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Issue #3
West of Eden:
The University and the Environment
Carroll Brentano, ed.
(Spring 2000)

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"The Peaks and the Professors
University Names in the High Sierra"
by Ann Lage

Issue number 3 of the Chronicle of the University of California, published in spring 2000, is devoted to the university and the environment. Its title is “West of Eden" and its eighteen articles are divided into two parts: the first, "Creating and Preserving the University's Environment," takes the reader from the 1905 debates about putting the Big C on Charter Hill to the displacement of vernal pools on the Merced campus site, and from the organic farm at UC Santa Cruz to preserving Strawberry Creek from toxic runoff. Part two, "Beyond the University," is a look at the many university alumni and professors who assisted in the founding and direction of associations such as Save-the-Redwoods, the Sierra Club, Save the Bay, even the National Park Service. There are book reviews and a list of oral histories of prominent environmentalists connected to the university. There is also poetry, memoirs of John Muir, and many photographs, maps, and drawings - old and new.