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CanAm Lecture: Alan MacEachern, “Firebreak: How the Maine-New Brunswick Border Defined the 1825 Miramichi Fire”

91¸£Àû the lecture On 7 October 1825, the Miramichi region of New Brunswick experienced one of the largest forest fires in recorded history while, next door, Maine suffered the most extensive fire in its history. The fires burned in the same environmental and climatic conditions, of course – and may well have been connected. Alan […]

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CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”

FFA Room, Memorial Union, 91¸£Àû Orono campus China Road, Orono

LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. This presentation will contrast the free-for-all petty capitalist markets for bison products in the United States with the monopoly corporate market run by Canada’s Hudson’s […]

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