northeastern
Florida.
. Gail Fishman,Journeys through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ), ; Carl Hiaasen,Stormy Weather(New
York: Warner Books, ) andSick Puppy(New York: Warner Books, ). On Florida
(especially its south) as new Americanmondo bizarro—replacing California—see Mi-
chael Paternite, ‘‘America in Extremis: How Florida Became the New California,’’New
York Times Sunday Magazine, April .
. Most of this paragraph presents personal observation and local newspaper read-
ing, especially in ; but see also David McCally,The Everglades: An Environmental
History(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ), esp. –, and Andrew C. Rev-
kin, ‘‘Stockpiling Water for a River of Grass: New Plan Redesigns Plumbing of Ever-
glades,’’New York Times(Science Times), March .
. Among many sources (see notes to Chapter esp.), see Robert B. Outland III,
Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South(Baton Rouge: Louisi-
ana State University Press, ), and Linda Flowers,Throwed Away: Failures of Progress
in Eastern North Carolina(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, ).
. Jack Temple Kirby,Poquosin: A Study of Rural Landscape and Society(Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, ), –, also suggests social and political
liabilities of the paper industry. The expressions ‘‘paper complex’’ and short ‘‘rotation’’
in tropical America are William Boyd’s; see his ‘‘The Forest Is the Future? Industrial
Foresty and the Southern Pulp and Paper Complex,’’ inThe Second Wave: Southern In-
dustrialization from the s to the s, ed. Philip Scranton (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, ), –. On the costs of biodiversity in pine plantations, see
Janisse Ray,Ecology of a Cracker Childhood(Minneapolis: Milkweed, ), which in-
cludes lists of extinct and endangered species in the lower South pine plantation belt.
. Jeffrey Stine,Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway(Akron: University of Akron Press, ); but see esp.
Eric Bates, ‘‘Exporting Southern Forests,’’Doubletake (Winter ): –. In text
below, on the historical advance of conifers over deciduous forests, especially owing
to farmers’ use of fire, see Kirby,Poquosin,–.
. Personal observations since ca. , plus press clippings and reports of one of
my sisters, who is a school librarian in Southampton County.
. Charles S. Aiken,The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War(Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, ), latter chapters.
. Katharine Q. Seelye, ‘‘Senators Plan Joint Hearings on Clean Air,’’NewYorkTimes,
January . On mountain tree deaths, see Timothy Silver,Mount Mitchell and the
Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ), , . On ‘‘eco-pessimism,’’
–